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Second year growing.

Last year was my first year growing peppers. I had a late start and with our very hot summers it was a disappointing year. Fortunately I was able to over winter 10 plants (reapers, vipers, chi chein, and what I call a sweet wax it was supposed to be a hot wax, looks like a wax but sweet. It is still good for eating right of the plant while I'm gardening so I kept it.

Anyways, Before I over wintered I cut off half the roots and repotted them in the same 5 gallon pots with fresh soil. A couple of the vipers and reapers have loads of small flower buds so yesterday I gave them all a good dose of fertilizer (Jobe's organic tomatoe and vegetable) I've had luck with this with other veggies it seems I have to apply every 4-6 weeks or sooner.

The current growth on the plants looks sort of stunted, small leaves short node spacing. I'm hoping they'll get bushy again with the ferts and the warm weather.

I have some fatalii seeds and a couple other new varieties sprouting, although it might be too late.

No real question here, I'm just excited for a new year and to see everyone else's progress.

BTW my galaxy has the worst autocorrect in this forum. This took forever to type. Does anyone else have this problem?
 
If you don't have it already download Google keyboard on your Galaxy. I run it on mine, much better than the default Samsung keyboard IMO.

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I was thinking of moving two of my plants to individual plastic storage bins. They each good 3 cubic feet. I'll have to drill holes in the bottom. Any downside to using these?
 
Jacobt said:
Any downside to using these?
Might be big and bulky to move around (if you ever have to), and what color are they? Too dark and they'll heat your soil up quite a bit out in that Arizona sun. Plants probably won't like that too much.....which brings me back to the big and bulky factor :)

Whatever you decide, like you said, don't forget to drill drainage holes! That'll be a pain in the ass to do after they're filled. G'head, ask me how I know :rofl:
 
One is white the other dark blue. My current plants are in black nursery pots so I thought these would be better than those. I shouldnt have to move them, but if I do I don't think they'll be too heavy.

I think the black pots contributed to my poor last season, along with a odd short spring (very cool nights with very hot days) then all of a sudden it was over 100. We are already in the 80's I think we hit 90 something the otherday. I might move my plants to the shade.
 
Jacobt said:
I might move my plants to the shade.
You might be ok with the white one. I've heard of a lot of people getting away with using black nursery pots in areas of high heat, but lots of them shade the pots themselves to try to keep the roots cooler. Something as simple as leaning some small pieces of plywood against the pots, to keep the sun from beating on them, might make all the difference in the world. Or you could wrap the pots in tin foil. Personally, I just use white 5 gallon buckets
 
short node spacing is a good thing ,     :party:   Good luck with your grow , and yes some plywood cut out into squares , will block the sun perfectly from overheating your buckets 
 
I know short node spacing should allow for more flowers, but right now the plants look like sticks with clumps of small dense leaves. I think this is from being outside while over wintering. I would like them to get large and busy like the plants I see on here.
 
Flowers already dropping. It been in the low 90s high 80s. All plants are either in the shade with 2 hours full sun in the morning or 50% shade all day. I hope this heat is temporary before we really get into summer.
 
Jacobt said:
Flowers already dropping. It been in the low 90s high 80s. All plants are either in the shade with 2 hours full sun in the morning or 50% shade all day. I hope this heat is temporary before we really get into summer.
 
Your flowers should not be dropping due to temp, with those numbers.  That is pretty much the textbook range for where most of those peppers are from.
 
How about some pictures?  From the description of your growth, it sounds like something else is going on.
 
Your plants have very small leaves.  I've only seen this once on my plants, and I can't say that I know what it was caused by.  But with so little surface area to effect transpiration, I could see why your plant can't support too many flowers.  Otherwise, color and shape look good.
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Somebody else has to chime in on this one, because this is not a familiar problem for me.
 
Most are in some organic mix I bought last year, I can't remember the brand. The two in the large tubs were transplanted in the tubs not long ago with miracle grow.
 
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