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    This is my second grow log of the year, because my over-a-year-old bhut jolokia - which is now a beautifully straggly small bush taking up a few square feet of patio sunlight - finally decided to stop sullenly shedding flowers and produced one ripe fruit with six seeds in it.  My friend...

    Now that I've finished moving out of my old apartment with its north-facing sunless balcony and into a single-story apartment with a wonderfully sunny patio - hence the title of this grow log - I'm trying to grow more chiles again!  (In addition to other sun-appreciating plants.)     I...

  I posted a while ago about my oldest habanero, whose leaves suddenly shriveled and who is now probably dead.  At the time, I suspected I had killed it with some combination of too much soapy water on its leaves (to kill sap-sucking insects) and overwatering in a clogged pot.     One of its...

    At this ridiculously late time of year, I'm trying to start four habanero seeds and two seeds from a chile plant of completely unknown variety!  I'm also starting six cassia seeds, but that's not a chile plant, so I'll focus on the chiles here.     The backstory - I guilt-tripped myself into...

 Hello,     If anyone has suggestions for how to save my oldest habanero (or how to tell if it's still alive enough to save), I would be very grateful!  It currently has a small number of wilted leaves, some green branches, and woody branches with green outer layers but hollow centers, mostly...