“Worm Juice” – The Secret to Growing the World’s Hottest Chillies?
Someone recently pointed me in the direction of a really interesting article (thanks again, “Babe Ruth”!) called “Aussies grow world’s hottest chilli“.
It doesn’t really contain much info relating to vermicomposting, but as you can probably guess from the title of my post, there is certainly some relevance! Here is a blurb:
Marcel adopted Neil’s idea in using liquid runoff from a worm farm – ‘worm juice’ – to fertilise the crop and he believes this is the secret to the super-hot chilli.
“He originally worked with it but didn’t understand why it worked,” says Mark, who studied the fertiliser. He discovered that worm juice contains nutrients, plant growth hormones and promoters, beneficial bacteria that colonise the root area, and chitin from dead insects that triggers the plant’s natural defence systems.
Pretty cool!
Written by Bentley on April 15th, 2011 with
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Rich
#1. April 15th, 2011, at 3:46 PM.
The micronutrients would certainly help, but nitrogen readily available in worm juice should be cut back in flowering peppers to make them hotter. Heat and lack of water are the two big factors that makes them hotter.