Recent content by Tim

Only pure cap is banned (crystal). Oleoresins of a lesser SHU value than pure cap are not covered by the ban. Also, there is a period of grace covering any product containing pure cap; it is legal to sell these products until the best before/use by date expires.

Scotty, if you're looking for large quantities, I imagine that Frontal Agritech in India would be your best bet. I've used their Bhut flakes and dried pods; both great quality. I think they have a mash available too. I'm not sure you'd find anyone in the US capable of supplying Bhuts in large...

AJ, unfortunately I can't offer advice about your first photo as I don't know what species of aphids/mites you have to contend with in the US, but I can tell you that the leaf distortion in your other photo has been caused by aphid infestation. If it was caused by a nutrient deficiency, you'd...

AJ, I can only dream of plants like that; I would be over the moon with Nagas a quarter of that size. Fantastic!

I wash the covers every year. They do end up having a noticeable film of algae on them which cuts a lot of light out. The ends need doing inside and out (the insides of the ends get an algae build up because condensation sits in the folds), whereas only the outside of the hooped part of the...

Get a coat on and get out there! I'm waiting for the winds to drop so that I can get the cover on our newest tunnel; I'm hoping that it'll happen this weekend. I'd much rather be working on it in your conditions than in the summer. I washed the covers on the other tunnels a few weeks ago and...

Publisher is all I have here; what would/do you use for this kind of work? Thanks for the tip about saving files as a transparent tiff. I've just looked through the save options and there it was staring me in the face. Easy when you know how, like everything I suppose.

Thanks for your replies, guys. I did try tif but lost the transparent background when I opened up the file in MS Publisher. It seems to work as a PNG file; I have a laser printer coming today, so fingers crossed that the labels are of a useable quality.

My bad; I thought that the photo I was referring to was of a stem, not a chilli. I hope that someone here can eventually id the virus; I'd be interested to know what it is too.

Your last photo concerns me the most. It's hard to tell just from the photo, but this looks similar to a fungal infection (a type of smut) which a lot of plants are susceptible to. I wonder, is there a black powder inside the stem where it has swollen and split? If so, this powder you see are...

Cheers, Dan. I've just saved the image as a PNG file and I'll follow the rest of your advice in the morning. I've been at it so long I'm at that stage where I've become unproductive. Bedtime methinks! Thanks again, Dan, much appreciated ;)

Bugger. What type of file would I have to save it as? I'm sure that I do have other options.

Ian, those of us who drive on the left are doing it the correct way, everyone knows that...;) I've driven thousands of miles across the former Yugoslavia over the last eight years and adapt as soon as I get off of the plane, apart from one occasion in Bosnia in 2007 when I forgot where I was and...

Thanks for your reply, Dick. I did something similar to that; I used the lasso tool to get hold of the pepper and then copied it to another layer which I had set up to be transparent. I then had a problem with saving the pepper as a jpeg. Apparently the jpeg format doesn't support transparent...

Hi Guys, I desperately need some guidance with Photoshop Elements 5.0; I'll try to explain exactly what I'm trying to do. I am designing some basic labels for jars and bottles and want to use a chilli as my logo. I have taken a photo of a chilli on a white background and I then put this into...