Hullo from central Ohio - and please help! :)

adagiogray

adagiogray

Hi there. I'm new to the hobby. Eventually I'd like to get a few of some of the hotter variety, but flavorful (I hear yellow scotch bonnets are habanero-ish heatwise and flavorful, and a favorite of many), but I want to also get more 'practical'peppers (i.e. peppers my wife wife will actually eat) going on too.
 
I managed to get some jalapeno, guajillo, and ghost sprouts going from seeds earlier this year, but ended up leaving them out too young and early in too hot of a day, and they were wiped out, all but ONE guajillo sprout, that is now growing, but has only produced one pepper that is still green, since May.
 
I ended up buying a few young cayenne and planting those. All of my plants, the 4 cayennes and the 1 guajillo, were very yellow/anemic looking. Overwatering was a possibility due to the rains we've been having, but they've looked that way all year. I had them in a miracle-gro starter soil, and recently (about a week ago) moved them to bigger pots with regular miracle gro potting soil. in case they were confined/soil depleted/something. I can't figure out why they're still so yellow and droopy. Advice?
 
 
 
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!st and foremost you made the first of newbie mistakes. You rushed into things. You started these indoors I assume and put them outside without hardening them off? And then never really corrected that mistake and left them out to come around be themselves?
 
All part of learning. 
 
CAPCOM said:
!st and foremost you made the first of newbie mistakes. You rushed into things. You started these indoors I assume and put them outside without hardening them off? And then never really corrected that mistake and left them out to come around be themselves?
 
All part of learning. 
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Nope - the indoor ones were fried, except the one guajillo shown on the upper right. The 4 cayennes were online mail ordered from a local outdoor farm and already had solid main stems, about 10 inches high.
 
No way to reverse the yellowishness eh? They've been outdoors since late April, they've never really been exposed to any cold weather. I've harvested maybe 1/2 lb of cayennes so far, but they still look so..sickly. They're on the south patio/full sun, all day, which I had read was ideal for them.
 
In all high honesty, being this is Sept, and the size of the plants are small for what they should and could be. I dont see a beneficial timeframe to turn them around and produce a significant amount of pods to warrant the time, work and possibly $$$ involved. I am a little farther north than you and have about 4 weeks of grow left with healthy plants. But if you are determined to jot call bbn it quits let use this as ablearning opportunity. I am on mynphone right now and am handycapped trying to maintain this conversation. Will be back later tonight.
 
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