When I was a kid, Tom Kean was governor and he was pitching NJ tourism hard with his slogan: "NJ and you, perfect together." This year, my slogan is: "NJ and humidity: sh!tty for peppers."
The past, say, week and a half has been mostly high humidity and mild temps. It's beginning to affect some peppers. For example, heavy bearers, like Corbaci, are just stalled out - loads of peppers, no hint of ripening - and because they do bear heavily, I suspect not enough circulation is moving through the plants with the air so dense. I'm getting some drop there.
Of my super-hots, some are starting to bear heavily, but some are dropping a bit. I have one ghost that is dropping a couple fruits. Tabasco - never does well for me, so maybe I should stop growing it. Paprika, I think do to the plant's shape - tall and narrow - distributes the air pretty well and doesn't seem affected; starting to bear very heavily.
My potted pepps are faring better than in-ground, but might not be producing as much by this point last year. I looked back at my notes from last year and it seems I'm generally speaking 1 week off from both peppers and tomatoes. Early blight is starting to whale on my tomatoes.
How is everyone else in high humidity areas (outside of those who expect it) faring?
I guess I can provide better spacing next year (it's not bad now) and not let as many beneficial volunteers (borage, dill, calendula) take a foothold, but when they're coming up, I think they're helpful.
The past, say, week and a half has been mostly high humidity and mild temps. It's beginning to affect some peppers. For example, heavy bearers, like Corbaci, are just stalled out - loads of peppers, no hint of ripening - and because they do bear heavily, I suspect not enough circulation is moving through the plants with the air so dense. I'm getting some drop there.
Of my super-hots, some are starting to bear heavily, but some are dropping a bit. I have one ghost that is dropping a couple fruits. Tabasco - never does well for me, so maybe I should stop growing it. Paprika, I think do to the plant's shape - tall and narrow - distributes the air pretty well and doesn't seem affected; starting to bear very heavily.
My potted pepps are faring better than in-ground, but might not be producing as much by this point last year. I looked back at my notes from last year and it seems I'm generally speaking 1 week off from both peppers and tomatoes. Early blight is starting to whale on my tomatoes.
How is everyone else in high humidity areas (outside of those who expect it) faring?
I guess I can provide better spacing next year (it's not bad now) and not let as many beneficial volunteers (borage, dill, calendula) take a foothold, but when they're coming up, I think they're helpful.
