Recent content by SichuaneseFoodFan

beautiful job

Nice job blister, what kind of coco do you use?  where do you get it?   Thanks

We've been in the 90s. The Chilis are loving it.

those pods look so cool!

looks so much like mite damage to me

How often do you have to refill the reservoir in the Alabama summer?

My demon red chilis are the hottest annuum I've tried.  They are about as hot as my goat's weed, but IMHO demon red have a little more/better flavor.

Looking good!  FYI - I just finished bringing all my plants inside... so much work but better than risking it.  It's going to be a very cold night and I don't want them to get any frost damage or get stunted.

If you put a layer of sand on the top of the soil it should keep the gnats away.  Good luck!

I've used tropf blumats for a couple years now and like them.  I grow organically myself so I just run plain water, but I know they don't clog with standard salt fertilizers if you use a product called drip clean.  You can get blumats cheaply at costco now, and sometimes on ebay.

I don't spot any aphids till September, and I get a lot of natural aphid predators that keep the population low to the point that they're harmless.  If I bring any plants inside it's another story.  I don't do that anymore though, between the bugs and the electricity drain from the lights it's...

I grow in DC too, over by union station, on my stoop.  What pests have you had problems with?  I get some aphids at the very end of the season, but nothing else to speak of.  I used to get mites when I grew tomatoes, but now that I stick to peppers the mites stay away.

I've now grown many, many, many varieties of this pepper.  The conoides variety I got from Lourens aka PeriPeri on the forum is the real deal.  It simply isn't a spicy pepper, but the flavor is unique and it's what you want if you're looking to cook Sichuanese food per Fuschia Dunlop, for...

Moosery, I really appreciate the feedback.  I'm going to give them a try.  Hopefully I can find some a supplier of feisty mites in the States.

Hey Moosery, what's your final review of the predators?  I'm considering buying some but can't find much real world experience.