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Also Remember how dry the dried pepper gets will increase or decrease the SHU's as if you could get it to 0% water it would test higher then just 5%, that is if you could get it to 0% water.  The lab test by weight, water adds weight.   My brother is a chemist.        As for why I think fresh...

I know I don't get on here enough..   Well Last year I made my first super hot cross, and thought I would show it off, "Dark Matter"  Black Naga X chocolate 7 pot.  It's a hot one instant heat and a gut wrecker for me for the little I ate, I couldn't wait any longer so picked a pod to try last...

On Facebook today. Jim Duffy  ‎Chileheads   7 Pot Lava Red cross. I will explain. I have obtained Lava seeds from various trusted sources. So I am growing out in many separate areas. The Lava is unstable as it is so I dont expect to get a real true consistency from them. Anyways if I get close...

Wel temps will be from 103-114F the next ten days or more, don't expect any more pods to set till cooler weather, but I have more than I thought I would already!!!    

Harbiye I have 5 growing but not one is alike. I like the heat and flavor, but the ones I got are not stable at all.  

  Thank you.. she's doing better I am just Broke as can bee getting the wife back east. LOL   I am sure hoping I can stabilize it.  I can't wait till they ripen to see what they look like then..  Also what plants give me what, and I want a Yellow and Red that looks alike too.  I...

Yep!!    Thank's they are setting better then I thought they would!! I am getting a few pods and some different pheno's like I knew I would! I how I haven't been on much, long story but My wife family had two deaths and her Mom was in the Hospital, ICU for almost a month. Now my wife is...

Well I haven't been on in a long time but thought I give a little update on the F2's they are starting to flower, but I don't have any hope any will set with 115F  this week. and at lest 10 days over 100F..  Here's what they look like now, I have 16 plants in a 200 gal smart pot, yep crowded but...

Small scale farmers most times do operate at a lost it's only the Big farmers that really can make money, my wife and I just looked into filing taxes on our farm and was told the Government expects us to operate with out making money but that we couldn't take off all our expenses, so it wasn't...

Only why they get less weeds is spraying Round-up on the plants, as for yields that really hasn't shown to be enough to cover the higher cost of the seeds and lower market price they get for GMO's,  I read for this years crop more Non GMO seeds have been sold for planting then the last 5 years...

I look at GMO's like this. I look at Round-up ready seeds is  like Feeding my sheep mercury, and then eating the sheep and wondering why I have mercury poisoning. GMO's are IMO are for Lazy farmers and poor breeders, 99% of what Monsanto does with GMO's they could do with proper breeding but it...

Finally starting seeds for the 2015 garden.

Monsanto makes highly hybridized seeds available to home gardeners   Monsanto's Seminis Home Garden vegetable seeds on Friday introduced 10 new varieties of vegetable varieties that the company says have been bred to be disease-resistant, adaptable to a wide geographic distribution and are easy...

With cold smoking the smoke penetrates the meet deeper giving all the meat a smoky taste when it's cooked.