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I've read that many home brewers (at least in Australia) REUSE their twist top caps + bottles, simply by twisting the used *sterilized* caps back on HARD using a tea towell. Would this be suitable for pepper and tomato based sauces?   The lids I'm considering (re)using have a plastic liner. For...

No poo around the plants (would be easy to spot, the ground is gravel). I've just been out at night and done a search for hornworms, or anything else - and there's nothing visible.   I wonder if it could have been birds? We've had lots of cokatoos and parrots around the last couple of weeks, and...

Something has eaten my plants overnight. Leaves and stems, mostly from the top. They've targeted the sweet peppers (Orange Horizon, Marconi), and the Bhut Jolokias - all young plants.   I thought it might have been rabbits, but the plants are all raised off the ground on a table. I've got...

I have a DWC Bhut Jolokia (pic below) that I'd like to overwinter if possible. What do I do?   Cut it down to "a stick"? Trim the roots? Do I need to cut back on nutrients? Should I put it in my WARM indoor grow tent (with household CFLs), or in my COLD kitchen where it can get natural light?  

Done all that. Cleaned the reservoir and added new nutes a week ago. Haven't seen any improvement. Yes, air stone is OK. GreenDream (link). I had some aphids a while ago, but they've been dealt with.

My DWC bhut jolokia has lost about half of its leaves in the last week. It was looking great up until then - flowering a lot, but not fruiting, but otherwise seemed healthy. Is this BLS? And if so, should I ditch the plant now to avoid it spreading to my other nearby DWC plants? 2 weeks ago...

I have a pollination army :P I'm beginning to think this is one the main problems. I might wrap the res in silver foil and see if that helps. It will at least give me something to do.

My otherwise healthy DWC Bhut Jolokia is dropping flowers. New flowers are strong, then a few days later they drop off. Is it STILL not warm enough? I switched from grow to bloom nutrients about a month ago - should I switch back?

Watering maybe 3 times a week - less when inside, probably too much. Have cut down to once a week now. Feeding just with seaweed (this one). Have added some epsom salts in the last few days. Seeds were started in potting mix in seedling pots, started in indoor tent + lights (along with the...

Who said this was an experiment? There is no experiment. I just want to know what I'm doing wrong with the soil plants. The fact that the hydro plants are doing so well means that I must be doing something severely wrong with the soil based plants. If the hydro plants were the ones failing, I'd...

Nice one. Those seedlings are looking good. What potting mix are you using?

I've pulled out the worst of my potting mix plants and put them in hydro. It will be interesting to see if it saves them. I will be a miracle if that pathetic Bhut Jolokia starts growing. I've repotted the others into better quality potting mix, and fed them with seaweed and epsom salts. They...

This is my first year growing chillis, and also my first year growing hydroponics (DWC). I expected the hydro plants to do better than the potting mix plants, but not this much better. Razzmatazz chilli Bhut Jolokia Everything was planted at the same time. The potting mix plants are in...

What potting mix are you using? I tried some of the cheap stuff ($5ish a bag) from Bunnings, and it's incredibly crap. I pulled out a few of my 4-6 month old "cheap'n'nasty potting mix" plants, rinsed them off, and put them into a DWC hydro system, and they immediately took off like crazy.

Thanks, that's him. I've never seen one around here before, I'm guessing he was a freebie with my last delivery of peppermint gum firewood.

I found this guy roaming around my grow tent today. Anyone know what it is? Is he here to eat my plants, or to eat my aphids. Also noticed some nasty holes in a few leaves today too (bottom right photo).

Thanks guys. I've pinched. I'm planning on putting the plants outside in about 6 weeks. Should I keep pinching until then, or ease off and let a few of them get started before I take them outdoors?

I'm a first time grower, and my first batch of noname chillis are starting to flower inside my indoor tent. This is already way beyond my wildest expectations :) With a month of winter still to go, what should I be doing to keep them going? I haven't been doing much to them other than watering...

Should I remove the dodgy leaf? And/or segregate the entire plant? All the other leaves look to be OK.

Difficult to get a photo of it without the light coming in through the leaf.. The bottom of the leaf looks OK to the naked eye - no visible spots.