After the Bill and Ben’s departure from the protective environment of the green tent it was time for Huey Dewey and Louie to venture out into the garden. To allow me to monitor these plants it was necessary to install cabling from my work room and up to the end of the garden. After initially [...]

Earlier this week I was offered tomato plants from my father in law. I couldn’t resist my chilli plants bill and ben would have company !!!
So this afternoon with help from my son and :
3 x 72cm (or 28″) green pots
4 x Large Tomato Grow bags
1 x water sprinkler
We started the process of potting potting [...]

Important news
Just a quick note to say Dewey has done me proud and put on a spurt of approximately one centimetre in the last two days !
Careful examination of the dowel I installed in the pot and marked shows the increase in hight.
Which is excellent since this implies little or no trauma caused by the [...]

As mentioned in previous posting my plans are to pot up Huey Dewey and Louie from their existing 4″ pots up to 10″.
I have also added dowel sticks from Huey and Dewey’s pots and marked with a line to show how high these guys are.

Of the five chilli plants I own the two biggest guys have now outgrown their 6″ pots. I have decided to bite the bullet and upgrade both of these guys to 13″ pots.
A conversation I had with a colleague he suggested that plants have what appears to be echo sounders. In this way they will [...]

After initial delays because of receiving a faulty unit.
My 4 Port USB extender has now arrived !
These devices are a godsend if you want to place USB devices more than (the official) 5 metres away from the PC. The solution consists of two parts :
1. A receiver which plugs into the PC
2. A transmitter [...]

After almost a year without a dog in the house now is the time for us to get one.
My wife spotted a litter in Charde coming up to three weeks old so we decided to got and view them. These guys were a little too young to see any character forming so we have returned [...]

Whilst away working in the Midlands I was introduced to my chilli’s plants northern cousins …
And by-gum these guys are monsters ! Each plant is over 14 inches tall which compared to my guys (of which the largest is now finally 4 inches high).
It would appear that the secret of this speedy growth is the [...]

The summer has arrived and unfortunately whilst the plants seem to think this is excellent. It is making life difficult for the web cams. After attempting to do this in software it would appear that the range of bright light is just too much. So an initial first attempt at resolving this problem has been [...]

After a long weekend away I arrived home to see the delivery of my BioGrow and BioBloom.
To cut a long story short I discovered that a work colleague of mine has been growing chilli’s for some time. The secret to his success is the feed he uses. Bio-Grow and Bio-Bloom. So I just had to [...]