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Fortunate nursery mistake

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Hab_Nut

I was hoping to find fatalis at my Home Depot, but no luck (I thought).
 
This morning I was weeding/harvesting, and I found these.
 
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Well, I'm happy. But what about the other people who bought whatever it was that was mis-marked?
 
"Mommy, this pepper looks funny."
 
"It's still good, go ahead and eat it."
 
 
 
 
 
I'm bumping this at the end of the season. I picked an earlier round of pods and dried them for powder. That worked out well; I built a salt-onion-garlic seasoning around the fatali (as I did last year with ghost). 
 
In the hot dry season I watered the plant adding some fertilizer with magnesium for fruit set. I was gmbling that there would be enough time to ripen before the frost, and I just barely made it. Now a second round of pods is cut and drying.
 
One odd thing - when I cut the pods, most of them leaked a little bit of fluid. I've never seen that before. Now my left fingertips burn if I press on them.
 
 
 

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Ive had a lot of peppers leak oil and or water maybe over the years, usually super hots, sometimes stuff like serranos after days of rain. Looks like a good batch, nice to have in before frost.
 
I brought some peppers to work (who doesn't wanna see coworkers suffer?) One of the guys tried part of a ghost. He told me his hands were burning under the finger nails for days. Said he actually called the doctor and dr. Said that it could last a couple weeks. I also grew some large banana peppers they seem to store water inside if picked after watering.
 
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