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If anyone is still looking for a scorpion sauce, I can recommend Psycho Juice 70% scorpion. https://www.hotsauceemporium.co.uk/product/psycho-juice-70-scorpion-pepper/ I bought some for a friend and then after tasting it reordered for myself. It's too hot for a straight up dipping sauce for me...

  Thanks CD! She's been the best thing about lockdown so far. Great information on the species, gladly received. Oddly enough the rocotos that show the edema are tending to dry out more quickly than the other plants. They are due a repot soon as roots are starting to creep out the bottoms of the...

Thanks Paul! After a bit of reading on edema I think that could be it. I think I'll check the plants with a moisture meter before watering to see if that helps.

Hey all, I hope everyone's keeping safe and sane during current lockdowns/restrictions. My plants are generally doing well, growing nicely with the Fresno putting out some early flowers. The rocoto Guatemalan orange are getting quite tall, considering topping but can't bring myself to do it...

Thanks for the detailed reply solid7! I generally underwater chillies so these are even less likely to be the issue. I had spider mites on 2 plants but they were isolated in a different room and I didn't see any on the others. I I will still maintain my irrational loathing for the little...

I had inconsistent stunted growth which I attributed to them. They were around before I would say the plants were fully established but certainly beyond seedling stage. Could be there were other unknown issues for sure though. I should say I did have a proper infestation; I was refreshing fly...

I had the dreaded fungus gnats last year and they ruined my best 2 plants. Neem was ineffective but covering the top layer of soil with DE helped massively to reduce their numbers, along with ribbons of fly paper. This year I've been militant since the start, DE top layer on the soil and bottom...

Window space for growing. I intend on getting a greenhouse set up at some point but we moved last year and just had a little girl so it's not gotten far enough up the priority list yet! I'm thinking the more I clutter the window space the better my chances of moving that forward.

Here's the latest, I've potted into the intermediate pots (about 1.5litre capacity) and all except the stunted JPG seem to be happy. I put a layer of perlite on the bottom over some clean crock to cover the largest holes. Once potted up they got a layer of DE on the top (appears to limit the...

Sounds delicious. I'm a big fan of a milder green sauce for the versatility... And my gf will eat it too. Much easier to convince her I need to monopolize more window space if there's something in it for her

Great looking sauces Wrex, especially for a first try! What's the flavour of the milder green sauce like?

I don't think they're much bigger than usual, but it may be more like ten days growth from them being hooks. The downside of doing things in relaxed way... I always think "I'll write that down" but it happens so sporadically my notes don't really make sense on reflection I'd certainly look at...

Hey all. This is my first Glog in my third year of casual growing. Last year I had good success with Fresnos, Apaches and a couple of others. This years starters: Fresnos (seeds from last year's pods) Fresnos (last year's seeds) Rocoto aji largo (from semillas) Rocoto Guatemalan orange...

Wow! that's some haul

Here's my first haul of 2019. I'd already had a dozen fresnos off and cooked a few Anaheims that were cut early due to spider mites.  I'm pretty pleased for a first year growing multiple plants!   Top row: Fresnos Second row: Anaheims Third row: non-ghosts (all from same seeds) - plant 1(no heat...

I've had Google of it and that is by far the closest resemblance in terms of the pod shape and colour variety. The leaves on my plants are quite different to the pics I've seen, particularly the crinkled edges and shape. I'm thinking perhaps a cross of some sorts? Heat levels seem about right...

Report 2... with a couple more photos   A few of the smaller chilies on plants 2 and 3 ripened to a nice deep red, and after trying them they certainly had some heat!  A slightly perfumey taste with immediate mouth heat which tingled a good 10 minutes on the tongue and lips.   Some close ups of...

Thank you for the replies folks, much appreciated!     I did try one and it was very bland with a bell pepper kind of taste and zero heat. A couple are now turning orange on plant 1 so i'll try again when they look more ripe.     Ahhh i see, that's very interesting regarding crossing, thanks for...

Hey all, i was given a ghost chili in a tin as a present so i thought i'd give it a go. This is the tin i was given:   Once the plant got to producing chilies they were clearly not like any ghost variety i had seen. Google didn't turn anything similar. I got to about the 300th review of the...

  That's really interesting. I would definitely believe your experience over my anecdotal evidence on a first time grow with Fresno's. I'm pretty sure of this - whatever Sminky is growing i am too :) I'm finding on my second season of pepper growing that seeds in the UK aren't what they say they...