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A friend of mine made some sheet-metal galvanized "trays" for me.  They are 12-inches wide X 4-feet long X 1-inch deep.   I was gonna set my Wally-Bag plants inside these trays.  Originally, my plan was to bottom water.  Then, I began to wonder if the heavier water-soluble nutrients would...

I just watched a review where compmodder26 reviewed a pod and hated it. That was the first bad review I've ever watched. However, I'm not much on watching videos of people eating. My teenaged grandkids love watching the videos of people eating the superhots! There have been instances where...

This year has seen temps all across the US near 100 degrees and, in some places, well over 100 degrees. We rarely reach the 100 degree mark here. But, we stay in the mid-to-high 90s almost all summer, with sweltering humidity. In most cases, I would choose a different variety over another, if...

We headed out on the big commercial shrimp-trawler of my son's uncle-in-law. Our goal was to catch enough BIG shrimp for a large crowd of family and friends. There were a few folks from up north, "Shreveport" (just kidding, OH, Pa, and CT) who had never eaten a Louisiana-type boil before. Some...

Back in the early 80s I worked with a young single guy from Texas. We'd invite him to all of our family gatherings because he was new to this part of the world and didn't know anyone here. He'd always bring something "Texican" to our meals or BBQs. My favorite was the homemade fajitas his...

My own hot sauce has been a great success for my tastes and, some of my friends keep after me for more of my sauce. I have enough hot and super-hots planted to make drums-full of hot sauce. I'd like to pickle a lot more peppers and, I prefer the thick fleshed ones also for pickling. The Manzanos...

Our pepper-growing friends in Europe may be charged as criminals if they use seeds they saved from their own crops or if they use any seeds that have not been approved by a government commission! This European commission wants to make it a criminal offense to possess any seed a grower saved...

During most of my 30 years in the employ of the local oil refinery, I also owned an irrigation company. Been out of the irrigation business a few years now. Anyway, I recently put some plants in Walmart "Wally "green bags". In order to get the irrigation water to stay inside the porous...

The descriptions I read here of the Manzanos and Rocotos sound fabulous to me. A thick-walled, delicious, large, juicy pepper with some heat! And, I was gonna buy some seed for them. But, I read here that they are not too crazy about hot-n-humid. It gets brutally hot and humid down here...

I'm just getting out planting. I live just east of New Orleans, tucked up against the brackish marshes. We MIGHT get a few nights each winter where the temps actually drop to freezing for a few hours. Rarely do we get below 32 degrees during daylight hours here. Most of my plants are gonna...

My text has to be in one big combined block. If I hit the "ENTER" button to give some paragraph gaps in my text, it does nothing. When I do a PM, it works fine. So, it's not something happening across the entire site. I was messing with this Microsoft wireless keyboard and I pushed the F10...

In the almost-gallon of sauce that I made, there is 2 pounds of orange habaneros, about a pound of those giant jalapenos, a half-pound of serranos and about 8 poblanos. I added onion, garlic, a banana, and an apple. The sauce has a fantastic flavour but, is nowhere near hot enough and it is a...

My grow area is too small to grow all the plants that I want to grow. We do have room in our front landscape bed for an extra 6-8 plants. However, my wife doesn't think pepper plants are very ornamental. There has to be some pepper plants that are so prolific, colorful or covered with pods...

I purchased some seeds. And some of our very generous members have blessed me with some incredible varieties. A couple of my friends tasted some of Shane's (stc3248) powder and, they now want to grow peppers. If I can gently separate the ones that have two or more seedlings in a cup, I will...

Please help me identify the plants that would be OK for a season in Wally Bags. Or' if it's easier to pick the ones that are too big, that's more-than-fine! Probably be easier to just copy-n-paste whichever category ones right onto your post. I'm flat-out clueless! Aji Dulce #2 (peppermania)...

These glogs have been an incredible source of learning about growing peppers for me. It's just a skull-cramp to have scroll thru the "glog" pages to find the ones I want to keep up with. Is there a way for me to "save" on this site, all of the glogs I want to follow? Where I can just...

I thought I could make my own pepper-flakes for making kimchee, I bought dried Thai peppers to use in my kimchee. As it turned out, the correct pepper flakes are a few very specific varieties of "Korean" peppers. Rick (Stickman) and I are in the process of trying to determine and buy the...

I just knew I was gonna skillfully avoid the dreaded kahm yeast funk in my mash! Well, guess what? It reared it ugly fuzz right on top of my first mash. Opening the gallon jug to stir the yeast under or, to scoop-the-poop out, was out of the question since RocketMan has so vociferously warned...

On many of y'alls posts, I often read where many of you add some type of acidic ingredients to lower the PH prior to starting your ferments. I didn't add anything acidic. I have a gallon of sauce fermenting right now. I'll list the ingredients again; about 2 pounds of store-bought habaneros...

I slap-n-chopped, the contents I used in my mash. There is about 2 pounds of habaneros, some poblanos, jalapenos, serranos and I included some carrot, onion, garlic, banana and an apple. Then I squirted in some whey from my kefir. I never catch an actual bubble in the airlock. But the...