I'm gonna have more than I know what to do with, and that's even after losing a dozen or so to end rot.
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What zone are you in that it takes so long? I'm in 6a/b (like smack in between the two according to the map).
What up 6a/b fellow pepper gardener! How early do you start them inside and how often do you feed them? We start peppers in March under lights and feed every other week.
Hello! I started seedlings indoors in late March with grow lights and a heat pad. I didn't use feeder until I transplanted them to medium sized pots, at which point I just mixed the stuff right into the soil.
Once I transplanted again to their final large pots and had them fully hardened off and outside, I started mixing a different feeder into the water once every 20 days or so (though I watered regularly about twice a week unless we had some serious rain or heat, which we did once or twice).
This is the first time I've grown anything from seed, but this site has been very helpful for growing peppers: [PepperGeek.com](Home - Pepper Geek https://share.google/touhIrfHkj5o2zSGS)
3a-4a according to Canadian hardiness which takes into account a few more factors, but there’s also microclimates. Some communities are totally fine to grow peppers and gourds/squashes.
Natures fucking weird.
Ahhh, yeah you're way up there, that sucks. I decided to grow New Mexico green chile varieties here in the Northeast in the US because I missed the chile verde I used to be able to get when I lived in Colorado. I'm still surprised at the results, this was all a big experiment.