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

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Last year my peppers needed to be shaded because the plants were wilting
from the heat. Are all peppers like this? I thought that peppers liked it
hot and dry. 
This year I want to try my hand at planting some hot peppers, not too hot
but nicely flavored. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to plant.
Thanks,
Rich zone6

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Janet Wintermute [j*@erols.com]
		Sent:	Sunday, February 13, 2000 6:16 PM
		To:	Square Foot Gardening List
		Subject:	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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