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I guess I'll grab some chilahuacle and berbere seeds this fall.  thanks for the responses.

without overwintering?   9 months, unless you could move it back and forth between the southern and northern hemispheres.

  Same here - I'd love someone to explain why this is so true.  I grew fataliis and yellow brain strains last year and I swear the fataliis were noticeably hotter to my taste buds.  Just pure pain...

I'm stumped here folks.  I think  I'm a pretty good grower, at least past the initial learning curve.  Chinenses give me no trouble at all and I've got more superhots in my freezer and closet than I'll ever use, but one thing keeps eluding me: a mild, sweet, smoky brown/chocolate annum or...

You know, I never understood why people throw all their other ingredients into a ferment - in fact, that's always sounded really disgusting to me. Fermented fruit, vegetables, juices, those aren't pleasant flavors AT ALL, to my palate anyway.  Fermenting with lactobaccillis brings out a really...

looks to me like tomatoes just doing what tomatoes do.....as the plants grow they direct more energy to new growth and the lower branches sort of get shut out and eventually wither and drop off.  Being closer to the ground they pick up more soil borne pathogens from rain spatter which speeds up...

I usually grow a dozen or so plants for my wife who likes to make gallons of a salsa verde-type base that gets used in salsas, green chili, taco sauce.  The purple varieties have a totally different flavor and taste, for lack of a better descriptor, like "purple" - that same purple flavor you...

  It's those distinct flavor profiles that make the idea of crossing them interesting and exciting to me in the first place - the opportunity to take the most appealing traits of each and combine them into something new.  It's no different than crossing within the same species except that the...

If the 40-100 is pods per plant then the 17 million claim could refer to pods harvested, misheard as "pounds" by an interviewer. Not saying I beile much of anything that comes out of the Currie camp, but mathematically that all works considering the acreage, yeild.

    probably 20% of the plants I grow every year end up being off-types - maybe I should sell some seeds from past season's oddities...I got a fat-tailed yellow brain strain (almost certainly a datil cross which is fantastically flavored fwiw), a red MOA, a giant primo (probably a jamaican hot...

Indigo rose is probably the worst tasting blue tomato out there - it just happened to be the first one stabilized by OSU and released for commercial sale.  If you want some way better alternatives check out Tom Wagner's website - he has dozens of varieties for sale, in different stages of being...

I'll second the jamaican hot chocolate - they have an earthy, smokyness that's off he charts if you allow them to fully ripen to a deep reddish-brown.  even without drying them its really, really pronounced.  I have a few pints left of a straight ferment I did in 2012 and you'd absolutely swear...

   ha!  what's new devan?  I still owe you some sauce...

Just an observation here.... I think a lot of people are vastly underestimating the frequency with which peppers cross pilinate with their neighbors in the garden. Random mutations in genes like those that determine color do occur, but not often. I'd wager that 99% of the reports like "my...

I had a huge crop of fataliis a few years back and tried all sorts of sauces with them - my favorite was fresh pureed fataliis, pineapple juice, ginger, lime juice, and enough grain alcohol to get the total abv up to about 20% to inhibit any bacteria/mold/etc. growth.  Years later that sauce...

I've been fermenting smoked peppers for 3 seasons now and have had excellent, "normal" results - none of the potential issues described above actually.     Right now I have 2 gallons of mash bubbling away in my basement, a mix of half a dozen different red and chocolate off-types that I smoked...

I have a plant that looks just like that and is setting very similar looking pods - but it came in a seed pack labelled long red 7 pot, which I suspected was a 7 pot red bhut cross to begin with. There's little doubt that the other parent was pimenta de neyde, but it will be interesting to see...

Just wanted to give my two thumbs up to this vendor - quick polite response, fast shipping, and having only ordered 2 seeds packs I didn't expect any freebies, but was very pleasantly surprised to find 2 gift packs in my order, a reaper and bahamian goat - not the sort of low-demand stuff I'm...

I damn near killed everything with a bag of mislabeled fertilizer about 2 weeks after planting them out, which was a month later than last year on account of a mid-May frost.  Then it was ungodly hot and nothing in my garden - chillis, tomatoes, eggplants - set any fruit for about 6 weeks.  In...

Thanks for the responses.  I'm going to give it a try.  I've got 40+ plants and only room to properly overwinter about a dozen, so the rest I'll be experimenting with.  I'll let y'all know how/if it works.