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Hey Leaderboarders. What should I do? I have a Ghost Pepper growing in a planter by the front door. It is doing exceptionally well. Six feet plus tall with fruit. The peppers are rendered useless because they're so jammin' hot. But it is a bit of a novelty and it is useful to threaten others with the fruit. I'm thinking of pulling it?

Peppers can be an effective insect deterrent. And cheap vodka can be a good conduit. Infuse some vodka with a pepper, put it in a spray bottle, and see if it keeps insects either away from other plants or out of the house. Pick the peppers and freeze them for further infusions?

I used to live on the bottom half of a split-level ranch so my windows were just about a foot off of ground level. Sprinkling some powdered cayenne along the windowsills used to keep bugs out like a charm. Cinnamon works as well. Except I prefer my cinnamon in yummy sweet rolls :D
 
I bought a bottle of Georgi vodka and use it in a spray bottle with some essential oils to use as an air freshener. And recently I discovered that things like tea tree oil and peppermint oil are scents that stink bugs hate, so I've been using those with the vodka to spray around windows and along cracks to keep the stink bugs out.
 
Hey Leaderboarders. What should I do? I have a Ghost Pepper growing in a planter by the front door. It is doing exceptionally well. Six feet plus tall with fruit. The peppers are rendered useless because they're so jammin' hot. But it is a bit of a novelty and it is useful to threaten others with the fruit. I'm thinking of pulling it?

Peppers can be effective insect deterrent. And cheap vodka can be a good conduit. Infuse some vodka with a pepper, put it in a spray bottle, and see if it keeps insects either away from other plants or out of the house. Pick the peppers and freeze them for further infusions?

I used to live on the bottom half of a split-level ranch so my windows were just about a foot off of ground level. Sprinkling some powdered cayenne along the windowsills used to keep bugs out like a charm. Cinnamon works as well. Except I prefer my cinnamon in yummy sweet rolls :D
I have plenty of nominally hot peppers for that. I painfully recall what nominally hot pepper reduced my manly sef to when making my nominally hot chili powder ... I don't want to mess with this stuff.
 
The hardest part of it was not feeling ashamed when buying cheap vodka. I felt compelled to explain myself.
 

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