megamoo said:Nice. I wanted to make one of these but the plans I saw had an aluminum rod. I hope that wooden rod will take the weight.
highlucks said:Nice Tumbler, did you intentionally move the axle away from the centre of the barrel?
As with Moo I hope the current wooden axle holds up for you, but I think it may fail on the first tumble with a decent load material.
Micca302 said:Great to see peoples Chilli's are starting to come back to life.
Mine are too. Unfortunately though it is getting too late in the year now as the Chinenses take about 3 months to ripen.
You will find that the Chilli's will go into shutdown mode in winter and they either take longer to ripen or not at all.
If you have a greenhouse thats another story.
The greenhouse this will keep the temps up and they will ripen through Winter. Of coure the ripening outside a greenhouse will be temperature dependent so if we have a warm start you will get more ripening.
Just a few tips
Micca
thats unfortunate!nemspy said:That back right one in the second photo looks like most of my plants!
Its easily the healthiest chili I've grown. It still has the original two leaves it sprouted with! I've decided dwc is no good for chilies, even with two air pumps they weren't this healthy, they were decently healthy and I grew some massive plants 6 foot high 6 foot wide but they never hung onto flowers. NFT Really seems to be the way to go. I knew chilies liked well drained soil because they like their oxygen, but I think they LOVE oxygen. The real test will be to see weather this hangs onto its flowers and makes me some pods! If it does I'll never grow DWC again, these chilies like cool roots and lots of oxygen.Rainman said:Those scorpion leaves are massive Dave. The munted leaves look similar to mine did after an aphid attack. Looks like it's pulling through.