pulse Report This Comment Date: May 08, 2013 02:39AM
It's getting nice and bright red. The green one from the previous pic has
started to turn orange, and you can see the little spots on the leaves I
mentioned
She shall soon be ready for fire
pulse Report This Comment Date: May 08, 2013 03:20AM
Screen quality is really an amazing thing.
When I resized this image I was using a Dell U2711 monitor. The red at the top
looks really bright, vibrant and angry. The orange looks still strong. I'm
looking at this on my macbook air now and it just looks a bit .. vague. Nowhere
near as red and angry as my other monitor.
There's such a difference in the picture of screens, even ones that are meant to
be 'good quality'..
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: May 08, 2013 03:34AM
The black spots look like a fungus (black spot leaf disease). Either use
chemicals to kill it or pick off the infected leaves and burn them so it won't
spread.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: May 08, 2013 05:25AM
Hate to say it dude, but if you don't get that stuff under control pretty
quickly it'll be curtains for your plant man ;(
There's systemic antibiotics and sprays available that can arrest that stuff and
that poor pup really needs a dose in a bad way
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: May 08, 2013 01:35PM
do not use chemicals on any edible plants, go organic.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: May 09, 2013 02:29PM
There aren't many good choices for organic or natural remedies for fungus.
Vinegar will probably help control it but it is only a mild fungicide.
Other things like baking soda mixtures I've read don't really do anything to a
fungus. Antibiotics won't do any good, they kill bacteria, not fungi, and can
actually make things worse by killing off bacteria that the fungus has to
compete with and then the fungus blooms.
ImNotLikeEverybodyElse Report This Comment Date: May 09, 2013 09:06PM
Other fungi
Mycelium
I've got it a bottle somewhere never used for foliar application
Still it depends what exactly you're dealing with. I've always relied on
prevention so...
pulse Report This Comment Date: May 25, 2013 09:54AM
I picked that chilli and we ate it tonight with some pasta. And holy fucking
shit it was hot.
The other 2 I'll pick probably tomorrow, and we're going to cut the plant right
back and hope it survives. I'm also going to de-seed a couple of the pods and
try to grow from seed.
Seriously though, definitely the hottest chilli I've ever eaten. I'm going to
pay for that tomorrow
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: May 25, 2013 03:48PM
You gotta pay the pepper now.
I hope you are able to save enough of the plant to keep it going. Make sure you
burn the infected parts you cut off or it could spread to other plants.
Definitely don't compost or mulch it. Better safe than sorry.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: May 30, 2013 11:48AM
Glad to hear you made good use of that bad boy pulse, and that it met with your
expectations of bein uber-hot
Mine last year were so small I know they didn reach their full potential, though
they were still pretty warm, yet their flavor was decidedly different from any
other type pepper I've sampled, and in a good way.
In reading the article mentioned above I did have to wonder if my years of
pepper consumption might play a part in my own tolerance for massive amounts of
capcasin ingestion, makes sense, but who knows?
My lone Bhut plant is coming along well and has lotsa buds poppin up all over
it, so maybe I'll get some full sized fruit this year. I sure hope so
ImNotLikeEverybodyElse Report This Comment Date: May 31, 2013 02:31AM
I agree. I think it is something to do with building a tolerance just as with
alcohol or various other drugs.
Just a little over a year ago i could only take a wee bit of the ghost, a tiny
flake or two in a bowl of soup, but now I can eat a whole dried bhut. It burns
still and I still feel every bit of the intensity, but I can do it. Back then I
wouldn't dare! Now I can cut fresh ones with out gloves and for a thrill I
occasionally rub my the sweat off my brow afterwards... Other things too that I
won't mention. If you're like me one can figure it out. Just be yourself
lmao
No but seriously this shit is supposed to be lethal at 8 to (pure capsicasion)
16 megaSHU and not recommending anything but I theorizing that one can build up
such a tolerance that needn't fear the reaper with pure extract. But why the
fuck would that be necessary. Let me deal with that lmao asshole like a certain
pop Cash song
pulse Report This Comment Date: June 02, 2013 04:51AM
They definitely do have a weird taste, and smell. A bit .. vinegarish.. I
dunno, it's hard to explain.
