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Belated glog 2016 – finally time for an update on my peppers!   I started sowing seeds in early March, and I've had less time for the peppers until recently than in other years. Despite that, germination was very successful at first. Then I started overthinking things and that, combined with a...

New year, new plants, new glog!   At the end of the 2014 growing season, I brought almost all my plants into my basement for some extra ripening time. I started saving seeds (and sowing a few) and freezing pods.  I also intended to more thouroughly prepare overwinters of my now big plants; as...

Hi all,   This year's grow list is far from certain but I hope to try some new and flavorful peppers, choose some new favorites to keep growing, see some interesting results from last year's crosses and make a few new hybrids.   I have plants overwintering in 3 locations, two of which are far...

Hi, My 2013 growing season is starting off on shaky ground, but hopefully the New England weather will warm up so I can get some huge plants from my overwintered survivors, select some nice F2 hybrids in my breeding attempts, and make more interesting crosses. Holding me back for the time...

Hi all, I'm from New England but spending time in Puerto Rico - hopefully a few more months so I can finally get some ok harvests. Been a decent gardener back home but not particularly with peppers. Thought I'd take advantage of the endless growing season and try growing a lot of pepper...

I'm spending time in Puerto Rico and trying to take advantage of the climate to grow a bunch of peppers. However, I've been dealing with broad mite attacks (got good advice from gasificada on this website) and a huge ant colony not only living on my roof and in my car, but also farming aphids...

Hi all, I'm from New England but spending a year in Puerto Rico. I like spicy food, gardening and biology so I'm trying to take advantage of the climate to grow peppers. I have one or more varieties of each of the 5 major species. I consider myself a decent gardener up North, though I've had...