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I've just given a handful of seedlings to a friend that lives in an apartment near the beach, and they had a very valid question:   What effect will the salty ocean air have on the growth of chilli plants?   Anyone with any experience with this?

Here are some process photos of my recent fermented sauce trials. First of all I need to do better at documenting my process with photos! This is 91 days in to a ferment of ripe jalapenos, red aji somethings, carrot, onion, garlic, roast capsicum (blackened skin removed), sea salt and filtered...

Let me tell you something that sux being an Australian visiting these forums - reading about so many delicious sounding and looking hot sauces but not having access to those sauces. Postage on a bottle of sauce or 2 from USA to Aus makes the price of the sauce unreasonable.   My wife is heading...

I have a very active ferment that has only been underway for 5 days, it's already overflowing the airlock. Does anyone have any advice? should I just let it go and clean up the mess everyday? Can I replace the airlock without having negative effects on the ferment?

This pod is on a plant that's grown from a pack of seeds that I bought as bishops hat. I'm a bit pissed off cos I was looking forward to some interesting shaped pods. Anyways I'm wondering if anyone recognises what this might be. It seems to have quite thin flesh. Edited because I'm trying to...

I want to get my seedlings under lights as soon as they sprout to get a head start on my grow, but I'm struggling to find any info from Aussie growers. I'm eyeing off a twin t8 bulb light fixture which needs to be hard wired to the power supply, but I want to plug it in to a wall socket via...

I've read on here a couple of times about using a fresh soil/potting mix each growing season.   Can anyone give me some reasons why I shouldn't re use my soil from the last season?   Can I mix my old soil with some compost or other fresh amendments to make it useful?

This hab/Scotch Bonnet (tags got mixed up) is covered in little buds, and has been this way for 2 weeks with next to no change. Is there a way that I can help the plant to turn these buds in to flowers so that I can see some pods at the end of the season?  

I've been reading heaps of amazing info here, hoping someone can help me out with a couple of things, Aussie growers I'm looking at you  ;)   I have a few plants that I've grown from seed (first timer!), germinated in late November. and the plants now range from 10cm tall to about 12 cm tall...

Howdy y'all... Just kidding, G'day is what I meant to say Just saw another welcome post from Australia today. I'm also from Sydney but I don't know the other guy. I've been a chilli lover for as long as I can remember, decided to start growing a few weeks ago, and it's rapidly taking over my...