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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.
Fuck you.
I say that lovingly from someone’s whose climate doesn’t allow peppers very well.
My first tomatoes are finally coming in, and the my other plants are just taking off… growing is always an adventure.
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.
Our peppers tend to not be very prolific either with one exception: the shishito pepper I grew last year was a pretty prolific producer despite not being more than two feet tall. We have 2 bell peppers in the ground this year and have only harvested 7 peppers so far. We will get a few more, but far from a bumper crop.
It’s crazy, it goes from 32c during the day some days to down to 5c over night some nights.
Iirc under 10c peppers stall and under 5c tomatoes stall. So without assistance some stuff is just right out.
A greenhouse is on my list of crap to do.
Congratulations, they look healthy and amazing. I will gladly take your extras. Thank you.
Those leaves are beautiful and clear. That's some top notch gardening! Those peppers are probably divine.
I don't know what's going on, but my shishito peppers only grew to about 1.5-2 inches before turning red.
I haven't taken a measuring tape to these yet. They're "Big Jim" New Mexico chiles that can in theory hit 13" in length.
They look great!
That doesn't sound terrible. It's a small variety of pepper.
Yeah mine were very slow to start as well. I think this is the first time I've grown them but I could be forgetting. Not sure if that's normal or maybe I planted them too early.
Regardless, they're finally starting to come into production. Luckily the summer is quite long here. The issue with peppers often is that they don't ripen in time or get damaged during the long ripening period.