Replanting my gutterbed

Planting some seedling for my gutterbed.

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Chilli Plants - Updates

Chillies plant in the gutter growbed are producing chillies. Monitoring them closely for fungal infection.

Chillies plants are prone to fungal wilt, I had lost many chilli plants due to this. At the moment I do not use any spray to combat this problem, looks like I had to start now.

Chili Plants showing recovery

Was very hot these last few weeks and it affect even aquaponics plants, especially the newly planted seedlings.

Few Chili plants that I transplanted to the Ornamental set was dying after the move and I had to act fast before it's too late.

I have few spare nettings from previous project and they are put to give some shade to the chili plants. Slowly there is sign of recovery and during peak daylight it manage to reduce the intense heat giving time for the seedling to grow.

Some light drizzle this last day or two do help in cooling down the set and reduce overall tenmperature during the day. Still few weeks to go and I hope they survive to give me red hot chili.

"Bird Eye" Chili

The chili plant that I bought from saturday market in pahang fruiting. It somehow slower growth, or maybe this is normal for this type of chili.

This particular chili plant bear very hot little chilies.

Hot stuff.

Fresh Seedling For The Growbed

Got few of these seedling from the weekend market in Pekan, Pahang at a bargain and can save me lot of trouble of sowing them.

Four chili plants and four Salad Eggplant, the chili plant is of two different variety and the eggplant is the type that can be eaten raw as a salad or "ulam" as we call it here.

Put them in individual pots so that I can manage it easily if needed.

Then place them in the growbed so that it can get over the transplanting shock and start to grow, these will need to be spaced once they have shown sign of positive growth.

Getting A bit Chilly around here.

It must be more than 3 week after I sown those Chilli seeds. All I get is this one little Chilli seedling.

Where the rest disappeared too ? Hold on to your horses, is that chilli seedling.. need to wait for it to grow bigger.

Pickling Chillies

What do you do if you have too many Chillies ? Answer : Pickle them !
I love pickled chillies especially the smaller varieties, great appetizer with hot rice. This is how I pickle mine.

What you need are fresh chillies and vinegar, its best to use natural vinegar either from rice, apple or grape and I use distilled white vinegar.  Wash those chillies and place them in a jar, pour vinegar to full and add small amount of table salt, just a bit half teaspoon or less will do. That's it.

Sometime I don't put salt. .Keep the jar at room temperature, it should be ready in 2 weeks time. 


You notice the chillies I put with stem and I did not remove it. There is a reason for it, well more like Old Wife's Tale actually. If you pickle it without the stem, you are more likely to get stomach upset after consuming it and you fell slight discomfort on the "rear end" after a trip to the loo.


Just remove the stem before consumption, this is also true about fresh chillies of this type, cook it with the stem. Don't ask me why.. it just work. :)

Time for Chillies

Cleared my black growbed of tomatoes plant and I'm preparing it for chillies. Sown two variety both of which are super hot small chillies.

Mother of all Chillies,, these guys average 1 inch long and packed with a very nasty super hot blow.

Those red ones, squeeze the liquid out and rub it on your joints, it will give a hot sensation for hours and promote blood flow to cure.