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Tomatoes are growing quickly.

Bato buckets are up and running. The purple kale colored up nicely outside. I may just keep these as an ornamental plant. I read that kale taste best when grown in cool weather, and it has finally warmed up here this week.

I am hardening off the plants and doing some more work on the Dutch bucket systems this weekend. The Dutch buckets will be 5 tomatoes and 5 pepper plants. An additional 7 peppers will be in pots filled with miracle gro potting mix. If then hydroponic peppers do well, this might be my last...

I started construction of the Dutch bucket system this week. Still more to do. This will be 16 feet long with 10 total buckets when completed.

Moved the rest of my seedlings into solo cups today. I removed the netting. The roots hadn’t grown through the netting as badly as I expected. Plants all look ok to me at this point, although I have payed less attention to them than planned.

Is fruity even a meaningful description of a fruit?

I am growing Datil from Refining Fire Chiles seeds this year. The Datil pepper is often described as “frutier than a habanero”, which seems to be the description of almost every chinense pepper other than orange habanero - so that seems almost meaningless. I like growing peppers with an...

So, different sizes and shapes. How about flavor? Do Datil have a specific unique flavor, or do they just have a generic red habanero type flavor?

The 4 plants I started early are starting to form their first branches. Something is satisfying about observing the first branching. Growth is fast. Probably time to repot them soon. I bought some small grow bags that have Velcro so you can open the bags and remove the plants. That might be...

Alternatively, you could do the 18 hours, but start later in the year. Energy efficiency can be improved with a reflective grow tent or other method of reflectors.

Started my tomato seeds today. Growing black cherry, sunrise bumblebee, Cherokee purple, and Kellogg’s breakfast. Sunrise bumblebee was delicious, beautiful, and prolific when I grew it before. The other 4 varieties are new to me.

Scarlet kale.

Trinidad pimento seedlings have mishapen cotyledons this year. Hopefully nothing to worry about. I thinned out the seedlings to one or two per pod this morning. People talk about selecting the most vigorous seedlings, but to me they generally all seem equally vigorous unless they are affected...

I got at least one seed from each variety to germinate. Overall things are going smoothly.

I am skeptical that there is enough chlorophyll to affect the taste significantly. If you chop up a brown habanero and add it to your burger, you are already getting plenty of chlorophyll from the lettuce and cucumber. I am growing a sweet annum brown pepper variety this year. This should...

I grew Jamaican hot chocolate habanero. It was good, but I didn’t find the flavor to be particularly unique compared to red habaneros. The reds also made a more appealing sauce color. My Congo black seeds didn’t germinate.

Peppers that have stood out as good when green to me include red Congo, yellow Congo, Trinidad pimento, Jamaican scotch bonnet, and orange habanero.

Have you grown culantro before? Any tips for growing it? I have grown culantro several times. Slow germination, slow growth, bolts quickly, short lived, dies if too wet or too dry. Seeds will not germinate without light. This year I am going to try growing culantro in 80:20 coco perlite in...