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    NZChili and the Volunteer Gardens

    Hi there, been awhile since I posted..but I have been continuing to grow peppers every year.   The last couple of years I have had some pretty solid hauls..I have been encouraging Volunteers and want peppers to just grow themselves..so at the end of the season I throw all the old pods around the...
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    nzchili and the kiwi summer

    Hi guys, thought I would make my own thread here rather than keep clogging up the great kiwi pepper thread.. Its a bit late as we are half way through our season..but anyway..here's a couple pics of how things are shaping up.   This year I have many unlabeled volunteers so will be interesting to...
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    breeding Question on Hybrids/phenotypes

    Hey guys, quick question. This is kind of hard for me to explain what im thinking but here goes;   Say I have an F5 hybrid and I grew out 3 plants of it.   Two of those plants turn out true to form, but one is a different phenotype & looks different from the others. Its hotter, looks different...
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    Is this normal for Douglah flowers? (or any flowers)

    Hey guys, quick question. I know I have seen similar before but cant find it.   I have a Douglah plant whose flowers seem a little odd to me.   Basically they don't really open, and it appears that they just start growing into pods. The middle section that usually swells into a pod seems...
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    seeds My first 3 coty seedlings..two in a few days

    I know its only an uncommon oddity and iv seen it in posts before, but I got my first couple of seedlings with 3 cotys over the last few days so thought id post a pic.   Out of the 100 or so seeds iv germed this year I have never had one with 3 cotys. I got them both within a couple of days of...
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    soil Making my own soil from these ingredients?

    Hi everyone, I have had some very mixed results with store bought potting soil so I wanted to try something a little bit different with my next batch of seedlings that are about ready to go from pellet to pot. I plan to do it this weekend..   I have never mixed my own soil before..I bought a...
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    seeds weird conjoined yellow7 seed?

    Ok so this may be a common thing. I have no idea.. but im just wondering how rare/common this is, or if anyone has seed this before?  Its a seed I harvested from my yellow 7 pot, and its kind of like two seeds stuck together.. I  had a bit of a search and I managed to find twins from one seed...
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    Uh Oh..it was fine a few hours ago!

    So yesterday while I was at work I asked my brother to put my 2 x larger jonah plants outside to get some sun / breeze. I got home from work about 4 or 5 hours later to see this..(sorry for the poor images).   All the leaves were badly wilted, and felt very thin and fragile, and like they had...
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    Anyone growing the Brown Bhutlah SLP?

    Hey guys, just wondering if anyone is growing the Brown Bhutlah SLP? and what do you think of it? I tried a bit of a search and didnt find much.   I put in an order with Semillas for a few varieties of super hots. (HP22B, Douglah, Brainstrain, Primo, Barrakpore, 7 pot white, 7pot SR strain and...
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    breeding A couple of questions crossing annum x chinense

    Hey guys I have a few questions about crossing peppers..I hope I can somehow ask this so it makes sense.. I have just attempted to cross a hot cayenne (mother) with a 7pot jonah (father) using the guide on the fatalii website. I removed the petals, and the stamens from a couple of flowers that...
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    Pepper from Fiji, what is it?

    Hey guys, my girlfriend (who is from Fiji), recently went back over there to see her family etc and bought me back this chili. (i believe her parents grow it in their garden) What do you guys think it is? Its actually quite hot, hotter then i expected. Perhaps two or three times hotter then a...
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    seeds When do seedlings / germinated seeds need light?

    Hey guys, I planted a few seeds from one of my 7Pot Jonah pods and im wondering at what stage do they need light? I put the seeds in my hot water cupboard for a makeshift heat mat, so its consistently warm, but dark..the container that the pellets are in is covered with gladwrap to keep the...
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    First year growing peppers..

    Hey guys, so i thought i would start a glog on my plants.. This is my first year growing peppers... I bought all these plants..I did not start them from seed.(dont hate me im new, lol) I had planned on doing so but have learnt iv got into pepper growing at the wrong time of year and have missed...
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    New Grower!

    Hey guys, my names Chris and im from New Zealand... im new here and new to growing peppers/chilis.    So how it started- I recently bought a few different plants while browsing the local garden store.. I got some kind of sweet yellow one, a hot cayenne, and some other unknown plant. (its tag...
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