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    water Is it ok to water in the middle of a really hot day?

    I've seen plenty of hot sunny  days when it you get a pop up shower and the sun is back out again shortly after as hot as ever long before the plants dry off. Perhaps another mechanism is at work if you're seeing damage.
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    water Is it ok to water in the middle of a really hot day?

    Than what happens when you get a midday soaker?
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    Circadian Clock

    Perhaps this should be under Grow Tech? When I read this artical I recalled reading some comments and questions about lighting duration when growing peppers underlights. I thought the artical was interseting and might apply to growing peppers as well...
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    pests Holes in leaves.... Pests? Nutrient issue?

    Or small hail stones.
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    Where have all the Ladybirds gone?

     "TOAW, would you say there are as many as there normally are?"                                                                       I'd have to say yes I have, but I live close to a small state park that has a mix of old growth, secondary growth and brush areas and seems to provide a constant...
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    Where have all the Ladybirds gone?

    Predators and pray have their up and downs in their populations with the predators curve always behind the preys curve. The Ladies will catch up again.
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    Where have all the Ladybirds gone?

    Found three larve last week and placed them on a tomoto plant that had been plagued by aphids.                                                  
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    Compost screen

    You can start selling it now.
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    Anyone else in Florida loving this weather?

    We use to call that the Hoosier Dome affect here back in the day.
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    Comparison of purple plants

    Not purple, just puuurple.
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    Compost screen

    Is that a Dutch tool?
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    Do I need to restart hardening?

    Mostly to prevent sunburn getting a tan instead, and getting used to having a breeze.
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    What is leaving this white stuff on my plants?

    Dom't think spider eggs. Most spiders have maternal instincts wrap and carry their eggs and look like littlle balls or wrap and leave them next to or in their web.  Looks like mealy bugs to me, not good some ants protect and milk them like aphids. I've heard of people wipping the affected area...
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    Brood II is coming... Could cicadas break my peppers?

    No the bugs from Star Ship Troopers.
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    Random facts

    Mould had been used since ancient times as a treatment for wounds and infections in Greece and India. Tetracycline has been found in Nubian mummy bones(it readily binds to Ca). Their beer was likely laced with it since everyone drank beer often, starting as early as age two.     Pasteur in 1877...
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    Random facts

    The Spartan woman had much the same rights as her male conterpart.                                                                     Spartan women, of the citizenry class, enjoyed a status, power, and respect that was unknown in the rest of the classical world. Girls were fed the same food as...
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    Brood II is coming... Could cicadas break my peppers?

    I must have jumped the column of the chart I was looking at. :doh:
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    Brood II is coming... Could cicadas break my peppers?

    You missed the 17yr cicada in Nebraska they came out in 2011 in the Midwest. Every region has their own swarm, and there are shorter period swarms also. Some more info. Also...
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    Brood II is coming... Could cicadas break my peppers?

    Oh no don't blame us.! :shame: The cold weather was just passing through, it came from Alberta, AKA Alberta Clipper.
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    what the eff, its gonna be cold this weekend

    You're supposed to wait till after Mothers Day at this latatude.
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