Hi, mandatory welcome thread, have been doing research using this forum, solid info available, thank you all. I miss forums. Feels good to be using one again!
Currently living in the Denver metro area, I haven't grown peppers in about 15 years (just one season of Thai, cayenne, Tabasco) when I was living in the Deep South, hate my neighbors, hate their dogs (bane of my existence, if I never hear another dog bark in my life I will die happy), hate being outside in my yard with all of their ridiculous noise for the sake of noise so I decided to torture myself this summer by trying to grow peppers again forcing me to venture out on to my small slice of property. The thistle is doing great! lol
Combined with the crazy weather variations we get here with this high altitude, high plains/scrubland environment (day 3 of abnormally hot ~100F/38C weather, tomorrow will only be 93 then back in to the 70s and 80s with cloud cover like we had the last 2 weeks) and occasional/regular smoky air from forest fires (had a 400+ acre fire burn about 10 minutes from my house last July/August, got some great action photos of the air support with my dSLR camera...on top of the constant smoke from California's fires)...what can go wrong?!
Figured after spending all this money and not having grown in a long while that it wouldn't hurt to join the site and start a grow log in case I run in to issues. I had 12 plants picked out online for seedlings and was letting it marinate while I made sure it's what I wanted and then Memorial Day pricing kicked in later that night and everything was 50% off so I wound up with 30 plants, plus 4 I bought locally, so 34 pepper plants in total. No idea what I was thinking but I do tend to "go big or go home". Usually I dip my toes in a bit first then dive but we have a short growing season here so I figure it'll either be a spectacular failure or great success lol.
I like to read other grow logs but don't really have much to offer for help, for now.
Currently living in the Denver metro area, I haven't grown peppers in about 15 years (just one season of Thai, cayenne, Tabasco) when I was living in the Deep South, hate my neighbors, hate their dogs (bane of my existence, if I never hear another dog bark in my life I will die happy), hate being outside in my yard with all of their ridiculous noise for the sake of noise so I decided to torture myself this summer by trying to grow peppers again forcing me to venture out on to my small slice of property. The thistle is doing great! lol
Combined with the crazy weather variations we get here with this high altitude, high plains/scrubland environment (day 3 of abnormally hot ~100F/38C weather, tomorrow will only be 93 then back in to the 70s and 80s with cloud cover like we had the last 2 weeks) and occasional/regular smoky air from forest fires (had a 400+ acre fire burn about 10 minutes from my house last July/August, got some great action photos of the air support with my dSLR camera...on top of the constant smoke from California's fires)...what can go wrong?!
Figured after spending all this money and not having grown in a long while that it wouldn't hurt to join the site and start a grow log in case I run in to issues. I had 12 plants picked out online for seedlings and was letting it marinate while I made sure it's what I wanted and then Memorial Day pricing kicked in later that night and everything was 50% off so I wound up with 30 plants, plus 4 I bought locally, so 34 pepper plants in total. No idea what I was thinking but I do tend to "go big or go home". Usually I dip my toes in a bit first then dive but we have a short growing season here so I figure it'll either be a spectacular failure or great success lol.
I like to read other grow logs but don't really have much to offer for help, for now.
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