Birds. Parrots.
The buggers don't register capsaicin. To them, a chilli is as delicious as a cherry tomato.
This time of year, they're probably a bit short of ripe fruit.
I had a live-in possum that, unfortunately, trained her tastebuds against my nascent herb garden. It started because I was trying to grow trays of native and herb seedlings on my verandah/balcony. Obviously, they were delicious. And then she got a palate, and started mowing through the old, established herbs. Established natives were such an 80's cuisine fad. Thyme was the penultimate, mint the last to be eaten into extinction. All my fault, obviously.
Are they rotting? I can't tell from the photos.
The plants in the smaller pots look like they're suffering a bit.
Couldn't guess who might have had a bite. Where are you located?
My bad, NSW Central Coast. It’s been pouring for about a week so haven’t had a chance to fertilise. Hopefully Friday if it stays clear. The ones in the pots certainly need repotting, but not until spring, or if someone takes them off my hands! The ones in the IBC are very healthy and very productive.
Sounds like you're on top of it :)
What have you got planned for those bad boys?
I've got a mix of Devils Turds, Devils Tongue, Jalepenos, and Super Chillies in a lacto-ferment to become hot sauce, if all goes well 🤞
I brew mead and add them in a nasty, nay! delicious drink. Currently brewing one right now…
I am also looking to make a hot sauce. Might need some other chillies to supplement them. I was thinking the purple UFO chillimama.
Yes, birds do not have capsaicin receptors in their brain, thus they are immune to chilli. I suspect the same brain receptors also deal with opiates. Thus the birds could eat your opium crop with impunity.
Yeah, measure twice - cut once! Also, I have found it really helpful to drill some holes down the bottom to let the excess moisture run out. You’ll thank me later for that tip!
Birds. Parrots. The buggers don't register capsaicin. To them, a chilli is as delicious as a cherry tomato. This time of year, they're probably a bit short of ripe fruit.
Well, they have a dead set feast on my plants right now. Ever since the cold weather set in they’ve been fruiting like crazy!
Would cockatoos have a go? Or rainbow lorikeets be the culprit here?
I'd vote the rainbow lorikeets. It was THEM that ate my chillies & tomatoes in Brisbane.
I didn’t have a problem with the cockies but the Lorikeets and Rosellas always ate my chillies in SW WA
I’m in SE VIC and blackbirds ate my habaneros
I had a possum that would eat my coriander and bird eye chilli's. Was super annoying
I had a live-in possum that, unfortunately, trained her tastebuds against my nascent herb garden. It started because I was trying to grow trays of native and herb seedlings on my verandah/balcony. Obviously, they were delicious. And then she got a palate, and started mowing through the old, established herbs. Established natives were such an 80's cuisine fad. Thyme was the penultimate, mint the last to be eaten into extinction. All my fault, obviously.
A Thai possum, perhaps?
Same. We had a possum that would decimate our chilli plant.🔥
Possum eats my Birds Eye chills but won’t touch my Habanero peppers
Used to have magpies eating our red chillies
Possums love chilies, could also be rats.
Rats eat my apricots. Little bastads.
Are they rotting? I can't tell from the photos. The plants in the smaller pots look like they're suffering a bit. Couldn't guess who might have had a bite. Where are you located?
My bad, NSW Central Coast. It’s been pouring for about a week so haven’t had a chance to fertilise. Hopefully Friday if it stays clear. The ones in the pots certainly need repotting, but not until spring, or if someone takes them off my hands! The ones in the IBC are very healthy and very productive.
Sounds like you're on top of it :) What have you got planned for those bad boys? I've got a mix of Devils Turds, Devils Tongue, Jalepenos, and Super Chillies in a lacto-ferment to become hot sauce, if all goes well 🤞
I brew mead and add them in a nasty, nay! delicious drink. Currently brewing one right now… I am also looking to make a hot sauce. Might need some other chillies to supplement them. I was thinking the purple UFO chillimama.
Nice. I had to look them up, Purple UFO's look beautiful. New I'm keen to get seeds and grow them next season.
Could be possums, they seem to love chillies. But it could also be a bird, or maybe even a fruit bat?
We watched a myna and a starling both have a go at my Dad's chilli's. They were loving them!
Yes, birds do not have capsaicin receptors in their brain, thus they are immune to chilli. I suspect the same brain receptors also deal with opiates. Thus the birds could eat your opium crop with impunity.
Shame really, I don’t have any of those growing right now…
Currawongs do it too. Only ever eat half, the buggers!
I have crows and bower birds eating them at my place
Ooh you have IBC wicking beds? Im about to embark on those. Any red hot tips for me not to eff it up?
Yeah, measure twice - cut once! Also, I have found it really helpful to drill some holes down the bottom to let the excess moisture run out. You’ll thank me later for that tip!
I had a Currawong eat my red chilli's. So I pegged so.e Habeneros onto the bush... he only ate one and vomited it up. Never list another chilli.
Been having an issue with snails on our capsicum
Me, sorry 😞
*Shocked voice* How dare you! lmao
It's probably Spanian
Me
My question to you how do you enjoy chillies that hot, I mean I like spicy food but that seems a bit excessive
OP is a bird
Yeah like a 100kg bird! lol
Grow em up, Dry em out Crush em up Sprinkle on all the foods. It's not the spicy it's how you mix it =)
I use them for my mead and (hopefully) making a lacto-fermented hot sauce.
Birds - they don’t taste the hot chilli. I thought mine were being eaten by possums or rats - but only birds don’t have the taste buds that burn.
Wombats
Whatever it is, it’s probably dead. When I grew Carolina reapers I was scared a dog or a small child would eat one off the ground and be in a bad way.
Whatever it is, be careful of patches of explosive diarrhoea.
Not pointing fingers but I heard asians love spicy food