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Some good looking plants you have there, all the best with your experiments and projects.

It has been a barrage of bad signs lately. I have spotted thrips, aphids, some scale-like thing, mealybug, and what seems to be broad mites under the microscope, it looked like little water droplets. :eek: I'm hoping those are just the thrips eggs and not broad mites. Although there seems to me...

Some pests that I've come across recently, aphids, mealybug[possibly from the rambutans we buy], some bug smaller/slimmer than an aphid that is long and moves around fast, I'm thinking thrips maybe. Currently getting rid of them by squashing them with my fingers. All in sparse populations...

Great looking plants you got there. All the best.

http://gardenerscott.blogspot.com/2011/06/dealing-with-plant-wilt.html "When a plant senses a harsh and potentially harmful condition, like excessive sunlight and heat, the stomata will close, effectively shutting down the conveyor system and no more water flows to the plant structure. The...

Phew, that's good to hear. Thanks for the input. I see. Are Jiffy 7 and perlite available locally? Coco coir is sabut kelapa right?

short update on my plants Birds Eyes in makeshift pots 25th June Chinense X/unknown pods 25th June. There 7 pods right now on the plant. Flowers seem to be dropping alot, might be the tropical heat, getting shade cloth soon. Chinense X seedling 25th June. Seems to be doing well. Leaf...

Hi, I'm Michael, I live in Penang, Malaysia. This is my grow log. Everything started with a pepper plant I bought. I don't know much about it, except that it's a chinense from what people told me. Seeing as how that plant has been growing well, I went out and bought a packet of birds eye chilli...

Interesting, is that the same family as the Bhut Jolokia?. If that info is right, that would mean it's amongst the hottest chillies around isn't it? I wonder if different characteristics will be expressed in the later generations. . .

mark: Thanks for the advice, most likely I'll use eggshells. Are the Bhut Jolokia happy with our weather? Hi srin2. Yeah, I got it there. They had some herbs and all. You know them?

Aww, the hospitality here is making me feel all warm inside. Hmm, maybe it's the chillies... :mouthonfire:

Hello Mark, very happy to see another Penangite here. :D I got it from Cameron Highlands, not somewhere in Penang sadly. I have germinated about 6 of the seeds 5 days ago. I've put them in the ground. Hopefully I see sprouts in about 2-5 days more. Yeah, these guys are quite hot. Even...

It's spicier than the local cili padi or bird's eye chilli and stays in your mouth longer. Aside from that, we don't have alot of variety of chilli available to compare with that I can get my hands on. The flavour, I haven't really tasted it much, the few pods that were on the plant when I...

I bought it as a plant maybe about 1 foot tall at a farmers market. They just called it, 'really spicy' and from Mexico.

Comparing with some other photos here, is it a Habanero? If so, which variety?