> Scratch that...just found a much closer pic...no similarity in this pic > at all. Does this mean you have decided your chile cannot be a Bhut jalokia? Bhut jalokia is supposed to be red color I thought. If so, the only way to get an orangish/tannish dried chile from it is for it to get horribly bleached (e.g. sun, age, chemicals, molds) after drying. --- Brent