Recent content by orangehero

Good luck on the season! Glad you're back can't wait to see how awesome the garden will be! I still remember those scorpion trees you had your relative growing.

  After 5 minutes I'm still trying to comprehend this. Typical of the individuals in HOA boards though.   That bush looked awesome. How exactly did they find out and decide it needs to be removed? There are ornamental peppers after all.

Good work, Judy! Can't wait to see what'll be in the pipeline in the future.

I like those terraced raised beds, looks very tidy.

Gnarliest. Do these descend from red brain strains?   I see on your site you have Brown 7 Pod, but you describe it as being larger than the Douglah. I have grown brown 7 pods, and they had the same cylindrical shape as in your photos, but they were smaller than Douglahs. Any thoughts and...

Just toss em into the neighbor's yard.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHN-f6xTzsY

Howdy,   Figure I'd show off a little, knowing how much I like enjoying everyone elses pepper gardens. This is my superhot garden. Trying out drip irrigation this year, and going back to straw mulch. I highly recommend IrrigationDirect for the supplies.   It was a late spring this year, but the...

1000bulbs.com has T5's for a good price. I got 25 4' T5HO bulbs for around $85 delivered.

  What can cause all of your seeds to not germinate?

Good luck! Whenever a seedling pops out with extra cotyledons I always hope it'll turn out polyploid.   Are you basing this on any specific previous experiments? What are you going to be looking for as a marker of polyploidy?

What's the diagnosis for leaves becoming very pale yellow?   I repotted mine from Pro-Mix to a 50/50 peat and perlite mix to get the acidity up. The plant seemed to do respond well at first, but then began to yellow all over. I'm thinking it needs the acidity increased more with some sulfur.

Yellow Scorpion CARDI is an excellent cultivar that produces beautiful, large, golden, delicious, not-too-hot fruit in prolific quantities. It's one of the best peppers I've ever grown, can't praise it enough.   This is what all of mine look like and what I believe is the true phenotype:  

Have you ever successfully grown 4 1020 trays of pepper seedlings to plantout size with 4 T12 bulbs?

http://thehotpepper.com/topic/20747-peat-moss-vs-coco-coir/ http://thehotpepper.com/topic/12728-growing-chillis-in-coco-how-to-do-it/   North American peat bogs are not in any danger and coir is not so great for the environment either.     I agree that perlite and vermiculite are different and...

I'm going to be doing drip for the first time this year also.   Here's some information I found useful. There are other tutorials on drip irrigation as well.   http://www.irrigationdirect.com/expert-advice/drip-irrigation-tutorials/general-overview...