Recent content by newbiepepperguy

I might be a little different than most, but I like mine a little tighter together, and I seem to get pretty good yields.   I grow in 8x4x1 beds, and I put 3 rows of 6 peppers in each bed. Works out to about 18 inches between plants after offsetting the outermost plants from the edge of the bed...

Maybe this question is too broad, but can somebody please provide an overview of some of the most popular numex peppers? I see a lot of different varieties (Big Jim, 6-4, etc.) and they even list the scoville rating, but I don't see many descriptions of the taste or other details. Can anybody...

If I'm not mistaken, Peach and Cream Sugar Rush were variants of Red, originally. Probably just have some of each 3

The catch-22 for you here is that most organic fertilizers take much longer to add any benefit, but you need the benefit right away, but you need organic, but you need to the benefit right away... I'll stop there.   What's the standard of theirs in particular that CAL-MAG doesn't meet?

http://imgur.com/se0SbxD http://imgur.com/QGco0Qb Here's some pics of my Sugar Rush cream. I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain (as certain as a newbie can be) that your 2nd pic is a Cream, not a Peach.

http://imgur.com/4wNU5DA That's the first ripe red I've had, but there's probably 6 or 7 starting to ripen, too. Another 20 or so currently not ripening yet. Still flowering like crazy, too. Great plant from Refining Fire Chiles. Can't recommend them enough.

I'm growing all 3 Sugar Rush varieties this year (Red, Peach, and Cream) and almost 100% sure that 2nd picture is a Sugar Rush Cream. I'll try take a pic of my plant when I get home to compare.

Just an update to this thread- I have a ripe Red on one plant, and some others in the process of ripening. A few full sized pods on the Peach and Cream, but no ripening yet. I'll post some pics when I have some time. 

And as what I suppose is a secondary point of confusion for me, isn't a blanket statement about what kind of ratio *all* plants need a little misguided? Without knowing the soil conditions, watering regimen/rain amounts, pre-existing deficiencies, etc, isn't it impossible to know what an ideal...

  Thanks. I've already been using CAL-MAG to make sure there's no deficiency with either calcium or magnesium.   Out of curiosity, could you link to some of the studies about all plants needing a 3-1-2 ratio? I've genuinely never heard that before. I mean, I've heard close to that (as in, you...

  They've been getting a 3-1-2, and I'm looking to change to a 1-5-4. Does that sound about right?   EDIT: They started with 3-1-2 (as seedlings/young plants), that was the other CNS17 product (Grow, and looking at Ripe). They've had a balanced (pretty much 1-1-1) since then.

  I can take some when I get home. Plants are healthy, and most of them don't have this issue. It's actually mostly the bell peppers that are like 4-5 feet tall, but have maybe one flower and/or pepper each. Plenty of buds, just not blooms/peppers. 

I've got tall and/or bushy plants all over the garden, but some seem to be putting too much energy into foliage growth rather than setting flowers/fruit or ripening fruit. I'm thinking of switching to a low N feeding from here on out (1-5-4). Any suggestions on if that's a good or horrible idea...

  I'm right there with you. This is my first year with a large number of plants (had like 10 of a couple basic varieties these last couple of years) and I've killed a couple that seemed to be healthy until I got too involved.   I'm curious if the plants in question (dropping the flowers) are...

  Lack of parity between different varieties as far as when they bloom and/or set pods isn't really a concern, and you should in fact expect that reapers will be noticeably slower than jalapenos. That said, what *is* a concern is any time any plant drops flowers for almost a month straight. That...