PaulG said:
Trippa? Who dat?
Hey buddy, I just hope you are just busy and
not something wrong!
Holler if you need anything, my friend.
Alllll goood ... and thanks for the good wishes everyone ....Early Merry Christmas .... its been a tough season chilli wise so far ... Mites have really smashed me back ... been getting very small harvests off 3 plants (Bahamian Goat, Cili Goronong, Douglah and Naga Morich and a wild sown Aji Lemon has been cranking out the pods from the pot that used to house some mint ... mints dead ... Aji Lemon is cranking
)
I have lost 2 plants to mites so far ... luckily they were duplicates ...some have started recovering on there own... almost developed there own resistance ... and then I noticed aphids (because of recent storm activity increasing the moisture levels I believe) which I squashed pronto .... I have just given them a big feed and potted some up in the hopes they can recover with some bigger boots.
Threw 4 old plants out .. one of which had some form of wood slater eating the inside of the stem ...it had subsequently died ... Bugs , bugs and more freaking bugs!!
Then earlier this month or perhaps late last month we got absolutely smashed with a hail storm with hailstones as big as golf balls (some larger) and 140kmh winds (localised to our suburb and a couple of others only) which hammered the plants on the edge of the balcony and stripped the leaves off most of the older plants) ... the plants fared better then my car at the train station which no looks like the moon with craters all over it and two smashed wing mirrors to match
.....
gnslngr said:
Okay, time cough up some pics,
HAHA-this coming from the least updated glog in THP!
What is it about purple leaves??
Have a good one-
DJ
Dot Com said:
I can't wait for an update from Trippa either
If you read above .... you will see at this stage there will be no photos this side of Christmas... The plants have had a rough time and really are a sorry looking bunch. Sorry to disappoint ... I am endeavouring to get them all on the road to recovery ASAP ... I want some chillis for Late Summer at least !!!
gasificada said:
Wait... was it I who sent you TS ButchT seeds, T?? I'm going to feel bad now if I sent you (and possibly others) bum seeds...
Nah not you man ... all good!!
On a brighter note ... I have some F2 seeds from my own cross from the single pod it has produced. The good news is the pod from the F1 turned a bright red (So Purple tinged dark green foliage with large red pods) and was shaped in an exact mix from both parent pods and was large and fleshy (almost Jalapeno thick walls). Now the taste was something else ... not what I expected at all ... Very, very fruity (think Bhut Jolokia "Assam" type fruity) with a slight floral note (along the lines of Aji Lemon floral type flavour) and a hot stingy burn that took your breath away and burned the back of the throat and stung the lips (around the same heat fatalii) ... funny thing was the burn literally faded to nothing within minutes ....
My initial thought with the F1's are that they would make absolutely perfect poppers with more kick then any Jalapeno could offer but the same fleshyness and no uncomfortable prolonged after effects
I am now quite keen to distribute a few f2's and f1 seeds to a select few people to see how the go in the Northern Hemisphere (Especially those that have given me seeds in the past) I literally only have a few though at the moment of the F2's and only probably 5 or less of the F1's for distribution.
PM me if you are interested I will only be able to help a slect few people out at the moment but will hopefully (fingers crossed) be able to supply more f2's in a few weeks if I don't lose my only plant. But I don't want to lose the genetics by holding onto the seeds too long as i won't be able to grow all of them out
