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

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Hello Rich,
I grow a nice chili pepper I like. Not to hot but just hot enough.
I have seeds I'll swap anyone that wants to try them. Smitty

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:38:01 -0500 "Betz, Richard"
<rbetz@randomhouse.com> writes:
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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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