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depends I don't have a clue what I'm doing but I do try to dry the peppers in the oven when the batches are so big I cannot air dry them or when I get too many peppers with thick skins...so I cannot eat them all in time. My thinking was that the lowest temp is a little too high so I turn it...

Thanks everyone. Actually, I've got about 10 of those little guys living around my house; there must be better tasting food around? Or else its some other kind of tiny lizard. Either way, those suckers are FAST moving.

You people are too advanced for me. Whats a "Bt" or "spinosads"? some kind of deadly super poison that tastes yummy and will give me extra super-strength?? yeah! I had these last year. I can tell how big they are from the size of the "droppings." The big ones leave some serious deposits...

Yikes! Found a couple of big caterpillars on the peppers this morning! Here is one enjoying some jalapenos Here is one enjoying some piquin's. And they are not even ripe yet! How do these things climb up the pots into the plant? And how do I prevent/kill them?

not necessarily.... If you do it right, like I mostly (try to) do, you can pick it cleanly so that the pepper is airtight. I lay them on the counter in a bowl to dry or put them in the fridge, either way I remove the stems before doing that. Easier to grab and eat that way. So its just me...

Dear pepper guru's: What's the best way to pick a pepper? 1. release from the plant by cutting the stem. Then go inside and take the stem and green cap dealie off before use or drying. 2. release from the plant by carefully removing just the pepper, leaving the stem and the cap or whatever...

ok Thank you, that has been very helpful. Now I have a starting point. When I learn what a pod is I'll be 1/2 way there.

and then what? OK, you take a pepper, cut out the seeds, let them dry on a paper towel....and then what? Put them in a sealed ziplock/ container till next year? Leave them out? Can you start them anytime or only in spring? How do you give them a kick start to get them growing- just soak...

plant Tell tim to stop doing that to your plant!

some can't ripen off the vine Some of my peppers simply would not ripen off the vine. Thai for example. What exactly is the technique used for off-vine ripening?

Or San Diego.

Thanks! Thanks, did not know the term "overwintering," I am learning a lot here already. Here is a pic of the Super Cayenne II (left) and a newbie regular Cayenne (right, also shown in the upper right of the 1st pic but cut off). You see that the year old SC II is denser and bigger but that...

One thing I also noticed is that after replanting they grow very very dense, some of the peppers are way in there and tough to get to. When they also get big like this we are talking 100s of peppers.

So 2 years ago I ran out of dried hot peppers. THE HORROR!!! Which is why last year I overplanted...and which led me to try and keep the plants going longer. Here you see a picture of a Super Cayenne II planted last year (pic taken yesterday)! I took it out of the pot, scraped off 2/3 of the...

Hello everyone! Hot peppers huh? I moved to San Diego in 1998 and have been in southern CA ever since. The day I bought a house I discovered gardening, and being a single guy, I like only to plant things that make food- hence citrus and peppers. Not so lucky with the citrus but the peppers...