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Which method are you using? What type of peppers? If soil, which soil? How much water? What temperature do you have the germination medium?

Sorry I missed you all. We were there from around 1:30-2:30. Saw the lolly lickathon in action, nabbed a few tasty sauces, then headed to Madeira Beach.

Ah, I love your setup. You have inspired me to start my next round of seeds tonight! Being able to experiment with so many different mediums is so cool.

My chinense had edema worse than my annuum under the growlight this year. I think because the annuum drink water faster early on in my setup.

Wow. Beautiful stuff. Your plants look extremely happy!

When the plants are still young I take my thumbnail and actually scrape the little bastards out of the leaf. You can typically see a yellow or tan-colored spot at the end of the trail where the larvae are located. I scrape over that until the yellow bugger pops out and squish him good. After the...

That looks like the fluffiest potting mix in the land. Good stuff! Just be aware with a mix like that you will likely be watering more often when your plants get big.

I can say that my current round of bhuts got transplanted into soil with Black Hen and mushroom compost. I have not fed them at all and they stalled. The soil holds too much moisture for too long which has caused both edema and fungus gnats. The combination of too much water and too many...

My peppers get aphids and broad mites. My tomatoes get leaf miners. I agree I do not see any shared pests/diseases between the two. Mine grow close together as well.

Bright lights can do that to lots of different hot pepper varieties when they are young. No worries!

Grafting chile onto tomato.   Just like most other stem-grafted plants, there is a root stock and a scion. Only the fruit of the scion would form after a successful graft. That is unless you allow suckers to grow out from the root stock which I suppose may produce small inferior fruit.

No worries on that score Sawyer. This stand is right up against the fenceline of the property. One side is the river, the other side is a major roadway. No foot traffic.       It's a 30% cloth, but I have it doubled-over from the patio side toward the fence. Not sure if it truly doubles to 60%...

  Looks liike a cotton plant :wink:       Have you transfered peppers out of the aerogarden into pots before? How do they fare? I am interested to see how the roots deal with the change!

I use a machete to knock them down. I like to let the heft of the blade do the work for me! However being inexperienced I definitely did take down a few younger ones. The walls were very thin on two or three poles. May have to replace those tomorrow evening.

  Thanks! I have indeed chopped off the leaves. The bumps left behind by the sprouting leaves are properly useful! Help keep the cable ties right where I want them. There are a mix of fresh green thicker poles and slender dry yellow poles. Will report back if anything strange happens.         Moo.

There happens to be a nice thick stand of bamboo at the river's edge behind my apartment. I just cut a dozen sturdy poles to use as stakes for my potted plants. Are fresh green stakes too likely to attract fungus and insects? Are there any other considerations for using fresh cut bamboo?

Lemon drop produces pretty quickly for me. We use them fresh in salad, and made into sauces and jellies. They make an awesome hot pepper jelly!

Do you have them under a grow light? Might be time to top/prune? Can you throw a picture up? Use imgur or photobucket, and copy the direct link from there.

Any chance you can take some better close-up photos in whiter light?