Chile-Heads: I was harvesting the peppers from my potted Caribbean Red Habanero the other day, and picked off 12 or so pods. To make a long story short, I started dicing them up to make hot sauce out of them, and I noticed something unusual: 75% of the pods had fully-formed, but smaller, pods _inside_ of them! I cut these miniature pods open, and they look like their bigger brothers. They have a complete membrane running down the middle of them. Both the full-sized and miniature pods are extremely hot; they're the hottest that I ever had, and they're hotter than the Francisca and Red Savina Habaneros that I also grew this season. I managed to slice open three of them without damaging the internal pods, and took a picture of them. The picture is available here: http://world.std.com/~loki/chile/images/CaribbeanRed.jpg This plant is from seeds that were leftovers from the 2000 season. I no longer have the packet, but I think these were packaged by NK Lawn & Garden. I saved the seeds from these mutants, but it will be a crapshoot if they come up next year. I wasn't planning on saving any seeds this season, so no precautions were taken to prevent cross-pollination. Perhaps I'll take some cuttings and try to overwinter them instead. In my ten years of chile pepper growing, I've only come across one other mutation: My Pepper Gal cayenne plant had an abundance of three-pod peppers hanging from one stem. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures... Regards, Greg \|/ ___ \|/ loki@world.std.com +----- 2048/83C90191 -----+ @~./'O o`\.~@ | 0B 65 E0 58 F3 F9 81 F5 | /__( \___/ )__\ Crypto, Security, and Phrack: | F0 72 75 FA 1E BD C9 66 | `\__`U_/' http://world.std.com/~loki +--- via Finger or WWW ---+