To me, the 'Indica Purpurea' in the SJHRG looks very similar to my 'Purpurea' from Vintage, but I have not made a side-by-side comparison of the two. According to the dates given on HMF, the varieties are distinct. but they sure do look a lot like each other. I have two plants of 'Purpurea'. One has been in the ground about 3 years in a challenging droughty/hot spot. It's about 5' tall and 4' wide. Its flushes are several dozen flowers total, but the flowers, so far, are usually not all open at once. They sort of string out, nine or a half dozen or so open at a time. The other was just planted this summer. It is actually a cutting from a piece accidentally broken off the first plant late last summer and simply stuck in a pot of soil -- it roots easily. It's planted in a better spot and blooms more often, though only about 1.5' tall (as did the other plant while it was in a pot, actually). I have yet to detect a scent (but I can't smell all scents). My overall impression is that with ample water and good soil, 'Purpurea' blooms more regularly. When conditions are not optimum, it seems to 'hunker down', maintaining flawless foliage and good looks but not blooming as much (which is what the older plant is doing right now -- with very little late winter or spring rains here, it's been difficult keeping its area adequately watered). It does seem a tough variety, as most found roses are.

Soil temp. For peppers it's all about soil temp. It can be warm during the day to you but if it drops enough at night to let the soil temp stay low, those peppers are just gonna sulk and no amount of plant love is gonna change their minds. Face it, you planted too early so now you just get to wait. Of course you could get a soil thermometer and learn about soil temp and plant response while waiting. Don't worry about the blossoms. The plant will take care of them.......meaning probably abort them. Contrary to popular belief plants know what they're doing. It's us human who are the fools. The great part is our bigger brains allow us to recognize our mistakes when we make them again next year.

Your position is that no matter the sample size of FSBO the data would not be normal. The problem is that samples get normal very fast. I originally wrote a long section here about the confidence interval, confidence level and sample size needed to get a good result. It is not nearly as complicated as you think. You don't need to run every home just pick a random sample in every market and ask, "on average did FSBO's in this market sell for X% more?" Then you repeat that for a number of random markets. Most of the things that you are worried about are taken care of by randomness. There are some biases in there - For example, there is a serious confirmation bias, since we are using home sales, it discounts the homes that don't sell as either FSBO or commissioned. But as far as studies go, this one is not even hard to design. Since you are studying a market and commissions are fairly standard in a market, proceeds to the seller is a function of sales price and would never need to be separated. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac track data on realtor vs FSBO and house prices. They make that data available to researchers, in fact, if you fill out the forms and have some analysis software (which you can probably get for free) they will make it available to you. Go conduct your own study. All of this is unnecessary, you can do the same thing with a simple poll. Just go to surveymonkey and create a poll. Ask only two questions - "As a home buyer - rank these types of home sales from least risky to most risky." Then give four or five options. And then ask it again only rank them most risky to least risky. Find some people to take it, preferably random but whatever. We know that all people price in risk, therefore if FSBO's are perceived as having more risk, they will get less money.

mydreamhomeideas, pardon me if I sound stupid or slow, are you saying a fan-type or fan noise comes on at higher heat settings when using for a period of time? I should have mentioned this above, but I only demo'd low and medium settings to see how hot the cooktop's got from the saucepan bottoms, and the specialty heat settings for boiling at the 2 settings on the Bosch (Speedboost and Shortboost) and didn't hear a fan noise. I didn't demo the highest regular setting for any period of time. If anyone is curious who doesn't yet have an induction: I did note during the demo at the specialty settings for quick boiling, when removing the pan immediately while at a full boil the surface was hot (from the pan bottom's heat) and I'd have been uncomfortable putting my hand on it right away, but after 3 seconds I could place my hand, palm down on the cooktop with no discomfort - it was gently warm and cooling. I cannot think of a reason why I would ever do this, but one never knows when I might become old, ditzy, and a cooktop heat-check daredevil ; - ) Seems like you may have confirmed that some cookware causes the more discernible buzzing. Glad to hear you are loving it so much!