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I bought a few seeds last year that were supposed to be Jamaican Chocolate Peppers. Most of them were, but I also ended up with a mystery pepper. At first glance the fruit looks a bit like Tabascos and the heat level is about the same, maybe a bit hotter, but the flavor isn't as sweet, very...

I had strange results from a couple red bell plants this year. They kept blooming in tight bundles w/o enough room for the peppers to grow, plus almost all of the fruit had inverted bottoms with only ~1/5th as many seeds as usual, and they tasted more like apples than peppers.

I'm just a little east of you, I too welcome the rain and cooler weather as I had some potted peppers that would look almost dead if they weren't watered at least twice a day. One of these days I'll get ambitious and build a proper drip irrigation system. Not so excited about fall though, I...

With my hot yellow banana peppers I pick them when there is only a hint of green coloring left if the plant looks like it's struggling to stand upright from so many peppers at once, when there is no trace of green color if I'm being impatient, or otherwise leave them till the first hint of an...

I usually end up with BER on the first one or two bells per plant. Sometimes it gets dry like a brown scab and though the scab area gets bigger as the pepper continues to grow, I leave the pepper on and just harvest it and cut out the area IF the fruit makes it to maturity. Other times the...

That's what I do, grow peppers I can't easily find and buy around here, but besides the farmers' markets there is a pretty poor selection the rest of the year at grocery stores, mostly bells, jalapenos, serranos, publanos, serranos and the occasional orange habanero. I do grow jalapenos but I'm...

There are dozens, maybe hundreds of different strains of "bell" peppers. None of mine have pointed bottoms at any point, well some do eventually have lobes that make them look a bit like a squashed tooth but nothing like a central point at the bottom and this includes a couple sickly plants...

Eek, 6" long. I'd say it's rare to find one that big and there be a plant it's sitting on instead of a stump at ground level. ;)

They aren't eggs, the wasp laid eggs in the worm days ago and the eggs hatch inside the worm, then those hatched larvae eat the insides of the worm till they are big enough to chew their way out and make the white egg looking cocoons around themselves to pupate into a winged (wasp) creature...

I was having a different problem with a potted tomato. It was growing great, now that we finally have more sunny than rainy days, then suddenly during a day of 90F temperature the top 4 inches on every stem shoot got floppy and bent over, and since I was watering it enough I thought it was just...

I like pretty rich tomato soup and also find I need to boil it down longer than 30 minutes... usually an hour or more depending on how much other ingredients add liquid to it.

For some uses (salsa, tacos, etc) they seem too mild to me, but I'm into hot peppers and unique pepper tastes so that's a subjective assessment. I use them anywhere I'd otherwise use a bell pepper but where I want less watery flesh... meatloaf, on pizza, in salad, chili, or just eat it fresh...

Yes it's possible... the seal might hold up or it might not, it could be an extremely slow leak that you won't notice right away. If at any point you lose the suction, assume the batch went bad. I'd probably redo them, I'm not very daring when it comes to food.

Good point, but I suspect some people opt not to get their hair washed first, and if spray is applied after the cut, a fair % will end up on the floor with the hair.