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The plant started producing a fair amount of leaves and blooms but apparently it was running low on nutrients as it dropped off all the pollinated blooms so there were no peppers growing larger than a 1/4 grain of rice until last week. Two weeks prior I put some 10-10-10 fertilizer, egg shells...

I bought them from one of the lowest cost sellers on ebay. Silly me ;) I won't do that again, but want what we all do.

My soil is hard to describe. I don't have a large plot, don't direct sew but rather start things in small containers. First I started out with a mix of typical N.KY (Cincinnati) soil which is a fair amount of clay, with me adding some topsoil in past years, and some peat, all seasoned for a...

For the first time I tried to start some okra this year but haven't had any luck with it. I'm getting terrible germination rate, only 3 sprouts out of 40 or so seed made it above the dirt and all three were a pale yellow color including the first set of leaves, only to die a few days later...

It's growing buds now. I'll post another pic in a few days, kinda rainy outside at the moment.

Crazy couple of Springs here, last year it was record rainfall and damaging wind, this year it's record high temperatures... 85F air temp today, 2-3 months ahead of schedule.

Repot if your original pot is too small to support good root growth up to the point when it's time to transfer to their final pot or ground location. In other words use the biggest pots you have room for where you're keeping them. The later you start the sprouts the fewer repots you might...

Will peppers in general or particular ones, tolerate having their stem buried a bit deeper in soil or will it harm them as it does some other plants (or so I've been told for other plants)? Not so sure I have the skill level needed to transplant something this large into another pot unless I...

I have a mystery hot pepper I'd overwintered in my garage, this is the one: http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=32627 Mostly I was interested in getting the remaining fruit on it ripened so I didn't trim it back at all. Usually in my growing zone plants would drop their leaves...

Last year was the first time in many years we had enough Japanese Beetles to notice. The year prior it was lady bugs and mosquitoes. The year prior, aphids. Bugs are impolite, they don't make advance reservations before arriving for dinner. :/

You can make relish about of just about any pepper, it's all a matter of what you want it to taste like and the consistency. I prefer peppers with medium wall thickness, as thick ones like bells make the relish more squish than I'd like while thin walled peppers make it too coarse. Guess I'm...

Yeah, definitely give them as much light as possible the moment they're poking up out of the ground. Those may turn out ok, but personally I would start over with it being this early in the year. Shorter denser plants seem to have less of a problem pumping water/nutrients and are more wind...

Contrary to the article Ridgerunner linked, all the crosses' fruit I had shared a cross in size and shape too. The only way I'd call them "similar" looking fruit was it still looked ~ 50% like the same pepper expected which is more than enough to make it look like a completely different pepper.

My popsicle stick markers usually last most of a season at which point some start rotting in two below soil level. A few mistakes I made using the wrong types of pens and markers. Don't use regular Sharpie magic markers, or gel type ink pens. The old high oil content ball point pens work well...

I just trap some of the heat from my grow lights in an enclosure they germinate and grow in for the first few weeks. It has a cardboard, reflective foil lined panel on the side I can slide back some to have it at about 85F with lights on in the daytime /16hrs, then about ~ 70F at night with...

^ I grew a few Chocolate Jamaicans, a few more hybrid Habaneros and a lot of Savina Habaneros this year among other types, but no ghost chilis. They have similar needs though so I'll detail how I started those. They do seem to need both > 70F day temperature and > 50F night temperature at a...

No idea what to name it. So far I've been calling them my "not Jamaican Chocolate" peppers. :D Maybe I need to eat a few more before I decide, they were delicious on a pizza last night but I'm a fiend for spicy hot food.

Just heard back from the seed seller, it's a cross breed but no way to tell what.

It's much hotter, and smaller than a serrano, and I can buy those locally <>. It might be a hybrid, but if so, I wonder what.

They aren't cayenne, I grow those every year. I wouldn't call that one luxurious, it got a late start as my others were about 2 months old when I sprouted that one. It was just sitting on my patio where it got a lot of morning and mid afternoon sun but was shaded by early evening. I used a...