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

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Hi Smitty,

I'll gladly take some of those seeds to try out. Email me to let me know how
to get them. 
Thanks,
Rich

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	gardensmith@juno.com [g*@juno.com]
		Sent:	Monday, February 14, 2000 1:38 PM
		To:	sqft@listbot.com
		Subject:	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]
		> 
		> 		Square Foot Gardening List -
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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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