Recent content by hmartin

My 2 peppers puppers doing what they do best (hunting/scavenging and chilling while looking serious)... gotta keep them away from the bears who love my hammock..

Inspired by @HellfireFarm ... death-by-chocolate-"sundae"... tasted pretty good! See also... why my wife insists she do the plating for our guests 😅

I'm a big podcast nerd, any favorites? I've found The Heat Source and Flavor. Balance. Heat! podcasts so far but always interested to find more.

Finally getting some decent sprouting from the non-scotches, tho I guess I'm only getting 1 lonely scorpion this year... 😭 The hydro grows are starting to come up too! I planted these later so I think they're actually coming along nicely. Excited for these choco bhutla 🧛‍♂️

Is phosphoric acid ever used with / instead of vinegar? I'm thinking that since it's a stronger acid it might extract more capsaicin 🤔

Capsaicin accounts for ~70% of the capsinoids and the equally hot dihydrocapsaicin accounts for about ~22% (source). They're nearly identical molecules so will behave the same wrt solubility.

The brownish spots make me think fungus? In which case probably trim these leaves to prevent spread. What the humidity / watering routine? Are you checking soil pH?

Congrats! Those labels 😍

Scotchies goin strong... and finally have one each of fatali 7 pot sprouts! I'm a bit concerned about the moss so I've been taking them outside in the shade for a couple of hours a day to dry out a little bit. Outside it's closer to 30% humidity vs 80% in the box.

What a Saturday... First, finally getting some sprouts. 3 eager scotchies coming up, everyone else is slacking... Second, finally received the humidifier/temperature sensor and "mounted" it in the dome (thank god for double sided gorilla tape). I don't put much faith to put in a cheap Amazon...

Had a friend staying with me while I was making myself one of my favorite snacks... super hot sauce poured into the pit indent of an avocado and diving in with a big spoon. Friend seemed to think that was very strange. But! I'm never gonna give this up, never gonna put the spoon down. It's too...

Well I went and got humidity and VPD sensors to keep an eye on this. Did some Google AI'ing and according to that, high humidity is desirable during germination and sprouting periods. Acclimation / hardening is then a process of gradually reducing humidity while increasing the amount of time the...

I put this question through Google Deep Research to see what it had to say 🤷‍♂️ It confirmed the 15-0-0 match but warns about microorganism contamination, concentration burns, and long term soil impact...

I'm in socal so expect a quite dry summer starting soon. It's already fairly low humidity indoors which is why I put the dome on. Now I'm curious about the idea of acclimation... are you suggesting it would be better to start them off with low humidity anyways since that's what they'll...