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

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Mine is one i have been saving seed for since 1995. I gotr them from a
friend who got them from a friend kind of thing.  they are a 6 inch long
almost 1 inch wide pepper that is hot and i dry it for pepper flakes
which i sprinkle on every thing. LOL except ice cream (c: wink

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:29:36 -0800 "Jessica M." <jessicaafm@theglobe.com>
writes:
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> What kind do you have ,Smitty? I currently have seeds for: 
> California Wonder Bell, Cubanella Long Sweet, and Fiesta Edible 
> Ornamental. Haven't got any of my hot pepper seeds in yet, but I am 
> expecting the basics: Habernero, Anaheim TMR, Ancho 101, Jalapeno 
> (my second batch as I killed the first ones during an out of town 
> visit.. sniffle :(  ), Cayenne, Boldog, Serrano, and more. I also 
> have different varieties of Tomatoes.   
> ---
> JessicaM (Zone 5- Central Michigan)
> 
> 
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:38:10   gardensmith wrote:
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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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