Back to the veg patch.

[HGO]

Tried Growing these out before without much luck. Thought it was me intially, but I've since learnt they can be quite finicky to get them up and out of the seedling stage.

Sourced locally, but I'm tossing up to whether I should get some from the original breeder in the States. But I'm borking at the $30 odd dollar postage.

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I initially had trouble too mate but if you give them a soak for a few hours and do the paper towel method same as
with cannabis seed youll get them to pop a tap root then plant them straight away in a well draining seed raising mix or soil

 

[HGO]

forgot to mention Ive been having considerable more success with all seeds not damping off after I started using
some horsetail plant brewed into a weak tea and used to water the seedlings for the 1st week

 

[Goonie Goat]

Tried Growing these out before without much luck. Thought it was me intially, but I've since learnt they can be quite finicky to get them up and out of the seedling stage.

Sourced locally, but I'm tossing up to whether I should get some from the original breeder in the States. But I'm borking at the $30 odd dollar postage.

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My last trip to Bunnings I saw loads of different chilli varieties. Definitely saw those Carolina Reapers, ghosts and stuff.
I'd Rather support other smaller nurseries but unfortunately they've all been crushed by the big guys here..

 

[SAW]

Large spaces between your chillies, capsicums etc. Urban lots, 2 max. Cross pollination between chillies, chillies, capsicums and capsicums can alter the resulting fruit. I had a great red capsicum once, then a few months later was getting smaller brown capsicums with a mild chilli bite.
Very important if you’re a seed saver.

 

[One Drop]

Been a veggie grower for just about all my life started with grandma at the age of 6 and both parents were horticulturalist as well I spend my time I have left here contemplating on digging my own grave so the family can plant a tree on me when it’s time . Putting in more fruit n nut trees for the future family to use .. for me it’s food security we need to worry about . We are all only 3 meals from starvation , I can’t imagine not growing your own fruit n veg . Hope you don’t mind the rant n the pic booming … stiff shit if you do hahaha.

 

[Indy]

I initially had trouble too mate but if you give them a soak for a few hours and do the paper towel method same as
with cannabis seed youll get them to pop a tap root then plant them straight away in a well draining seed raising mix or soil

Cheers, mate. I'll give that a go. I did get a good germination rate, and they rose out of the soil, but they just stopped growing from that point onwards until I eventually gave up on the some weeks later.

But yeah, I'll give our traditional method a go, and see if I get much change.

My last trip to Bunnings I saw loads of different chilli varieties. Definitely saw those Carolina Reapers, ghosts and stuff.
I'd Rather support other smaller nurseries but unfortunately they've all been crushed by the big guys here..

Yeah, likewise. I got these from a hippy chick in FNQ. Try and avoid the big mobs where I can these days.

 

[Hudo]

Tried Growing these out before without much luck. Thought it was me intially, but I've since learnt they can be quite finicky to get them up and out of the seedling stage.

Sourced locally, but I'm tossing up to whether I should get some from the original breeder in the States. But I'm borking at the $30 odd dollar postage.

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Fuck them my mate had one growing in LA when he lived over there a couple years ago. I like chillies but all I did was eat a bit about the size of a pea and I thought I was going to die. He said he'd tried to cook with them a few times and just ruined any dish he put them in

 

[HGO]

my garden mid spring

fuckloads of peppermint!!

Hydro tomatoes


soil tomatoes


everything else

 

[HGO]

old fox POTG x Crescendo

 

[Dr.Clones]

I spend my time I have left here contemplating on digging my own grave so the family can plant a tree on me when it’s time.

Thats exactly what I want to be buried in my own backyard i tell the kids to just tell the government I went missing

 

[Beil]

Annual rip everything out the fruit tree beds, every year squash and tomato's.
Found 5 squash hiding in there, to go with the 2 we already picked.
The cherry tomatoes that I left will keep producing until until about august/july if the last years mean anything.
The plants i pulled out will be bagged and frozen to go into pasta sauces, but that's tonight or tommorows job going through them.

 

[Harry bootlace]

i got zero female flowers on my pumpkins this year. too much N?

 

[Indy]

I've tried growing pumpkins on a couple occasions. Eventually realised, the less i have to do with their care, the better they grow and produce. Probably why some of the best pumpkins were ones that grew wild at the old local dumps.

 

[benn0]

Annual rip everything out the fruit tree beds, every year squash and tomato's.
Found 5 squash hiding in there, to go with the 2 we already picked.
The cherry tomatoes that I left will keep producing until until about august/july if the last years mean anything.
The plants i pulled out will be bagged and frozen to go into pasta sauces, but that's tonight or tommorows job going through them.
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That citrus tree needs it's top pruned(perhaps suckers as well) Wait until after the fruit has fully set and dropped or a little while after its been picked at earliest maybe, the latest to leave it would be early spring. All depending on if the flowers have set for the following winter's fruit.
Comes naturally after all these years for me lol
Got some nice pumpkins. The few times I tried I didn't have much success

 

[Beil]

That citrus tree needs it's top pruned(perhaps suckers as well) Wait until after the fruit has fully set and dropped or a little while after its been picked at earliest maybe, the latest to leave it would be early spring. All depending on if the flowers have set for the following winter's fruit.
Comes naturally after all these years for me lol
Got some nice pumpkins. The few times I tried I didn't have much success

Yep, it gets a hair cut after each fruiting season. It was a pruned round mass of foliage last winter.

The pumpkins aren't through trying lol, they just grow each year from when spreading compost and we let them do their thing, I don't do anything for them.
Although next year I'm pulling them and planting chillies all through the bed!

 

[Beil]

i got zero female flowers on my pumpkins this year. too much N?

Not sure, these just sprout and if they're not in the dripper zone, all they get is last seasons compost I spreadfor mulch.
On the drip line they get liquid fertiliser I send through for the fruit trees.