Onder's chilli (*21.1.2014)

[Onder]

That's usually too much water afaik. There's always something. When there's these these little intuminescences on the leaves that's too much minerals and threy coagulate, looks like a virus. This year my leaves yellow up from the bottom, which apparently means they can't absorb some minerals, maybe wrong pH, which is fucking outrageous considering my substrate.

 

[Krow]

Heh my soil is pretty poor, contains too much orange clay... so my plants are all put in the ground with a sprinkle of fertilizer underneath and two large Dixie cups full of potting soil, then covered over with the original dirt. Seems to be fairing well so far.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

i got another guy telling me they're probably from aphids, but im almost sure thats not the case. Ill cut down on the watering, but it seems like the few plants that i transplanted are doing better when getting more water.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

also, what is the best way to add fertilizer to them right now? Can i just sprinkle some around the stem?

Im using this ...

 

[Krow]

Kinda rough pictures because it was bright outside and I was awkwardly trying to do it. I have some more pictures but this is just what my wife sent me right at the moment.

Please disgregard the fact that my garden looks like a jungle.

Proud of these. Thai chili peppers. This is one massive plant

I don't actually know what these are. Tiny little purple fireballs.


Hungarian wax peppers. My plants are weighted to the ground with these.


I have several more varieties not yet pictures. Will try and get on posting the rest later tonight.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

niiiiiiice. I want!

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

@Krow hey man most of my flowers are falling off. So far i only have one pepper growing. What is going on?

 

[Krow]

I would look for small peppers forming in the next few days.

I honestly cant remember if peppers are one of the plants that only produce male at first, then female flowers later.

If you still dont have anything after a while, possible pollination problem I guess, do you have many bees out and about?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

no like the whole piece fell off, not just the flower. I'll try and take pics later.

Usually there are a shit load of bees around here, but not as of late. Its like the little piece(branch?) of the flower/pepper thats attached to the plants are pretty skinny, while the one on the single pepper i have growing looks pretty thick.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

@Krow this is what they look like...

And my one lonely Jalapeno...

 

[Onder]

I planted chillies on time this year. Last year was pretty awkward because I planted them in like april which was too late and there was 7 plants, all of which have become too tall and started falling over. They produced like three pods in total because they didn't have enough sun and it was already like october or something. I also suspect the genetics weren't so good as I used a different store for the seeds than I normally use.

This year will be on fleek. I planted some about three days ago and some today. I planted some yellow Habanero variety that should produce a lot, I planted something called Ring of Fire, which should be a baisc red chilli, and some random older seeds that I had from earlier years, those might be dead but we shall see. Always like a little experiment.

My windows are facing south so they should get plenty of light in the summer.

I'm planning to monitor the progress more closely this year and take proper care of things.

 

[Onder]

One motherfucker waking up from the lethargic abyss, digging out of a gravepit of death.

 

[Onder]

Second motherfucker leaving the grave in the shade of the first motherfucker. Those shall be the Habaneros of the Onder apartment.



In the "rare and maybe dead seeds" department, there's two motherfuckers coming out of one jiffy, which is strange, I would swear I only put one seed in each. There's some shady business going on there. I also don't know which variety this is as I put different ones in each jiff. Maybe it's the peach Bhut.

 

[Onder]

Quickly realised those two motherfuckers are not peppers. They are daturas. I must've drunkedly planted those kvlt satanik drug plants.

 

[Onder]

I'm a little worried about how slowly those small motherfuckers grow, but hopefully I started soon enough. I don't use lamps or anything.

The Capsicum anuum cv. Ring of Fire had 100 percent germination rate but some of them appear to be struggling.



Habaneros strugglin' a little, but I planted them sooner. 3/6 germiated, this seems to be final.

 

[Onder]

Finally put seven of them in /slightly/ larger pots and used up all my substrate. This should do for like, two months I think.

 

[Onder]

Let's talk about the Datura stramonium, shall we.

I planted two seeds of this bad boy along with the chillies and they just grow quick af.

This bad boy contains tropane alcaloids and is a powerful hallucinogen and deliriant and can kill a druggie like burning an ant.

All parts of Datura plants contain dangerous levels of the tropane alkaloidsatropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine, which are classified as deliriants, or anticholinergics. The risk of fatal overdose is high among uninformed users, and many hospitalizations occur amongst recreational users who ingest the plant for its psychoactive effects.[15][20]

Kvlt.

An individual datura seed contains about 0.1 mg of atropine, and the approximate fatal dose for adult humans is >10 mg atropine or >2–4 mg scopolamine.[22]

Much KVLT. A lot of kvlt.

So if I harvest 100 seeds, make a tea, and drink it, then I start seeing things and then I'm kaput.

Or I could follow this neat table:



Cool. That shows that young plant stems actually contain more alkaloids than the seeds. So I could just chew on it straight away.

Sources say this plant stinks, but then the flowers are supposed to have a "pleasant fragrance" so I don't know. Haven't noticed anything yet.

Some people eat them seeds like nothing:

Jimson weed intoxication should be considered in cases of patients presenting with unexplained peripheral and central anticholinergic symptoms including delirium, agitation and seizures, especially among younger patients and partygoers. It is important that health care professionals recognize that Jimson weed is a toxic, indigenous, “wild” growing plant subject to misuse and potentially serious intoxication and hospitalization.

These are my pictures of my Datura stramonium, also thorn-apple or devil's snare (kvlt, I know):



Those are flowerbuds already, at the apical end. Fuck this is fast. I might start growing those for profit. There must be people who wish to purify the lectin from the seeds for their own private use wink wink.



EDIT:

Now to get my hands on some henbane seeds.. Because that's a Cultes Des Ghoules album.

 

[Onder]

SHOULD I POISON SOMETHING.

 

[Onder]

Came back from Germany and it looks like the plants are going to survive. The annuums already have ripe peppers, the jolokia and habas have green so far and lost a lot of leaves but hopefully they'll turn colorful soon. Habas should be yellow I think and Jolokias are the peach variety. Beautiful but not edible at all. I'll think of some use for them though.

Io, behold:

 

[Onder]

Both the bhuts and habas are ripening now. I counted 11 Bhuts which is scary as they are inedible basically.

They're scary even when catching that peach color. I'm not sure what I will do with them, probably dry them and make flakes.

Because I'm not eating those fresh.