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So I've been growing peppers and other plants for several years now and this year I'm thinking about expanding my use of fertilizers. I only ever use cow manure and nothing else as fertilizer though I'm willing to open up to new ones as my plants aren't doing all that great.   What fertilizers...

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My habanero plant has been getting attacked by something and losing a lot of its leaves i took a closer look today and found these weird bugs everywhere, what are these bugs and could they be the cause of the leaf loss problem?  

I ordered some seeds online last year that were supposed to be reaper seeds, turns out they were bell pepper seeds, but I'm not mad because the plant that came up is amazing!   This pepper plant was the "runt" of the grow last year so I decided to plant it outside instead of inside the...

So I've always used the paper towel and ziplock bag method when starting seeds but ever since I've been starting to get into the hotter variety of peppers the seeds have just been rotting in the bag since it takes them close to a whole month to sprout. So my question here is what method do you...

Peppers I'm growing are a lot less hot than the ones at a store.. Anyone have any idea why? Maybe the packs of seeds I bought from the store are made to be not very hot?

I've been finding random tomatoes and peppers on the ground with tiny holes in them.. I thought nothing of it until my favorite plants pepper fell to the ground tonight. I went ahead and ripped open the pepper only to find a black goo inside with a BUNCH of little white worms in that goo. What...

On most of the leaves of my Jalapeno plant there are these weird bugs that sort of look like lady bugs but are not... They are somehow attaching themselves to the leaves with their mouth as if sucking something out of the leaves.. Could anyone help? Here are some pics.          

I have seen videos and pictures of pepper plants getting up to 7 feet tall... How do I keep my plants from becoming that big? Will topping/pruning keep them small?

I have a Jalapeno plant and some of it's leaves are doing this weird thing.... What is it?   \     Sorry about the blurry pictures, I was trying to take pictures and run into the house because it is raining.

I have a bunch of cherry tomato seedlings and I see that the first leaves that sprouted are far from the top and very small... I'm thinking that they are just wasting the plants energy.. So should I cut them off? Here is a pic.  

What are some of your favorite foods with peppers?

How do you guys harden off your pepper seedlings?

I won an SFRB about a week ago and they came today, now I need some help identifying them. I want to ID them before I eat them to look up the SHU just so that I don't die from unexpected heat.   Here are the peppers:  

So I am at my sisters house right now and her husband has a bunch of pepper and tomato plants in his backyard.. I want to take some cuttings of the peppers/tomatoes with me back home. Does anyone know how I can package the stems to make sure they stay in water and do not get damaged on the 7+...

I really want to add some Aji Habanero's and Aji Mango's to my garden. Does anyone have any seeds they are willing to part with? PM me your price and we can negotiate.

I have seedlings from not yet sprouted to 3 weeks old. How often should I water them?

So I have been getting a lot of sprouts these passed 2 weeks and here are some of the strangest things I've seen:   3 Leaf Habanero     1 Leaf Anaheim Chili     No Root Serrano     What are some weird things you have seen? Pictures aren't required btw.

Just want to have some fun and hear what the worst thing about being a chilehead is. To me the worst thing is that I am lactose intolerant. Meaning I cant have dairy products so if a pepper burns I can't do anything about it!

As some of you may know, I only have 1 pepper plant atm, a Jalapeno. It is a very slow producer, so far it has only given me 5 peppers. One of them just became ripe. What should I do with one Jalapeno?