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Chilli-seed smoke (greenhouse)

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Chilli-seed smoke (greenhouse)

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Smoking the closed greenhouse with hot-chilli seeds burnt on embers, practised in family greenhouses on the Bolivian altiplano.

Application

Application description: Once a week in the greenhouse, according to the source; two or three smoke points for 220 m².

Dose: 100 g of seeds per smoke point.

Tips

Chilli smoke is highly irritating to eyes and airways: leave the greenhouse while smoking and do not re-enter before ventilating; fire risk from the embers. Before any use, check your country's regulations: in the EU, a homemade preparation presented for plant-protection use is not authorised.

Preparation process

1. Close the greenhouse and prepare the brazier in the afternoon.
2. Throw the seeds (with the manure) on the well-lit embers.
3. Keep the smoke going for 15 minutes, in two or three spots depending on size.
4. Ventilate for 30 minutes and close until the next day.

Ingredients

  • Fresh manure ⓘ — 1.764 oz
  • Hot chili pepper ⓘ — 3.527 oz
  • 100 g hot-chilli seeds (or dried chilli with seeds); 50 g dry manure; charcoal embers.

Tools and equipment

  • Protective gloves, goggles and mask

Goggles, gloves and mask required

Preparation time

About 45 minutes.

Product obtained

Pungent smoke.

Source / Reference

IPES, RUAF Foundation and FAO (2010). “Biopreparados para el manejo sostenible de plagas y enfermedades en la agricultura urbana y periurbana”, ¿Cómo hacerlo? series, sheet n.º 28, validated by FAO in 1,400 protected family micro-gardens in El Alto (project GCP/035/BOL/BEL, Bolivia): https://www.fao.org/3/a-as435s.pdf — guide also circulated by Portal Frutícola. Recipe written in our own words.

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In the EU, this preparation is not an approved basic substance: a homemade preparation presented for plant-protection use is not authorised there. Plant preparations and extracts appear on the official lists of inputs permitted in organic farming of: Burundi, Colombia, Costa Rica, Indonesia, India, Kenya, South Korea, Morocco, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, DR Congo, Somalia. Depending on the country, the certification body's approval may be required: see each country's page.

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