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    First pods

      Adelaide here I grow completely organically, no insect control, no products at all
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    Beginner mite help

    Hey mate, Try spraying the neem daily. It works by disrupting the reproductive cycle so daily spraying for a month will kill them off entirely. 
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    Powelly 2020

    Yeah I think that a caterpillar got in there haha, they will go away when it starts getting very hot. Doesn't seem to hurt the plant  
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    Powelly 2020

    Terrible at logging every year, lets see if I have better consistency this time!   I have a new son, born in January this year. So I only had time to grow one pepper bought from my local bunnings - a habenero. It's been in the pot about 2 weeks now.    This pot is now in it's 4th consecutive...
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    Experiment: What happens if you do absolutely nothing at all

      Great! I'll post some updates today. It's the complete opposite of "lanky"
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    Anothet reason to use lots of vermicompost

    vermicompost for the win
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    hi all

      Cheaper than the extra water use by not getting them
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    container Bonchi Attempt

    Looking good so far. Cutting the leaves in half when they get too big will make them grow smaller gradually
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    hi all

    https://aquamasterplumbing.com/2015/01/26/everything-you-need-to-know-about-weeping-tile/   You put them underground in a closed loop system and send waste water / any water down them. They then will fill up and leak out into the water underground where it will not evaporate. It's the most...
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    Few questions left unanswered.

    What is the humidity like? If it's a bit dry then you can give them a mist in the morning and evening
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    BSF vs Farm Compost

      It's not redundant because worms and bsf process different materials at different rates. Bsf are very inefficient when it comes to getting nutrients out of organic material because they are using many of the nutrients for themselves. They do well at processing food waste and wet waste.  The...
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    hi all

    Use weeping tiles dug underground and send your grey water down them
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    BSF vs Farm Compost

    You said you'd be "wasting the benefits" which is completely false
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    BSF vs Farm Compost

    Red worms digest the more recalcitrant cellulosic materials, something that larvae cannot do. To recover all available nutrients, processing through composting worms is required. Worm castings increase the nutrient availability of compost 3 fold
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