i'd love some of them, i have some of them habenaro's, i will never use them, we just saved them for trade! LOL my sil told me they were bell peppers, hmmm not so funny when your biting into them babies!! onery sil!!! LOL :'))

A lot of cross pollination questions on the site right now. Most years, I grow a pepper patch of mixed sweet & hot peppers - with the two often directly adjacent - and have not observed any heat in the sweet peppers. I don't entirely discount the possibility that crossed seeds might possess some heat... but sweet peppers are not generally eaten without cleaning them. If there were such heat, I would expect to feel it or smell it during cleaning, which has not been the case.

I have Kung Pao seeds, and want to trade for a mild hot pepper with a Scoville rating in the 400 to 4000 range, but that still has some taste. I am going to use these to make a Korean dish called Melchi which is made by frying tiny dried anchovies with a mild hot pepper. I just did a germination test and it looked like 75% were sprouted within six days. The local Korean market used to sell some peppers that were about 5/8 inch wide and five inches long that were perfect, but last year they switched to another type that looks the same but has no heat and no taste, completely bland. So what I want is something maybe half to 3/4 inch at the widest point and four to seven inches long that has the taste of a hot pepper but not the high heat, just a little heat.

Give them time. The next pods you pick may be as hot as expected. I've posted many times over the years that I've picked ripe pods off the same plant at the same time and one would have no heat and one would blow me away. The first Biker Billy jals that I grew in 2000 had zero heat to start with. Actually that plant never did live up to expectations, but did get better. Be sure they are fully ripe when picking to fairly evaluate heat level. jt