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I lost probably 70 lbs or so of Roma tomatoes to squirrels last summer - shooting with a BB gun was impractical (too many, didn't want to sit around waiting for them all day), and did not want to try poison. Solved the problem by using some protective mesh from Lowes. Had to create a simple...

I disagree about the risk of cross pollination - if the plants are in the same house, and air circulates throughout, there is a risk. If you want to propagate, trying cloning. It's no more effort than trying to prevent cross pollination.

I can't recall. I swap out my avatar every few posts. The pods in the bowl above have been dried in a food dehydrator. I've got another bowl I'm going to use to make a sauce. Specifically, an authentic (though nuclear hot) western North Carolina style barbecue sauce.

Yeah, yeah. I taste tested a tiny sliver and they are definitely nuclear. Simply touching the inside of one with your fingertip then touching your tongue is enough to bring the pain.

Just harvested these today from about a half-dozen plants. This is the first time I've ever grown these (or even seem them in person), so someone please tell me how these look. These are the largest and most mature; there is probably another bowl worth of smaller ones (maybe half or less the...

Following up on a post I made to this thread a few months ago... The Moruga Trinidad Scorpion seeds I bought from Pepper Joe have grown and begun producing pods. Germination rates were very good and plants appear to be what they're supposed to be. Below is a picture of what I harvested a...

You've got to pick a unit of comparison and stick with it. If you're doing a watt to watt comparison I seriously doubt you could beat LED's with any commercial grow light I've heard of. If you're comparing dollar to dollar, which to me is more representative of how most people make purchase...

The cost thing is what I keep going back and forth on. LED fixtures have dropped in price, but so have HID's and florescents. .From a straight technical perspective I have no doubt that LEDs offer a more efficient lighting solution per unit of energy consumed, but right now the initial cost is...

That's a good question. IMO, I think the best comparison would be based on price. You would need to find an LED fixture or set of fixtures that totaled in the ballpark to the cost of the 8 x T5 fixture. You should probably figure in the relative cost of electricity and maintenance over a...

What documentation are you looking for? They released the Winthrop Univ. report a couple of months ago. The methodology used by the Guinness Book of World records is designed to reward outliers, and doesn't necessarily say anything about the heat consistency of a strain. It is almost a...

Pyrethrin-based sprays are the way to go - spray all plant surfaces top and bottom. It's effective on a wide variety of insects. I've never had a lot of luck with neem oil or neem-based products.

How high above the plant canopy are you keeping your fixture? From the pix it looks like it could be 3 feet or more. Also, the 5 watt LED's can generate some heat - much more so than the 1 to 3 watt ones. I know the Solar Flare itself has a built-in cooling fan - is heat an issue in your...

Yes. Without question, LEDs are a viable light source for growing pepper plants indoors. To me, this is by far the biggest question. In my opinion (take it for what it's worth), at the present point in time LED's are on the verge of being more cost effective, but may not quite be there...

Smokemaster - This is slightly off topic, but what are your thoughts on higher-power LED's vs. lower power ones? In other words, is it better to invest in a smaller number of say 3 watt LEDs or a larger number of lower power ones?

I just had another one sprout - at about five weeks. That makes 4 of 10. The variability seems odd. It will be interesting to see what sort of variations people end up with in plants over the next several months.

True. But clearly that's advertising BS. You don't have to know much about growing under lights to see that that is too good to be true, I mean, I don't have a huge d*&k but I'm pretty sure ExtenZe is bogus. If that 28 watt grow light and ExtenZe both worked like the ads promised then...

I don't think anyone's trying to say a 28 watt LED is equivalent to a 250 watt HID, are they? From what I've seen, the LED : HPS watt equivalencies are more like 1: 2 or 1: 3. Which is still a big deal, but would mean that it would take maybe a 100 watt LED to replace a 250 watt HPS.

I think you're probably right. Most companies don't list the make/model of the LEDs they use, which indicates to me they want the option to use what's cheapest. I think the DIY route would be the best way to go. Takes an investment in learning about how LED's work, but certainly seems the...

Just had the 3rd of 10 sprout after about a month. Temps have been consistently in the low '80s F, in peat pots kept moist. I've dug out a couple of the non-sprouters, and at least in the batch of seeds I have, the seed coats just seem to be unusually tough and water resistant. I'm not in a...

Getting off topic, but yeah. If we were really concerned about the harm drugs cause, drug addicts would be in the health care system, not the criminal justice system. Current drug policy is about increasing the size and power of police departments, government bureaucracies, and the prison...