You can smell it for metres around after one has been cut open though. I ate it
with my brother in law, my wife doesn't like hot chilli so she put a dab of
juice on her finger (a tiny, tiny dab) and licked it and said it was too hot for
her, let alone eating it
Still it was pretty cool, I was worried they wouldn't be too hot. I'm saving the
seeds though, the plant I think is too sick to fully recover.
Maybe generation 2 will go better, too..
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Mrkim Report This Comment Date: June 02, 2013 12:57PM
Mine never got big enough to be more than a one or 2 bite affair so I can't
comment on the smell when cut but they def did have a decidedly different taste
that was almost chemical like.
I grew mine from seed, like the jalapenos, serranos, habeneros and cayennes I
had last year. I managed to winter over the ghost, a cayenne and I think a
cuppla jalapeno plants and have 'em all out soakin up rays now. The cayennes
were the fastest growin of 'em all and already has a new pepper on it while the
others are just now buddin out.
Last week I cheated and snagged a tobasco, a cuppla more jalapenos and another
habenero plant at a nursery. They're about 8-10" tall and are nice healthy
lookin lil pups so I'm hopin to have some peppers from all of those in a month
or so.
I need to get out there and take some pics of 'em all. Maybe I will ... about
the same time we get a new IOTW
ImNotLikeEverybodyElse Report This Comment Date: June 05, 2013 03:43PM
Chemical like? Youre using salt based nutes? If so flush before harvest
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: June 06, 2013 03:53AM
I dunno for sure what the composition of the stuff is but all I do other than
give 'em rain water is to feed 'em weekly with some Miracle Gro mixed in with
the water.
On another note my over wintered cayennes already have about 5 new peppers on
'em and there's about that many healthy buds on the ghost .... woohoo
ImNotLikeEverybodyElse Report This Comment Date: June 06, 2013 04:23PM
Ughhh! Never speak of that again. Lol
But if you must use that horrid stuff; yes flush the hell out them before
harvest. That will eliminate the chemical flavour. To flush there are products
out there which are nice if you are short on the H2O stuff, but otherwise save
some dough and just use water. For in ground you want to get on the verge of
drowning the plants, wait a few days and repeat. For pot in regular soil you
want to use three times the ratio of pot size for water. Ie, a 3 gallon
container would receive 9 gallons of water and if you're into coir twice or even
just equal will suffice
Don't get wrong I'm no organic nazi but I use mainly organic. Not trying to push
the stuff, but the general organics line from general hydroponics is a very nice
program... Though it can be time consuming making a mix. Not outlandishly
expensive. Of course I mix other goodies in it too, mainly superthrive which is
naturally occuring hormones and vitamin B and another product from gh koolbloom
for the ripening stage
Another thing I'm just starting to experiment with from xtreme gardening are
these organic feeder paks. Which are teabags you can put at the root zone and
just water, or you can break open and pour into water as you would with salts.
I'm also betting one could with an aerator brew compost tea for a day with
these. I get these from my local 'dro shop in a pack of six for two dollar.
And as long as I'm plugging products growers extreme has got some nifty stuff.
Mycoblast and soilblast in particular. Worth every cent.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: June 09, 2013 03:39PM
Yeah if I waddn so lazy I'd brew up some stuff instead, but ....
Mine are almost all in black 3 gal. pots since I read a lot that says they like
their roots kept warm. I tried some jalapenos in the ground too last year but
the damned grasshoppers swarms wasted those poor pups.
Since we have goats and donkeys here my soil is a mix of potting soil, hay and
aminal "stuff". The natural soil here contains a lotta clay which
means it's not really very good on its own and when it gets dry it's like
rock!
The pepper sprouts I bought are doin great, big ol lush lookin leaves and firm
stems, so they should do Ok. My overwintered stuff is full of leaves and buds
so maybe in another month or so I'll have a good crop to pick through, hopefully
till late fall
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: June 09, 2013 04:12PM
Miracle Gro has an organic line of products too.
