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Hmmm. Try growing Scotch Bonnet, they won't chew those! (Twice.) Only,
if you do, you should wear goggles and rubber/plastic gloves when
preparing them. No, I'm not joking.

Well, I have grown them, and they were pretty anaemic. There isn't
enough sun in this country to get them decently hot - and I am NOT
excluding the past couple of weeks!

We used to mill them. *EVERYBODY* in the factory wore full-face masks
with filter cartridges. The frozen chillis were passed through a liquid
nitrogen tunnel and fed into an Erschell (Sp?) mill, where they were
reduced to powder.

Even with the masks, eyes streamed and coughs broke out everywhere. One
lass got som powder in a plastic glove and had to have hospital
treatment.

Mind you, these were shipped from IIRC, Thailand.

But, as I have said before, I am a genuine colonial (native), born
in the dying days of Empire (over which the sun never sets). May
I recommend reading Kipling's "Song of the Native Born"?

Ha! I was born when the Empire was fighting (mainly) shoulder to
shoulder with us and hadn't really begun to fragment and/or metamorphose
into a Commonwealth.

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Since first writing this message, a few of the peppers have started to
ripen. However, they are still quite slow.

Colin
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Since first writing this message, a few of the peppers have started to
ripen. However, they are still quite slow.

Patience. None of mine has started to ripen. They will.

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Since first writing this message, a few of the peppers have started to
ripen. However, they are still quite slow.

Patience. None of mine has started to ripen. They will.

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Largest pepper is now at least 17.287% ripe.
The suspense is almost unbearable!
Ripening in an irregular stripe down the sunward side, just like the dusty
peppers you see in Mediterranean markets.

Cheers
Dave R

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Since first writing this message, a few of the peppers have started to
ripen. However, they are still quite slow.

Patience. None of mine has started to ripen. They will.

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Largest pepper is now at least 17.287% ripe.
The suspense is almost unbearable!
Ripening in an irregular stripe down the sunward side, just like the dusty
peppers you see in Mediterranean markets.

Cheers
Dave R

This year Ive grown Cayenne, sweet something or other and the Banana
peppers.
Lots of fruit on the Banana bushes(about 3-4' high) but staying
resolutly green EXCEPT for one plant that has long tapering glossy
fruit that are a pale yellow - dont know how that got in there.
The sweet peppers have been crap - most of the fruit got blossom end
rot, dont know why as its never happened before.
The Cayenne plants have been very prolific, lots of long thin dark
green fruits but none showing any sign of red.
Hmmm I thought, I wonder how strong these are and took one off and
took a tentative nibble at the end - no reaction. Disappointed I took
a bigger bite - BIIIG mistake, my lips felt like they had swollen to
twice their size,my eyes were watering and my mouth was numb for an
hour after. Three days later I noticed that the half eaten chili,
which Id dropped in my rush to get a bucket of water, had turned a
bright red so I think I may harvest them soon and let them ripen off
the plant.
Any suggestions as to what I can do with more chillis than I will be
able to use within the next year?

Mark

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Hmmm I thought, I wonder how strong these are and took one off and
took a tentative nibble at the end - no reaction. Disappointed I took
a bigger bite - BIIIG mistake, my lips felt like they had swollen to
twice their size,my eyes were watering and my mouth was numb for an
hour after. Three days later I noticed that the half eaten chili,
which Id dropped in my rush to get a bucket of water, had turned a
bright red so I think I may harvest them soon and let them ripen off
the plant.
Any suggestions as to what I can do with more chillis than I will be
able to use within the next year?

Have an armour-plated mouth grafted in?

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On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 18:55:32 +0100, Rusty Hinge
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from (Mark Fawcett) contains these words:

Hmmm I thought, I wonder how strong these are and took one off and
took a tentative nibble at the end - no reaction. Disappointed I took
a bigger bite - BIIIG mistake, my lips felt like they had swollen to
twice their size,my eyes were watering and my mouth was numb for an
hour after. Three days later I noticed that the half eaten chili,
which Id dropped in my rush to get a bucket of water, had turned a
bright red so I think I may harvest them soon and let them ripen off
the plant.
Any suggestions as to what I can do with more chillis than I will be
able to use within the next year?

Have an armour-plated mouth grafted in?

and keep your teeth in a bowl of running water. :-)
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Martin

On 23 Aug 2003 09:27:14 -0700, (Mark Fawcett)
wrote:

Any suggestions as to what I can do with more chillis than I will be
able to use within the next year?

Make sure they're clean and dry then put any you can't use in the
freezer. They keep well and provide a good source of chillis whenever
you need them.

I find they are really easy to slice up whilst still frozen and this
can also help make them more manageable (a bit less juicy).

Colin
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