Sorry for the delay.....work got the best of me and too many World Cup matches!! Drimia and Drimiopsis are different genera, but to me it is 6 of one half-dozen of the other to be honest. To me, most Boophane look the same.....Some people think of the Port Elizabeth as not being disticha and I've seen others where it is disticha but just a form from the winter rainfall area (this is a winter rainfall growing form by the way). Same goes for B. Aus Namibia......just looks like B. disticha to me, but that one is never available and people go silly over it.....who knows. I was told by the people in South Africa that the one shown is about as large as 'Port Elizabeth' gets so it is a much smaller form that some of the monster size forms of disticha, but again, just the info I got from growers/sellers in South Africa so who knows. I got my B. haemanthoides from Guy Wrinkle and all of my B. disticha have been imported from South Africa. Assuming the totally screwed-up attempt I'm currently involved with pans out I will get a few more bulbs later this summer, but I'm losing confidence to be honest :o) Dan

Update! Apologies for the broken pictures in my first post... I will try to do better from here on out! It has been a week and a half since I first began sharing my pepper growing experiences, and I have certainly learned alot in those few days. After transplanting my peppers, I realized that I had made a gross miscalculation and overfertilized the little guys. Most my peppers exploded with growth as a result, except for my orange habaneros. The grow tip and top leaves turned yellow and began to wilt, so as a first time grower, I began to worry. I flushed the soil with a good watering and used some epsom salt on all of the peppers, and in no time, my habs started getting green and lush once again. They have a little ways to go, but everyone is looking healthy and growing strong! I rearranged my closet to have the tomatoes up front so I can raise my two Hydrofarm single T5's over them, while still keeping the 8-bulb T5 system low over the peppers. Current closet setup. (Two T5's seen up top are usually lowered to right above the toms) Tomatoes up front! Peppers to the left... Peppers to the right! I added some aluminum foil to the back wall for a little bit of reflection. I like the results, and how much it cost! In addition, my Bhut Jolokia seedlings are kicking. They have a front row seat to the light show (seen in the pics above) and are loving every minute. I have to water them twice per day, or they start to wilt, but they are growing fast. Bhut Jolokia seedlings up on their pedestal. Now for a question... Will an 8-bulb T5 system suffice for maturing two Bhut Jolokias to maturity? I would like to keep them isolated so I can SASE/trade the seeds. Do I need more light to pull off the job? Thanks! I hope you enjoy the pics! Adam

Well, I stuck it out in case anyones interested. My two black Krims and 2 of the 4 Big Beef are doing great, maters all over the place, 2 beefs got more beat up by disease but are still hanging on with some fruit but light in the leaf department, and the two OTV brandywines are just starting to flower profusely having reached some 6 feet tall now, hope to see some little maters soon (have exactly one OTV fruit so far). So despite the disease, so far the earthtainers are giving me way way better results than Ive ever had, no wilting etc, lots of fruit. Had lots of problems with Gary Ibsens Gold but now have 3 plants just starting again, they went into the tainers this weekend, hoping they do better this time (seem to be disease magnets, moreso than the rest anyway). Used ortho disease control and a liquid copper fungicide to fight off the speck/spot problem, plus trimming off the worst foliage, biggest problelm is the newest growth, seems to pick up the speck/spot overnight, and often just the very end leaf so Ive been pinching the diseased end leaves off as I see them. And the brandywines seem to excel at attracting fungus or whatever to the underside of the big potato leaves, but all in all this is the least problems Ive ever had, FINALLY! Only took 3 years:).

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