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What is the best way to store seeds? Should I store them in air tight containers or in paper envelopes, or .......? pepperpikker

Do you think you will have any problems with the growing season ending too early in Michigan for you to get any ripe pods? I am guessing you have until the end of September before the temps will be dropping into the 40's pretty regular and you will have to start worrying about a freeze.

I havent been growing peppers for long but my Bhuts have been dropping flowers all year but still have a good load of pods too. At first I was real worried with all the flowers dropping but if many more would have put out pods, my plants would be in trouble. We have gone through an extremely...

Exactly, I have 6 varieties of peppers growing and on some, I have a lot of blossom drop where the flower and stem wither and falls off. But, on all of those plants, there are a lot of blooms and there are plenty others where the flower whithers and browns up and eventually falls but the stem...

I hot my bhut seeds from pepper joe. i had good germination rate with them back in January. I culled a couple plants, gave away a couple and have three growing an producing nice looking fruit now. The plants are over two feet tall and three feet wide. Several of the pods are mature size, but...

Oh, also, this year, I think I will really get a jump on next year's growing season by overwintering a plant or two in my house. They say the second year's harvest is significantly better and earlier than the first year's harvest.

Yep, I started mine in January. I have three right now with several pods over 2" already. I am just waiting for them to turn orange/red. It is getting agonizing. I was hoping to have some ripe fruit to pick by the 4th of July but they didn't cooperate. I was told to start my bhuts early...

That is an interesting plant. Those blooms are really cool. What are the peppers supposed to be like? Are they on par with the Bhut Jolokia or are they a tamer variety?

On one of my Cayenne plants, several non-ripe peppers are touching the ground. Is this OK, or will it cause some kind of problem for the fruit? They are not laying sideways on the ground, just the tips of several of them. pepper pikker

Those purple Cayennes are way cool.

Here is one you can check out: http://www.creativeshelters.com/Documents/SnapFittings/Arched-Greenhouse.pdf

Bigslimm: Do you plan on putting those outside? I see you are from Michigan and i think you will be pushing it to get ripe fruit off those before the weather shuts them down. I am from Wisconsin and I dont think they would make it here. Those little fellas look all of a couple weeks old since...

I think your plants have a whole lot of pods. Nice. Pretty little peppers too.

I wouldn't worry about it. I have three Bhut Jolokias all together in my garden. Two are shorter and bushy from the ground up. One is taller but is almost bare on the first 7 or 8" of the stem. It has plenty of plush leaves on the upper part which branches out and coincidentally is producing...

Today I went out to visit my peppers after a long slow rain that lasted from early this morning and is still raining off and on now at 6pm. It has been a slow light rain of 1/2 inch in that time. No wind to speak of either. When I got out to my plants, I noticed a whole bunch of blooms laying on...

All I know is the cover the warm side of houses around here in the fall. Some years worse than others. They tend to find their way indoors and you will find them for months after the snow flies. I dont know if they eat Aphids or Pepper plants and I really cannot tell them from a Lady bug but...

Yah, I going to be keeping an eye out for those Aphid thingys. Hope I dont have to battle them.

Will Peppers just quit putting out blooms after a while or will they continue to put out blooms up until the end of the growing season? I was just wondering if they have only so many blooms to put out and then just quit or do they maybe quit putting out blooms when they get a certain amount of...

That hollow area around the edges is probably due more to the soil drying out. If you use regular garden or potting soil, that will happen a lot. With pine bark mixes and things like that it wont happen nearly as much. Once you water the garden soil, it usually expands back and the gaps...

Yep, starting to see them all over now. They must love this hot, hot, hot weather we are having up here in Wisconsin. No more on my plants however. I am glad to hear the birds and other critters like to eat them though. I have a nesting pair of Bluebirds that must be in buffet mode right now.