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Your square foot setup is gonna be bushy and green in no time. May have to suspend yourself Mission Impossible style to harvest some of those pods in the middle Love the 100mm macro. I have the 60mm myself on a 70D body. It is never calm enough down here to get good shots! Do you have an...

What I mean is, if you are only pulling 2 leaves out of 100 then it is no big deal. However if the plant has only 10 leaves and you are pulling 2 off that is around 20% of your photosynthesis capability. This will slow down growth. I am glad in your case that those leaves are ready to be trimmed...

Coldgrowth that looks like classic broad mite damage. Did you inspect the leaves with a microscope? Did you lose those affected specimens?

Could also be herbicide (2,4d) damage.

How large are your plants? The damage is almost purely cosmetic anyway, and if you pull too many leaves on small plants you can push back the time to maturity a good bit. The adult flies lay eggs under the surface of the leaf, so pulling leaves only slows the inevitable tide. If you really don't...

Agree with Dave on this one. Some of my cherry tomatoes are trying to root from branches 5 feet in the air, but every year when I plant peppers down to the cotyledons new leaves pop out from that node. No new roots. Even under where the seed leaves were, rooting has not been great in my experience.

Same or similar thing is occurring on my bhut right now. In my case I believe this is a reaction due to too much water.

Spores are not toxic to other mushrooms, however the mycelium of some species can and will dominate over others. That is why spraying liquid cultures gives the ones you DO want such a distinct advantage. You are literally spraying actively growing mycelium looking for new foods to digest. I...

Having been a long time mushroom nerd, I can tell you that those mushrooms are inky cap mushrooms which are saprobic. That means they do break down wood, grass, etc into more usable organic matter. For your best shot at cultivating beneficial mushrooms in your garden, look up the "liquid...

Thanks! The caterpillars are still around. There has been a crazy crop of them this year all over at least the north Tampa area. I was considering Bti, but they are not doing enough damage to warrant spraying. Had my first lemon drop pod ripen yesterday. Will take a photo when I get home...

Have you seen any damage? I would not stress over it.

Been battling several of these sons a' bitches the past two weeks. They are making Swiss cheese of my lemon drops and cherry tomatoes. One even got the bright idea to eat a hole straight through a nearly mature fruit. My favorite thing to do is pick the leaf they are on and leave them exposed on...

Harden them off and stake them. It stands to reason that the plants would no longer produce the "sunscreen" compounds if they no longer needed them after they were brought back inside for that long. I don't believe the stake would make them weaker per se, though your plants may topple over with...

Awesome! Would love to race some of these against the chocolate scotch bonnet that is currently the same size :). All of those sound fun to grow, and would also let me mess with some interesting crosses. Let me know when the games begin!

I noticed on two of my plants that when I transplanted too early from plastic cups to 5+ gallons they were slower growing than the ones I properly waited for. Ended up being that those plants were overwatered, and the soil took quite a long time to dry out. The small root systems stalled because...

My lemon drop are taking forever to ripen as well. Get on with it already!

That is not growing like a chinense.

That is staggeringly beautiful.

I am convinced that the much larger presence of spiders in my garden this year compared to last has helped greatly with pests. The only thing I have had to deal with are the occasional little gray caterpillar eating BB-sized holes in some leaves. The two previous years aphids and broad mites...

The new stuff looks great under those lights.