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Right now I am batting 1 for 4 or seed husk removals so you are doing better than myself. Beautiful plants Sir! 

Sorry for your loss Trent. Take all the time you need and come back when you are ready. 

  That looks very appetizing. Well done!

   The decision to cull or not is easier if the plant is in poor shape. If the plants are healthy and vibrant, like these new habanero seedlings from Shane, the decision becomes more difficult. When it comes time to pot up look at the slowest one out of each variety and make a decision then...

  Glad you are feeling better. I was wondering what price you'd put on your plants? I have a few extras that I will test the market on this spring. I'm going to try for 3 dollars per plant or 2 for five. I don't want it to be too expensive and deter people from looking at my plants. Compared to...

  Noted. Though our seasons change on a dime. Sometimes 20 or more degrees in a day or two. The plants just shut down. There is no shoulder season here usually but I will take pictures of the results. 

  Same here. However we had a dry winter. And only 8mm of water until August. Second straight year of devastating drought. Watering the gardens was a major time consuming chore. And it was expensive. I have never seen the ground shrivel up like last year. 

Arrg. I just got some cool varieties in the mail. A naga cross and a habanero cross. Very interesting phenotypes on these suckers. I honestly didn't think I'd get them as they were a trade. They are a little too late to start now with those heat levels and my short season which means they will...

  Yeah I noticed some late summer explosiveness. That is also why I started six weeks earlier this year. Still later than many on here though. There will be a lot of experimentation with recipes this year. Depending on how things shake out I may cut back as well. 

  I hope to find something at the old Peavey Mart. They always start up early before anyone else. They are farm oriented so it usually just behind the cattle waterers. If not, I'll check out Home Hardware. 

I have been spacing out the waterings as the roots have grown deeper in the cup. I let them get fairly dried out today and there was still no leaf droop. Tomorrow will be the first fertilizer. I am still on the lookout for fish fertilizer because our green houses do not open until April. I may...

Try looking for the plant and aquarium fluorescents at home depot. They are a little more money but may help. Also just rotate your platter every so often so the plants don't develop a favourite side to lean on. 

Plants look good Matt.

Update. These hot peppers are so slow. The growth my other peppers do in a day takes these ones 4 to 5 days. I hope they are worth it. I think I am going to have to cull a bit, I got some with the seed head on. This will also make room for the faster stuff known as annums or "batch two".

That looks good.

Dragonsfire, will those plants slough off the seed casing? I have about 10% of my peppers have that problem and none are sloughing off the seed casing. 

I considered combining the two but was unsure how caustic the peroxide would be if there was a split in the shell casing. I didn't want to risk damaging the internal structure of the seeds so I kept those two functions separate.    This year I'm reducing my tomatoes down to one variety that will...

Update. I had about 50% germination on the hottest stuff. 10-12 days was the average. I'm amazed that varieties with less capsaican just grow and do everything faster than the hotter varieties. Yeah I observe geeky stuff like that. I had a few plants come up with the seed casing on and in most...

Impressive garden. Look forward to seeing it in full bloom. 

  Thank you Paul. I am still in the proof of concept phase. This year I will start culinary development of the more successful varieties of pepper. Or said another way, there are a whole lot of varieties that don't wanna ripen in time that I have to weed out.  I'm looking for stop watch peppers...