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Dehydration can make it burn a little, too, if it is on the inside. On the outside, I agree that you probably had pepper juice soaked into your hands. It doesn't matter how many times you wash your hands.

To me, Friday the 13th is a novelty and it is mildly amusing. I was surprised to find out that I work with people who are disturbed by it and that the ones who showed up were just trying not to think about it. 

My first generation from purchased seed packet worked okay. A little less successful than my ghost pepper seeds. The ones I collected from peppers didn't germinate at all. So I guess results may vary.  

My neighbors scoop out my plants and scatter the potting soil. Often they damage the roots, too, so if I get to them in time and put them back they still die.   I thought all birds do uric acid and not urea, including chickens?  

  My experience is limited, but I use Miracle Gro soil and I get more flowers. The explanation I read is that the magnesium absorbs very quickly. More nitrogen for more leaves and more magnesium for more flowers. For more heat in the pods, I have been taught to expect this from hot and dry...

Epsom salt is good for having more flowers on your plant. More flowers means more chances for pods. More pods means more capsaicin.  

There was a certain temperature for cooking with vanilla extract where you bake off all the good things that give it a complex flavor. If you cook above that temperature you might as well be using artificial vanilla because the result is the same. But I do think the temperature was fairly high...

Neither thread - this or the link I followed - seems to have mentioned using epsom salt to increase the number of flowers. If a percentage of them are going to drop, and you can't find the cause, at least you can start with more flowers and hopefully get more pods.  

A detailed Scoville chart with lots of peppers on it an - if possible - commercial products out there on it. I read that Sriracha is a 2500, which isn't much compared to jalapeños at 3000 to 10,000. And people call it hot. And there are major bummers like Lola's carolina reaper sauce. When...

Some of my mugwort seed went into pots and some I scattered around the apartment building where I live in areas they don't tend to mow very well. There were two pots in front of my apartment door on the second floor walkway. The first pot was dug in, but they left the main larger one alone. That...

My first problem is that I don't know what mugwort looks like, but I don't see a lot of dandelions, either. There are a lot of parks in town and some of them have creeks or ponds. Every day I cross the Iowa River to get to work and there is a bike path that goes a couple miles along the river...

Mugwort is an herb used for lucid dreaming. It helps to sleep better, and it also helps with memory. It is useful for anxiety and depression. If you work with hypnagogia for creative problem solving, wake induced lucid dreams, and out of body experiences, you can make a tea or smoke mugwort. All...

The last place I lived in had a lot of really bad neighbors. Their children dug up my plants. Aside from being small children, they had two other things in common. One was that they moved from Chicago so their families could have a better (safer) life here.  

Is the problem that it is too thin? Maybe you need to cook it down longer to get a thicker consistency and a stronger flavor?  

When my wife and I moved to our current apartment, it was smaller than the previous one. I gave up the ghost pepper plant and kept the jamaican hot chocolate. The JHC went outside right away and almost all the leaves were ripped off by the wind. I only got one pepper and when I opened it up I...