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Thanks for the info! Yeah, it's been a little while now and they're still pretty thin (just had to stake another one before posting this). I just moved them into a closet and will be giving them 24/7 light. Hopefully that makes a difference. I had only been doing 12 hours because I didn't want...

Hi guys,   I have some questions regarding the lighting for my pepper seedlings. To start, let me say this is my first year gardening and I went about a few things the wrong way and am now trying to correct those mistakes as I learn more. I initially got some bad info that I could grow my seeds...

To be honest, I'm not familiar enough with the "taste" of the peppers as more than just their heat level because I'm only recently venturing into spicy foods. Before recently, the hottest I'd go is a habanero. I will say, the habs have a very distinctive taste to me and it doesn't taste like...

Hey, @p3nt4g0n,   Did you end up keeping the plants with the spots and letting them grow? If so, how did they end up producing? Did the spots eventually go away and stay gone?

I went ahead and picked these and after building up the courage, I ate one. Wasn't hot at all. Less than a habanero...I'm thinking maybe the shock of being transplanted (not to mention how unhealthy it was when I got it) caused underproduction of the fruit. The plant is looking much better now...

Update 12 days later:   Since the last post, I was able to dry the pot out and finally watered it a couple days ago. The spots on the older leaves seem to have gotten darker (or become holes), however, the newer growth doesn't seem to have the issue yet.

Well, a few days ago I went ahead and trimmed the side shoots and I'm glad I did. Could just be coincidence, but since I trimmed, it has really put on a lot of foliage up top, has gotten much bushier, and just looks healthier in general. It had gotten to a point where it wasn't really growing...

Yeah I also worry about getting disease from actually pruning though. I have a small ghost that developed a lot of brown spots on the leaves after being topped and im wondering if it was actually that that introduced infection.

Good lookin' plants! Another motivation for me to prune it back was I had figured it would be more manageable to overwinter if I shape it nicely. Not sure how achievable that is though. Also, the plant seems to be directing more growth at the bottom limbs instead of filling out on top.

That's exactly what I want. Would cutting those encourage it to grow bushier up top?

Howdy, guys!   I wanted to ask a quick question about one of my larger ghost plants. It has a few side shoots coming off very close to the soil. They were already there when I bought the plant, but are now much bigger and seem to be hogging the growth of the plant. I am wondering if I should go...

  For sure. I'll give it a few weeks and come back with an update with some pics.

Well that sucks about the rocks because I just potted a Persian lime tree and put rocks in the barrel lol   I guess I'm going to just ride this out and see where it goes. I brought them inside this evening since it was raining. Hopefully I can get them dried out and get back to some happy green...

That's an idea. Would you recommend I add something to help with drainage in the larger pot? I've heard of people using rock in the bottom. I'm about to plant 6 more pepper plants and would like to keep this from happening again, also. On a side note, I was just poking around in one of my...

Right, by pot I meant the container and its soil. Perhaps the soil doesn't drain well enough. I figured since it was a potting mix, it would be fine. Would it be wise to add some perlite or something to make it a bit lighter and improve drainage? If so, do I just uproot it and mix some in to the...

I used an organic potting mix (https://www.lowes.com/pd/HARVEST-Organic-Harvest-Organics-32-Quart-Organic-Potting-Soil-Mix/1000162793) I actually haven't watered in a week, though we've gotten some rain. Maybe the pots aren't draining well.

Here's an update. I know im new to gardening, but this plant really isn't looking well to me. Someone told me snails, but I've only seen one in weeks. Anyone got any ideas?

Well im glad to have some input from a fellow Floridian. I am about to plant a variety of peppers and just wanted to make sure they didn't have something I would transfer to the new plants. As for the feeding and watering, they have recieved a lot of rain as of late. I just recently gave them...

Hi, guys. I have been noticing some browning of the leaves on a couple of my pepper plants. The plants were transplanted to large pots about 4 - 5 days ago, so I was hoping that's all it was, but after poking around on the internet, I'm worried it's a disease or pest problem. I have noticed a...