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Chorizo857_62J said:
Red Bhuts on my over-wintered plant, plus I have 3 more new plants this year.  Also getting the first  Habaneros from a half dozen plants from seed started last year.  Several other varieties (Scotch Bonnets, Fresnos, Tiny Thai, etc.) 
Nice healthy looking plants!

I'm assuming the white PVC pipes are for watering. Would you share how the rest of the pot is constructed? In the past, I've built & used "earth pots" made of the watering pipe, two 5-gallon buckets, a solo cup and some time drilling holes in the buckets. Are your pots built similarly?

If the monsoon continues, I may abandon the community gardens and put up an enclosed golf cage behind the house for the peppers.
 
Yes, the PVC pipe is for watering from bottom up, assuming the pot is in a tray, bucket, etc.  I put river rock (a coarse gravel) at the bottom of the pot to act as a drain field, and then potting soil.  This works even better with larger pots above 3-gal.  I can put the pot in a tray or bucket half (takeout tin foil pans are great). We have really poor soil here to plant directly in the ground, and even in some garden boxes, nematodes cause root growth problems and stunt things.  The pots have been by far the most successful to date, although I am thinking I need larger (5-7 gal. range).  I have also done a few double-bucket setups, but they seemed to do better with tomatoes and eggplant.  There is still a good bit of effort in watering the single pots, but they seem to have less over-watering issues.
 
Well, it has been raining every day, heavily, and is not projected to do so through Memorial day.  I get  few chances at sun here and there, but it seems risky to just let everything out so it can drown.  We'll see how the weekend goes.  Peppers continue to pod out, which is awesome.
 
So still in monsoon mode here in N. Central FL.  Tropical activity anticipated this weekend.  I have all larger plants on the back porch to avoid drowning, and they get decent a.m. sun.  Starting to get peppers on many plants, and especially the Habs.  Have one plant that was labelled a Habanero (Home Depot), purchased two years ago at the same time as my 1st Red Bhut.  Looking at the other Habs, Bonnetts, etc, this looks more of the Ghost variety to me.  Beautiful pods, but I don't think this is a Hab as advertised.  I love surprises though!.
 
 

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Heat and humidity are back, and within two days, ripening starts on the Red Bhuts.  Also have a brown-spot thing that developed on my bell peppers in the double-bucket setup.  Has been pretty wet in the pot, so I surmise this is from over-watering (rain).  I covered the base to deflect additional rain, but it is still moist.  May move it in and dry it out to see if that helps. 
 

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Here is a funky Habanero pod with a tail (or some other appendage).  These ripen to orange, then to red, like the pumpkin-shaped ones I also have.  This was the only store-bought Habanero I have.  The rest were seeded from grocery stock.  They are doing VERY well.  Here's this afternoon's updated tally for the week.  I am ripening some of these inside, as the rains and severe heat have caused some to half-ripen and the rest starts to rot (lower right corner off tray).  Not sure if there is a better solution for this (other than the obvious solution to NOT pick the pepper ahead of time.  But it is SOO tempting!
 
 
 

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Still getting a mess of habaneros, and now more red bhuts and yellow scotch bonnets (not pictured here).  Rains letting off a bit, but hot, muggy conditions continue.  Also, white flies appearing, so out at them with the Neem.
 
Rainy conditions returning after a few dates of high heat.  Ordered three new seed varieties from Puckerbutt Pepper Company.  Top grade customer service!
 
Aji Dulce (#2) - sweet habanero from Venezuela
Chocolate Bhutlah
7 Pot Douglah Brown
 
Depending on how they come up, these will be babied over the winter and outside next spring.
 
Rain messing with every plant, white flies showing up, and now overnight carnage of my poblano plant.  This bag of green goo at the whole frickin' plant.
Dispensed with accordingly.
 

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