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Thanks guys...   Storm didn't amount to much for me here in sFL, had much worse thunder storms all summer long. Hard to know this with all the media hype.    But bringing plants into a cool a/c area with lots less sunshine seems to have had a positive influence on them. Who would have known...

Hopefully the best of my Chiles now prepared to over-hurricane Dorian...   Significant other,, not so happy. Told her, wait till I finish with 2 more racks of Chiles 'decorations...

  From your post, seems about right to me, as you certainty know Chile basics and how to grow them exceptionally well...   The more I grow, the more I see that every plant seems to be an individual with its own traits, subtle as they may be. Then there is the plant that just doesn't respond the...

Well,, welcome to the yellow Chile club... Not a good club to be in.   From your good pics, in my rookie opinion, looks to be a couple things going on with your plant, maybe.   I've seen the little pin holes in leafs before, not quite as big as yours and no brown. That was spider mites. A curled...

  Nice post, thanks for explaining that...  

  But but,,, it says organic on the bag,,, but with no official org seal. Something that I see all the time in the agriculture product sales literature...  Hey, it says no E Coli added,,, well thats a plus..lol   My take, when its heated up to +200° for long enough it does kill off pathogens...

I was going to post the below yesterday, but though,, I'm probably wrong and its something else. Below was auto saved in editor. Nice feature of this forum to auto save for later...   'Mine do that same thing when I leave them on the plant to long... over ripe..?'   From my limited experience...

By 12 high noon all my srp are wilting and begging for shade. Like yours they perk right up soon after they get shade. Remember these Peruvian plants heritage is the Andean region of South America and cooler temps with less sun. This time of year for baccatums, in a heavy sun hot region, pretty...

  I can relate... ;)

  So, if if ain't broke, don't fix it...   Great advice, for most things in life also...

So guys... whats best for calcium..? Eggshells powdered finely, dolomite lime, calcium lime, crab shell meal, gypsum, etc...?   Whats the very best fertilizers, money no object, if you wanted to pamper a plant... Same question for media, money no object..?     The below pic, like many of my...

As long as we're on the subject of fertilizers...   How long does the 1/2cup Dr Earth 4_6_3 organic dry fertilizer rolled into mix + 1/2 cup finely powdered eggshells (or 2 tbs dolomite lime) per 5 gal bucket of 7/2/1 ratio of peat/perlite/worm castings, last for.?   In other words, after using...

  Pretty much the exact same for me...  

Done a little research for the last month on broad mites, out of necessity.  Unfortunately I know more about those little sukers than I care to...   Solid7 is 100% correct. Broad Mites do leave a toxin that deforms new growth.     For lack of a better term, broad mites toxic 'saliva' stays...

Well,,, might be the very start, maybe. Or something else. Or nothing at all. Hard to tell for me with your pics. A detailed closeup of new growth areas might be more revealing,,, maybe.   My pic below is a broad might infestation I had a while ago. Neem cured it with 1 spray.     Seems the...

Some flower drop,,, pretty normal for this time of year heat, sun, humidity, in my neck of the woods... For me, half my baccatums can't make it thru the day with out heat wilt, 50% mid day shade is needed. My chinense. can take the sun better but still almost half the flowers drop after a while...

  This pic makes me smile...   No holding down them Chiles.....   Can just imagine what they'll do once they fully breach that shade cloth(which they seem fully focused on doing). They seem to be screaming for more sun. Whether its good for them or not,,,idk, but they sure seem to want more. I...

        Yup, the red circle marks the 'hole'. I cut it open and looked, could see nothing insect like there.  But the brown edged hole continues into the cut open pod. And like ballistic gelatin, points to a "I told ya so". Not sure if you can see it in the pic but right under the blue line...

On a serious note...   This is what happens when pods hang around a long time to get ripe... looks like it was just starting to turn and something got to it. Lucky its the only one thats damaged, so far.   This just happened, is a pest inside this pod eating it from the inside out, or is this a...

  ok then...   I got 1 for ya... Perfect for us in the middle summer slow grow season down here in the tropical humidity/heat/sun.   Get your Oxy-Acetylene torch out, or any tank of oxygen will do.    A small tank is fine. Put on the largest tip you got, make sure the Acetylene tank is off.  Set...