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    Thank you!  I hope so!     Three of the Purple Cayennes have roots, as of a few minutes ago; I'm planning on putting them in soil tomorrow or Friday at the latest.     ...I think I may have put the beans out too early, though.  During a night of desperate last-minute paper grading, followed...

    One of the scarlet runner beans had sprouted a root by the time I checked today - I love Florida early-warm-season weather, at least for its effect on seed germination rates! - so now all of the beans are outside, about six each in two small pots of reasonably damp organic potting mix from...

    Now that I've finished moving out of my old apartment with its north-facing sunless balcony and into a single-story apartment with a wonderfully sunny patio - hence the title of this grow log - I'm trying to grow more chiles again!  (In addition to other sun-appreciating plants.)     I...

  ...a long time later, after I've managed to recover my password - unfortunately, both habanero seedlings died, although all six of the cassias who I started at the same time are still alive.  I'm about to try again with more habanero seeds from the same batch, along with Black Pearl, purple...

  ...a long time later, after I've managed to recover my password - unfortunately, both habanero seedlings died, although all six of the cassias who I started at the same time are still alive.  I'm about to try again with more habanero seeds from the same batch, along with Black Pearl, purple...

  I haven't had a chance to try nearly as many as I want to, but I love red ghost peppers, actually - they're delicious and very convenient to use if you oven-dry them and powder them in a coffee grinder.  To me, they taste and smell slightly sweet and somehow richer than habaneros.  (So, of...

  Thanks!  I'm going to get yellow construction paper next time I go to a store to make those traps...  A few months ago, I tried making traps from pieces of old manila envelopes smeared with Tanglefoot, but those don't seem to have done much, probably because the paper isn't really bright...

  Oh.  Okay, I started to write this before seeing the most-recent post and I defer to the greater knowledge of someone who actually lives in a climate where peppers don't just overwinter outside, but for whatever this is worth:     That probably depends on how cold the window area gets and...

...my oldest habaneros are dead and dying. I dislike whiteflies with a vengeance.

  Thanks!  I just deliberately overwatered them and poured most of the white stuff into the sink with the excess water, so I'll see if it grows back or not.  I can't see any signs of new leaves yet, but I won't panic as long as they're green.   And, I'm definitely willing to be patient now - at...

  Two weeks after my last post, both seedlings are still green, but don't have any true leaves yet.  I can't remember how long my sprouted-earlier-this-year batch of habaneros took to grow their true leaves, so I don't know how worried I should be.  These two live in an upper-70s-Fahrenheit room...

  Ooh.  I don't know - I'm sorry! - but I hope you succeed, because that sounds awesome (and maybe you could cross the Black Pearl with an orange habanero and get Halloween-colors fruit...).

  I posted a while ago about my oldest habanero, whose leaves suddenly shriveled and who is now probably dead.  At the time, I suspected I had killed it with some combination of too much soapy water on its leaves (to kill sap-sucking insects) and overwatering in a clogged pot.     One of its...

      You're right - it's just getting into the mid-to-upper-60s overnight now, which isn't cold by even Florida standards.  But I think most of my plants are going to use that as an excuse not to produce any flowers this year...

  Flowering below 65 degrees F?  Nice!  I'll tell my plants that they should enjoy the temperatures here and not fuss so much...

  From one hurricane-prone state to all of the rest - good luck to everyone, and please stay safe!  Your car can't swim.  And (almost) no matter what category it is, and even if you're inland, I recommend sleeping in rooms that aren't within falling distance of a tree (especially if the tree...

  Thank you!  They're still extremely small trees - as in, a few inches tall, probably because the office is cold - but their parent was about fifteen or twenty feet high, so I expect they'll look more impressive soon.  Hopefully, I'll graduate before they grow taller than the ceiling...  ...

  Ha - got it!  I hope.  Here are the two seeds with roots, as of the evening of September 24th -         ...and their new homes, as of September 25th -