Crowdsourced Gardening? John Gordon's Bhut Jolokia Peppers

Pachube Pioneer: John Gorden
Resides: Calgary, Canada
Occupation: I.T. Manager for hospital patient care systems
Web: http://about.me/john.gordon
Pachube Feed #3194 : http://pachu.be/3194
Data: Temperature, light, soil moisture of growing environment

Bhut Jolokia, the hottest pepper plant known to man at over 1 million Scoville units, is also one of the hardest to grow.  However, in John Gordon's basement, the Bhuts have a carefully tuned environment controlled by automated heaters, watering pumps, fans, and lights.  The system is all controlled by an Arduino and the data is sent to Pachube for monitoring (John likes to make sure the Bhuts are safe and sound when he's at work).

John says, "The Bhuts are doing great and we're now on our second batch! The kids intend to sell the seeds for 'the world's hottest pepper' at a farmer's market this summer.  At some point, maybe someone from the Assam region of India will offer up a Pachube feed of local wind, humidity, sunlight, and temperature levels, thereby allowing me to replicate the exact real-time weather conditions from their homeland.  The Bhuts might like that."

Here it is, folks, the Internet of Pepper Plants and another example of the power of open data.  One person's output is another person's input in a cycle of learning that will eventually produce better Bhuts than the grower in Assam.

What other activities might benefit from the same sort of social model?