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Thanks for the tip about the epsom salt! Is any "plain" type ok? When I search, I mostly get hits for bath salts. I might... I have limited space, and my goal this season is to try growing several different variants to see which types I end up liking the most. So far I have been reserving my...

I see Neptune's Harvest mentioned in many YouTube videos, so it seems popular. It's pretty expensive for me to pick up here in Japan though (5200 JPY works out to about 33 USD because the Yen is super weak at the moment), so I wanted to try the local brands first. This is the one am using now...

Just a quick update. I stopped fertilizing for a bit, and did a couple of heavy waterings to flush the soil, but otherwise I left it alone (I did not trim any of the malformed leaves)... now one month later it seems to have bounced back nicely.

A bit hotter than takanotsume sounds good. I’ll be sure to try it out.

I'm in Japan, and Takanotsume is one of the most common hot peppers here. I'm growing one myself too (along with the other two domestic variants I talk about below). It is by far the most common spicy pepper to sell as seedlings in home / garden centers, basically everybody stocks it. The...

I'm a first time grower of chili peppers. Most of my plants seem to be doing fine, but I have issues with malformed new leaves on a couple of them. Summary: * I am in the Tokyo area of Japan * I have 15 plants in total, all bought as seedlings from various garden / home centers. * All plants...

Hi, I'm a long time pepper lover, but (almost) first time grower based in the Tokyo area in Japan. The climate here is subtropical, and Google tells me that it is roughly equivalent to US plant hardiness zone 10a. Over the last few seasons I've enjoyed making my own fermented hot sauces from...