Hi all! I don't know much about hot peppers but I love growing them. We always had a garden growing up and my dad always had rows and rows of hot pepper plants - chilies, jalapeños, hot bananas, and various other varieties. I've always been too chicken to eat anything but jalapeños. This year I have Dragon Cayennes, New Mexico Big Jims, Cowhorns, Caribbean Hot Peppers (which I learned last night are Scotch Bonnets and way too hot for me to even think about tasting!), Cherry Hots, and a Poblano plant (which had a rough start thanks to a curious deer...It still doesn't have any flowers ). When this season is over, I want to try my hand at indoor growing so I can continue to get peppers through the winter (that's how I found this forum - Google!). I think I'll have better luck inside...We're plagued with a deer who finds the leaves of my pepper plants (and beans, and tomatoes, and cucumber) delicious. She ate all but one leaf off my Giant Marconi plants before we got the deer netting up. Anyway, hello! I'm excited to be here and browse through all the interesting threads