They are a fun hobby. I like them because I have to start the chinense and baccatum varieties in January or Febuary, so I get to garden inside in the middle of winter.
Somewhere on here someone posted a link to an Australian article about how they grew the world record Trinidad Scorpion varity. Runoff from a worm farm filled with dead bugs used to water the plants was what the plant scientist in the article believed caused the extreme heat in the tested peppers. His theory was that since the plants manufacture the capsaicin as a defense mechanism, being watered with the insect bits tricked the plants into thinking they were constantly under attack.
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