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Well here we go again! After my friend @Alejandro took the last two plants off my hands (Jamaican red hab and sugar rush cream), I'm starting from scratch for the first time in a while. Very, very humble beginnings: One sprout and one hook! Granted... they're both basil. :) Still under the...

OK! As we get rolling on the next phase of this ongoing series of marginal successes and impressive failures, let's take stock. Currently happy, healthy, and producing fruit: Casados Sugar Rush Peach Recently rooted via coffee filters and just planted in coir: Jamaican Red Hab (hi Paul!)...

Welcome to the next episode of some half-witted fish neglecting pepper plants in Japan! While my wife will be keeping two of my off-season plants outside (KS Lemon Starrburst and Nanbu), the indoor stuff is -- aside from the SR Peach -- entirely new to me in terms of growing. So I'm hoping to...

Crawling back in here, tail between my legs, for another shot at this pepper thing.  :oops:   Last season I ended up... really preoccupied, let's say, and completely screwed up my grow. The outdoor plants were basically ignored, and the tent plants were in tiny starter pots until today, when...

39 is a multiple of 13, and that makes it cool.   That very important point out of the way, I've actually started planting for the season, so I figured I might as well start migrating to a new thread. How is it that I've gone through three glogs here already? I feel far internet-older than I...

This plant also has bugs, so that might be relevant; I don't have an ID on those yet, though my guess right now is thrips.     I thought the edge browning was from excessive lighting, overconcentrated nutrients, or both... at this point there's so many things I've probably done wrong that I...

I'm getting to the point where I have isolated pods ripening, and I'll soon need to start saving seeds.   I know the standard, reliable method is just sticking them on a plate in a place with good airflow, and that's the plan. But I'm wondering if anyone has experience doing this with silica...

Be it ever so humble...     Currently, there are three pepper plants on the bottom (the four all the way on the right are garlic experiments). The one that's nice and rootbound in a tiny container on the right is a manganji, which I pretty much just want to see the pheno from. In the bags on...

I'm currently starting some giant white habs. Searching around, all I can really find references to is a hybrid with a bhut and maybe another with a Moruga scorpion.   Has anyone tried crossing these guys with anything else?

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I keep a grow tent in my office, and I have enough plants that I need a dehumidifier to keep the wallpaper from peeling.   This thing pulls in a liter of water every couple days. It's obviously now dechlorinated, and I'm not sure what it would possibly pick up between going into the plants and...

Since I finally posted this on Reddit, figured you guys might like it too. ;)   Note that I'm shredding the cabbage first. If you prefer not to do that, check here for the technique and adjust appropriately.   This is for 1/4 head of cabbage, but there's a significant volume of veggies, so it...

Everyone else is doing reasonably well, but these guys just seem perpetually angsty (I have two and they look pretty much the same): From this chart, posted by The_NorthEast_ChileMan here... ...it seems like the discoloration could be molybdenum deficiency? Maybe? Some of the other plants...

It's a lot more expensive here than it was in the US, but I still manage to make my own Creole seasoning (recipe comes from https://www.gumbopages.com/food/creole.html). Works very well for wings as well as a seasoning for dishes like gumbo. I'll cook them in an "air fryer," which is just a...

This random website says:     I'm curious about this, because I haven't seen it referenced anywhere else... is it even vaguely true?   I know in mammals there are some differences in which genes X and Y chromosomes can carry, but I have no idea whether there are similar differences in plants. I...

I knew my office manager had some kind of widget she was using to grow basil in a plastic bottle, but I didn't really think too much about it until I saw she'd picked up strawberries in the same style... so, having the product name, I looked it up. This picture came from Instagram; it's better...

After the last one ended up with, I think, way too much surface area to keep up with yeast cleanup, I waited until I had my nipplicious new equipment. Mason jars are a bit dear here, but hopefully it'll be worth it. The weight seems like it's off to a good start. I think this is just about an...

This is one of the reasons I can't really bring myself to move back to the US. I love this stuff.     It tends to range from around 3% to 9% (often marketed as "Strong") alcohol content, and comes in a range of flavors that typically include lemon and grapefruit, then branch out. Since sweet...

  This kind of thing is normally used for quick light pickling, maybe a day or two in rice vinegar. I tried it out as an alternative to ordering mason jars with weights and nipple tops, which would end up being kind of painfully expensive to get to Japan.   It wasn't obvious to me when I ordered...

So it's a little busy. But it's everything I have growing that isn't peppers. For now. :D     The current interior of the grow tent. In the lower right you can just see the towel that lovingly ensconces my germinating seeds (which are freaking sprouting! More on that in another thread, probably...