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An amazingly delicious (not hot) eating pepper: Giant Aconcagua[^]
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I love habaneros. I like to pick them when they are still green and don't have their full heat yet. The flavor really comes through then and people who don't like the heat can still appreciate them.
I used to live in the Fresno, CA area and the growing season was very early there compared to where I used to live. The peppers would start being ripe in late June to early July often. We moved about three hundred miles north and the growing season is more typical here. People get ripe peppers in mid-August here, several weeks later than in Fresno.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I'm in Growing Zone 7B; Fresno's in 9B - what's you current zone? It seems to vary a lot as you move from the coast toward the mountains.
My growing zone, itself, is way out of line for my latitude[^]: A gift from being by the ocean.
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It appears we are in 9A now but I'm not sure. It could also be 9B. We live very near Lake Shasta now.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Me:
Average First Frost: November 11 - 20
Average Last Frost: April 1 - 10
Koppen-Geiger Climate Zone:
Cfa - Humid Subtropical Climate
Ecoregion: 84c - Barrier Islands - Coastal Marshes
Thee:
Average First Frost: December 11 - 20
Average Last Frost: February 21 - 28
Koppen-Geiger Climate Zone:
Csa - Hot-Summer Mediterranean Climate
Ecoregion:
Enjoy those extra 9-10 weeks! Almost enough for a second crop of many things.
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Hot-Summer Mediterranean Climate is accurate. There are lots of olive and almond orchards around the area. Also a few vineyards that grow hot weather grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon. This climate extends into Southern Oregon up to about where the mountains start.
Last winter we had about a foot of snow which is more than there has been in over fifty years here. That followed one of the most severe fire seasons in history here. The weather has been all over the spectrum lately.
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Mmmm... habaneros!
he said with with a Simpsonesque drool
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I haven't figured out exactly what I'd do with them
I highly recommend dried California Reaper in tomato soup, if treated with respect. All you need is a strip off the main fruit that is about 1cm long, chop it carefully and throw it into a big pot, lightly saute with some ginger, garlic, onions, toss in a few tins of tomatoes and let all that bubble away for about an hour before blending it all. It's an angry, smokey flavour, that's just delicious and really livens up anything tomato-based. Just be careful with it or it really will burn your mouth off.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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From the sound of this is implies the reapers add a smoky taste to the soup. That could well justify the effort of growing them. Otherwise - why not a habanero? Actually, with all the sweetness from the tomatoes, cooked onions and garlic, even regular chilies ??
The reason for growing the habanero is (potentially) similar in that it adds more than just heat.
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I absolutely adore habaneros, and use them liberally for the same purpose. I was addressing your specific lack of experience with the "super-chillies"... As in, this was something that I tried using reapers, which genuinely worked as a dish. Yes, habaneros work well in this. But the dried Reaper just transmogrifies it into something really special. I have also tried blending habaneroes for sweetness, and balancing that with the terrifying strength and flavour of the Reaper. It takes a few goes to get that right, but it's worth it.
Plus, if you're serving it to people, you get to call it "Reaper Soup" which sounds elephanting bad-ass. Or "Reaper Stew", if you're doing a sauce. I find that stewing rough cuts of meat in a Reaper and tomato sauce, the kind of not-too-fussy butchering job with some fatty bits, bones and even some tendons still in, makes for a fantastic taste and fun to eat. It also adds to the dramatic effect for your guests, particularly if they're not used to a rustic style of cooking where you get bone-in stews all the time. Good for Hallowe'en parties and the like, served in a giant bowl and accompanied by crusty bread and full-bodied red wine. You get the idea.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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...that's a gift that is really hard to beat!
Ba-tish!
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modified 3-Sep-19 8:16am.
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Johnny J. wrote: Ba-tish!
You gave him the cymbals as well, I see.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A drum or a trumpet is indeed a nice present for other people's children. Especially if you do not want them to talk to you ever again.
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Playdough and crayons are also good presents for small children... 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Johnny J. wrote: Playdough and crayons Sharpies are also good presents for small children.
FTFY!
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Only if you don't have pets... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Or better: you don't have kids! 
Or perhaps ...[^]
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Electric guitar, in my case. The kid's daddy was delighted and went off to get his guitar as well.
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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I see how you snared us!
/ravi
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In the old days, give a little girl, someone else's little girl, a Barbie Doll and leave it to the parents to be paying for all the accessories.
As for musical instruments - my brother was a professional musician - and that particular venue of vengeance (for gifts he gave my progeny) caused no bother at all.
A sneaky one, however, did work: a twenty-pound (ca. 18Kg) chocolate bar. About 1 1/2" (4cm) thick so breaking off a piece required a hammer. Dark chocolate, too - but they were figuring out how to use it up for a very very very long time.
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20 pounds is only 9kg. /pedant
I buy and chop up one of them in milk chocolate for my Mom to make Easter candy with. (I live much closer to the store Grandma bought her chocolate from.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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My five year old nephew went into my off-limits, model-making room and trashed several years worth of painstaking work on a several dioramas. My brother said, "It's only some old toys; nothing important."
So on his birthday I gave my nephew a tin drum and a plastic trumpet to encourage his (non-existent) musical abilities. When my brother complained about the constant, horrible racket his little darling produced all day (and night), I said, "it's only some toys; nothing important."
Revenge is sweet! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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...to close my browser and landed on my CP notification page, which stopped in 2014, and this is the first entry:
The Lounge[^]
Funny thread, and a small blast in the past.
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Is it Mauna Kea, Mount Everest or Chimborazo?
And by which measure?
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I think they measure the elevation from sea level, which I think is the accepted standard to measure elevation.
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