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Picking hundreds of pounds of peppers can become quite tedious and sometimes out right boring! Takes hours---gives you a sore back and fingers---all of the peppers looking the same especially datils......But then there are the scorpians....picked for hours yesterday and dagggggggggggg---I was...

Have you ever taken a walk thru a pristine forest where few humans have walked or effected in any way??? Thousands of different plants and trees are thriving-often doing betterthan in nurseries or botanical gardens.Clearly they dont need us!!!!If the human race waas completely wiped out by some...

anyone interested? I just confirmed with Dr Cantliffe today that we are officially starting the Pepperhead Society of North Florida. We envision this to be a free membership of people around here who love all things pepper!!!! Social meetings ( yes with adult beverages)  with great guest...

I just confirmed with Dr Cantliffe today that we are officially starting the Pepperhead Society of North Florida. We envision this to be a free membership of people around here who love all things pepper!!!! Social meetings ( yes with adult beverages)  with great guest speakers covering super...

I have been ask to grow 4 inch potted  gourd plants by several retail gardencenters with delivery by november 10 delivery date. Never have grown them...see several interesting varieties like snake, baby bottle, cave man, nest egg, ect. Does anyone have any experience in this area ???? Any...

So I am on my 7nth hour of my 10 hr day when i saw two dudes heading back to the herb/vegetable area of Ace where I work. I go back n say how can I help u today --and they say well we are looking at peppers....PEPPERS? our peppers r shit--i know it--everyone knows it--we have the usuals but the...

Anyone have ay ideas on how to attract pollinators under a 50% shade cloth..I have done the ones i know like soaking towels in sugar water and hanging them and also hanging cloths with pancake syrup from the shade cloth.There just seems to be more germinating buds on my plants outside the shade...

First pick.bmp]Wow picking isnt easy!!!!!! i was able to pick about 50 lbs today--and geez am i sore----this particular bottler wanted all peppers a certain size --green red orange or red----no problem with him---i was in a rush so i didnt get to mark the output of each plant but i just picked...

So this is my first summer out working in the summer heat on the farm rather than my airconditioned broker office.... And man is it hot----the heat wears me down fast--it saps me of energy and sends me home lobster red..And I grew up in the Miami heat which is alot hotter than st augie...

It seems like its taking an extremely long time for my lrg green scorpian pods to turn red for market. Wht is your average time for pod color change--2 weeks?? Also my pods seem bigger than normal---what is the average number of your scorpian pods to make a quarter or half pound?? just...

The nursery that I work at is thinking of hosting a pepper day once a month...The orchid society (mostly retirees) and master gardeners each take a Saturday a mnth and we have quite a turnout..maybe cover a differnet subject each mnth?? The demographics of pepperheads ( sorta like jimmy buffets...

My tomatoes have grown so perfect to thhis point...six foot tall..strong healthy stems--lots of green tomatoes....then all oof a sudden holes are appearing in the middle of so many leaves...omg im freaking so i went and got sevin duxt and dusted them pretty heavy last night...no bugs have ever...

And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker." So God made a farmer. God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting...

Tropical storm Andrea blew thru St Augustine this afternoon with sideways rains and wind gusts @ 50mph...I was at work but very frightened for my peppers....So I raced home imagining all the blossoms and peppers on the ground or perhaps worse, 3 ft pepper plants broken in half by the wind....and...

Howdy I wanted to let any bottlers know that I have a pretty large supple of both trinidad scorpian and datil peppers. I will have up to 1000 pnds available over the next three months..I can provide shipments to any size bottler as little as 1/2 pound. Quality peppers grown from seed. Check my...

The Ag school I attend turned out to be a fairly large player in the datil growing biz. We combined with the St Johns University of Florida Ag Extension office to formulate probably one of the most comprehensive Datil studies to date. Our production was close to 3000 plants--from seed...

Hello, my name is Ed and Im from the beautiful city of St Augustine, Florida! I have left a Wall Street position after 30 years and have gone back to agriculture school here. Thats where I have discovered the magic of the pepper. A lovely and strange cultivar indeed. My attention has focused on...