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I'm picking up a food dehydrator (probably a Nesco Snackmaster Pro - has a 20% more powerful heater/fan than the standard Snackmaster.  I know there's plenty of info on this board, but I was wondering if you could help me with a few things.   This is my first year growing mole peppers (ancho...

I'm getting set to make a Trinidadian-style hot sauce (some papaya, some scotch bonnets and/or scorpions, some curry, some ginger and lime, etc.) that I've made the last two years.  The original recipe that I based my recipe off of calls for some veggie oil.  I've noticed that a lot of hot sauce...

I started growing a couple of chinense varieties a couple of years ago and am now planning to branch out to Rocotos/Locatos.  I was wondering if I need to change up my growing regime for these varieties (specifically Aji Oro, Costa Rican Red, and Locato).  I live on Long Island in New York in...

One of my plants grown from a seed labeled as a brown Trinidad scotch bonnet has developed black leaves. It's otherwise the healthiest looking plant I have. The black coloration is on the raised portion of the most recent mature leaves. There are no signs of damage or growths. My other plant...

This is my first year growing and we got surprised with near freezing temps one night this weekend.  This made me wake up and realize I need to get my overwintering system set up.  I have four plants in 12" dia. pots that I want to keep overwinter in a room in my basement that gets very little...

Here's a plant grown from Datil seeds I purchased from NMSU. Looks like there's a couple of pod morphs going on, and none look like Datils. Some of the pods are pointy, some aren't. One of the pods is huge. What the heck do I have here? Habanero?

I have a fatalii plant that's growing well, getting plenty of sunlight, never been dehydrated enough to wilt, and the leaves are not curling, bleaching, discoloring, or showing any other form of stress, but I've been having a lot of blossom drop recently. It does have viable fruit on it though...

I'm lactose intolerant and I'm trying to figure out what's best to eat/drink after biting into a hot pepper to calm down the capsaicin burn that doesn't contain lactose.  Any suggestions?

Hi, I'm new to growing anything fancier than Hungarian hot wax peppers or jalapeños. Among other seeds I ordered this year, I ordered a packet of aji limon seeds from NMSU. The weird thing is that they list it as a c. Annum cultivar. Is this correct? Everywhere else i read that it's a c...

Hi everyone. I've been gardening for a while, but pepper-wise I've limited myself to Hungarian hot wax peppers, jalapeños, and Thai chiles because I figured our growing season was too short for anything else. This year I started a mini greenhouse early and now I'm raising a fatalii plant, a...