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[Lizzard[MPE]]

[Lizzard[MPE]]

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haha oppps.. i forgot to attatch the pic ho well. i attached enough

[Dr Mordrid]

Botanically speaking the Habanero, Scots Bonnet and Scotch Bonnet are all the same species, C. chinese, but not the same cultivar. Still they share their basic traits in that they have a fruity taste in addition to blinding heat.

Pictured above is the hottest of all, the Red Savina Habanero.

Most people when they first taste a Habanero pepper look like a cartoon character in that you see this red thermometer effect climbing from their chest & neck into their face and up to the top of their head. Then the tears flow and the steam starts coming out their ears

One way to quantify how hot a pepper is would be to determine its Scoville heat index. This was invented in the early 1900's by a pharmacist to measure the dilution of the peppers extract it would take to get to no burn in the mouth. These days the subjectiveness of a pure taste test is no more and gas chromatography is used to quantify the index.

The current scale is open ended, but some seed makers subdivide it in steps of 100,000 units with 1 = 100,000 Scoville, 2 =200,000 Scoville etc. with a maximum value of 10, which equals 1,000,000 Scoville units.

Scoville heat index in operation:

if someone took one of Greebes beer cans full of Habanero pepper extract and pouried it into a very large tub it would take 300,000 to 580,000 beers to get the "neutral" dilution. A Jalapeno pepper would take just 3,000 to 5,000 beers.

The variances in any given cultivars heat are largely due to the growing conditions. I know how to grow Red Savina Habaneros hot enough to make you cry

Dr. Mordrid

[ALBPM]

Hey DOC email me for my snail address. I want some seeds

Paul

[Kaj]

Ah.. Wasabi

You know: wasabi is vastly overrated imho. Once you get used to it (and that's pretty soon), you can eat as much as you like.

But if you're expecting something else, it can be a very big surprise indeed.

[cbman]

My first nick is cbman (First Initial - Last Initial - Gender) its simple and I can remember it easy.

My second nick was Damoury (The name was one of my favorite charcters out of a book I had read)

Not very inventive... but it works for me.

I was going to call myself smarternuthink or compwiz but I thought it too generic.

[Dr Mordrid]

ALBPM;

You can order Red Savina seeds from Sheperds;

http://www.shepherdseeds.com/item.asp?538

and sometimes you can find them in Walmarts garden department. They do best in a hothouse or outside if you have a long, hot growing season. Fertilize with a kelp & fish mix.

I concentrate their heat by limiting their water the last week or two before harvesting.

Dr. Mordrid

[Greebe]

and here I thought cbman originated from a guy who likes to yokel on the CB radio!

[ALBPM]

Thanks for the LINK

Paul

[ALBPM]

YEHAWWWW!!!!!!

I ordered seeds from Liz's Link on Wednesday evening and recieved them today. The company is just up the road a bit in Santa Fe.

peppers

I ordered some of the Purple Peruvian. That will make a COOL looking salsa.....LOL

Paul

[cbman]

Hey Greebe...

I don't do much CB Radio stuff.... now marine VHF... sure...

I do have a friend that has a really rusted out beat up one ton pickup truck with a CB radio that he has hooked to a speaker in his grill and whenever I am walking downtown and he drives by all you can hear is... "Chuckie" (the Chuck part goes pretty quick but he takes and draws out the EEE for about a block and a half)

Its a little embarrassing

[Lizzard[MPE]]

your welcome Paul

and Chuckeeeeeeeeee... thats embarassing and hilarious all in one. haha mostly hilarious

[Victorian]

Interest in/and degree in Victorian history.

[Sasq]

Ment to answer this the other day, but been busy...

Sasq - Sasquatch, if you've ever seen photos you would understand.

The other nick is yeti

Dan

[Greebe]

We had a client who's account was named Furry1

Suppose that would have worked perfect for you Danny! hehe