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From: mmr@ritcv.UUCP (Margaret Reek)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Tobasco Pepper seeds?
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Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 17:02:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  7 17:02:10 1985
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> I have read that the hotness of hot peppers depends on the temperature
> at which they ripen -- the hotter the weather, the hotter the peppers.
> So if you grow hot peppers in the North, expect them to be less hot
> than the same plants grown in the South.

I've heard the same thing, and I can't help but wonder about it.  I grew
jalapeno's a year ago that were positively ferocious, an order of magnitude
hotter than the ones I got in California.  Rochester, NY is not exactly the
heat capitol of the country even in summer.  I didn't get any peppers at
all last year, so I can't tell if the first batch was a fluke or not.

			Margaret Reek
			Rochester Institute of Technology	
			ritcv!asgard!mmr