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Sweet mix, a few less common peppers in there too.  Best of luck with your season!

 Thanks for the response.  It is pretty strange, have you seen anything like it before? Rip it out? 

They are on a cayenne which is one of a few plants I didn't start.  The plant has only been in the ground for a few weeks.  It is growing well but I have just noticed these spots. They are limited mainly to the growing tips and not on all tips universally.  The plant is doing well otherwise.  ...

Thanks ChiliNoob!    Tobago Scotch Bonnet   Aji.... something??  Really just a photo of a very little pod.   An unknown pube.  Very low to the grown and sprawlly. Might be 10" high and 4' wide.   Unhappy plant.  I picked this up from a nursery and it is one one only 4 I didn't start from...

TLDR: Neutralise chloramine with Ascorbic acid addition at a rate of 25mg per gallon or 6mg per L. Marginally more accurate than guessing, results depend on the chloramine conc. of your water and the size of your bath tub.   From wiki:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloramine   Ascorbic acid...

  Yip, it has been crazy hot and dry.  I haven't watered the hot peppers since they went into the garden but some are looking a little dry so I hit them with my first batch of AACT.  I am also going to put in a 200L and a 1000L rainwater containers, hopefully before it next rains.   AACT...

Just take them off while she is making you a sandwich... sorted.

I think I used up my nomination on the Lava.  What does everyone think about the Jays Red Ghost Scorpion?  They look awesome and are meant to be crazy hot.

  Thank you for the information Migualovic. I was thinking it might need something proteiny in the mix for foam retention.  Regarding chlorine removal I was thinking of boiling water but the greeny in me thought that was a bit wasteful; your post will save me a bit of mucking around.  Should I...

I did not hear back from Judy.  The Lava has a few unknowns against it in terms of productivity etc so perhaps we ditch it?  Did anyone else want to nominate a chinense before we vote? As it stands the only nominee is the dorset naga.

The worm castings are fresh from my worm farm - I literally just grabbed a good handful and picked the worms out of it.  In terms of temp it is about 68f,  The pump is 5.4w and provides about 100gal/hour or 1..666 gallons per min.  It is a dual output pump and both are going through airstones...

So there was no foaming after 24 hours.  I had read that tap water could be de-chlorinated by putting the air through it for an hour which is exactly what I did before introducing castings.  I suspect that perhaps my pump was underpowered so there was some residual chloride.  Any chlorine should...

Bummer.  Brave would not be one of my defining characteristics.  I guess I will just keep an eye out for the moment.

I looked up an image of the Psyllid sugars late last night and thought they looked familiar. I got up early this morning to investigate and I pulled 2 tomato plants which were covered in the sugars and had the scale.  They were right between 2 rows of 5 hot pepper plants.  It looks like ladybugs...

Thank you for the encouragement Hybrid Mode. It is something I have been meaning to do for a long time and it was so easy once I began; I am kicking myself for not getting started 6 months ago.    I was thinking about spraying in the first instance as no doubt some will end up on the soil...

I just started my first brew.  I am probably a bit underpowered with a 400l/h pump so I thought I would make a small 2 gallon test batch.  All the recipes were contradictory so I used the simplest one I could:   1 teaspoon unsulphered molasses 3/4 cup fresh worm castings   It will be interesting...

Swampy, that will definitely work.  I guess if it was $50 for a cert and 5-10 of us went in for a bulk order it wouldn't add much.  With the shipments being so hit and miss I can't really justify doing bigger orders but if I knew it would get though I would go crazy.   MAF should let you know...

I am not sure what countries have PSTV but that would be interesting to know.   I have never grown a wild because of the import issues. I had the wild cultivar c.galaponse stopped coming into the country a year or 2 ago.  MPI said it could come in if I could make a case it was already here OR I...

I went through the online MPI (formally MAF) documents with my girlfriend who works for customs to try and figure out what was up.  Essentially they are trying to stop Potato spindle tuber viroid:   https://mpi.govt.nz/document-vault/3130   It looks like if it is one of the following species...

It would be awesome to have essentially a hot pepper wiki with the known history of various varieties.  It would also be great if the creators of crosses could list the parents etc. Currently if I want to look up madballz 7 or the reaper there is really no single place to go.  I know some...