First Costa Rican Red Habanero...

Today the first red Habanero from the new crop was harvested. It's a monster @ 4+cm in diameter;

This is so encouraging; I had all but given up. 

The 6 orange Habanero seedlings are planted in their new bed and seem to be okay; we'll see... 

Skipped the Chitosan this week...

...because there doesn't appear to be anything wrong. I applied it as a prophylactic due to previous problems. I will however apply it at the very first sign of trouble.
The one huge pod is turning red and may be fully ripe in another 3 days. In all there are 8 pods set on 3 of 4 plants. 
I'll be putting the 6 orange Hab seedlings in the ground by Saturday; the bed is almost ready and so are they.
Cheers.

What's Growing Now!

Here's a few pics;

A blurry (sorry) shot of the 4cm red Hab w/hand for relative size;

The 4cm is on the right below with another coming on as well;

The six orange Habanero seedlings;

These will all go into the ground as I'm a bit put off by container growing based on last years failures.

cheers.

Chitosan; second treatment...

...today, Sunday the 14th. (Even though the blog is dated, I'm on the other side of the date line, thus the different dates depending on the time I post) The rain has been spotty at best so today I applied roughly 2 - 3 liters of the diluted mixture (10ml/5+ liters of water) per plant in the garden.
The 4 Costa Rican Red Habaneros are doing extremely well so far. One plant has the biggest Habanero I've ever seen with my own eyes; it's over 4 cm. in diameter. I will post a pic of it soon. All of them are podding up with very little flower drop.
My sick chocolate Habanero is not worse; that's the best I can say at the moment and it got a dose of Chitosan also (2nd for it also).
So, it's actually only been a week and I'm hoping to see definite results in the next week or so.
I have 6 more orange Habanero plants in thumb pots which will go in the ground sometime this week if they harden up enough so the birds don't eat the tops.

Chitosan; a soil treatment based on seafood waste...

I applied the first treatment of Chitosan today (Sunday the 7th here) to one chocolate Habanero (a very sick plant) and the 4 Costa Rican Red Habanero plants (they are healthy so far).
The reason I delayed is because we are in the rainy season here and it's been pretty wet the last 2 weeks. Finally got a 3 day break, so applied it @ about 1 liter of dilute mixture per plant. I used 10ml Chitosan to 5 liters of water.
I'm hoping this will break the cycle of my plants demise after a year of growing.

Chitosan is supposed to be very effective in eliminating bad soil bacteria as well as the bad nematodes while leaving the healthy stuff alone. A simple google search will bring up loads of data on Chitosan, cheers.