Josh, how about your other peppers? Do you find that often -- peppers from same plant varying so drastically from one to the next? Smoke!! I would be VERY surprised if our local Home Depot were selling Thai chiles as I never saw any there. BUT based on the link you provided -- it looks near identical. However, with may~be a 4-5 of exceptions, the peppers DO NOT start out upturned. (I show one miniature red one--smaller than the normal peppers on the plant--that is upturned.) I've been looking at everyone's pepper photos of upturned growth and vowed to do one next year --- so pretty. But what does make almost scream out "Bazooka!" is the leaf and plant growth pattern your link shows. The thread I linked to in my first post is all about the tiny growth and some of the plants in your link show that same "massive growth, small pointed leaves". I think you're onto something. I looked up Puya and Chile de Arbol (latter of which I have cooked with) and similar -- but the plant itself is remarkably different. I shall continue researching with Thai Dragon! I wonder if they all have to upturned. But the heat -- I'd totally believe they were Thai in origin. THANK YOU! Grace (and yes, in SF area!)

They grow way to fast.. So great to look back and remember when they were little. Our twins turn 5 today. Seems just like yesterday they were born.. I know we need to soak up all these days because soon they will be grown up like PJr. Love you sharing the pictures. I know how proud you are of him..

You know you are a mosaic addict when...you have more bibble wrap than the courier stores!!! Ps: Those peanuts you get free in each box are really low fat and filling snackfood!

Lol, I am really enjoying these responses! I get tired of hearing "we can make it our own" or "put our own stamp on it." That's what we call painting, furnishing and decorating, right? The first time sassy buyers (women, embarrassingly) who say coyly to their husbands, "uh un, mister, I am NOT gonna be cooking in a kitchen with Formica counters" or "how do you expect me to cook in THAT" (points to a stove that isn't stainless) make me cringe. The funny thing is that they obviously don't have those things in their current home or rental, either. And what about the strange couples who look like they'll use the basement to breed snakes, saying "Uh, this would be good for entertaining" when you know damn well they have never had anyone over except---MAYBE---for a meeting of the We Are Weird Club. i do like Flip or Flop though. Or I did, before someone told Christina she had to say I love,you to her daughter and take her shopping. I think HGTV wanted them to be more like that gushingly fake Texas couple, which is a shame. I kind of liked it when Tarek would whip out a listing and one of them would say "how soon can we drop [child] at the sitter and go?" That seemed so much more realistic to me.