Recent content by cb1ocker

thanks for that article geeme, that was informative. it looks like the author just put a bunch of seeds in a small flat filled with dirt, then broke them up and moved them to small 1ish inch cells to sit until they went outside, did i read/see that right? i guess they probably don't need a...

I'm attempting to grow yellow onions from seed this year for the first time and wondering how big a container they should be in until they can go outside, which in Wisconsin is usually the first or second week of May for peppers, but maybe onions can go outside sooner? The onions are about 4"...

I tried the paper bag method for the first time this year and it worked great. all the pods i picked were still green, which no indication of changing color yet, but almost all were full size. after about a week every pod i put in that bag (about 40) is ripe. going in the dehydrator today!

last year i got really worried about the cold this time of year, to the point of covering all the plants on nights when it got into the low 40's. in my very limited experience, pepper plants seem a lot more hardy then people let on. you read all the time about how hard they are to germinate...

that's been my experience with most peppers. if i'm feeling weak and still have to prove myself to friends in the backyard i always cut myself the bottom of the pepper and give them the top ;)

i had several peppers on different types of plants with very similar looking damage when the heat wave was in full swing last month. i decided it was irregular watering/BER, dosed them with some chicken fertilizer for calcium and laid down several inches of hay as mulch and haven't had any...

i have a nesco american harvest, and i love it. i dehydrate peppers at 140 for 8-10 hours outdoors. i mostly crush them to flakes or powder. i've been pretty happy with the taste and consistency at this tempurature. the only problem occurs if i don't crush them right away. if left on the...

i picked up some 'ghost pepper' seeds last year that ended up looking exactly like that. i was initially extremely disappointed they weren't ghost peppers, but after i ate one whole right from the plant and spent the next half hour hyperventilating in the basement i decided that they'd do. i...

last year i used only distilled water due to living in the city and being worried the chlorine and other chemicals would damage my seedlings. this year that felt like too much of a PITA and i noticed no difference in how my seedlings grew. one thing i do that may or may not be completely...

nice, this sounds great, going to have to give it a try. wonder if i could just add a scorpion or ghost pepper directly to the growler and get one of my local brew pubs to fill it up with the pepper inside...

adding a teaspoon or so of ghost powder to a captain and coke will do it, but it makes such a good drink i don't even care.

i bought what was supposed to be scotch bonnet seeds from a random amazon seller, they turned out to be some sort of chocolate hab instead. i let the seeds sit for over a year before i planted and i got 90-95% germination using a cell type seed starting tray and a heating mat. the only special...

got a bit over 100 here again today. all of my peppers have stopped flowering and i picked all of what was on the plants today for fear of them dropping due to the heat. hoping to hit them with some type of nutrient that will promote flowering (bat guano maybe?) once the weather gets back down...

sounds good, i'll just keep an eye on them for now, hopefully the ferilizer and keeping them a little drier will help, thanks again!

it's happening on my ghost peppers, cayennes, fataliis, trinidad scorpions and numex exlipse. but it's not on every pepper, only 1 or 2 on each affected plant. Varieties that are so far uneffected are my jalapeno, chocolate hab, takanotsume, omni color, cajamarca, and lemon pepper.