Finally there's fruit.
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I don't know if you guys still remember the picture below and this thread: I tried this before......
But anyways, my Naga Jolokia chilli plants are finally bearing chillies! Who dares to try?
But I dunno why once my chilli plants start bearing chillies, all the leaves dropped. Making it bald. I thought the chilli plants are going to die. But luckily, I saw new leaves coming out just two days ago.
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dengue hotspot!
next u can try growing rice.
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Si mi dengue hotspot? Got stagnant water showing in the picture meh?
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nice.. i think the leaves are shed to ensure all nutrients go to the chillies which are the fruit..
after the fruit matures, can have leaves again?
that's my theory
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Originally posted by the Bear:
nice.. i think the leaves are shed to ensure all nutrients go to the chillies which are the fruit..
after the fruit matures, can have leaves again?
that's my theory
Hmm, but I have this neighbour who has chilli padi plant. The whole plant covered with chilli padi, but there seems to be no shedding of leaves.
Maybe because my plant is still young and this is its first batch of fruits.
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yeah.. mine is the size of a small shrub while the neighbour's is the size of a big bush
always has chilli on it and lots of leaves.. even the birds come to eat the chilli.. very angry with the birds
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I recently went back to the farm where I got this chilli. They no longer selling this chilli because quite popular and they ran out of stock. But they are probably planting more of it to be sold.
They also got sell the ripe ones. One packet 7 chillies for $1 only. We bought it since it was the last packet left there and took it home to compare it to our home-grown ones. Our own home grown ones are PUNY in size compared to those sold at the farm!
But I hope it's just as hot as those from the farm.
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is it very spicy???
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Originally posted by pongchak:
is it very spicy???
It's the hottest chilli in the world. It's in the Guinness World Record. 1,000,000 on the Scoville Scale.
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Originally posted by alleggerita:
It's the hottest chilli in the world. It's in the Guinness World Record. 1,000,000 on the Scoville Scale.
u dare to eat? maybe can just cut a little bit n then use to cook one big pot of curry?
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Originally posted by alleggerita:
It's the hottest chilli in the world. It's in the Guinness World Record. 1,000,000 on the Scoville Scale.
u dare to eat? maybe can just cut a little bit n then use to cook one big pot of curry?
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u mean this thing is more spicer than our chili padi?!
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Originally posted by pongchak:
u dare to eat? maybe can just cut a little bit n then use to cook one big pot of curry?
I got say I dare to eat meh? I tried before and I couldn't stop fanning my mouth and drinking milk for half an hour.
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Originally posted by newcomer:
u mean this thing is more spicer than our chili padi?!
Yes, quite a lot of times hotter.
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The soil you using to grow your chilli is of the worst type . I would recomend you to use soil that are black in colour and apply fertilizer maybe abt once per month to it . Or maybe if possible you can get soil that those vege farmer use to grow their vegetables . Mine use those type and is able to grow almost anything that i like without much problems . But of cos sunlight is another factor for growing such plants . And try to get some bone and blood fertilizers to apply into your soil to make it really black and its also good for your plants too . If you really can't find any good fertilizers like chicken manure , then you can actually use tea leaves or coffee residue to apply as fertilizers as they are considered as slow release fertilizers .
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Originally posted by TWE:
The soil you using to grow your chilli is of the worst type . I would recomend you to use soil that are black in colour and apply fertilizer maybe abt once per month to it . Or maybe if possible you can get soil that those vege farmer use to grow their vegetables . Mine use those type and is able to grow almost anything that i like without much problems . But of cos sunlight is another factor for growing such plants . And try to get some bone and blood fertilizers to apply into your soil to make it really black and its also good for your plants too . If you really can't find any good fertilizers like chicken manure , then you can actually use tea leaves or coffee residue to apply as fertilizers as they are considered as slow release fertilizers .
After using this crappy soil to plant my chilli, I realised it's too muddy and doesn't drain well at all. But they are already growing well and I can't change the soil anymore. No choice.
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Actually you still can change your soil cos your plant is still small . But you need to make your soil muddy agn , use a spade to dig out your plant together with a clump of soil surrounding its roots . Try not to break too many roots while digging it out . Then you can use running water to slowly remove the soil or put it into a pail of water to slowly let the soil disperse . But remeber not to use too much force to seperate the soil or the roots may break . After successfully removing the soil , you can plant them in other better soil but there will be a period where your plant will wither to a certain extent trying to get used to the new soil . Once it gets used to the new surrounding and soil it will regrow agn .
Another easier method is to.... use the seeds from one of your ripened chilli to plant in another pot of better soil . In this way , once your new batch of chilli plants grow up and have chilli , you can kill off your old batch of chilli plants or maybe you can try my method of seperating it from the soil without worry as you already have a better batch of chilli plants .
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Originally posted by TWE:
Actually you still can change your soil cos your plant is still small . But you need to make your soil muddy agn , use a spade to dig out your plant together with a clump of soil surrounding its roots . Try not to break too many roots while digging it out . Then you can use running water to slowly remove the soil or put it into a pail of water to slowly let the soil disperse . But remeber not to use too much force to seperate the soil or the roots may break . After successfully removing the soil , you can plant them in other better soil but there will be a period where your plant will wither to a certain extent trying to get used to the new soil . Once it gets used to the new surrounding and soil it will regrow agn .
Another easier method is to.... use the seeds from one of your ripened chilli to plant in another pot of better soil . In this way , once your new batch of chilli plants grow up and have chilli , you can kill off your old batch of chilli plants or maybe you can try my method of seperating it from the soil without worry as you already have a better batch of chilli plants .
I bought some new soil. It doesn't really feel like soil. More like fibres. Not sure can it be used for my chilli or not. A lot of peat I guess?
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So plant's rikes an animal ?
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Where do you live actually ? What you mean fibre ? You bought the coconut fibres ?
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Always remember that even if you grow 1000 pots of chilli, you must still watch this video and come to your senses.
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Originally posted by TWE:
Where do you live actually ? What you mean fibre ? You bought the coconut fibres ?
Why planting chilli got anything to do with where I stay?But anyways, the packaging says "volcanic soil".
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Nah i just curious where you stay only hahaha , if you stay near me then maybe i go over and have a look . Hmmm volcanic soil supposed to be good ba cos rice farmers grow their rice on volcanic soil i guess lol . Well since you bought it then give it a try lor , at least it should be better then your " orange soil " ba . Maybe you can get some fetilisers to help it grow ?
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wah u so garang go over his hse just to take a look? at some chillis?
anys ts, the chillis can be bought at any mama shop?
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dun eat chilli... anyway, that is call veg... not fruit...