[CH] Something from Africa
Peter Moss (pmoss@yoda.alt.za)
Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:36:58 RSA-2
Right now I have been listening for some four hours to the water
carrying aircraft drone overhead. The air is thick with smoke
and visibility is down to less than 100 yrds. The bush/forest
less than a mile away is burning. The wind is blowing.
I guess it did not take much as we have had so little rain the
trees have been seen chasing dogs. The winter rainfall has been
less than 3mm (1/8") per month. Temperatures of late have been
up to 30 deg C. I wonder what surprises summer holds for us.
After seeing the weird weather that others have had there seems
no great promise for a bumper crop this year.
Camerons rocotos of which I only planted three seeds as winter
was on its way. One sprouted and got nursed through winter. It
is now a fine 5..6" specimen that will be planted in the ground
after the first rains. My other rocotos after having been
severely pruned in winter all have nice new shoots and the
beginning of much foliage. I see some flowers as well.
Losses were mainly C. annuum and C. chinense. No C. baccatums
or C. pubescens were lost due to cold.
This year I had hoped to increase the number of Scotch bonnet,
orange habanero, red habanero and chocolate habanero plants.
New additions will be some fatalii and red savina (tm)
habanero. I must also plant the C. baccatum and C. pubescens
seeds I got because these two species seem to be do so well.
The only problem with rocoto fruit is codling moth or something
similar which requires regular spraying to get any fruit. Only
attacks C. pubescens.
Peter
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Peter Moss
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