



Man, I just keep seeing new plants in your Grow Log.
How many are you growing this season, Dieter? They
all look great. Is there an room to move around on
your balcony?
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, so according to traditional wisdom my body should gain some beefHope you get better soon!
Yes. I've always been rather careful as well. Doesn't mean it can't happen. The irony of this, however, is that my better half was very bad (needed oxygen) a year ago and I didn't feel a thing. But now, with vaccines and all, the currently circulating strain(s) hit(s) me whereas my wife feels nothing (both tested +)I hope that you are able to get
back on track quickly. I am assuming you are vac-
cinated, etc, right?
Isn't that the way it goes, Dieter...the backup plant (terrible growing conditions, but the backup plant insists on delivering).
Is that a banana plant in the first pic in post 131?
True, but Rosita is from Venezuela. Before my time on this board, a Venezuelan national (Lindberg) provided seeds of several Venezuelan varieties with the THP community. You can read here and here.There are quite a few red Ají Dulces out there. It’s such a generic name! I decided to only grow Ají Dulces I know the origin of.
I guess it's time for an update... I've had a lot of work of recently, but thus far the plants have managed the periodic neglect. I've lost a few plantlets over the last month:
Of all my adult and adolescent plants, only two are giving me worries. One (Scotch Brains) might just suffer from retarded growth (no pun intended), but the other (local pubescens) is really struggling and acts as a pest magnet. I start to see why pubescens won't do well in the hot tropics.
- I sacrificed my chile costeño plantlet because the leaves looked diseased;
- Oro de Ecuador died on me for uncertain reasons;
- Leviathan Gnarly Scorpion was destroyed by concupiscent pussycats.
The heat has been climbing over the last few weeks and some refreshing rain would be welcome. We'll still have to wait a month or two for that though. I'm noticing that birds are eating some of the peppers, and they really seem to like Black Betty (Red). It's the only pepper they eat while still unripe.
I've collected four major harvest from my plants so far and we're only at the beginning. The image below are last weekend's hots (hotter than habanero): 1.5 kg from basically five plants. I'm currently eating ~1 kg a week, mainly as self-made pickles.
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