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Check the ingredients of the insecticides at the store, a lot of them contain pyrethrins but don't advertise it in big letters on the front, you have to read the ingredients to know it's in there. For example, I don't know if you have this over there but Garden Safe brand House and Garden...

They are one of the easiest peppers to grow in my opinion. Easy to germinate and very drought tolerant and pest free and they do very well in 100F temps. Like a lot of wild peppers they aren't finicky at all. The heat is intense, they have a very nice flavor, and are extremely aromatic fresh...

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They're easy to germinate, no more difficult than chinense, pubescens, frutescens, or annuums. The hard part is that they don't do well in hot weather, they take a really long time to fruit and ripen, and they don't usually produce much the first year. So they're difficult for those of us who...

I'm growing both as well, and they do look quite a bit different so far. I grew morugas last year but this is the first year for brain strain.

Did you use MG last year too? Compaction shouldn't be a problem with a decent potting mix, that's more of a problem in soil. Regular MG is pretty light so I don't see why it would compact.

To see an example of a cop who needs to be reminded of this, just scroll up a little. Everyone's guilty until proven innocent, just go ahead and waive your constitutional protection, armac needs to rummage through your private property to make sure you're not a criminal. He's here to "help."

You can observe "possible illegal activity" everywhere you look. If you see a guy walking down the street, it's possible that he has a crack pipe in his pocket. That seems like a very lax interpretation, to say the least. I'm sure the courts would want some more specific and less ambiguous...

Well in that case, he should have some monsters next year. :cool:

But I'm trying to save queso. :surprised: A queso cave sounds like a great idea though, a cueva de queso, if you will.

Here's a good tutorial for making queso: http://www.thekitchn.com/make-queso-fresco-the-cheesemo-99011

I have the opposite problem with peat-based mixes, they do a very poor job of holding water when it gets hot, and are very hard to wet when they get dry and it's hot outside. Once they're dry I have to flood them with tons of water to get them wet again. Otherwise it all just runs out the...

Yeah that's good point from Patrick that I forgot to mention. But definitely don't trash them.

I don't worry about the mold, it doesn't seem to harm anything and it will die once the top surface dries.

Yeah that's what I was thinking as well. The pods I dry at 95F are much closer to the color of the fresh pods than the ones I buy from grocery stores. They're a much brighter/lighter red color. I would think that sun dried pods would take on a darker color though, even when dried at...

What do you mean by buffer? Are you talking about pH buffering? And which MG has forest compost? Every bag I've used pretty much just looks like peat, perlite, and time released fertilizer. I'm sure it varies by region though. I don't think MG is that bad, it drains pretty well and is...

I see what you did there, and I like it.

Used like that it's probably a useful additive. A lot of people use it in containers too, but I don't think it's very useful in potting mix, since it requires soil microorganisms to break it down and make the nutrients available, and there probably aren't very many in most people's potting...

A lot of people wonder if seeds from dried pods bought from the grocery store are viable, so I tested a bunch this year. I had tried a few in the past and got mixed results, but that was outside in the summer and I didn't watch them too closely, didn't water very much, and didn't keep track of...

No I'm not saying that all, adding organic matter/compost and supplying nutrients is a good idea, but mix it in to the whole thing or at least the top few inches. Don't make a special planting hole filled with some medium that is different than the surrounding medium, e.g. don't make a hole...