In a message dated 1/00 6:21:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, rain@wwbbs.otherside.com writes: << Are seeds from those commercial cello bags of dried chiles you find at the grocery store ever viable? >> Rain (good to see you again) and fellow ChDs, I threw the seeds from smoked, dried chipotles and dried anchos that I had caponed in my garden last winter rather than waste whatever nutrients might be available. I got pepper grass in the spring in spite of an overload of lime (as Byron loves to remind). There were clumps of pepper weeds everywhere. I figured they were dead, Rain, I was dead wrong. Gareth the ChileKnight