I made a glog to celebrate my love of peppers.
I planted dozens of seeds. Dozens!
And into them I poured all of my love and hopes and dreams and caring.
They spat upon my love as they fled this plane of existence, one after the other, choosing death over an existence with me.
So I cut open...
Would something like the below provide any benefit at all to a batch of seedlings?
I wouldn't expect them to grow and fruit under them or anything, but would it be a boost until it's warm enough for real sun or a typical Amazon money grab with no actual benefit?
I'm just gonna come out and say it.
I'm anti-aphid.
This may shock and alarm some of you, and I'm ok with that.
They killed my overwinters, and then somehow managed to penetrate the plastic perimeter of one of my seedlings.
But I looked my seedling in its eyes and exclaimed, "Seedlings of...
A long time ago, in a youth long shrouded in layers of dust, I convinced myself that I loved peppers. I loved eating them, I loved growing them, I loved nurturing them and seeing them thrive.
It turns out that I was wrong.
No compassionate being with even a shred of empathy could commit the...
Some of you may remember me from my glogs of years past, where the misery and anguish and failure have solidified into joy-diamonds centralized entirely in the center of my chest, causing sharp, shooting jolts of excitement throughout my body.
*Disclaimer: The above is medical hyperbole. Do...
In my decade of attempting to grow peppers I have yet to actually succeed well enough to need to consider long term storage, but the raw optimism in my heart is boundless.
For practice this year I picked up some grocery store jalapenos to try with a random pickling recipe, because you want to...
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So, my TS seeds on the right of that pic clearly aren't doing so hot. My last attempt with them suffered pretty much the same fate.
I harvested them from my first TS plant that grew many years ago.
Are they just trash at this point, or is there anything I could...
Every year. Every goddamn year.
"Hold that football tight this time, alright Lucy?"
"You got it Charlie Brown, come give it a real good kick."
I know you can't grow peppers in Canada. The people who say you can are just filthy liars, lying all the lie-long day. Yes, even you. You know...
"When I first grew here, this was all Canada. Everyone said I was daft to grow Peppers in Canada, but I grew in all the same, just to show them. They got eaten by aphids. So I grew a second year. And those ones got eaten by aphids. So I grew a third. Those dried out, fell over, and then...
Disclaimer: Incoherent rambling and cursing to follow.
So, once more I subject myself to the sadomasochistic pain of growing peppers in Canada. Not just growing peppers in Canada, but 'me' growing peppers in Canada. The universe has repeatedly informed me that this will not happen, but...
Gave some labelled plants to my cousin for the summer, got them back with nothing to identify them but their peppers.
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The two most likely types are Carolina Reaper and Brain Strain. There's a small chance that one of them is a red savina. I...
I bring you this information amidst much mockery and questioning of my sexuality and virility, but my wife can shut up about it if she knows what's good for her.
Yes. You. Go to bed.
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This shall document my war against the aphids in my basement. The...
Some of you may recall the incident with the vigilawnte and my plants. It was not pretty.
As further proof of my theory that superhots are mother nature's way of trying to kill us, one of my Trinidad Scorpions has refused to let a little thing like a lawnmower stop it in its...
Alright guys, I brought in my few surviving plants of the year. They were the runts that never made it out of cups, but damnit, they're alive and they shall be the vanguard of my glorious pepper army for next year!
I found aphids on one. That plant has been stripped bare and is now a...
I thought my bulb had burned out so I replaced it. Unfortunately, no light out of the new bulb either.
What sorts of things can go wrong with a ballast? It has power, it outputs power, not sure what else to check.
120v in, 120v out. Is that normal? What does a ballast do, exactly?
Thought I'd get some group collaboration on the best route to go here.
Long story short, I have three plants I'd like to save that have been victims of "Unplanned, Overly Aggressive Pruning". There's about 2-3 inches of jagged wood pointing out of the ground for each plant. Is it best to...
My bulb died and this is the first time I'll be replacing it. Do you get what you pay for, or is there little difference between the $30 bulbs and the $200 bulbs?
Any recommendations where I should order it from? I live in Canada, for the few places where that might matter when ordering.
I...
It would appear that I'm involved in some sort of neighbourly dispute that I was unaware of over the length of my grass.
I woke up this morning to find that somebody had cut my lawn. Only they didn't stop at the grass, they cut down every piece of vegetation over an inch tall. My peppers, my...
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I planted my 3 overwinters outside last week. Serves me right for daring to dream.
Is -4C (24.8 F) too much for them to survive, or will they just lose their leaves and be fine?
Finally picked up a crappy microscope. Taking a picture wasn't the easiest thing, but here it is. Woo, aphid.
Can't seem to get rid of them this time, even when pulling out poisons and pruning the plants to sticks.
The leaves look a little funny as they grow back, do you guys think it's...