On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:19:09 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:51:16 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
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>> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 04:24:00 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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>>>> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:35:31 -0500, B. Server wrote:
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>>>>> Interesting varieties. I mostly only cook with chilis that I can grow
>>>>> and which do well in my garden. Fatali and ghost peppers, for
>>>>> example, have never produced enough to be worth the water. The lemon
>>>>> drop looks a good bit like some of the Peruvian chilis, aji and
>>>>> friends. They do well here.
>>>>
>>>> I've been looking for fresh aji, especially. Fiesta carries two
>>>> brands in jars with citric acid, and two brands of canned puree, but I
>>>> can't find fresh.
>>>>
>>>> I can't grow anything in my yards due to wild animals.
>>>>
>>>> -sw
>>>
>>>That's why I quit trying. At least they're happy with my fruit!
>>
>> Wild critters don't eat hot peppers.
>
>The deer, especially, will eat the whole plants even before they
>fruit.
>
>-sw

Not during the growing season when deer have better choices. Like all
critters deer are oportunists, they take their favorites/easist first.
Deer are easy to fence out, rodents not so easy. I've never even had
rodents eat hot peppers or the plants, rabbits neither. I grow all
kinds of hot peppers, no critters eat them. For deer hot peppers
would be last on their menu, they may eat poison ivy first. With deer
one needs to erect fencing for any veggies. Feral cats are the best
defence against rodents, I haven't seen signs of rodents in two years
now, no rabbits either, King Ebenezer and his subjects do a superb
job. I think you are simply making lazy TexAss alibis, you have far
better pepper growing climate than I do yet I still manage to grow
lots of hot peppers.