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Here they just burn down the fields 🙄. Glad to see you liked the mazateco. You see, even now when the internet has made the world a lot smaller, there still are plenty of heirloom peppers waiting to be discovered. The mazateco is locally world famous and traded by the bushel, yet virtually...

I agree with Marturo. I've tried 100% worm castings as container soil and it didn't end well for the plants... At first, it absorbed a lot of moisture and then it compacted, suffocating the roots. I then let it dry out and it became as hard as brick (litteraly). Growing in containers is not the...

An idea in case you'd need a new fence...

Plants with that sort of colouration/patterning would be a hit in SE Asia. Just saying... 🙃

Chickens are great - they eat most organic kitchen waste and they like snails 👍. As a bonus, they produce eggs and fertilizer. I hope the avian influenza epidemic hasn't hit your region though.

I bought fresh seeds in Mexico and both species began to germinate after ~1 month. They do seem to germinate erratically, however. I also germinated Bromelia antiacantha (🇧🇷), and had 100% germination after 2 weeks. Vreeken... Never heard anything good about them. Perhaps they've changed though.

@MarcV , both yield an edible fruit with a pineapple-like flavour. The fruit of Bromelia pinguin, however, is very acid and causes blisters. People traditionally roast the fruit before eating it. I haven't tried the fruit of Bromelia karatas yet, but it is more commonly eaten and appreciated...

Good to see to they managed to adapt to arctic conditions. The rocoto peppers they're selling now have the same shape but are much smaller. I'm not sure why... Different variety or the same variety under different conditions.

Impressive, almost looks like images from an orchard.

Snails like mulch, although not necessarily coco coir. Google returns me hits claiming snails don't like coco coir - I have personally no experience, there are few snails here anyway. But before, I used those blue granules (metaldehyde laced with malt) if the snails caused too much plant loss.

Pineapple relatives (Bromelia karatas, Bromelia pinguin) are sometimes used here as a living fence, for exactly that reason.

Have a nice trip today!

A good one, and difficult to find, even in Oaxaca. Chilcostle, by the way, means "yellow chile". :seeya:

Good to see you back Stetto, it has been a few minutes...

Me too, but for outside use. Here in the tropics, "dappled shade" can still be surpringly strong in terms of light. A decent app, one doesn't have to work in the dark anymore :) The human eye is an untrustworthy tool for the quantification of light.

It almost looks as if you stained a specific type of cell for observation under a microscope. Nice!

Thanks @SatanicFlatIron for the PDF 🙃 . It makes for some interesting reading. Sadly enough, this type of catalogue has become rather uncommon. Today, IMHO, companies and vendors rely too much on the idea that all information is somewhere on the internet.

@SatanicFlatIron , PM will be sent, thank you for retrieving this information. Based on their appearance, I'd have judged them to be the same variety. Varietà coltivata in Giamaica is open to interpretation. The variety may from elsewhere, but Dadomo's Jamaican friends may have given him some...