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A year or two ago I grew a cucamelon in a container on my deck. Out front watering my shade bed just now, realized the lovely new ground-covering vine that's been growing there is cucamelon somehow! Transmitted by a small creature, I guess.
What's the longest you've waited for something you've ordered? I once commissioned a custom electric bass and took delivery 35 months later. I hate waiting. Patience is for the dead.
Wow, it's almost time to sow chinense again. As fast as time moves for me now at 42, it must be downright offensive at 65 and beyond. Members with more experience - thoughts on this? Share your perspective?
I would greatly appreciate your advice and criticism. I have only recently begun to study and develop as a breeder and, in general, as a pepper grower. If you have any questions or advice, once again, I would be very grateful!
Hi! This blog is about my pepper breeding project. First goal: a lemon-flavoured, chocolate-coloured chili. To reduce epistasis and polygenicity
I’m using three crosses:
1) KS Lemon Starrburst × Chocolate Habanero
2) KS Lemon Starrburst × 7 Pot Douglah
3) Aji Lemon Drop × Sugar Rush Stripey.
I’m a beginner, so any advice or criticism is very welcome!
just little over a month before starting my 2026 Napalm Garden Inferno. Today checking the setup and inventory. overwintering plants are settling. almost locked and loaded overhere!!!

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