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Part 3   Haven't added mulch -- this is a long story from a bad experience last year.  I might add some as the weather finally gets hot and my plants are fully grown.   Some of you have more experience and I look forward to hearing about alternatives to buying soil from HD and Lowe's, also the...

Part 2 - Continued   About that time I posed a question here on the pepper forum about struggling plants and one fellow told me to ditch the Kellogg soil -- it has far too much tree bark-- and replant immediately.  I reviewed other online forums about this and confirmed his diagnosis.  So, in...

My reply is in three parts -- Part 1 of 3   OK.  Remember, I'm a rookie, so go easy on me if I did something, or say something, that sounds dumb.  I live in coastal North County San Diego, which has a relatively mild climate without precipitation after March and low humidity in the summers.   I...

  This is my third year, and I'm in coastal North County San Diego. My first year was easy, I only grew a few plants purchased at the local Home Depot.    Last year was a disaster for reasons too complicated to get into.  Suffice it to say that based on bad advice from the grower, combined with...

  The words of a wise man!  It's just that I'm still a newb and I tend to fuss more than you veterans.  Especially I keep learning important factoids (such as avoid all Kellogg products).  I'm also now dreading the influx of the hornworm since the temps are hotting up.

  Nice to hear that.  As I said when I posted, I'm in SoCal but in coastal San Diego, and this has been a mostly sunless spring and early summer.  Those of you inland a bit, or in suburban LA, are no doubt drenched with sun by now.   What hotter peppers did you plant?  Did you start from seed...

  Thanks, this was helpful.  I hope you don't mind sharing a few more tips, I'll reach out to you via PM.

  You fellows are talking one level above what this rookie knows, so let me see if I understand the issue you raise.  The act of transplanting is disruptive of course, and can result in a yellowing that is not related to nutrients, but from the shock to the plant.  So the Epsom salt solution...

We had the coolest and most sunless spring and summer in Southern California history this year. I planted in early April and over the past 85 days there have probably been 10 days with any appreciable amount of sun.    This might be a dumb question, but is this the reason why very few of my...

I live in coastal San Diego and planted over 40 pepper plants in 13 pots in mid-April.  Note that I have received very little fruit so far, but it has been one of the most cool and sunless springs and early summer in recent history.  Thankfully, just today, the first day of July, we had some...

  I totally agree with you but this Bulgarian Carrot plant defies all the common sense.    Each plant was only about 20 inches tall, and still slender, yet they were all packed with fruit!  I mean, the 10-15 green peppers at a time!  All full size, 3 inches.  It made no sense.   So I picked them...

  Yup, my liquid fertilizer is a liquid fish emulsion product, and is 90% fish and 10% seaweed.  Every time I open it up my dogs run after me a like I was carrying fresh ribs.    So is the consensus here that my critter is probably a coyote?  I'll keep the game cam up for a few weeks and report...

Game cam installed for three nights, and here's what showed up last night -- a coyote.  Looking back to my original post in this thread, could it have been a coyote who was nosing around in my pots looking for grubs?  Would the fresh potting soil have been like catnip to him?

  Yes.  The first pepper of the second wave Bulgarian Carrot is coming in bright orange, as in the photo above.  Also, my first two habaneros are coming in bright orange.   Not so for the others.  I have two large Ethiopian browns, first wave, still green.  My first wave of Fresnos are still...

  This is good info, thanks.  For the Bulgarian Carrot at least, leaving the full sized green pods on the plant had no effect.  They stayed green.    And curiously, now that I'm in the second month of fruiting, the new fruit is coming in with color from the start.  I thought for all ordinary...

  So ... could I have made the change happen sooner, if I picked off the green ones before they got big?

Small issue but you guys and gal are so good with your comments that I post this anyway.  I'm still a noob (3rd season) with 42 plants in 13 half barrels, all types of peppers.  I live in So Cal (coastal San Diego) where we have had an unusually wet, cool, and sunless spring and summer.  It's...

  What are you using to control them, besides picking them off?  They are usually out by this time in CA, but it's been such a cool spring and summer, the little buggers are still in their papooses.

  Well, I'll sure be curious to see how your sensor works.  Does it keep data so you know how many times it turns on in a given night?  Also, in my case, squirrels are one of the possible culprits, and I wonder if it's sensitive enough to detect a squirrel at an oblique angle or a distance of...

  OK, great info.  Based on the infiltration two nights ago, I'm suspecting something larger than a squirrel.  Game camera arrives today, will post pics when I have them.