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I'm curious to read what everyone thinks could be an issue with this Serrano plant.  It looks like crap right now!   It's now 4 years old, in direct sunlight, watered twice a day on a drip system at its base for 10 minutes each time 12 hrs apart.  I fertilize it with 48-0-0 each February and it...

The questions this "problem" brings up to me at least...   Why do we all start them so shallow under the perfect heat and humidity then take care to trim their tiny helmets off and slowly acclimate them to the conditions they will hopefully grow in?   Why doesn't the pre- emergent work on them...

  At this point they ARE weeds. 

My Hybrids, that I also grew last year under my Sweet Acacia tree are coming up all over the yard due to birds spreading the seeds.  Very prolific plants for sure.   A few weeks ago I sprayed a pre-emergent down once enough wild flowers were above ground in order to eliminate the constant...

I have many in the ground that are a few years old and have lived to thrive again after a night or two each year at your 0c or our 32f.  A long hard freeze and they are toast, but doubt you will see that.  At most just cover them at night.

I just spread a slow release 48-0-0 on my new seedlings and hold overs.  They won't need additional N until fall.    New job has me tossing out over a ton of various fert's daily from transfer spillage.  None of it is honestly "organic" but sure does work when put on the fields for commercial...

The birds have scattered many of my cross seeds and with our abundant rains this winter I have hundreds of these guys sprouting all over the yard.  Neighbors do also but they just see them as weeds.I'm considering nurturing them and see what happens when things heat up around here.  I could have...

  Its not...  I'll let the local expert reply here.  

  Other than  topping with a little chicken poo compost I only water them all.  All plants get the same.

  Finally able to sign back on...  LOL  Nope in that pic its only a little over 11'.  When it went tit's up it hit 14' 4".  It's youngster is now just over 10' and its still early Feb.  We had no frost this winter so all plants are going nuts with new growth.  When it all greens up I'll post...

  Look at my past posts for details but a Native wild growing Chiltepin and Reaper cross.  In the pick the mother plant is on the left side and about 4' tall with the Reaper underneath it all and about 1.5' tall.  They are both still growing well.  I just pulled out of the deep freeze the last...

This hybrid has produced around 100 lbs the past year.  I still have many many pounds in the freezer from it.  It suddenly failed after reaching over 14' tall and I cut it back to a stump which is now greening up and starting over.  Great flavor for a super hot and best roasted.  

I cut it back to 2' tall this afternoon.  It is still green there.  Not changing any watering etc.

  It's a Reaper / wild native Chiltepin planted Oct 2015.  Crazy producer of super hots.  Tried cloning it several times and only have one left alive and its not looking all that healthy.  Cannot get any roots to show on any clones.  Thinking of cutting it way back and putting it on life support...

No change in water or nutes, still constant warm weather (98F tomorrow) yet my hybrid is giving up the ghost.  Dunno why but its failing fast.  Cannot pick the vast amount of peppers as fast as they are ripening so letting them go to compost.  It topped out at 14' 4".  Already planted some new...

Hornworms on my pepper trees is one thing but they do little damage since the plants are so large and healthy, but found one this morning just starting in on a brand new cutting and took out some frustrations on him.  Sorry about the blurry video but was in a hurry to not let him eat much.   5...

Liking the plank walkways over an open path.  Makes better use of the available ground.

  Just filmed one shoot down and a little worried about posting it to the web.  Is there a law against cruelty to bugs yet?  A guy here got 8 years behind bars for putting duct tape on a kitten years back.  It wasn't hurt and sure it was wrong and stupid, but it was just a cat.  Rapists get only...

And it turns out I really hate it when I have to get the ladder out to remove them.   Last night I noticed one of my purple potatoes completely stripped of leaves and found the culprit on the next potato starting over.  Tonight I went out with the blacklight and found dozens of them on my...

  I have not yet but sure as heck will now.  Hadn't thought about that method in years.  Will do so this afternoon and see how it goes, I sure have plenty of plant to try it on.  Will it work on larger branches with 1/2" stems?