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Leaves take a long time to break down, but the end product is great material for growing.

Living in New Mexico for a few years made me a big fan of the NuMex varieties. Chili Pepper Institute has seeds for a bunch of them, several that they have bred for commercial production so it's a good bet that yields will be satisfactory. Don't forget to let some go full ripe red, makes a great...

Super Chili is short and gets covered in upright pods. Tabasco produces pods by the thousands, but they can get pretty big 3-4' or more. Takanotsume is a good one, medium size plant, and the pods come in dense upright clusters that are very attractive.

The bacteria you listed for zoolac sound like a recipe for making yogurt. You should get plenty of starter culture just from the air and maybe a pinch of soil and a handful of fresh grass. The air+water+organic material are the building blocks of a bacteria factory that cranks out copies by the...

Okra is such an awesome plant. I grew a batch 3 years ago that hit 8+' by the end of the summer. We were all so sick of okra by the end that we didn't plant any for 2 years straight. I put some okra in this year but it all got stunted from a late cold snap so no joy. I really love the flowers...

I like that hairy sprout!   Next check point on successful crossing is if the F1 is fertile. waiting waiting... 

@homefry If I saw your table at one of our local markets my head would explode. Nobody brings anything hotter than serranos around here. Price on the ghosts seems a bit steep, but I would still probably walk away with a bag. As they say...you got to pay to play!

If it is thirsty, give it water. Move it to a shady spot. Trim back the worst of the damaged areas. Wait....

That plant is severely stressed (aka dying). Looks like a one of the "wilt" diseases at first glance. Could also be unintentional herbicide/chemical exposure. Isolate that plant from the rest of the population.

Nitrogen. If you are certain you aren't overwatering, up the NPK a little and make sure the soil or your ferts have all the micronutrients. Also, are you really repotting every 6 weeks? The soil takes a little while to build up it's ability to exchange nutrients with the plant roots, so fresh...

Most of them will eventually fly away, but they will take up residence in your general area and if your neighbors have fewer aphids, so will you. You can spray a sugar solution on the bugs before you deploy them to keep them in your yard for a little longer. The sugar dries and gives their...

I always squish them with my fingers when I see them.

I found a wild tepin down in Galveston about 3 weeks ago and I just went ahead and threw some seeds in a cup with a little soil (otherwise I knew I would just eat them all, no self control!). Last week I got my first hooks. So yeah, it's never a bad time to start seeds.

Aspartame tastes horrible. My heat tolerance is pretty high. Even when I was very young my baseline tolerance was higher than most adults I knew.   P.S. Aspartame tastes horrible.

Never cooked with rose petals, but rose hips make a great jam.

I haven't done this myself, but the technique is known. I have a small jar of Urfa pepper flakes which is a Turkish brown pepper that is fermented and dried. The flakes still have a lot of moisture, more like jerky. Tea is another product that is fermented and then dried. Might be tricky to...

I don't think 95 is hot enough to damage anything. They're seeds, not ice cream cones.

I would leave off the walls. Makes for better airflow and cheaper construction.

That sprout in the bhut tray is a weed.   The problem with S. Florida (and other semi-tropical locales) isn't the heat, it's the humidity, and constant rain. 

scholar.google.com Very much better than the alternatives for finding research articles. The book "Peppers: Vegetable and Spice Capsicums" provides a good introduction and covers all the topics you mentioned. It's very expensive and not too thick, but specialized topics earn special prices.  ...