[2021 Chilli Growing]

10 hours ago, Pangolin said:

Then south african peppadews are like that, lovely things, you can sometimes get the patented seeds online.

Yellow Trinidad Moruga Scorpions are my favourite, hot af but have a massive citrus aroma, I love them diced in pico de gallo or use them to marinade chicken thigh fillets.

My Mrs hates them, she would die, but as @D_shooter said, its about tolerance and that tolerance builds pretty quickly.

I have a soft spot for chocolate habaneros,  quite warm but have an amazing earthy taste. Some great plants being grown this year from the pw guys.. 

 

What do you all plan to do with the produce?

[2021 Chilli Growing]

All out and in the tunnel, very pleased with the results do far

[2021 Chilli Growing]

Potted mine into their final pots and will be moved to the polytunnel tomorrow 

 

 

[2021 Chilli Growing]

Potted them up to 1 litre pots and also ordered the final 10 litre pots ready for when they go outside.  Also started to erect the polytunnel today 

[UK fish species challenge]

Got out for an hour today looking for a perch. The river never offered one up, but i made do for this small gudgeon.  Another ticked off the list, not sure of the weight but it was about 8cm long

[2021 Chilli Growing]

4 hours ago, rosshouse said:

Your plants are looking great. What are the conditions  are you growing them in, temp. light?

  

I have them growing in a 5ftx2ftx2ft grow tent, no additional heat, T5 light unit which keeps the heat in the 20s, also have a mini fan for airflow 

Gave them a watering today, currently watering every 4,5 days from the bottom only 

[2021 Chilli Growing]

12 hours ago, Lampwick said:

Cheers 

Seeds going in today! 

Good luck with the germination and I look forward to the updates pal

[2021 Chilli Growing]

They have gone mad in the last couple of weeks,  will be time to pot them up soon..

[RIP Andrew (Victorismyhero)]

So sorry for your loss, my thoughts are with you 

[UK fish species challenge]

25 minutes ago, chrisjpainter said:

Well that sounds like a barrel of laughs! Have you got a full list of your targets? how are you defining 'course'? Do grayling count? what about game fish caught on coarse tackle?? what about mullet?? Brill start for ye; crack on sir, you have the honour of Pigeonwatch at stake!

I started to put a list together last night, please let me know if any more need adding as I am also a newbie to fishing so this was the perfect challenge for me as it will allow me to try many different ways of fishing.  That was my first pike ever yesterday, and yes I nearly did poop myself haha.. I thought an additional point for eel, grass carp and zander as they're quite rare to catch..

 

 

[UK fish species challenge]

As lockdown comes to an end me and a few mates have set up a competition for 2021 to catch as many uk coarse fish species! A point will be awarded for each species and at the end of the season an extra point to the person who has the heaviest weight.. I kicked off my hunt yesterday with a 8lbs 5 pike 

[2021 Chilli Growing]

Well so far so good, out of the twenty four seeds, 4 didn't germinate.  I'm now 4 weeks in and they all look to be doing ok. Still a long way to go

[Deceased shotgun owner]

Cheers all, I will contact my feo, bonus is we're under the same force.  I have no interest in anymore guns but am happy for them to stay at mine for how ever long she needs as this was a very unexpected death and as we can all imagine,  she must have a million issues before it comes to what is going to happen  with them. 

No alarm bells need to be ringing

 

Jamie 

[Deceased shotgun owner]

After some advice on the following. 

Just recieved a call of a work mate who's father has just past away and he has a few shotguns.  She has asked if I would put them on my ticket and store them until they decided what to do with them later down the line.. 

As she is a non licence holder how do we go about the process of adding them to mine?

 

Jamie 

[Sharpening knives]

Cheers all, some great advice.  Lots of tools to look at

[2020 winter lockdown project]

It's been awhile since the last update. So the frame and engine has all been stripped down. Frame,  subframe and wheels re painted.  Engine cases chemically cleaned and coated. And finally front forks restored and returned to standard 

 

 

[Sharpening knives]

I have a few kitchen knives that require sharpening,  what kind of stone do I need and also any tips please 

[2021 Chilli Growing]

7 minutes ago, Pangolin said:

A light box helps to really give them a headstart during these months, as soon as they sprout I put them in a polystyrene box thats lined with tin foin and massive 6500k lamp.

I have something similar that I hope will work, at the minute it's on it's side so that the main T5s are an inch off the propagator lid

 

4 minutes ago, Mungler said:

I’m kicking my seeds off this weekend.

The key secret is clingfilm.

That is all.

Do share? 

[2021 Chilli Growing]

20 minutes ago, Ratlegs said:

I've got Birds eye seeds saved from last year

and plants overwintering

for exotic types have a look World of Chillies  somewhere near Manchester

They have seeds and plants  plus a very helpful website as to growing

plant feeding and pest control

They have been very helpful to me with plant ID

Will take a look, I watch chilli chump on YouTube,  he goes from the growing process all the way to fermenting the chillis ready for the hot sauce. Cant wait to see how these turn out.

 

17 minutes ago, Pangolin said:

I'll be doing some in Feb, start in the prop and then into the light box. Will defo be growing Trinidad Moruga (my favourite) maybe some other super hots. Did about 8 types last year but thinking of doing 3 types with the Kratky method on big tubs.

Looks like you have a nice selection of heat and flavour there for 2021 season 👌 

Looks a good setup and that chilli looks quite cool also, will note that down for next year.

[2021 Chilli Growing]

So who's taking the plunge this year and growing their own Chilli plants? My plan is to go from seed to sauce and make a nice hot sauce at the end of it. So far I have sown the following 

Piri piri

Cayenne 

Chocolate habanero 

Scotch bonnets 

Curry chilli

Padron peppers 

Yellow bhut jolokia

Fuego 

 

[New strain of CV!!!]

17 hours ago, AVB said:

Using the same logic how can they close part of a county or part of the U.K.? It’s either viable or it isn’t. There isn’t anything magical about London it’s just a collection of people and businesses. 

 

You do remember eat out to help out don’t you! 
 

And look where that got us!

[2020 winter lockdown project]

7 minutes ago, Dunkield said:

Looks very clean, I wouldn't have thought it needs masses doing to it.

Belts while it is apart of course, Ducati people always obsess about belts....

She is 70% good, lots of oil leaking from around the heads and main crank case, frame has quite a few marks on it, electrics need looking at and the rear shock has seen better days 

[2020 winter lockdown project]

cheers all for the great comments, will be changing the electrics and as for the aftermarket exhausts these will be returned back to the standard pipes..

Started to strip down the main frame, now making loads of notes to how it all fits back together 

 

 

[2020 winter lockdown project]

Meet the November lockdown project,  it's a Ducati 916 Biposto 1998. Plan is to strip the engine and take the rest down to the frame,  repaint, replate every nut and bolt and have it looking like it did 22 years ago! Youtube will be the fountain of knowledge for this crazy winter project..

 

 

[2020 winter lockdown project]

During the first lockdown in March I decided I needed to keep my mind active and healthy,  so i decided to strip,  clean and rebuild my trials bike! This was a great learning experience for a novice like myself who before this had only done a basic oil change... 

 

I now have the bug and am now working on a Ducati 916, pictures will follow