I ordered Manzano red seeds. A Rocoto plant grew... and grew well. I was expection red chillis but they ripen yellow.
I figure it goes with all the other dodgy seeds i bought from a certain seed site that i wont visit again!
anyway.... yellow rocotos will be fine...... notto bothered...... but as they ripen they have developed rotting spots on the fruit. I thought ahhhh its just all the rain, the wet has rotted them.
I picked them and cut one in half to see what was hapening. I found rot but nothing else so i chucked it in the bin.
i was doing some thinking as i do (my brain never stops) and was wondering about these strange 1/4 size bee like insects that i had seen hovering around the plant a couple of weeks back.
It got me thinking these rotting spots wernt just from the wet.
i cut open the big one and found fruit fly wigglies messing up my prize chillis. I wont repeat what i said when i saw this.
I cut a section from the pod that was still fine and was ripe and had a taste. Its fantastic. mild heat that sticks aroud forever. it tingled my lips for 15 minuites and something else after i went to the loo.
Anyway.........does anyone have any idea how to stop these little beasts. I have about 100 of these chillis, still very small on the bush, and if i have to use spray, garlic, nets, depleted uranium warheads, i will.
any help apreciated.
cheers
I figure it goes with all the other dodgy seeds i bought from a certain seed site that i wont visit again!
anyway.... yellow rocotos will be fine...... notto bothered...... but as they ripen they have developed rotting spots on the fruit. I thought ahhhh its just all the rain, the wet has rotted them.
I picked them and cut one in half to see what was hapening. I found rot but nothing else so i chucked it in the bin.
i was doing some thinking as i do (my brain never stops) and was wondering about these strange 1/4 size bee like insects that i had seen hovering around the plant a couple of weeks back.
It got me thinking these rotting spots wernt just from the wet.
i cut open the big one and found fruit fly wigglies messing up my prize chillis. I wont repeat what i said when i saw this.
I cut a section from the pod that was still fine and was ripe and had a taste. Its fantastic. mild heat that sticks aroud forever. it tingled my lips for 15 minuites and something else after i went to the loo.
Anyway.........does anyone have any idea how to stop these little beasts. I have about 100 of these chillis, still very small on the bush, and if i have to use spray, garlic, nets, depleted uranium warheads, i will.
any help apreciated.
cheers
