overwintering Winter-Summer in OZ "Comparison" / Aussie Blabberers

[Micca302]

Three words - Nova, righteous, beer!

EDIT:
Forgot to mention ya people in ozland got a wussy winter! but that's just cause it's scared of all ya non-wussy, hairy, crocodile wrestling, webcam posing men!

Cheers! beer!

Yeah we do have a pretty wussy Winter here in West Oz but come over when the Summer kicks in. When the 40+Deg.C(104+Deg.F) heat decides to come to town we all tend to go a bit


Hey Nova, the little-uns are looking so cute. Just wait till they grow up

Nica Avatar too Bro!


Micca

 

[Trippa]

Has anyone ever used these guys before ??

Bugs for sale

Or indeed used lacewings as a pest control method??

I hopefully won't need them but its good to have options later on?

Couldn't find anywhere that sold ladybugs in oz?

 

[Trippa]

stumbled across this ... pretty good list for anyone interested I think

Bug Suppliers

 

[Nova]

What do you guys see as my avatar? I still see the peace bomb!

That seaweed i got on the weekend well i found out something absolutely stupid about the collection of it today. Here is what the "authorities" say about it.

"You can remove no more then 20 Kilograms of seaweed per day from the lake. It must be dried seaweed, and it should only be removed from your area of the lake."

WTF? Wankers.

 

[Trippa]

What do you guys see as my avatar? I still see the peace bomb!

That seaweed i got on the weekend well i found out something absolutely stupid about the collection of it today. Here is what the "authorities" say about it.

"You can remove no more then 20 Kilograms of seaweed per day from the lake. It must be dried seaweed, and it should only be removed from your area of the lake."

WTF? Wankers.

How many of you collected it?? 7?? 7 times 20 = 140kg

 

[Nova]

My collection would have weighed about 30 kg all up. I was talking in litres before. They can get stuffed ima take as much as i deem appropriate! Idiots.

 

[gasificada]

Duuude, did you just age 10-20 years....?

 

[Trippa]

My collection would have weighed about 30 kg all up. I was talking in litres before. They can get stuffed ima take as much as i deem appropriate! Idiots.

Sweet then I wouldn't even stress about it ... I am sure they wouldn't have scales on them to weigh it anyway or probably enforce it unless someone was getting huge amounts of it (ie tons) and someone dobbed them in

 

[Nova]

Duuude, did you just age 10-20 years....?

Yes but i have this evil plan. After a while my missus will no doubt tire of my gorilla like appearance and i will have to shave it off. That together with a shorn head and it will take 30 years OFF my appearance, leaving me looking around 15.

 

[gasificada]

Yes but i have this evil plan. After a while my missus will no doubt tire of my gorilla like appearance and i will have to shave it off. That together with a shorn head and it will take 30 years OFF my appearance, leaving me looking around 15.

So true! I usually only shave about once a month, and when I do, I scare even myself how young I look in the mirror. My flatmate thinks it's a real riot and she never misses the opportunity to let me know that I look about 12.

 

[gasificada]

Check out the stem on my TS Yellow baby:

Bad boys, bad boys, wotcha gonna dooo....

 

[Trippa]

Check out the stem on my TS Yellow baby:

Bad boys, bad boys, wotcha gonna dooo....

Wow that is some awesomely short internode spacing ... what kind of light do you have them under?

 

[Nova]

What he said. Smartass.

Nobody likes a showoff, well unless its got to do with chillis. Carry on!

 

[gasificada]

Wow that is some awesomely short internode spacing ... what kind of light do you have them under?

Just a Sylvania GroLux fluoro.

(and I hear people say they are no better than a regular old fluoro....)

 

[Wildfire Chilli Australia]

Trippa :
I have tried bugs for bugs through bunnings with no problems. there is also another place I order from that I have put a link up earlier in this thread I think. I'm in some need of some bugs but don't know if I should do a big spray first and then wait awhile as they are all a bit out of hand and you should do the release before the problem gets too big.

Now another problem... Noticed in my hydro setup that some of the leaves have lesions on them, took a closer look and it seems to be on a few. Looked it up on the net and think it might be bacterial leaf spot. Anyone had this before? What do you reckon?

Front of leaf

Back of leaf (sorry for bad pic, file seems corrupted)

If so this can be carried on from infected plants which seed are saved from (not mine from another source). So went and looked at the other plants in the hothouse (from same seed batch) and they look like they are starting to get it too! So pi**ed off. If that is what it is then I might as well rip up all these plants, as I wont be able to save seed anyway and then I will need to totally sterilise everything and I have completely wasted over a months growing time! To make it worse I have been taking water out of my hydro room's reservoir and feeding that to my seedlings and numerous other plants so more than likely everything will have it. What a total waste of time and money aaaggghhhh almost ready to give up on this season before it has begun.

I'm glad everything is working out ok for everyone else though and sorry to be the downer. I will definately be treating all seeds with a bleach solution from now on. wonder if you could mix chammomile tea with it also or if that is just pointless.

 

[gasificada]

What he said. Smartass.

Nobody likes a showoff, well unless its got to do with chillis. Carry on!

Yeah, but unfortunately my other little babies ain't as stocky though due to my light not being big enough for them all to sit under.

This guy has kind of been an experiment. Usually after pot-up, they have to make do with what sunlight they can get (and that's sure nowhere near the 19 hours a day this guy is getting! )

 

[Nova]

I feel like crying. That is horrible.
I would want to wring someones neck if i were you, got an addy i will trace em down.

Edit: Directed at Candice.

 

[Wildfire Chilli Australia]

Yeah I'm ready to cry also.
Well I have only heard good things about this supplier but will ask them if they have had the problem before. Don't want to blame them but if that is what it is the seed is the only place it could have come from as it was all started in a totally new and sterile environment with no other plants around. Very disappointing... I wonder what I have done to deserve all this trouble.

 

[gasificada]

Now another problem... Noticed in my hydro setup that some of the leaves have lesions on them, took a closer look and it seems to be on a few. Looked it up on the net and think it might be bacterial leaf spot. Anyone had this before? What do you reckon?

Front of leaf

Back of leaf (sorry for bad pic, file seems corrupted)

If so this can be carried on from infected plants which seed are saved from (not mine from another source). So went and looked at the other plants in the hothouse (from same seed batch) and they look like they are starting to get it too! So pi**ed off. If that is what it is then I might as well rip up all these plants, as I wont be able to save seed anyway and then I will need to totally sterilise everything and I have completely wasted over a months growing time! To make it worse I have been taking water out of my hydro room's reservoir and feeding that to my seedlings and numerous other plants so more than likely everything will have it. What a total waste of time and money aaaggghhhh almost ready to give up on this season before it has begun.

I'm glad everything is working out ok for everyone else though and sorry to be the downer. I will definately be treating all seeds with a bleach solution from now on. wonder if you could mix chammomile tea with it also or if that is just pointless.

Bummer, Candice.

And yikes! I did not know BLS could be passed on through seeds!

Apparently camomile is a mild fungicide, so I wonder if it has antiseptic properties as well?

 

[Wildfire Chilli Australia]

Yeah there are a few diseases that are seed borne.

Nothing will really cure it now, once you have it then thats it. Copper fungicides can be used to prevent the spores from opening but it can only do so much and there is really no point. It's just a shame cos they were growing so fast and I was getting excited about it all.