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I've had them sometimes when planting out. They never stick around.

Yeah, that's no accident.

I guess that one is just really excited.

Well let's see, the pepper has seeds, veins, stem, and hull, right? And all together that makes up the body of the pepper. So let's call the BODS.

if they were seeking water I would expect them to go down, not up into the air! No idea why they would grow upward - can't say I've run into that. Tuck them back under the soil and see what happens.

From everything I've read, after the first round are done you should stop. I don't do it at all.

Just to stir up the mess even more: I visited an Indian grocery yesterday and almost all of the hot peppers (dried and powdered) were called "chillis". In the end, though, as long as we all know what we're talking about, it's good with me. But it's still chileE 🤪

Only a few types of peppers grow upward, but I don't think I've ever seen one point up while the rest are pointing down...

Why not just go with both?

NMSU is one place I would trust more than most on this subject - it's the home of the Chile Pepper Institute and they take chile very seriously around there.

Well, keep in mind that peppers are from Central America so I doubt you get that warm! Also they grow quite well in places like Southern California, New Mexico, etc. 6 hours would be the minimum amount of direct sun for best results. Mine get up to 13-14 hours on sunny days depending on season...

I have too many to harden (until I finally get the hoop house functioning) so I've never done it. Guess I've been lucky - can't say NO losses but never much loss. Might be worth trying an experiment to compare how well they do post-transplant with and without though.

But what happened when you crossed them?

The spelling "chile" is entered into the 1983 congressional record by a New Mexico senator. Granted he was specifically referring to NM chiles, but that's my heritage so I'm sticking by it. The other spellings refer to the stew made from chiles. Or people who don't know chile. :)

I vote we call ALL botanical berries berries - so squash, cucumber, tomato, peppers, etc... Petition grocery stores to categorize them correctly. (That also means that strawberries are not berries, just call them strawfruit.) Although my son does call tepins "danger berries" And it's chilE! :)

Like I said, I need to read those novels :) That's some good attention to detail. The TV series had good material to start from!

We went to SC for the last one but it was overcast. We made a trip to Vincennes Indiana for this one - the town went all-out to welcome people with a big festival and everything, really cool on their part. Day turned out to be bright and sunny, very minimal clouds, so we got to see totality...

i don't have enough experience with pubescens to have much idea of their growth pattern. I THINK they're comparable to annuums. A tomato cage should be more than enough, but let's see what those with more experience say. (BTW I don't trellis anything - I just put in stakes for any plants that...

I just started SG1 again a few weeks ago and I still didn't see the scene in question - watching on Prime. Maybe it's from the movie? Yes, and The Gripping Hand. I like pretty much all the Niven/Pournelle collabs: Lucifer's Hammer, Footfall, and Oath of Fealty (with Steven Barnes) The novels...

No idea how long something has to be around to be considered heirloom. I do know that it at least has to be stable. As for the habanero, I know that one is old enough! I think 8,000 years is long enough... Looks like the scoprion was developed in the 1990's. By any definition I'm able to find...