Search results

  1. SaintSteven

    On average... how long can one expect a hot chili plant to live for?

    I'm curious how long a hot pepper plant will survive.  I have a red scotch bonnet and a serrano pepper that wintered over and wondering if they are lively to suvive a second wintering over?
  2. SaintSteven

    Do ants eat pollen?

    So my serrano pepper plant successfully wintered over and its doing great, has dozens of flowers blossoming.  When I looked at it for a few moments I noticed some little black ants crawling on it and, uh, pollinating my plant?  Do some ants eat pollen or are they trying to abuse my poor plant...
  3. SaintSteven

    seeds Will seeds from a dried pod still be fertile?

    So I left a cayenne pepper sitting on my kitchen counter for several months and its dry as a bone. I'm curious if its likely this has damaged the seed fertility or if they should be fine. Curious of what my chances are to get seedlings out of this thing!
  4. SaintSteven

    storage Will below freezing temperatures damage hot pepper seeds?

    So I moved to a new town and couldn't find any ghost pepper plants here. I asked my friend to mail me some of his seeds but I'm somewhat concerned the cold weather may kill them. Do below feezing temperatures kill hot pepper seeds or do you imagine they will be fine?
  5. SaintSteven

    pests I have aphids on my plants. Is it okay to spray them with vinegar?

    I recently brought in 5 of my pepper plants to winter over and I noticed that aphids have been multiplying like crazy on my Scotch Bonnet. I did some research online for organic aphid control and I've come across two ideas that I like. Lemon solution and watered down vinegar. Anyway I'm...
  6. SaintSteven

    How long should I allow my cayenne pepper to ripen? Why do the buds yellow and die?

    Hello I have a couple of questions about my cayenne peppers. Yesterday morning my first pepper started to turn red and I'm curious how long I should allow it to ripen on the vine for. Also, the cayenne that I have in the ground are having A LOT of their buds turn yellow and die. Any...
  7. SaintSteven

    Hi I'm new here.

    Hello, I'm a first year pepper gardening newbie and I'm trying to get as much useful information as possible in order to increase the efficiency of all of my hard labor and my plants' growth and yields. I stumbled upon this website due to a youtube video and I thought it looked like a wondrous...
Back
Top