No sure how good your sense of smell but when honey bees sting it smells like a banana smell (Stung in bottom of foot recently). The smell informs other hb's to be on guard & to attack if necessary & locates the subject. HB's partly communicate by using scents or pheremones & our perfumes & man made scents can set em off. Lemon scents can signal queen/home or smell of beehive, thats why some keepers use lemongrass oil to attract/lure bees to traphives. AHB's these don't sound like as they attack in numbers greater & can chase for quite some distance so I've been told. Google images has picture library to look through to help identify the possible bee or wasp or hornet's that these could be. Good previous advise on use of no laundry scents & nonuse of fragrant personal hygiene products or perfumes & eating bananas is good to leave for another day, after tree hunting. Also color of clothing & vigorous motion might of been issue if you were solely wearing darker colors that bees mistake for bears or wild animals trying to rob hive. Lighter colors & calmer movements seem to not agravate so much. Cheers, David

When you repot Hoyas into a larger pot they will often spend some time growing roots instead of top growth. I had a rooted cutting sit for about three months after I potted it into a 6.5" pot because it was busy growing roots but now it is almost 4 feet tall and growing strong. I know that a lot of people don't like the EA potting mix because it holds lots of moisture and if the mix you used to fill in around the root mass is of a very different consistency you could run into problems with uneven moisture distribution. I would let the potting mix dry out until the top is dry and then check with your finger to see that the mix is also dryish a couple of inches below the surface before you water again. Watering with little sips will cause wet areas and dry areas and you could risk loosing some of the roots. Watering until you see water flowing from the bottom drainage hole of the pot lets you know that the potting mix is evenly moist and it will be much easier to develop a schedual for watering the plant. Most of my Hoyas in 6" or larger pots get watered about once a week but you should get in the habit of checking to see how dry the potting mix is because at times certain plants will need water more than once a week or they may need a few extra days to dry more depending on the temperature, the amount of sun and air movement they receive. Mike

i have personally spoken with Bob at "GRIN" and have sent them a few wilds i have that they did not, From my understanding from our conversation they are more interested in rare and native species not a hybrid As far as the rights to the Carolina reaper it was trade marked but as Smokin Eds Carolina reaper not just carolina reaper and this leads me to believe that for it to of taken so long to actually get recognized that there might of been a bait and switch take place and that the one that actually got the worlds record was not the same as the seeds that where sold I know of another pepper that i have been told is going after the record and is being claimed to of been created by this person was not. He actually received seeds from a mutual friend that had been unknowingly cross pollinated, The pepper world is full of liars and thieves trying to become KING

I did try that, but, it seems that it dos not say in black and white that when you ordre the model for LP, even costumer service could not confirm it, but from what they said, and they only read whats on there web site, that they can not confurm the diffrence if there is one between Natural and LP. DCS and Viking do have a diffente between N or LP and it logical because, there is more pressure on LP than on N gas, so there for they have to lower le pressure for LP - But what a wolf reprensentive told my vender, that there is no different between N or LP witch i dought