Re: [CH] Re: OOOO aahhhh curried pork!
Brent Thompson (brent@hplbct.hpl.hp.com)
Wed, 07 Jul 1999 09:15:01 -0700
> Would you agree Brent? Did you grow some in the end?
I grew some last year from the seeds you send, and they seemed to me to be
as fast as normal, growing and flowering on the same schedule as the other
chiles I'd planted concurrently.
The problem was, the seeds came, hence were started by me, too late in the
season to produce anything before winter set in. So, I brought them
indoors in pots to keep over winter...and there they all eventually
perished, along with nearly all the other chile plants I brought indoors,
due to infestation by some type of psyllid I couldn't control. And, due to
being away from home too many inopportune times this year, I wasn't able to
plant anything for my garden (so it now consists of just purchased plants).
I guess the one slightly bright side of this story is that I noticed this
psyllid seemed to attack different species of Capsicum differentially: by
far the most desired hosts were C. annuum, specifically your Kashmiri
chiles, the Goan chiles, and the Indonesian Keriting plants I was trying to
save -- they went first. Next to go were the 2 different cultivars of C.
chinense I'd brought inside, and in fact I was able to keep these two
plants alive to the end, barely. Last on the list, by a long margin, was
the single C. baccatum I was trying to save over winter -- and it
basically survived ok.
--- Brent