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Pepper plants have grown only a little in the last week.  Was hoping to see growth take off with 16 hours of LED light, compared to less hours of cloudy winter window-light.  Maybe they are growing fine, but I am just checking on them too often to notice. Or they could be adapting after being...

I started three pepper plants in October, Aji Cachucha, Bahamian goat pepper, and Jamaican Chocolate Habanero.  I had them by a south facing window until January, when I moved them into the decontaminated (hopefully) tent.  They grew steadily by the window despite the short cloudy days.  I moved...

My tent in the fall ended up full of aphids and white flies. The white flies made the entire floor of the tent sticky.  I tried adding some lady bugs I captured outside, but they did not seem to help any, at least in the short term.  The outdoor plants also brought in some house flies and other...

I have been thinking about brown peppers, which are said to be red peppers that kept their green, rather than some unique brown pigment.   Do the people who dislike the flavor of brown peppers also dislike the taste of green peppers?   Could I recreate the taste of a brown habanero sauce by...

The Trinidad perfume peppers in the grow tent are ripening to a true yellow color, while the ones outside are ripening to an orange/yellow. See photo. In the photo, the Perfumes from the grow tent are the same color as the adjacent Lemon Drop pepper. The yellow scotch bonnets are ripening...

The chipotle one is good.

Do you spray on the plant or add to the soil?   Have you tried using the product on some pepper plants, but not others, and comparing results?

I have the grow tent set up, and I moved a Perfume and yellow scotch bonnet into the tent a couple of weeks ago. They currently look healthier than the peppers plants still outside. I also move my culantro plants into the tent for winter. I am planning to start some more culantro since we use a...

What are your favorite cookbooks?   I am also interested in hearing about your favorite websites for recipes.   After years of making the same few dishes over and over again, lately I am trying new recipes, and I plan on buying some cookbooks.  There are countless recipes available free online...

Has anyone done a Jerk turkey?  I may try that for Thanksgiving.  I could inject the turkey meat with the marinade for a more intense flavor.    Injecting the meat might be an idea for me to try with chicken as well. 

I just have mine served over rice. I like tobasco sauce on the table with chicken gumbo, and Louisiana sauce with seafood gumbo. I do not mix chicken with seafood. I make gumbo regularly. Usually I just use cayenne powder, but lately I have experimented with fresh peppers. Green hot...

Cornish hens might have been even better than the chicken. Delicious and fun to eat. Had them tonight with with red beans and Jollof rice. Jollof rice paired well with the jerk. Jollof rice is new dish for me. I made the Jollof rice with two red foodarama scotch bonnets. Maybe next time I...

I made a jerk chicken today with 10 Foodarama yellow scotch bonnets. This was my first time making Jerk from scratch. I washed the chicken with vinegar and water, made cuts through the chicken, and then used this marinade. https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/jerk-chicken I smoked the chicken...

I am very happy with the Trinidad pimento I grew this year.  Slice up a couple, and you can smell the aroma from the opposite side of the room, and they significantly improve the flavor of the Caribbean food we cook. I am also very happy with Trinidad perfume.  I plan to keep both varieties over...

Is there a brown no heat variety?  I am thinking that creating a brown mild variety might be a fun project for me.   I have never tried a brown pepper, so I do not even know if that is a flavor I will enjoy.  I am growing Jamaican Chocolate Habanero next year.  If I am impressed with the flavor...

I set up a grow tent this week, 5 x 5 feet. Initial intention was to use it for overwintering my plants, but now Im very tempted to get a super early start on my 2021 peppers. I ordered some seeds, and they arrived today. red Congo, yellow Congo, Grenada seasoning, Venezuelan tiger, Antillais...

My season has been a success. My freezer is loaded with enough peppers to get me through the year, and I have shared some with friends and family. Lately I am finding peppers with holes in them. Im guessing from some sort of insect. I havent caught any insect or animal in the act. I have been...

It looks ok to me.  You have a few nice ripe peppers ready to pick.    The lower leaves are falling off.  I think that can be part of the normal growth process.

Grow at least two of each variety. When one is damaged or doing poorly, others are doing well.    There does seem to be some significant variation within many of the pepper varieties, and growing multiple plants of each variety allows you to appreciate the spectrum. If you grow a single plant...

What weather conditions mark the moment to end the outdoor season and bring the peppers indoors for the rest of winter?   Does the daily high matter just as much as the low?    Last week here, we had a few nights with high 30's at night, 70s in the day, and the peppers plants seem as healthy as...