Question:
Aloha Jamie…Thought you should know that my seeds are growing well! Small bush-like plants… not a whole lot of sun in our parts lately, so that has been bad, but what do you expect from southern Oregon.I’m having a little problem with something chewing little tiny holes in the leaves, but have coated the plants first with a garlic, cayenne, jalapeno, dish soap, veg-oil & water solution for a few hours , then washed off and then dusted them with some Diatomaceous earth for about 12 hours, then washed that off. There doesn’t seem to be new chews, but I will obviously keep a close eye on them. I have them in a hot house so snails and slugs can’t get to them, but there are such pests as aphids / earwings / sowbugs and assorted chewing and sucking pests about. I will keep the organic pesticide going as needed, if you got any better thoughts or ideas please let me know.I have a question: Do you know how I can get some fresh bhut jolokia peppers to make into fire salsa? or, can I just order from you some dried ones and rehydrate them and put them into salsa?There are a few of us who want to cry for mercy and I’m aching for some real pain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By-the-way, how do you use your peppers in your personal life? You do eat them in foods and salsas…don’t you? I love habaneros and usually don’t ever eat them raw and off the plant anymore… did that, been there, and it was interesting, but now I take a handful of them and grind them up in a blender and mix them into a hamburger paddy and cook it …. Wow! What a nice treat that is, but mostly I just make a salsa from them for my serious pepper eating friends.Anyway… how often do you place them [jolokias] in your diet and how?
~BRyan
Answer:
Hey Bryan,
Thanks for the questions and comments. Glad things are going well. It seems to me when Bhuts are young, anything and everything will attack them When I transplant them to their final growing location, I always cut a stint from a drinking straw to put around the little stem. I bury it into the ground so the cut worms and the like will not chew the stem in half.
After your plants are established and growing well, fertilize with an organic fertilizer every 3 weeks (I use well rotted horse manure, fish emulsion, and compost). For bugs, use Organic Neem oil from the Neem tree. That works very well on white flies, and fruit flies.
Good luck!
Jamie
Would it be too late to try and grow some bhuts? I live on Kauai, and seems you say to have them in the ground buy June 15th?
Comment by Jay — June 14, 2010 @ 5:32 pm