Pick them earlier and you'll get past the mold inside - seems the heat (weather wise) has lots to do with it- the moisture inside the pepper seems to promote the mold. Chet JohnT Love2Troll wrote: > Really having a problem this year. Scotch Bonnets, Madame Jeanettes, > Yellow Habs and lately a few Bhut Jolokia are badly infected. A > smaller percentage of Orange Cheiro and other chinense. Cut them in > half and moldy inside. > > I assume the problem is insects? Why aren't thin-walled annuums > similarly affected? > > JohnT > > > > > -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------* * Chet Bacon KA1ILH | Okay, who put a * * PO Box 284 | "stop payment" on my * * Southington, CT 06489 | reality check? * * E-Mail: | Homepage: * * chet@chetbacon.com | http://www.chetbacon.com * * chet_bacon@whps.org |<work> http://www.whps.org * *-----------------------------------------------------------------*