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I've heard that stressing your pepper plants can increase the capsaicin content of your chilies, I would like to know if you've personally found this to be true and what methods/techniques do you follow to increase heat?

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Yeah, sometimes I dilute it about 5 water to 1 part peroxide, other times if the soil is dry and I don't mind I'll just poor some on the soil and then water it in with about an equal amount of water so the plant is watered and aerated.  I've never lost a plant to the peroxide, it turns into...

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I have a choc habanero and two TAM jalapenos, so they both drop their flowers before they even bloom and sometimes on one of my TAMs it will bloom and the petals will fall off, give it a day and then the entire flower falls off.  It makes me really mad, the day temp is about 82 F indoors and at...

So I usually just use generic potting soil, haven't really been paying attention to what brand I buy, but I do make sure it has adequate drainage and whatnot.  I have a ~5 gallon container filled with some dirt from outside and it seems  to work pretty fine for this one plant, if it feels...

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So what is all the drama about the reaper and primo chilies?  Is the reaper actually a primo?

Do chilies have certain light cycles?  My chocolate habaneros are about to bloom and I didn't know if they would only bloom with a certain amount of light.  Can I leave the light on 24/0?

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I crossed a C. chinense with a C. annuum, would this make a new species?  I think there may have been a hole in my method and I think I may have accidentally self pollinated the annuum instead of actually crossing the two species.  Anyway the seeds sprouted and they are almost the exact same...