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Well ... are you dating Pinocchio's sister?
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ummm... Ummm...
I'm sure that you are aware that Pinocchio was made of the wood of pine and oak trees.
But I hope you would also be aware that his sister was made from the protective fluid which is produced by some other trees.
So, no splinters.
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You just reminded me of something I was meaning to ask of a Welshman, having unique expertise in the subject.
It was related to rubbing their rod with wool and what type of discharge resulted if they then decided to ground it . . .
But I decided not to ask just yet.
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And they wondered what would happen if they closed the Soapbox.
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References to curious "local customs" have appeared in the lounge for quite some time.
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I think you'll have to draw your own conclusions.
/ravi
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Truly your scribblings are a fountain-pen (or an ink leak) of wisdom.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I wonder blot he quill say to that observation?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Are broken pencils completely pointless? Just as much as circles are.
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Would there be in point in drawing a circle with a radius of 0?
This space for rent.
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DRHuff wrote: Would there be any point in drawing a circle with a radius of 0?
Definitely - that would define the set of all irrationals.
Consider a point landing on a circle each PI revolution - how many points on the circle will it hit?
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Tim Deveaux wrote: that would define the set of all irrationals. We already have that set; it's called Democrats.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Back to the Soapbox with you! ...oh.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: Back to the Soapbox with you But I put the winky face in which means it's all in good humor and therefore allowed.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Went out back for a few minutes - picked about twenty hot peppers (jalapeno, Thai Hybrids) and three ripe yellow habanero. A great year for peppers - tomatoes, however, just don't seem to ripen. I've heard that from others, too. Oddly, though, I've so many ripe habaneros that shouldn't have started ripening until about now (vs. a month ago).
I am now the happy owner (via weekend preparation) of a pint (440ml) of habanero sauce consisting of about fifty of them (red and yellow) ground into paste with vinegar. Opening the jar fills the area with a combination of delightful fruity aroma and choking fumes. Early cooking experiments with this batch show the effort (seed's started indoors in late February) to be well worth it. I've likely mentioned this before, but used with care it's just a "better" hot.
If anyone wants to ask - no I haven't tried any of the new ultra hots, such as scorpion pepper and seven-pot peppers. I've heard they're difficult to grow (longer season than I have) and I haven't figured out exactly what I'd do with them - especially if I have a pile of them. Ten times hotter than insanely hot - well, perhaps to discourage dogs as to where is a good place to sniff-and-go ?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I've heard they're difficult to grow (longer season than I have)
You need some global warming.
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The temptation is too strong, isn't it?
I know the feeling. It hasn't even been 4 days yet, and you are jonesing for a fix.
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Take it to the So... Oh wait
Just go wash your mouth with soap then
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You can't just post this here. Tomorrow morning someone will have parked an aircraft carrier near you and start bombing your house until you comply to all sorts of arms treaties again.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I've heard they're difficult to grow (longer season than I have) Half a dozen years ago I grew Carolina Reapers, they seemed to take about the same amount of time as habeneros to grow and mature which makes sense since they are a hybrid.
Habanadas on the other hand took much longer than their spicy relative to grow. They have the same flavor as a habanero but a scoville rating of 0.
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You're quite right about the reaper (I just went looking for that info):
Quote: Carolina Reaper plants take roughly 90 days to get to the point of sexual maturity, which is when they will be ready to produce fruit. Plant size: When planted in the ground or a suitably large container, Carolina Reaper plants grow to be approximately 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide. A similar search (and the seed package) puts my Habenaros at 100-110 days. That's why it's weird to have them ripening. I grew the 90-day variety a couple of years ago and late August was the start.
Slow germination doesn't bother me - I grow cactus from seeds. Probably start indoors in January - if I knew what I'd do with them one I had them. On the other hand - you planted the it's-doable seed in my head (pun intended).
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I reread the blurb - that 90 days is "ready to produce fruit" - implying they still have to set fruit, grow and ripen. That may just put them out of reach.
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The other thing to consider if you have space indoors is to overwinter your peppers, which also means a larger yield in subsequent years.
I had multiple black walnut trees in the yard so had to plant all my peppers in pots and did this. Usually picked the biggest/healthiest looking plant of each variety and moved them indoors at the end of the season.
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Practical Advice - I have to quite-tall maples shading much of the yard. The garden's a mix of in-ground (ca 10x10 feet) and a lot of very large pots (which are better known as 5-gallon buckets). They are too bulky, however, to bring indoors (let alone any wildlife they may contain) and, unfortunately for me, I have only one small south-facing window.
My best option would seem to be an extra-early start (when they're small and in pots under lamps) to give them a good head start - but the earliest safe day to put them outdoors is usually Mother's Day. That would just get them to start fruiting around mid-August. Doable if they'll ripen withing the month and autumn doesn't arrive early. It all depends, it seems, on how long the flower-grow-ripen period is (and less than full sun).
Practical Department:
OK - let's assume I managed this. Aside from being very hot and the job-satisfaction, did they have any qualities that made the whole thing worth it?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: better known as 5-gallon buckets That is what I did as well, had to move one at a time and getting the four selected pots up or down the basement steps to the grow tent was a pain in the back.
I love spicy food, so for me the Reapers had the extra hot I was looking for in a number of applications. Dehydrated and ground into a powder for seasoning/cooking, added to salsas, inserted into batches of bread and butter pickles for extra kick on a burger or sandwich, and so on. Otherwise they have a similar fruity flavor to the habanero.
If you have limited space and time, I'd opt for other varieties for different flavor profiles instead. Shishitos are very good charred, pablanos are thicker so good for stuffing, cayenne, hungarian wax, and the list goes on. Every new pepper added to your seasoning mix brings with it something unique. My initial pepper selection revolved heavily around what I use when making chili and grew from there.
Edit: Saw your other post about growing zones and I'm in 5a. I think I got around it by starting from seed as soon as possible so had a larger plant when I finally moved them outside. It involved a lot of fans running on timers to get stronger stems along with heated grow lights, and moving them in/out on a daily basis when it was warm enough during the day but not at night, https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/files/2014/10/Cold-hardiness-map-high-resolution.jpg[^]
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