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The short explanation is that I take some of the diseased leaves that have already fallen off the plant, as well as some of the dirt. I mix a few things in there along with that and I culture it. Because the specific bacteria that caused the damage is what grows it's own antibiotic, the blend is...

  Sorry for giving that impression. You are correct, many of the leaves are new growth. However, look at the photos closely, because you can see many of the same leaves in both photos. Up to that point the plant had been fighting the infection; it would grow new leaves, but then they would just...

  If it were, then the mix I applied shouldn't have been effective. I haven't sprayed any antifungals or really for that matter anything else during the time I was testing it.    I recently started using fertilizer, and I have put down insecticide, but I waited until all of the damage was gone...

Ok, so I'm not going to tell you every detail about how this works yet, because I'm unsure if it's something I want to try to market. However, I may have figured out a way to stop the #1 problem with pepper growing.   I believe that bacterial spotting as well as "sun scorch" damage are caused by...

Uh huh. Now can we see the mwta analysis of the challenges to this data please?

Monsanto sends me paychecks for chatting them up on seed growing forums. Big huge paychecks on paper made from GM cotton. No but for real, its that I am completely nuts about the Hatch, New Mexico peppers, and just want to be able to buy them all year, and with no bugs living in the tips. GM...

I think you're on to something here. The way I've got it set up is that one half of my planter is covered. Because the uncovered side is near a wall, I don't get full sun all day, but maybe from around 9am-12pm I do. The remainder of the day there is only the sun shade to cover them. There was a...

Bet you in a double blind taste test you'd not say so.

There do appear to be some groups working on New Mexico GMO. One of the articles I ran across says the state is funding development of mosaic virus resistance. NMSU has commentary about the potential benefits too, but yeah, there is a ton of resistance to the change from the locals. Seems to be...

Wild annuums grow upwards too, don't they?

I do, but do the farms not have issues like these too? It'd be so great to be able to get Numex peppers all year. I mean I guess there are Anaheims, but the varieties of 6-4 are just so much better than the 9s.

It probably doesn't help that places like Hatch, New Mexico are trying to maintain their protected origin status. Lotsa old seed lines there.

They're still pretty tiny, but the bells I started a couple months back seem to be getting exactly what they need, so I'm pretty optimistic. These are from nice fresh heritage seeds straight from NMSU.

Hey how come there are no GM peppers on the market? Seems like you could put a clamp on all the blight issues quickly. I would be first in line to buy seed from you.

There is something to be said about the experience. Maybe. My main focus is New Mexico Big Jims and various sweet peppers. I'm expecting to harvest from around 40 plants this summer.

There are quite a lot of days that I wonder to myself why I'm putting this much effort into growing peppers that I know will be under $1/lb in September. If I froze them I could probably not use more than 100 lbs a year. I'm out triple that cost so far already. I guess maybe if I do this again...

My biggest issue is that I can't use this house's dirt to grow in. It's a rental. I did reuse a lot of what I had from the year before though, by taking the old potting mix and composting table scraps into it. My worst cost so far has been obtaining additional pots. Buckets would have worked...

Jeezum crow, how do you find time to grow things with this much typing?

That's pretty cool, you don't see a lot of upwards growing Annuums. That would earn it a vote towards frutescens from me, but the leaves are like my annuums so...    I got nothing I guess lol.

You guys are killing me. I get 12 gallons of potting soil that doesn't need to be fertilized for 6 months for less than $15 here, and to me that already seems like I've offset any cost benefit to growing at home.