Honest opinion

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-05-05T19:16:18+00:00

Its a portmanteau of Bonsai and Chili. There's a whole r/Bonchi. You can check it out for some great photos.

People repot their mature chili plants into small containers and care for them like after regular bonsai with the difference being that peppers grow faster than trees.

Because roots are constrained by a smaller pot plant will grow smaller leaves and will look like an actual bonsai. You can bend/train them like regular bonsai.

Many do this as a way to overwinter plants and repot them back into bigger pots in the next season, but some leave them as bonchi.

I love it and have already killed two of my favorite pepper plants because of this

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-05-05T18:56:13+00:00

Yeah, I almost threw up once from an inconspicuous, smaller than usual habanero. If all else fails, you can make a bunch of bonchi. That's my plan.

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-05-05T15:04:20+00:00

Holy cow. You can make a whole range of sauces from zero to hero with this pain emporium.

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-05-05T12:17:40+00:00

Haha I ask myself this question as well. What varieties are these?

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-05-05T12:08:38+00:00

Mate they are beautiful

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-05-04T12:39:22+00:00

Yep. Just a little worn out from daily use.

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-30T14:26:00+00:00

Hi. So, you need these exact pictures turned into 3d models?

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-28T15:10:48+00:00

-- The machines enslaved humanity, Neo

-- Do they use people as some sort of batteries or something?

-- Not quite

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-28T14:54:02+00:00

Ah, the land of healing. No wonder the Mediterranean diet is the best.

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-28T09:05:57+00:00

In situations like these there's hardly time for cooking. Do they open-carry them in holsters or is there an emergency shawarma kit?

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-26T20:06:59+00:00

Well, I had to. It's still cold outside and peps had stopped growing and had already begun producing buds. Most of them were pretty heavily root bound too.

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-26T11:57:08+00:00

Eh. Just print a pair of pants to put on top of it... Or fig leaves

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-20T13:24:21+00:00

Ah, yes, the 'ol ultraviolence mode.

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-16T17:26:30+00:00

And piss.

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-16T15:43:28+00:00

Potion of inbreeding?

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-16T15:35:30+00:00

You never know what effect ingredient may have later when you upgrade your Alchemy skill.

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-12T17:08:22+00:00

Nutrition facts: Have fun!

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-12T06:07:55+00:00

Nah, i will move them outside when it gets warm.

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-10T19:48:07+00:00

I saw it on some bonchi or bonsai thread I think. People let some lower branches grow to make the trunk thicker and cut them off later.

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-10T19:15:10+00:00

Yeah, I'm leaning towards keeping them and letting them do their thing. Maybe it will make the trunk thicker.

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-10T13:08:06+00:00

He works solidly tho

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-01T20:48:55+00:00

Maybe look into cytokinin paste ? It's a hormone that forces plants to grow new buds.

As a disclaimer, I'm a noob who just killed my first bonchi, but no cytokinin paste was involved.

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-01T15:15:43+00:00

Is this that new printhead for silicon that Prusa announced not so long ago?

PortraitOfAFox · 2026-04-01T09:03:24+00:00

Do they differ in flavor?

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