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MiLK_MaN

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MiLK_MaN grow season 2011/2012

14 November 2011 - 11:42 PM

Another year.... Last year I used garden beds for the first time, growth was phenomenal, not so good with the pods. I'm going to put this down to having too much chicken manure and also having the plants too close together. This year, I am aiming for 10 plants per bed versus the 18 I went with last year, so we'll see how it all turns out.

A bed full of TS Butch T's, started first week of July, been in the beds for about a month now.

A bed of overwintered Asian Birdseye. I think I lost 6 of the 18 plants to the cold, but most have sprouted. I will replace the dead plants with replacement Asian Birdseye when they are ready to go.

The row closest to the footpath are all Bhut's, all Assam Bhut's I think. All but 1 survived the winter, the one on the left is a new plant from this year. The second row will be misc plants of various kinds.

Here's a closer pic of one of the overwintered Assam Bhuts. I just completely left them alone over winter, then it got to the start of October and I chopped them all back.

Y.A.P.I.T.

01 September 2011 - 05:07 AM

What is Y.A.P.I.T. you ask?

Yet Another Pepper Identification Thread!

My neighbour brought a pod over to me, and I actually don't know what it is. He was hoping that I could grow some for him, but he can only get the unripened pods at the markets which of course are no use to me for growing.

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Germinated seedlings in jiffy pellets -> straight into ground?

01 September 2011 - 04:19 AM

Not sure if this question has been asked, but has anyone germinated seedlings in jiffy pellets and put them straight into the ground/pot when the cotyledon appears?

I've put 4 x Asian Birdseye which just popped their heads in my germination chamber and thought if I put them straight outside in the garden beds. No big loss if they die as I've got plenty more seeds to germinate, so will be interesting to see what happens with them. I just need to make they are watered each day because they are likely to dry out pretty quickly.

Built a vortex compost brewer

28 December 2010 - 05:40 AM

I was searching the net the other day for compost brewers, and found a company in the U.S. that talks about a Vortex Compost Brewer.

Ended up finding a video, you can see it here.

Anyway, I looked at it, and thought that can't be hard. So I bought a 44 gallon plastic barrel for $20, a 45W air pump for $53 and then got the associated pvc pipes and fittings to make the thing.

I'm just on holidays at the moment in another state, but when I get home I'll be able to take it for a test run and take a video of it all. It's such a simple design, and really just uses the concept of air lift pumps with 4 outlets facing the same direction to create a vortex motion.

Hopefully my compost teas are better now they should get a lot more oxygen during the brew process.

Locusts

28 December 2010 - 05:34 AM

Question: Do Locusts like chilli plants?

I just drove through some big ass plagues that are about 2 hours west of Melbourne. As we get quite a few northerly winds, they are likely to be pushed down to Melbourne.

Anything I can do other than cover all the plants with netting? I've seen the odd one or two flying around, but definitely not the plague proportions that I saw today, so not sure if I actually have anything to worry about or not.