Just wondering how long or how many seasons your pepper plants have lasted? Are all species of Pepper Plants the same in length of life?
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Longest life of your pepper plant?
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When my wife finally comes to her senses and leaves me, I wanna move to a place warm enough where my chile plants can survive in the ground year-round. I want to have pepper plants grown like hedges. I think that'd be rad. From what I've read, folks in suitably warm locales have some very old chile plants.
Bicycle808 said:
She's not interested in warmer weather? But seriously, that opening sentence is quite a quotable quote! Do you mind if I use it? Don't have to attach your name if you don't want
She likes warm weather, but she refuses to move more than a few hours´ drive from her family, so we´re pretty much stuck in the mid-Atlantic states of the USA.Â
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By all means, use that quote. I tend to use it when i´m dreaming of how rad my life would be if i were single, but i want to make it seem like i´m the victim, rather than some guy who wants to abandon his bride t grow chiles year-round.Â
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By all means, use that quote. I tend to use it when i´m dreaming of how rad my life would be if i were single, but i want to make it seem like i´m the victim, rather than some guy who wants to abandon his bride t grow chiles year-round.Â
Thank ye kindly! While I'm clogging up this thread, I'll mention that I haven't been passionately into chillies long enough to grow a plant for multiple years, although I plan to change that! I hear Rocotos do really well after the first year, apparently.
Come on Down!Bicycle808 said:
hogleg said:
That's exciting. I'll have to look it up as well as the rocoto.
Are the stems thick like trees now?
Man, I wish I could. I had family on St Pete and my dad had moved to Naples for a few years. That kind of weather is NICE, especially if you want to grow... But my Grandad, who was an avid gardener, always cussed about the pests in Florida. He has an easier time with the creepie crawlies in Jersey and Pittsburgh, I guess.
If I had that kind of weather, though, i'd try to grow a danged Fatalii orchard, know what I mean??
If I had that kind of weather, though, i'd try to grow a danged Fatalii orchard, know what I mean??
Crispee-FL said:
three years the oldest.
I would love to know the answer to this.AJ Drew said:
ÂDWB said:
People often claim that peppers fruit when they are ready, thus not responsive to day length. The more I read opinions like yours, the more I think that opinion is flat wrong. If an adult pepper changes production with the season then it is obviously responding to either light or temperature. I am really thinking light is part of it. Maybe not day length but the changing spectrum of the seasons rolling on. I cant believe it is all temperature.
Did it bounce back to even more production the next season compared to the first?
After pruning for O/W last year it ended up shorter bushier for plant growth this season. Pod production was similar, but almost two months behind on final harvest, my fault entirely. I just stuck it outside without taking time to harden off. Shock between that and repotting it dropped almost all of its leaves.