Best wishes BB! Nice to see you back and so pumped. I ordered some seeds today including a few autos, exciting. My autos have never matured in 10 weeks, 14 weeks and longer is my experience, greenhouse/outdoor....I am in South Gippsland though. I plant end of December or start of January....they need optimum growing conditions during veg and we can still have cold temps in Dec. Beautiful looking chillis SNG and thanks for your enthusiastic wisdom. I'm off to learn more about green manure. Itchy, you're a legend. I've just done an initial soil prep and on your advice added some crab/crustacean meal (Dr Greenthumbs) among other things to the soil. Thanks for the tips about perlite etc, I need to make up an auto soil mix soon.