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Not sure about the habits of sweet Basil, but Thai Basil tends to just grow in a single straight stalk. If you pinch the apical growth it will fork. Keep doing that and eventually you get a big robust bush. I pinch the early buds if for no other reason than to promote more leaf growth, but once...

Suntan. Nothing to worry about.

Mostly I like fully ripe pods, but a few I like green: Always: NuMex, Poblano Sometimes: Jalapeno, Serrano, Thai Tabasco goes through an intermediate stage. It turns from green to orange, then eventually it goes full red. I prefer it at the orange stage.    Ripen on the plant vs on the counter...

Don't get too excited. The spray goes on the plants, not on the nuts  :rolleyes:

Pics. This is a chiltepin. I already tossed the habanero and a couple of others that had much worse damage. As you can see, the older leaves look fine. The most recent growth seems to be a tiny bit better, hard to tell in these pics though. Recent treatments I have applied are: Ag Lime on soil...

As far as I can tell Lime-Sulfur (active ingredient Calcium Polysulfide) isn't toxic in the sense that it is a poison, but it is dangerous. The ph is crazy high (11.5). If you get it in your eyes or breathe it in or swallow it you are in for a real bad time. The interwebs have all kinds of rumor...

See my post above. The pods on a plant are all the same genetics, but the seeds inside are not. Even if you fully isolate, the next generation are all "brothers and sisters" not "twins". The brothers are more closely related than humans or other animals because the same individual is both mother...

I am having an almost identical problem on my plants this year. I have been trying to figure out what happened for weeks now. I thought it might be a disease, or some tainted AACT, but I am now suspecting mites. I haven't seen any, but all I have available is a 10x loupe. I did see a few thrips...

The pods are the same, but the seeds inside have genetics from the male and female parents of that pod. The female genes will always be from the plant that made the pod. The male genes are carried in the pollen. There is a good chance the pollen came from the same plant, but that is only...

Red on the plant seems to give the flavor a little bite like black pepper (the peppers taste errrr...peppery). If they ripen off the plant they are still sweet, but they don't have that extra kick.

The ferment water? yeah that is pretty typical. If it was something you were going to eat, you would scrape that clumpy white stuff off. Not sure if it makes any difference in this application.   EDIT: woot! 500th post, now I'm HOT baby!

I think you mean pwned  :mouthonfire:

Historically, farming has been a pretty tough business to be in. Most years a farmer would probably do just fine, maybe worrying about some yield loss due to birds, mammals and insects. But then sometimes disaster strikes. Some highly contagious disease gets established in the field and yield...

Line up a NuMex, Jalapeno, Tabasco, Thai, and Habanero. Those peppers cover I think most of the basic pepper flavor spectrum and are (for me) radically different.

I've heard of a turducken, but never a habhabhabhab  :crazy:

Yeah, I lived in Roswell for a while and I got totally hooked on the NuMex peppers. I was so happy when they started selling them this far east. 68c is the cheapest I have seen, most stores have them for 99c or way more if you get them roasted. It's 10 and a half hours to Roswell and maybe...

Just bought a few today. 68 cents a pound in Houston. I sifted through the pile to find some red ones, and of course I got the green too. Going on the grill tomorrow then straight into some burger patties! I love those things. Already made a batch of white chili last week when the first delivery...

Just make sure you rinse it really well. Otherwise eventually the salts can build up to toxic levels.

Tabasco is a real hot weather champ. I have yet to see it shut down in 3 years of production, including a brutal stretch of 2 straight weeks of 100+ days last year.   I have a Caribbean Red this year that is tolerating the heat fairly well, it has set a decent second crop of pods over the past...

Netting. It doesn't need to be fine mesh, just something to prevent them from landing on the branches. You can get purpose made nets from the home improvement store, or just improvise with found materials.