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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 3/20/2006, you wrote:
>  My son already has a
> standing order in for any hot pepper seeds, heirloom of course.

Where are you growing peppers?  I have some seeds from a tropical pepper 
grown on Saipan.  This little pepper is about 3/4 inch long and hotter than 
you can run away from.  A sauce made from this pepper will as my brother 
says "make a mouse slap a tomcat."  I brought 7 bottles back from my recent 
trip to Saipan and only have two left after visiting my son and some friends.

The pepper grows wild on the Marianas Islands and is descended from the 
Habineros planted by the Spanish in the 1500s.  Locally it is a Boonie 
Pepper or Donnie Sale.  In the tropics the peppers produce year round with 
small 3/4 inch thin peppers in red, yellow, and green.  They are hot.

There is another pepper there that has also naturalized.  It is the long 
thin shape about 2 inches long and green.  It is good to eat off the bush 
after the seeds have been removed.  Very hot but a good flavor.  Just be 
careful where your hands go after eating one.  Did it say it was 
hot?  After eating one of those you will not get sick for a year, nothing 
will come close to you.  It could be the hottest pepper I have ever eaten 
whole but it was good.  Did I say hot?  It was well beyond hot.

Don Bowen                          Awl Knotted Up
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