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i get really good germination times with inocucor garden solution. better germ rate and time to germ

  you can use a foliar with a 0.05% v/v plant safe surfactant and a compost tea during flowering to help prevent this. I've had good success with a product called inocucor, it also seems to help with pod setting during less than ideal conditions. 

now that I have some fatali ripened up here is a color comparison of the "YDT" on the left and the Fatalii on the right:  

  Except its deep orange like a habanero and not yellow? this is the pheno from their website. my pods are not thick walled, they are much more symmetrical and they are a lot more bumpy almost like the skin on a brain strain (which is admittedly hard to capture well on my camera).  

Peppers are ripening to orange instead of yellow. Much thinner skin and very bumpy pods compared to the description from the website. Typical pheno is very symmetrical and you can see some of the unripened pods below. Lots of oil inside not just the placenta. I had an 1/8th inch cross section...

  there isn't anything specific that kills wasps without preserving beneficial insects. so...suck it up and be careful. maybe put some wasp traps near your plants? its irrational and over-reactive fears that leads consumers to dump pesticides around their houses and in their gardens. not to...

most of my peppers were pollinated by yellow jackets this year. i say keep them as long as they arent getting agressive on you

  people looking to create really novel hybrids often search for "land-race" or naturalized varieties of plants because they typically have a higher amount of genetic diversity compared to typical hybrids.  they may have different growth habits, appearance, secondary compounds or  other traits...

excellent read. 

  I grew all my pepper starts this year under 3500k cree cxb 3590 s your spectrum is probably too much blue

  There is a lot of dubious information about peppers in hydroponics and I suspect that a lot of it comes from people trying to grow them like that one other skunky plant that people like so much. I had a kratky ghost pepper at my desk at work that produced hot plentiful pods until it got a bad...

  sodium benzoate is typically added to fertilizers to keep them free of bacterial growth. 

  Look at the table I posted. Pretty convincing result. No fertilizer produced the hottest peppers but the lowest yields. Potassium was all but useless in promoting flowering or fruit set. Both increasing potassium and reducing nitrogen are often recommended as interventions to get fruit to set...

http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/content/43/5/1549.full.pdf   Here is another paper that adds to this topic- they found that nitrogen was the biggest driver in increasing capsicum in habaneros.   Influence of Nitrogen and Potassium Fertilization on Fruiting and Capsaicin Content in Habanero...

  Yes I've been a user for over 3 years after reading about it on orchidboard.com. The two biological components in the solution are B. subtillis and ​S. cerevisiae.   1.) Irrigating with a 1:100 solution monthly has eliminated bacterial and fungal diseases amongst my houseplants and balcony...