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I was gifted a White Hab and was just curious about its flavor properties from those who grow them. Sweet, fruity, bitter, smoky that kind of thing, What does it go well with, fish, veg, chicken, opossum?  Im sure I could find some seed catalogue write up but the people who write them aren't...

 I often see posts where a person has over fertilized their plants and then wants to know whats wrong with them.  I just wanted to share this pic to illustrate a point - Fertilizer is not "plant food",  its really more of a soil restoration These plants were all started roughly the same time...

I often hear people saying to pinch buds on various plants to promote root growth or whatever.  I personally dont buy it nor do it.  The reasoning seems lacking, If a plant is trying to flower and its buds keep getting ripped off why would It say "oh well, guess Ill just grow roots now".  I...

Its definitely sunburn. did you just move them outside?  If yes then I would shorten their exposure to direct sunlight per day for awhile. This year I hardened my plants off by sticking them outside under a east west orientated table for a week.  After that they were fine, no sunburn.  Sunburn...

looks like cold damage to me.  They may have survived the winter, just not unscathed.  Cold wind damages the ends of the branches like that, and the cold weather slows transpiration so if it was wet and cold the plant starts to rot. Black spots on leaves, dropping green leaves are all  signs of...

looks yummy!

1. Id say you should be happy with your led set up   2. its genetics.  Large leaves are indicative of shade tolerant varieties like 7pot

This year I just put them under a table in my greenhouse for a week then moved them to the table-top and no worries! The table was oriented long-ways east to west. the greenhouse "glass" is clear, double wall polycarbonate so it doesnt offer much in the way of protection from UV light.

I would imagine the intensity of the grow-lights would be the determining factor.

I said it was my experience.  In your climate it absolutely makes sense.  For me zone 6b/7, it didnt pay. heres a pic of me standing next to a moruga, I start them in doors in Feb, transplant in May, this pic is from September. My season ends in October.  Im 5'8"

as long as it doesn't drop below 55, they will eek it out, but they wont be happy.  I over wintered a orange hab once.  Thought to myself, Ill transplant it into the garden come spring and get an ass load of peppers!  It didn't grow to half the size of the ones I started that winter. ...

When you put Hotsauce on your Hotsauce, you know you might have a problem

my experience is that it does concentrate capsaicin, ripened a bunch of peppers on cut plants, threw off all my sauce recipes because of increased heat to weight ratio.  Again my main point was drought stress is bad for plants and personally when i want a hotter pepper i just eat a hotter pepper...

the first study also mentions that capsaicinoids reach max levels at 30-50 days after flowering.

here's an interesting study, the findings were that the genetics of a plant determined whether peppers were "hotter" under drought stress.  The most interesting thing was that the hotter the pepper the more drought resistant the plant therefore less change when stressed.  It did however find...

you should NEVER let your plants wilt between waterings!! cant stress that enough, the very fine root hairs are how your plant actually receives nutrients.  When the soil turns hard it destroys these hairs. (thats why your cucurbits wilt in the midday sun btw, shallow roots)  THis also puts...

just let it go to seed, then you'll have your own supply of seeds for free. 

very cool