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Just cooked up my first batch of home grown shishitos last night. Pretty crazy how productive these plants are. There was easily this many pods still left on the plants. Going to let this next batch ripen up to red and see what the difference is.        

Sounds like safest thing to do is stick to a strict diet of nothing but hard liquor.

Ah that sucks but at least the storm only got 1. Looks like you had some beautiful plants last season after you got the nutes sorted out, hopefully 2016 turns out even better.

That same storm hit here last night but luckily didn't drop any hail. It woke me up with some incredibly loud thunder though. Looks like more rain incoming Wednesday through Saturday too if the forecast is to be believed.   Those Jimmy Nardellos look awesome. Those are supposed to be a sweet...

What happened to the chat room? It close early for memorial day?

Turns out you can eat too many jalapeno poppers

  It's hard to see from pics but the bed is actually 2 cinder blocks deep although only my 2 plots are actually filled all the way to the top of the 2nd cinder block since I've been buying and adding compost. Since I have a good 12" of soil I'm not sure there would be any benefit to adding a 3rd...

CO2 supplementation is definitely a thing but probably wholly pointless if you have adequate ventilation and definitely cost prohibitive if you are just growing peppers.   You can read all about it in studies or on cannabis forums but the basic idea is that under ideal growing conditions...

  Here is the label for the one I was looking at, it has dilution ratios for different plants. Concentration is only 0.235% imidacloprid (99.765% other ingredients)   Link

  If you do go with imidacloprid be sure to read the label though because it can have a pretty long pre-harvest interval. They Bayer one I was looking at this year had a 21 day PHI.   

TFW you're just a gringo with an electric stove  :tear:

Couple pod shots:   Shishito #1:     Shishito #2: There's a lot more on this one than it looks like but impossible to get a decent pic     PA 353 Red #1:   These have such cool looking pods       PA 353 Red #2:     Cumari:   In 2013 the pods were upright, these ones are pendant. Not sure if...

I'm beginning to think I might have planted a couple too many plants, going to have a pepper forest before long. The lemon drops are starting to take over the annuum bed & I'm really kicking myself for screwing up the far right row and planting the orange jal in front of the shishito. That...

I almost always fight broad mites on a couple plants every spring & have pretty good luck with spinosad and azamax. I keep spinosad on hand for thrips & azamax for aphids and everything else that chews on plants and one or the other will usually knock mites out after a couple applications. Make...