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    Project Helios

    Hi This is something I have set up in the UK, but I guess many folks in the US may be interested. We, a partnership between a couple of UK seed companies, a chilli sauce company and a hydroponic company, are growing, in hydro to create as much equality, 9 contenders for 'hottest' chilli. AS we...
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    Hello from England!

    And hi and welcome from South west england, I escaped from the south east some 10 or so years ago, as the great Jim Morrsison sang, The West is the Best!! Seriously there is a wealth of knowledge and experiece here. I'm pretty new but there are some good people here. What part of the South East...
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    Temperamental species

    When I last grew them over here in the UK, they got very tall, hardly any fruit, but I was able to keep a plant through the winter in the house, next year it did fruit pretty well. Rocoto's, as you can tell by my user name I love them, and the do real well for me here in the UK. Planning on...
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    smokers Building conversion, into a smoker

    Well any suggestions? Prior to starting this post, the only smoking set up I had seen was a friends Bradley smoker, which seemed to cost him a small fortune in briquettes. I was looking here and saw the converted filing cabinet smoker, and wondered if the idea of an electric element may be a...
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    smokers Building conversion, into a smoker

    The part of the building that I pan to convert into a smoker is the small room at the back, you can see the change in the brickwork. If it proves to be a success, I'll look seriously into converting the rest of the building. My plan is to use the est of the building for secure storage.
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    Black Hungarian

    I have grown them for the last few seasons, they are very popular at our tasting sessions, nie flavour, not too much heat. I use them as an introduction to chilli growing, converting a few folk can't be a bad thing.The heat level is low, around that of a Jalapeno, on the plus side for those of...
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    smokers Building conversion, into a smoker

    Sorry to take a few days to get a reply up, running a mail order seed/plant business is pretty hectic at this time of the year. Hopefully photobucket will get the pic up. You can see the doorway partially obscured by ivy at the moment, the room is approx the dimensions I mentioned earlier. My...
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    smokers Building conversion, into a smoker

    I'm going to see what local metal smiths can sort out, either that or visit auctions that deal with catering equipment, I plan on smoking lots of things, as a keen fisherman, some fish too, assuming i catch something......
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    Hello from S/W UK

    On the edge of the Longleat estate, which is old style country house, belonging to Lord Bath, also there is a safari park on the estate, so I grow chillies and other things and a mile away, there are Lions, tigers, Elephants, sea lions, all add to the 'spice of lfe'.
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    smokers Building conversion, into a smoker

    My plan is to convert a building we have on site, (I ought to point out that i run my business from an old walled nursery garden, dating back to 1757) and have had a newish building, approx 1900 to our lease. There is a small annex to this, about 8' deep and 6' wide and qute a high ceiling...
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    Hello from S/W UK

    Many thanks for the welcome, just got in from the nursery, getting cool now the sun is setting. Great to get so many welcomes, looking through their lcations made me remember a seed hunting trip I made around the US back in '96. Where I discovered just how cold Green Bay was, and that was in Oct!
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    Hello from S/W UK

    Well, I thought I'd say hello, from this part of the South West of the UK. I ama sed merchant, mainly producing chilli and tomato seeds, as well as anything for the kitchen garden that takes my fancy. From my name here you can guess that I am very keen on the Rocoto Chillies, I will have some...
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