Rael, Now that the original thread has run it's course & you've had some time to digest all the input our savvy list members have suggested, I'd like to submit mine. I just received a swap from a gardener, in Maine no less, that included the following: Leutchauer Paprika Little Nubian Matchbox Now I know you wrote you were thinking about plants, but maybe this scenario will change your mind. After Little Nubian arrives at your door you gently bathe her in a tepid bath of saltpeter to soften her skin, place her under a sheet of growing media & keep her warm on an electric blanket. As her cotyledons emerge from the blanket you shower her with love & light from your bedside lamp, keeping her epicotyl body moist with Chamomile tea. Your nurturing soon brings you a beautiful young thing that you can mold into the "hottie" of your dreams by feeding & watering and maybe a little stressing to turn on her capsicum production to high. As the months of TLC in this relationship pass, you can enjoy seeing her emerge from budding seed to flowering beauty to the princess of your balcony as her unbridled fruit grow bigger before your very eyes. And finally, as summer cools to fall and her true color emerges, you can enjoy her in every way your wild imagination can conger up. Just a thought, Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "VoodooChile" <rael64@qwest.net> Sent: Tuesday, 22 January, 2002 12:54 PM Subject: [CH] Advice for Rael > Chile Heads- > > Friends, Nubiles, Monks, Priests, Priestesses, and > Nekkid-Twister-WannaBe-Masters - Monk Rael needs some input...