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Janet's pepper woes [was Re: Pepper spacing]

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At 11:36 AM 2/13/00 -0500, Smitty wrote:

>Have you been having drought or unreasonably hot weather.
>Peppers don't set fruit in when it is very hot or dry.
>You may need to set up a misting system.

Well, the 1999 flop of a season was definitely due to two very early 
unseasonably hot periods (multiple days in a row of 100+-degree weather, 
one in early June and the second around July 4).  All my toms and peps 
lived through the drought, and I was watering plenty then.

But plants sustain vascular damage when the ambient temp exceeds 86 degrees 
F.  This damage is not always visible to the naked eye, as it was not much 
in my case last season.  Some of the toms got dry, crisped-out leaves on 
their lower trunks but did OK higher up.  The peps didn't look fazed much 
at all.

But they never grew big and didn't put out any flowers to set fruit with 
until late August and early September.

I knew that toms won't set fruit if temps do not go below 72 degrees F in a 
24-hour period.  But I thought peps liked heat more and were happier to go 
on setting in hot weather.

Smitty, would a misting system be more about lowering the ambient temp 
around the peps than it is about watering them?

I've never seen a misting system in action, but I have the kind of setup 
(raised beds, near the house and near the hose bib) where a system wouldn't 
be totally infeasible.

--Janet
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