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    drying basics of dehydrator drying? washing etc.

    Hi all,  We have a large amount of habeneros and red carribeans (our first time growing hot peppers).    We found some misinformation on the internet, and strung up our peppers, then found that our environment is too humid to dry them properly by stringing. We were able to rescue most of them...
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    The part they didn't tell me. . .

    It started innocently enough. Husband Robin was given some homemade hot pepper flakes from a welder guy at work, "let's grow hot peppers" he said. And make hot pepper flakes. "Okay", I said. Seemed simple enough.    Now it looks like crazy people live in our house.   
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    Sudden Leaf Drop, what is this?

    Hi,    My jalapeños and habeneros seem fine, but several of my "sweet hot" plants experienced sudden and extreme leaf drop. Most of the leaves of one plant fell in a matter of several days. Anyone know what this is? I pulled the plants since I was worried about it spreading.    The peppers on...
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    shopping A good place to buy beneficial insects online?

    I've got a bit of an aphid problem, more in the tomatoes than the peppers. . .I've got too much foliage to spray Azamax again, I'm thinking beneficial insects (like green lacewings) might be something to try, since there aren't a huge number of aphids.    Does anyone know a good place to buy...
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    pests Ants & aphids, when to take action

    Hi all,    I have about 30 pepper plants (habenero, jalepeno, red carribean, sweet hot) along with my tomatoes this year -- tilled new ground from lawn and noticed a lot of ants from the get go.    Now I have ants absolutely everywhere, which didn't really worry me -- but I've seen a couple of...
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    low tunnel (hoop house), wilted & damaged leaves. . .

    Hi all,    I started habanero and jalepeno plants from seeds this year, they did beautifully -- I built a low tunnel, or hoop house as they are sometimes called (pvc hoops covered with row cover fabric), planted 2 days ago and constructed the tunnel yesterday. I had to plant mid morning, (no...
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