Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!jhf From: jhf@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.garden Subject: Re: Tobasco Pepper seeds? Message-ID: <19057@lanl.ARPA> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 01:04:39 EST Article-I.D.: lanl.19057 Posted: Tue Jan 8 01:04:39 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 06:28:34 EST References: <2663@dartvax.UUCP> <3226@alice.UUCP> <1468@ritcv.UUCP> Sender: newsreader@lanl.ARPA Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 12 > > 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. > I've been told that you get milder peppers the more you water them.