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Some of the super-hot peppers are quite frightening. Capsaicin is evidently neurotoxic to at least some developing mammals, damaging the formation of the same nerves that when fully formed respond to capsaicinoids by producing a burning sensation. Medically it has a side effect in a certain %...

Since organic is such a broad and non-specific term it's kind of meaningless without context. To paraphrase Cygnet Committee; organic is just a word... as ambiguous as the word synthetic. Salmonella is, it turns out, entirely organic, as are plenty of other unpleasant pathogenic bacteria and...

However on the other hand using the information in this thread it is very possible to develop and or refine a genotype of superhot pepper that has a higher yield of capsaicinoids per square meter per unit of time, which translates to more alkaloid per acre. It is also possible to develop...

Under some circumstances but not all. It depends on the stress and the plants. Many types of stress just decrease every type of yield including that of Capsaicinoids. Near freezing temps stop enzymes from functioning, due to the energies of activation requiring a specific operating...

I grew some nice basil last winter, it was a seed form. I bought some basil seeds for making a drink, the packaging may have been Thai. I enjoy basil seed drinks, it is similar to Chia. Anyway the plant grew well, had many many flowers, had a nice flavor. It was clear to see as it grew that it...

WarrantMan's advice is one of my favorite answers and it can be applied to most things from the garden. I cut plants and leave them to hang and save seeds from the ones that ripen up well enough, but usually I have seeds from earlier fruit and honestly if by frost I don't good fruit the plant...

The Habanada X 7 Pot-Primo/Jays Peach Ghost Scorpion (I fixed it for you) could be interesting if you select progeny that take advantage of the super hot genetics of the Primo genes and the interrupted enzymatic pathways of the Habanada to have an unique aromatic profile, potentially rich in...

Inner parthenocarpy, seedless fruit forming inside seeded fruit, is a not uncommon trait for some plants. In my notes I just called them double-fruited when the plants display the trait fully, and semi-double when only the occasional fruit does it. That reminds me of this: This particular...

I was examining some dried halves of the D7 yesterday and noted the largest yellowish waxy deposits I've seen so far, in any dried pepper, of casaicinoidal material. Though it's probably below the 9 grams of capsaicinoid oils per 100-grams of dried (which has been reported/published as a...

I noticed some interesting comments in relation to the 2Million+ SHU score of the CPI testing of the Trinidad Moruga etc. In a casual comment an author said that the 2 million SHU came from 1 single "pod" and that people should not expect that type of score from normal fruit. The same study...

I really hope to see images of F2 + generations of these crosses in the future. Hybrids are exciting.

Except that the genetic analysis doesn't suggest that... does it? No real genetic analysis of super-hot specific QTL markers has been done that I am aware of. That paper I posted the other week about capsiate content and breeding super hot peppers actually provides sequence information if...

There it is right there. The CARDI 2006 PDF states that they are specifically breeding and developing new genotypes of peppers. The list above mentions that 8 of the varieties listed above were stable in 2006, the others were still in stages of isolation and stabilization. That includes the...

http://www.cardi.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/03/Developing-the-hot-pepper-industry-for-the-CARICOM-region.pdf I cannot find any evidence that super-hot peppers existed in Trinidad prior to 2006, when CARDI published a paper(link above)outlining it's goals as: The Moruga pepper before...

I've been periodically examining random flowers of the plants in my garden and looking at the length of the pistils, when the stile extends out the stigma is exposed where it can be freely pollinated by whatever is able to transfer pollen from flower to flower and plant to plant, which can be a...

This year I had the pleasure of growing out the 7 pot Defcon, purchased from Texas Hot Peppers. The dry erase marker in the photograph below is red, the color rendition isn't very accurate on my tech. I have another one that I bell-cut to dry that shows how dark the color gets. It is a reddish...

Seaweed can be tricky, it is rich in elements and bioactive molecules and compounds. It is generally used as a biostimulant for the cytokine content, which can increase nutrient uptake and it is also used as a trace mineral amendment and in both of these cases a little tends to go a long way...

Borg-9 This little monster weighs in at 15 grams... that's pretty heavy.

That's a lovely plant. The caramel ones are interesting.

Lovely! How old is this beauty?