Bloody fruit fly mongrels...
All to be cooked and discarded.
All to be cooked and discarded.
Are they all mostly from the same variety?gasificada said:Bloody fruit fly mongrels...
All to be cooked and discarded.
Shurbryn said:- Good to see the thread revived!
Nice pods
lol Gassy, I read the whole thread and I can't even remember what you said... Hopefully mite free this coming season hey *fingers crossed*
I'm waiting for some seeds to arrive and then I'm gonna get started. Lucky I have a heated propagator... Canberra is on the chiller now.
It's a male peacock spider. One of my hobbies, besides chillies, is spider macro photography. I'm lucky enough to have 2 different kinds in my yard. They're really tiny though (size of match head) so are pretty hard to find and only appear in spring.miguelovic said:What the deuce is that bug in your avatar pic? Looks damn cool.
Aye, same and same. But once you hit the bottom, you can only go back up, right? So stuff it... I'm going all out this season! OK, not 1500 seeds/500 varieties all out, but it's still gonna be big...JungleRain said:how did everyone's chilli season go???? mine was shit the worst I have ever had but I'm back with a vengeance this season...
Do share! C. frutescens in particular has caught my attention of late. Looking forward to seeing what you bring!JungleRain said:I just started again today, sowing the first of 1500 seeds/500 varieties for this chilli grow season, decided to work on some of the rarer C. Frutescens varieties also and some rarer Brazilian Chillies. I have also sown some of my superhot hybrids I'm working on but only the most promising strains...photos coming soon!!!
JungleRain said:how did everyone's chilli season go????
JungleRain said:mine was shit the worst I have ever had but I'm back with a vengeance this season...
JungleRain said:I'm back!!!!!! been lurking from time to time.....
how did everyone's chilli season go????
gasificada said:
Talking up bark potting mixes (which are terrible! at least by the standard that is flogged off to us), suggesting sources of equipment and whatnot that can be found much cheaper elsewhere, general dumb stuff. I like to talk like I know what I'm talking about but in reality I'm quite the slow learner....
Mite-free... I'll be in on that! Funny, last season I didn't really have too much of a problem with the bastages. Either previous releases of predatory mites have well and truly done the trick or it got so hot last season that it killed off the little buggers. Unfortunately that same heat also killed off, or at least contributed to killing off, half my plants too. And then there's the fruit fly which almost makes the issue of broad mite feel insignificant. At least I can set a bunch of feasting machines on their asses. What eats fruit fly, anybody know? hahaha (I laugh or I cry)
I can't believe winter has finally arrived here! Around 10ºC this morning I think... brrrrrrr...... hahaha.... nah, it's nice. It would be getting down close to 0ºC down there, wouldn't it?
EDIT:
Daaamn, just had a look at your forecast and looks like you guys are hitting the minuses? That's it, I'm moving to Canberra! I don't care if I can't grow year round... I love the cold!
JungleRain said:I'm back!!!!!! been lurking from time to time.....
how did everyone's chilli season go???? mine was shit the worst I have ever had but I'm back with a vengeance this season...
I just started again today, sowing the first of 1500 seeds/500 varieties for this chilli grow season, decided to work on some of the rarer C. Frutescens varieties also and some rarer Brazilian Chillies. I have also sown some of my superhot hybrids I'm working on but only the most promising strains...photos coming soon!!!
Micca302 said:That's interesting that you guys got more of our summer over there this year and everyone over there had a bad one.
I really don't think the Chilli's like our Summers
gasificada said:
Summer is always bad for growing over here too... it was just extra bad last summer. Of course, it probably didn't help that I had a lot less time for my plants last summer, either!
Early spring and autumn is where it's at here. In fact, I've decided that autumn is going to be the season I label as "grow season". The other seasons can be "getting by" seasons seeing as there's no real off-season here.