Recent content by nastafarian

Don't get me wrong, I am very happy with the service from Pepper Lover and I can't imagine ordering from anywhere else. I thought maybe there might have been something wrong with those particular varieties.   I haven't made a complaint because I don't want her to feel obliged to pay for postage...

I was just curious if anyone else has had trouble sprouting seeds from Pepper Lover this year? The lack of new stock on the website has me wondering if I was sold some old seeds that aren't viable anymore.   I have ZERO sprouts from my Fatalii, Serrano, and Princess Faten peppers. Only 50% germ...

Finally these are ripening to a nice orange colour. They taste much sweeter when ripe. I'm still on the fence about this variety though; while the flavour has improved, I find the walls of the pepper to be a little too thin and tough for my taste.

    Thanks all for your opinions! here is a pic of my unripe aji habanero plant:

Its my first time growing this pepper, and I must have at least 200 peppers across my 4 plants. Unfortunately, 1 out of every 2 peppers is completely inedible due to a very strong bitter taste. They arent quite ripe yet (waxy yellow with browning tips)   Has anyone experienced this before? Im...

I personally wouldn't put anything into my soil until it has been composted. Only mature compost goes into my gardens. The reason for that is that as the soil organisms decompose the organic matter, you will theoretically have a drop in plant-available nitrogen. Once the compost is matured and...

Well, I have a Salton dehydrator but it's not the best out there. It takes about 16 hours to dry 4 trays of peppers, but i have to cut them in two.   I was trying to get two birds stoned at once: easy way out of drying peppers from 50 plants, and also make some ristras to give as gifts.   I'll...

  Good to know! You may have saved me from wasting 100 Bih Jolokia peppers.

Thanks guys, i'll experiment with these methods.   I'm growing some Bih Jolokia, supposedly they have very thin walls. I'll try with those first!

Does anyone know of any decent ways to dry peppers without the use of a dehydrator? I was thinking about tying them up and hanging them vertically to try. Mostly with annuum but maybe some baccatum varieties as well. I want to make some decorative pepper bunches similar to braided garlic bunches...

It seems to work! We have a ton of wild rabbits in our area. This morning there were 3 of them just chilling on the front lawn! Buggers.

  Fairly strong...not at peak yet, but enough to give the average person a sunburn in 20-30 minutes. The bulbs were just your standard 6500k cool white bulbs.   The peppers get full sun from 9 am to about 2 pm, after which they are partially shaded by a big maple tree. See pics below...

  I was suprised how strong they were after sitting under 6 T8 tubes! They only needed 1 day of hardening off, and even then I think i could have planted them into the garden without any hardening off at all.   I think that having a fan on them constantly also helped a lot. I remember growing...

  Technically, no...they called it "Ghost" pepper, as in it is a figment of your imagination and doesn't exist in this plane of reality.   Now if they had called it Bhut Jolokia fries, you might have a case!

IMO, fertilizing potted plants with liquid fertilizer can be tough. The organic matter in the soil *should* bind some of it for later use, but most will get leached out if you water until it starts coming out of the bottom.   When I grow in pots, i like to use liquid fertilizer at a different...