ImNotLikeEverybodyElse Report This Comment Date: June 23, 2013 07:13AM
My over wintering attempts were sabotaged. Very disappointing. I'll try again
the next.
Gotta new bed with clay. Workin it with compost and dumped expired nute fish
emulsion. Humate, seaweed and kelp. Should be some fine stuff next year. Oh and
bat shit too
Off topic of growing; I scored some scorpions at the market the other day!
De-seeded (to save for planting this fall) and froze the fruits. No gloves...
Still feel the heat slightly on my hands since four days. First 24 burned like
hell and 48 still blinding myself if touched either eye. Won't even talk about
when I hadda no.1. Now I've gotta box of bhuts to do the same with. definition
of insanity
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: June 25, 2013 10:04PM
The ones I saved from last season are all doin well so far but none of 'em
(save one) are doin stellar. They've filled out Ok but they don't seem to
really be puttin on any new growth yet, and they've been outside for over 2mos.
now.
The one cayenne plant I have from last year however is growin like a mad man
(again) and is covered with fresh peppers!
Just to add some variety and color to my pepper plants I added some cuttings
from my abundant supply of Moss Rose.
In other gardening news I split up a huge pot of Aloe Vera I had that was so
full of babies it filled up about 8 other pots. At least now the mama plant with
its 24" fronds has ample room to grow again.
The 1/4 acre or so garden we had last year is lying fallow this year until we
can sort out how to supply enough water to the area. Between the lack of enough
rain and the damned grasshoppers everything died out by early August last
year.
We've been lucky enough to have found a tree removal service that needed a place
to dump the shredded loads they have gotten from the tornado clean ups and so
far they've dumped 3 dump truck loads which we'll be plowin and tillin into the
garden area this fall. The ground here has so much clay in it it's like rock
once it gets dry so these loads will really help in softening up the garden area
and add in lotsa great plant food at the same time.
I need a buncha chickens to gobble up the hordes of damned grasshoppers here!
They are already worse so far than last year and they were really bad then!
I guess since pulse changed the IOT(Q)W I'll hafta make good on my word and
take/post some pics of my babies
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: June 26, 2013 06:56AM
my favorite Mexican food joint has been running out of habaneros...they say
they can't get them because where they shop they don't have them because the
price is too high...apparently there's a shortage this year
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: June 26, 2013 04:46PM
Yeah they're usually around $5 a lb here and ghost chiles, when you can find
'em, are like $8-12.
A new Mescan joint recently opened here and they're my new favorite place! They
have a great menu with a wide variety of items, their hot sauce actually has
some kick and then they offer a really good green sauce too, good portion sizes
(had lunch and dinner both thanks to the to-go box leftovers) and .... they
offer grilled or roasted peppers with their meals
pulse Report This Comment Date: July 07, 2013 09:41AM
I have a Thai panang curry on its way to me, extra spicy. I've saved all the
seeds of my bhut, they'll be planted along with some habaneros and birds eye
chillis.
There's some really good mexican places around me, some fancy ones too. I don't
mind mexican but it's nowhere near as popular here as it is for you folk. Thai
is ace though.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: July 08, 2013 08:25PM
Must be that opposite sides of the equator thing workin on us here as there are
very few Thai joints to be found here. I've enjoyed the few I've come across
and as for most Mescan food joints here, the food they serve is pretty mild,
which is why it's so great to find one with hot sauce that has some kick to
it!
Still workin on those pics pulse and haddn forgotten. These days I'm just
runnin off my server machine and since I built it as such I didn build a card
reader in it. Gonna hafta crack open my long silent i7 hot rod machine to
access the reader in it I guess.
I did manage to swoop down on a mondo deal on a pair of sweet APC 1500s this
weekend to lighten the load on the one (too small) I'd been usin to take care of
the server while leavin the new Yamaha receiver hangin out there unprotected in
case one of those bad boy lightenin storms we get from time to time here was to
hit and potentially nuke my sweet ass sound system ... Wooohooo
