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I typoed the year  http://thehotpepper.com/topic/73525-growing-chiles-in-hel-2019/   Should be 2020. Please help!

So this is it folks, I've recovered my password and bought 10 seedlings today from Jukka "Fatalii" Kilpinen. Didn't start any of my own seeds due to laziness, though I still might start some to sell. Pubescens -------------- 3 x Rocoto Marlene 2 x Big Brown 1 x Mini Rocoto 1 x Costa Rica...

We've got a few kilos of green Manzano Rojos that have a pretty good amount of heat and aren't going to turn color.   I was thinking that there might be a sausage upcoming during this week or so.   Of course I could go simple and just use grated cheddar and call it a day. But this might be fun...

Storing about half of my crop so far as salsa. I use a lot of salsa during the winter while making chili con carne, etc. It's so easy to just open a jar or three and dump it into the pot.   The small jars are rocoto salsa (Manzano Rojo, Montufar and Pico Mucho combined).   The large jars are...

You've got three clips to define your legacy, what are they?   From my choices, it can be seen that I am a charismatic, militant leader. And I'm OK with that. How do you want to be remembered?     1. If I were the man I was five years ago...   2. Persians, come and get some!   3. We will kill...

I had some plants that were heavily affected with brown spots on the leaves, thought it might have been BLS. I removed a lot of foliage from all of them and they are growing pretty healthily now, but a few of them have started producing pods with small, hard bumps on them. I've never seen this...

Hungry in the middle of the night and the weather is turning cold now. What could be more natural than a pot of Chili con Carne?   The most effective way to keep the teens out of it is to fill it with kick.   800g lean ground beef healthy shake of dehydrated garlic healthy shake of onion power 2...

Just finished a 7kg (15lb) brisket after 18 hours on the grill.        

OK, time to kick off the Growing Cukes in HEL glog!   It will be about growing more than cukes, but one needs to choose something for a topic title.   No better way than to start with a photo.   Got the cukes and zucchini potted up into  and caged. Cages aren't visible in the picture, but they...

Two things related to growing that really make me go hmm...   1. People who fill their pots 3/4 full of medium. Seriously? What is the reason for this? I could sort of understand it if cloches were in use, but 99% of you who do this thing do not own cloches. Fill your pot to the top, damnit.  ...

At my request, my wife made a meat-lovers pan pizza with kick. She made it inside our 15" Lodge cast-iron skillet.   For the crust, Divella Farina Tipo "00" flour - this is a seriously good flour for making pizza as well as pasta.   On top of the crust, my wife's homemade marinara sauce.   For...

Today I took 27 pellets off the heat mats and transplanted them into their first small pots. Then I moved them into my temporary grow room (sauna) under the lights where they will spend the next 60 days or so until it's warm enough to move outside for the summer.   I've still got another 75...

I am considering putting my seedlings into 1 litre airpots and then instead of removing them from the pots when it is time to move outside and pot up, dropping the 1 litre airpots straight into the 12 litre airpots.   Anybody else done this or can think of a reason why it won't work? My thoughts...

Hi,   Long time "summer" chili grower here, about 16 years experience. Started growing cayenne, took an interest in apache and habanero, recently manzano rojo and chocolate scotch bonnets. I eat all the peppers I grow, make salsa from a lot of them.   Just started about 150 manzano rojo seeds...