Mike Lafay

Seeing how the fruit looks like it has a little scorpion tail on the bottom, I think that would be it, thanks for the confirmation.

As a Jalapeno pepper is already hot for me, be sure that I'll try a tiny, tiny bit of that Carolina Reaper.

If you have any tips on actually using very hot peppers, I'm all ears, although I'll probably do some research on my own. I might dilute them a lot, in order to actually eat them at some point.

I will also dry them for storage, however would using an electric dehydrator with a fan be a bad idea ? I don't want to make my kitchen a no man's land; all I am sure off is that actually cooking them can be dangerous with the capsaicin being volatile. I saw a video which had me burst out laughing about the hottest curry in the world, where the cooks literally need gas masks to cook that curry.

Hello permies.

As a mature, reasonable adult, I decided last year to try a few hot peppers. I had a few Pimiento de Padron, as well as a few Jalapeno. I had a few seeds too of Habanero, and of the dreaded Carolina Reaper. Since there was basically no summer last year, I had no fruit on those later peppers; and so I decided to dig them, put them in pots and overwinter them inside. This is where I have a problem.

As you all know, one of the biggest lie in life we tell ourselves is, "of course I'm going to remember what I planted there". So, all I am sure of is that I dug up either Habanero or Carolina reaper.

This year, I decided to plant peppers but gradually increasing their strength, in the hope of improving my own capsaicin tolerance, something we all strive to do at some point in life. So I have planted Shishitu (barely a pepper), Purple Delight, Variegata, and Habanero Chocolate brown. So I have a few visual comparison available.

This is the plant I am wondering about: what variety do you think it is, between Habanero and Carolina Reaper ?

Fruits:

Better view of the leaves:


For reference, here is a plant I know is an Habanero (chocolate brown variety, whereas the Habanero from last year was just "Habanero", so it is possible that there are some difference between Chocolate Brown Habanero and "just" Habanero (with some Plenitude K432 grain amaranth that decided to photo bomb):



What are your thoughts ?

Yes, I can see it now. Thanks !

Okay, so I've been able to buy the podcast through the gumroad link, and it has been about 48h. It seems that I have not been added to the private forum. Can anyone do that please ? I've listened to the 3h podcast, I want to try to contribute some positive stuff.

I have also started eating kale again, and it seemed relevant to point that out.

Well, thanks a lot to you and your team for setting this up !

I will wait a few day until I get my pay (25$ was OK this month, 40$ won't fit). After that, I'll gladly use that link; maybe you'll want to add it to the original post if it is available for people in other countries. I can't be the only non-US guy who want to support you in some way and possibly contribute in other ways.

You are just sharing so much stuff, at some point I want to give something back or at least try. I can't fly over to Montana (if that's even where the permies HQ is located) to help physically in any way, so perhaps I'll be able to share interesting new stuff in that private forum. Hopefully, without coming on as the clueless guy who read a book that just happen to be exactly the opposite of what you are doing. I am quite good at cooking, working out and self-discipline o maybe that could be good subjects to exchange on.

In the meantime, thanks you for everything you do.

Hello,

I've just learned about the cancer, and with all that Paul has done, and is making freely available, I would love to both be able to contribute financially, and share what I know will or might helps, as well as do it consciously: if he's doing A, I can't just tell him to do B for instance.

However, I live in France, and so it seems that the VAT mafia requires the payment of the VAT horse shit contribution.

Beside getting through the paywall from a gift, is there any other way to do so ? I don't mind paying 25 + the 20% or so of this included.

The few times I had muscle cramps, I was not eating a lot of veggies. If he's fit and eating a lot of proteins, he should make sure to also eat a lot of veggies. They will gives a lot of good things, not just the magnesium, or iron, or whatever everyone here is suggesting (I'm not implying that magnesium or individual supplement won't work; but vegetables will gives a wide variety of nutrients, which will be more easily available to the body; so instead of trying each nutrient one by one, having a load of them at once might give faster results).

It's not really a medicinal herb in itself, but let food be thy medicine ! If you can solve it at the root, that would be the best. Do he also stretch enough ? When do these cramps happen ?

Hello everyone,

As the season reach to an end, and as the ashwagandhas are completing their natural cycle, I have started today the harvest of the fruits. One fruit contain from 16 to 24 seeds... and I have probably a hundred and more fruits in front of me.

The root is the most used in western medicine, and the easiest part to use. Leaves and stem also have some uses, although they are not as popular in the West, same thing for the fruit and the seeds.

But as I'm separating the fruits from their calyces, I have under my way one part of the plant nobody seems to talk about, either on the "classic" internet nor on pubmed. Those calyces, surely they have some interesting properties ? I know that physalis calyces have some medicinal/hallucinogenic properties, what about the ashwagandhas calyces ?

I might try to make a tincture out of them and try it, but honestly I'm not confident enough to just jump in like that. And I have neither the time, neither the equipment nor the knowledge to do a pharmaceutical analysis of thoses calyces. Maybe one day ?

If anyone have information on how to use those calyces, that would be awesome. And that would mean yet another plant that can be used in its entirety.

If I can mix some plants that keep some aerial parts and some that lose them in the winter in the same container, that could solve the issue. However, surprisingly, I'm not outside much in the winter on the terrace so it should not be too much of an issue. Do you know any specific purpose pineapple sage has, for humans ? I have to admit that I tend to limit plants that are purely ornamental because of space, although I can still make a few exceptions for some.