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oh crap this is just as hot as.......

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the 5 redsavina's I ate over the last few days. I just ate one of my home grown habs and its just as hot as the redsavinas I just ordered and ate. I'm sweating,salivating and panting right now lol. maybe I over stressed my hab plants but they are freaking hot. I don't mean to sound like a wimp but I've eaten bhut's, morugas and butch t's in the last few weeks so I know what hot is. These are hotter than any hab I've ever eaten before. Is there that much of a difference in heat levels and effects when growing them at home ?
 
I know a lot of the store bought habs that I have gotten are really lacking in heat.  I have read that this is due to heat not really being a selection factor in breeding and more about looks and productivity.
 
We have had allot of days over 100 plus degrees in the last few weeks so I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not. 
 
JayT said:
Stress is known to make them hotter.  I usually never water mine until they start to wilt.
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Yep I truly believe that and I do the same.
 
Sometimes I wish I had some kind of kit with a tube I could throw a piece of pepper in and add a chemical to show purity of capsicum. You know like the bluer it gets the more pure it is. They have these kits to measure all kind of narcotics, why not peppers. 
 
When home growing it's common for the soil to be richer than what a farmer has available after years of farming on it.    It could also be that the store offering is deliberately selected for a lower heat level to appeal to a broader range of shoppers.  For example around here an orange hab is more common in supermarkets and any other pepper over ~ 50K SHU is fairly rare, when the growers could have just as easily grown something hotter.
 
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