Recent content by Annuchin

Not sure that that is good news, because then it could very well be a virus and there is no way to get rid of it and it might spread to your other plants. It is common that parts of the plant (or even whole plants) look fine, even when infected. Many viruses also spread via seeds...

VLS (virus-like syndrome) would affect the whole plant uniformly, not just a top branch.

Please can we stay on topic and not blame the victims (always a bad move...)? I had my reasons - I actually went a bit overboard this season and received seeds from 19 trustful sources. I was actually spreading my risks by getting some varieties from multiple sources. And spreading it did...

Accusations without any details, evidence, or links are boring...

I had ordered seeds of 11 different varieties from Jimmy Pickles on August 23, 2024. Then I had to remind him on October 04, 2024, November 18, 2024, November 30, 2024, and December 17, 2024. Finally, after 101 days (!), he shipped them on January 2, 2025 with a messed-up address, but...

I always use biological pest control, e.g. in the form of Green lacewing larvae (Chrysoperla carnea). You can easily order these online, at least where I live. They don't interfere with the existing and future predators of your thrips, they have a long action (i.e. until the adults fly away)...

Also, they don't show their HPLC chromatograms and they don't use any other method to confirm their unexpected and extreme numbers. My guess would be that other compounds overlap with their capsaicin peaks, that they made integration mistakes, or simply made calculation errors.

The 2.5 Mio Scoville value is not from an accepted or reliable method. Their simple spectrophotometric method doesn't separate any substances, so the absorption could be due to any substance in their sample mix. They use these values only to show a broad correlation between the validated real...

I think the heritage of your crosses might be a bit more complicated than you think. In general, the crosses from chinense mother x annuum father are usually not viable, are dwarfed, or show a virus-like syndrome (the other direction actually works with low efficiency). And then, all F1 crosses...

I have also contacted Semillas and Stuard...

The earliest mention of Peruviano Arancio I could find so far is in the Semillas Las Palmas catalog where it said in 2011 "New in 2010" (https://web.archive.org/web/20111010083254/http://www.semillas.de/cgi-bin/shop/shop.cgi?shop=&product=Chilisamen%20NP&cart_id=5124171.7990). Seeds of Jamy were...

The correct calculation results in 46.65 % nitrogen in urea (14.01 g/mol (N) * 2 (atoms N in urea) / 60.06 g/mol (urea)) and 16.53 % N in DEF (1.09 kg/L (density DEF) * 32.5 % (urea in DEF) * 46.65 % (N in urea)). And the paragraph about the dangers of the deionized water in DEF is almost comical...

I have searched a bit more and found this old seed catalog from 2016 from the Azienda Agricola Sperimentale Stuard, the place where Dr. Maria Dadomo selected the Jamy variety: http://www.stuard.it/wp-content/uploads/Catalogo-2016-Peperoncini.pdf. It states that Jamy is "a selection made by Dr...

Pure agricultural urea will almost certainly be much cheaper. It is used in much higher quantities, doesn't have to be dissolved and bottled, and doesn't have to be that pure. Pure NH3 is actually 82 % pure nitrogen, you are probably talking about ammonia solutions (just multiply that percentage...