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Last Sunday’s grill session - low, slow & chilli rub
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Last Sunday’s grill session - low, slow & chilli rub

Last Sunday’s grill session - low, slow & chilli rub.

Spent the afternoon on the smoker with a homemade chilli rub.

u/Shoddy_Stable6595 — 11 days ago
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Another sunny Sunday, another grill session

Chicken wings loaded with chilli seasoning, onions, garlic and tomatoes… then the sausages joined the party with extra fresh chillies.

Simple, smoky and properly spicy.

#MyChilliGarden #SundayGrill

u/Shoddy_Stable6595 — 19 days ago
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Naga Morich ripening progression

Same Naga Morich pod photographed over 7 consecutive days (24–31 July).

Started mostly green and finished fully red and glossy...

u/Shoddy_Stable6595 — 19 days ago
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Honey Chilli Ribs - Ribsmaxxing & lots of chilli

Honey Chilli Ribs - Went full ribsmaxxing mode this weekend.

1.5 kg of ribs + Honey + soy + garlic + lemon + brown sugar + serious chilli seasoning

Marinated overnight, then low & slow until sticky, glossy and falling off the bone.

u/Shoddy_Stable6595 — 25 days ago
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Between the chillies, here's Pink Gaura, a favourite of bees and butterflies

Between the chillies, here's Pink Gaura. A favourite of bees and butterflies, it brings colour and movement to the garden. 🐝🦋

u/Shoddy_Stable6595 — 26 days ago
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Our Naga Morich chillies are starting to ripen

Our Naga Morich chillies are starting to ripen! 🌶️🔥 One of the world's hottest chillies is getting closer to harvest.

u/Shoddy_Stable6595 — 28 days ago
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Keep calm and carry on gardening... even better, teach your kids how to do it

🌱 Keep calm and carry on gardening... even better, teach your kids how to do it!

Nothing beats watching little hands dig in the dirt, plant seeds, and light up when those first sprouts pop up.

Gardening with kids isn’t just about veggies. it’s patience, science, responsibility, and joy all in one.

Who else is getting their kids outside this season? Drop your best kid-gardening tips below!

u/Shoddy_Stable6595 — 2 months ago
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Jalapeño Flowers Starting to Bloom

Jalapeño (Capsicum annuum) flowers are popping off. There are lots of buds too, so hopefully a good harvest coming soon.

Anyone else have chillies blooming at the moment? Would love to see your flower pics!

u/Shoddy_Stable6595 — 2 months ago
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Developers Growing Chillies: Why So Many Coders End Up Obsessed with Gardening

If you’re a software developer and you suddenly find yourself:

  • Ordering rare chilli seeds at 2 a.m.
  • Building sensor dashboards for your grow tent
  • Naming your plants after Git branches

…don’t worry. You’re not alone.A surprising number of coders eventually fall in love with growing chillies (and plants in general). Here’s why it makes perfect sense.

1. Gardening = Debugging Nature

Chilli plants are basically living production systems.
One day they’re thriving, the next they’re throwing errors because of pH, humidity, or some invisible pest.

You observe → hypothesize → test small changes → iterate.
Exactly like fixing bugs in code.

Mimosa pudica literally learns to ignore false alarms — plant intelligence is wild.

The Wood Wide Web: underground fungal networks that let plants share nutrients and signals. Nature’s decentralized system.

2. Code Isn’t Built — It’s Tended

As Jeff Atwood said: Great software isn’t constructed like a building. It’s gardened.

  • Plant seeds → Ship MVP
  • Water & feed → Add features & monitoring
  • Prune → Refactor
  • Fight pests → Debug & secure

Chilli growing teaches the exact same patience and long-term mindset.

Many of us already work in mini indoor jungles

3. Why Devs Make Great Chilli Growers

  • Best screen-burnout cure ever (“touch soil” hits different)
  • Tangible results instead of abstract PRs
  • Systems thinking (light, nutrients, environment, automation)
  • Low-stakes experimentation (no one gets paged at 3 a.m. if a seedling dies)

A lot of us end up running automated setups with Home Assistant, ESP32 sensors, or even FarmBots.

FarmBot — programming that grows actual food

Decentralized resilience beats fragile perfection.

Diverse, connected gardens (and codebases) survive shocks. Monocultures collapse.

Left = diverse & thriving. Right = fragile monoculture.

In an AI-heavy future, the devs who also know how to grow something real might be the ones with the clearest minds… and the hottest sauces.

Questions for you:

  • Are you a dev who grows chillies (or wants to start)?
  • What’s your current favourite variety?
  • Any automation tricks you’re proud of?
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u/Shoddy_Stable6595 — 2 months ago
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Chilli Rootballs

Was repotting our chilli plants and these rootballs came out. Dense &spherical rootballs with thick mat of fine feeder roots.

Drop your own chilli rootball pics below, let’s make a rootball gallery thread.

u/Shoddy_Stable6595 — 2 months ago
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Beautiful petals glowing in the sunlight

Not really chilli related, however the bad weather is finally over and the warm season is here. 🌿🖤 Here are beautiful petals glowing in the sunlight ✨

u/Shoddy_Stable6595 — 26 days ago
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This Aurora chilli seedling is 15 weeks or so old but still tiny, just these two small true leaves.

Guys, advice needed. This Aurora chilli seedling is 15 weeks or so old but still tiny, just these two small true leaves. It’s barely grown in months. Any hints what’s wrong?

u/Shoddy_Stable6595 — 3 months ago