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Flower Drop

DevilDuck said:
I shouldn't have opened my mouth about not having a bug problem... Yesterday, while tending to my precious beauties, I found not one...but TWO of those little (ok... BIG) green monsters munching on my habs. Needless to say, they're part of the soil now.
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Did you fart in their general direction?
 
If I may hyjack this thread for a second, this year is my first year growing peppers. I have two Hab plants, one suffered similar effects, flower loss, but it's leaves were a light yellow green color, compaired to the other, dark green. I haven't given my plants any fertilizer, could this be a male/female thing?
Although the leaves haven't changed color, the lighter of the two is now budding & has 5 peppers growing.
I too live in southwestern Ontario.
Thanks
 
Peppers don't have separate male and female flowers like squash do, if that's what you're asking. I'd hazard a guess that your pale plant needed a bit of iron or magnesium. Maybe it got wetter than the other, or has poorer drainage than the dark green one.
 
DevilDuck said:
Didn't phase them one bit....odd... Even my dog ran off.
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Well, at least he ran instead of trying to rub your nose in it and spank you with a rolled up newspaper.
 
DevilDuck said:
I shouldn't have opened my mouth about not having a bug problem... Yesterday, while tending to my precious beauties, I found not one...but TWO of those little (ok... BIG) green monsters munching on my habs. Needless to say, they're part of the soil now.
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compost

DevilDuck said:
Didn't phase them one bit....odd... Even my dog ran off.
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have you ever lit your own farts? maybe that's how you need to treat those green monsters. a good burst of flaming methane!
 
chilliman64 said:
have you ever lit your own farts?
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Speaking of a ring of fire!

And, no, never.



My six year old nephew and I got put in time out today. He jumped in my lap and farted, then had a giggling fit, saying "I farted on Aunt Pam". I picked him up by his ankles and threatened to put a fishing bobber up his bottom. His mother heard us and put him in time out for saying "fart" and me for encouraging him.


*sigh*

We never get to have any fun.
 
Well, after all the fuss, I've finally got some small Habs. They have yet to turn colour, but they're there in increasing numbers. Now I just hope they'll ripen before the cold weather hits. Not too sure if was the Epsom Salts or just patience...
 
MalevolentMonkey said:
Well, after all the fuss, I've finally got some small Habs. They have yet to turn colour, but they're there in increasing numbers. Now I just hope they'll ripen before the cold weather hits. Not too sure if was the Epsom Salts or just patience...
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Yeah, it's so hard to wait sometimes.

If hovering was fertilizer, my plants would be the best fertilized plants in North America.
 
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