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A chilli pepper has been removed from the lung of a man in China's Heilongjiang province, one year after he choked on it. Wang Yuxiang from Longjiang county visited his local hospital to treat his year-long cough, but doctors soon found the cause to be something rather unusual. Link with video...

Just read a post by Scott Roberts via twitter - http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/Man-Eats-275-Jalapenos-In-Eight-Minutes - and was a little disappointed with the statement of " The inside seeds possess the hottest temperatures". Even if he was dumbing it down for the general population, would it...

A few months ago I put all my chillies into a soft-sided greenhouse, as the weather is starting to turn cold and I wanted to keep them going for as long as possible. This has worked, as I'm getting more pods than imagined, as well as more pods ripening. But... Two orange habs I had been...

Just came across this article on indoor farming in the Netherlands, with a nice pic of some bell-peppers under LEDs. "Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant and where the climate is always right. The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless...

Nice little write-up from the ABC on the Araluen Chilli Festival in Fremantle. Still nothing on the ButchT record though, although a birdie tells me there is some coverage happening soon.

Just got home from the pub to see this, pretty impressive. "According to some tweets Neil from The Hippy Seed Company has had his Trinidad Scorpion Butch T tested and the results are in at 1,463,700 SHU’s, pushing the record even higher at the priviouse(sic) 1,349,000 SHU’s of the Naga Viper."...

A few weeks back, while reading DeWitt's The Complete Chile Pepper Book, I pondered just how easy it could be to germinate seeds hydroponically. ANd I don't mean by playing by the rules, I'm talking real "slap it together and hope it works" stuff. So, I got a plastic container, drilled a heap...

Hi all, A while back I bought a heap of plants from K-Mart really cheap, but as they have grown I've realised that the labels don't match the plants. So thought I'd put it out to the educated messes to see what others thought they might be. Have tried to photograph fruit, leaf and flowers for...

A hamster would have learned by now: My girlfriend loves her hot sauces, and is the initial reason I got into making them again. When I buy/grow new chillies, she has a habit of saying "Can I try one?" Usually, this is followed by "OW MOTHERFECKER, MILK, QUICK!". And then the next time I...

While doing my research online, I've seen a lot of posts/pictures of successfully growing and fruiting plants during winter in much harsher climates than encountered here (Sydney, Australia, same distance from the equator as the Cali/Mex border with slightly higher average temps). I'm planning...