Recent content by peppergrow

Well, I threw them in a vacuum bag with garlic, a scotch bonnet and 2% salt by weight. We'll see what I get.

I've got a quart of ripe Tobago seasoning peppers that I'm looking to make into a hot sauce. Got any recipe suggestions? Here's my Monday and today's pepper harvests for y'all:

I got shade cloth up just in time for cold weather to roll in. Back under the grow lights for a couple days.

I moved them under an awning after the sun started coming around the trees. It's a scorcher out today.

Cold I'm not worried about. Rather, if it's going to get cold, I'll bring them inside. I'm wondering if plants right under ceramic metal halide lighting (which is hot and has UV-A), need to be shaded when they go outside.

I have a bunch of peppers that I've been growing under 315W CMH lights. They've been sitting 12-24 inches underneath these lights, which are pretty hot. I haven't been bringing them outside much, because we keep getting nighttime temps in the 40s, and it's a lot of pots to move. Do they need to...

I don't think it's thinking about production yet. My starts are all two months old, and only the thai red peppers have started production. Everything else is still just making leaves. This one is just weirdly all leaves and no stem.

I've got a bunch of enormous lush pepper starts going, and one serrano that looks like this: My other serrano looks normal. I think this plant looked normal before it was transplanted to its current pot. And ideas what's going on, and should I just cull this one?

I'm moving to a new house in MA, and while I'm renovating and preparing garden beds I've started something like 30 pepper plants in my basement under lights purchased off craigslist from a cannabis farmer. (Thank goodness the house has solar panels.) They're all waiting for it to be warm enough...