Recent content by Oleic

That would make sense. My label reads, "Sugar Rush Peach x Ethiopian Pepper Tree". But I have others with that label and they are ripening red.

  Photo of the peppers is NOT mine (it is from kcdgarden.com, I think). I have never grown them before.

Yes, they are healthy seedlings and I just posted because the foliage at this stage is so interesting!

Great setup! Never heard of the Whore Mother pepper. Are the wicks reliable?  I may have to leave my peppers unattended for a week and have thought about using a wicking system.  Best wishes on you grow.

  Nope, he added TWO drops of 12% H2O2, but was only supposed to add one.

Search SouthernExposure for these cherry peppers (see attached photo) - sounds like what you are looking for.  They are mild annums - quick growing/ripening, and compact plant size.  Malawi, Peppapeach, and Ethiopian Pepper Tree are all baccatums - larger plants and slower to ripen.  I'm growing...

Rice seems to last forever, if you keep the critters out of it.  

I start all mine (50 this year) in Kraty containers with half-strength nutes.  I use Maxigro for the first couple months (then Masterblend, Cal Nitrate, and Epsom salts) which works great.  It comes dry with  scoop, and you use a teaspoon per gallon for the first month or so (I actually start a...

What grow medium are you using (e.g., perlite, rockwool, etc.)?     I think peppers do best with Kratky, DWC, or Dutch Bucket hydro techniques.  With Kratky and DWC, the roots are constantly submerged.  With Dutch bucket, the roots are drip irrigated regularly (I drip constant, others stop the...

I bought some bacillus thuringiensis that is apparently very effective against hornworms.  I bought it last year because I saw a lot of sphinx moths in spring.  But I don't think they were the sphinx moth species that produce tomato hornworms, because I didn't have any.  Anyway, maybe look into...

http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/NewsArticles/PepperLeafSpot.htm

Re: leaf spot.  If the plant is otherwise doing well, I would touch up the affected leaves with a green/chlorophyll marker (temporary measure).  It is always best to figure out the "why" and address that, and not the symptom.  Ditching would be my last option.