Well, our first go 'round with habs is turning out just great here in the upper Midwest. The little plant we bought at the farmers market has grown into a full blown shrub, and the habs are maturing into a beautiful orange. We lucked out. You can feel Fall right around the corner with cool nights in the 50's. It makes for great sleeping but hopefully the frost will stay away longer than usual this year so our harvest will increase. Gotta love the uses for these things...we've been looking for (and finding) ways to use them as we've never had fresh ones before. As natives to the Midwest we're looking forward to the change of seasons, plus now we have something extra to get us through Winter! Stay Hot! Rod