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Bamboo seems like a good choice. Hopefully that will work. My growing medium is very light and makes tipping over really easy. I did stake a few of my plants. But, due to the looseness of the soil they still tipped. I'll have to be more vigilant until the roots get a chance to spread out...

Its been a long time since I've been back to this thread.  I've been following thehotpepper during the whole grow season.  I've been without a computer for a bit (so posting wasn't easy), but I browse on my phone.    I want to thank the community for helping me out through my first grow from...

The 3 things I would take with me on a desserted island:   1. A spoon - All of you posting about knives seem a little odd to me.  A spoon is much better for scooping up ice cream.   2. Expandable pants - I'm going to need something that can go the distance with me on this adventure.   3.  My...

I know caveman is already on his way sprouting.  But, I thought I'd post this here if anybody is scrolling looking for more information on the germination station.   This is my first time germinating peppers and I'm getting great germination rates.  I have a germination station with a...

    6 inch fan.  I wish I actually had a smaller one for now.  It will run fine on low.  But, it is a little big to fit under the light right now without some adjusting to the setup. 

  I've got a clip fan on a separate timer that just hasn't been set up yet.  How long a day do you recommend to run a fan?

Question for anybody out there:  What is the optimal temperature for inside the grow tent?    Despite being about 55F in the room, the soil temp probe is at 90F in the soil and about 88F ambient air temp on the floor of the tent.  The heat mat does not even turn on.  I am wondering if I should...

HP22BH:   Oddly I have never seen a squirrel in my yard yet (been here for 2 years).  There are definately squirrels all over this area, but very very odd I've never seen one on my property yet.  Of course I say this now and this year will then become the year of the squirrel     stickman:  ...

    I have a lot of deer.  The raised bed has a cage around it and kept all crittters out last year. At least one of each type will go in there.   I had a few pepper plants on the patio last year, nothing got to them either.  But, I have a row of arborvitaes that is apparently an all-you-can-eat...

Hi!   I've been mostly lurking this site for the past year trying to absorb the collective THP knowledge.  This year I will be attempting to put it all to use as I start my first grow from seed.    I decided to start this glog in order to track my progress so that I can adjust for next year. ...

My girlfriend tried an aji amarillo today.  She loves cilantro.  I grow a lot of cilantro just to keep up with her cilantro intake.  Her first response to the aji "it tastes like soap".

Got my order in from pepperlover!   I ordered fatalii, devil's tongue, red bhut, and aji amarillo.   Here are some pod shots.   First the Red Bhut:     Looks like a cross to me.  Can anybody identify it? Maybe a red bhut x orange hab x hot portugal? If it helps, it did not have much heat.   The...

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  I think its using money as a size reference that is throwing people off.  From mostly lurking this website I've noticed the prefered point of reference is an empty beer bottle.  Take the 20 dollars, buy some beer, drink the beer, and if most of your problems don't go away after drinking the...

I can tell exactly how tall my groundhogs are.  There are no leaves in my garden below a certain mark.  Unfortunately they don't taste as good as rabbits.

First year growing something other than herbs in containers on the deck.  I decided to try the square foot method because it seemed like an easy way to learn (have to start somewhere). I built this, loaded it with Mel's mix, and filled it with mostly different types of peppers (habs, thai...