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This blog is essentially my documenting (photo and textual) of my pepper crops this year. My intent is to use this for documenting varieties and materials I used, growth progress, dates, problems encountered, pepper humor and funny news stories (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_india_chili_grenades), and (hopefully) peppers yielded.



I hope you enjoy this blog as much as I've enjoyed putting it together. Feel free to comment, share stories, or give advice. This will be my first time experimenting with the Chinese Capsicum family of peppers so I'm looking forward to seeing the potential results!



Thanks for dropping by and sorry if you thought this blog would be more entertaining ;)



Wednesday, April 7, 2010

A glimmer of Hope

Well today I decided to cut a pod out and take it with me to the local garden center. Turns out, if you put your plants outside in a greenhouse, LEAVE THE LID OFF. Apparently the temperature goes up too fast (dramatic temperature changes) and caused cells on the tops of the leaves to burst, thus causing the black discoloring observed.

Long story short, I've been advised to get them in direct sunlight as fast as possible and hope for the best. Sadly though i've lost two varities entirely, with a few more on thier way out the door. I've decided to place them outside day/night unless a storm is predicted for the day or a freeze that night.

More to come if they survive!

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