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    Bhut jolokia massive flowering without pollen

    Little update, I was at my parents house yesterday and I think there was a start of some pollen in one of the plants. Also I'm doing my masters in Biology so we have a guy who is an expert in flowering and pollination, I talked to him and he told me to get him a few flowers to look at, I'll see...
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    Bhut jolokia massive flowering without pollen

    My 2 bhuts are growing great and have tons of flowers but neither of them produces any pollen. I can see the pollen pods but there is no pollen. Anyway I could make them fruit or induce pollen maturation? I thought about using pollen from another pepper plant but I couldn't find any around...
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    Buds Turning Black and Falling Before They're Fully Formed

    I have exactly the same thing happening on my bhut with every single bud that's popping. I'm guessing it's related to the heat and the plant type, because my explosive embers is starting to flower just fine. Hopefully by the end of the month the weather will finally start dropping below the...
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    Explosive ember main stem top is dying

    Oh thanks good to know but it's weird that only a part of the main stem died. Update my previous post: OK I just looked, nothing seems to be broken, just above a certain point everything died, I also trimmed the leaves with scissors because they were still hook up pretty strong and I didn't want...
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    Explosive ember main stem top is dying

    I didn't notice any broken stem but I'll go take a look, the leaves dying started 2 weeks ago or so it started from a certain point and kept going up towards the new growth. No new growth there anymore but the other parts are growing great as can be seen. What do you mean a section of the roots...
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    Explosive ember main stem top is dying

    For some reason the top of my main stem is dying, all the leaves there dried out and the new growth also dried. The side shoots are growing crazy tho. And idea what could cause this weird pinpoint death? And the dead leaves are not dropping by themselves, should I simply cut them off?
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    breeding Spacing to prevent cross pollination

    Cloning should also work, people are using it a lot for peppers. Basically it's like with any other plant, get some rooting hormone for better results. Didn't get the chance to do it myself yet since I'm still on my first year and still learning but I read a lot about it.
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    breeding Spacing to prevent cross pollination

    Use teabags to isolate a few flowers, make sure you mark them. Afterwards you can take seeds from these pods, the rest of the pods may be hybrids but it wont effect the pods themselves. I'm pretty sure a few teabags should be enough for self use.
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    Offspring from different size pods from the same plant

    Yes I know but you can't really see anything from those picture it's best if he just looks at the plant himself and try to find a pattern that may give us an idea. Of course it could just be environmental effects that caused some genes to be on/off.
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    Offspring from different size pods from the same plant

    There's a chance that plant is chimeric, check to see if the different pods are split between 2 specific areas, which could explain the phenomena.
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    Ghost pepper fell

    If you want speedy ripening try sticking it between a few bananas and covering it with a plastic bag. Bananas are champs at secretion of ethylene which is the chemical which usually causes fruits to ripen. I'm not sure if pepper are affected by it but if they do it should ripen pretty fast.
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    overwintering Can annuals be overwinterized?

    Check this site out: http://www.learn2grow.com/plants/
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    My crazy explosive ember

    I know clear cups are bad outside because the dirt heats, I'm only using it on my desk with white fluorescent, when it goes out it gets a nice pot for itself. With the clear cups I can tell what's the root status and if its time to move to a bigger container in case they cant find the holes at...
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    My crazy explosive ember

    I asked it only because the parent plant, which died a horrible overwatering accident death looked different. At least there was one ripe pepper to take seeds from. But it was probably because it was my first time growing and I used yellow light, 2 light bulbs one was 50W incandescent light bulb...
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    My crazy explosive ember

    For some reason my explosive embers went nuts on side shoots from pretty early. It's also growing pretty fast I think, Friday I watered it in the morning before I left for 3 days, when I came Monday it was all dried up, and had pretty long roots going out of the bottom on the glass it was in...
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    Using a lamp as a heat source?

    First time ever germinating pepper I germinated bhuts that way, using a regular 50W Incandescent light bulb in a mini greenhouse I made, they seeds germinated great even tho it was the middle of the winter.
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    Its Hot out here!

    Not quite the 105-115 maybe but more towards august the 120 is usually only at the south of the country where its dry anyway so its less horrible. All the plants in the garden looks like they are melting but they should be used to it and will recover at dusk.
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    Its Hot out here!

    We got a major heat wave here today(and the whole week) it's an average for 105-115 in most of the country and it some places it reaches 120 :/
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    Need help saving my bhuts

    I water every 1.5-2 weeks because somehow the soil stays moist more or less, also the plants aren't wilting besides when its hot outside, in the eve they recover and look great. I took off all the leavers and I'll change the soil later when the damn heats wears off. The peppers on the second...
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    soil Quarts as soil supplement?

    Thats what I think, as I said its just a wild idea. RBH I actually searched a bit and its soluble in water but just barely : http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_quartz_dissolve_in_water and http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091021212315AAoFRKL second comment. Alabama like RBH said...
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