Thanks, locteach. Not feeling much better, just on stronger meds now. :-\

Carol, Hooray for the fantastic flavor of fresh! Congrats on the broccoli harvest. I hope y'all are able to harvest a lot more before the weather gets too hot. DeCicco sideshoots really well which helps make up for the small heads, although if you get too hot too soon that might not happen. Randy, I hope the heat holds off too. I just finished my broccoli harvest here in southern OK this morning because the weather was leaving me no choice. It is 96 degrees at the present time and hot, hot, hot. Dorothy, You got a really nice harvest considering how awful the weather has been. I'm still weighing and recording my harvest too so far, except for the cherry tomatoes, peas and plums I eat on the spot as soon as I pick them. Since it is so hot here, the cabbage, peas, and broccoli are done, whether I like it or not. It is unbearably hot for late May. It's great that the cherry tree came through with some fruit. Do you suppose the cherry will send off enough new growth to completely regrow from that stump? It sure sounds like it is trying. This heat is ripening the fruit very fast. This morning I checked the plums and all we had were green ones (because I picked and ate the few ripe ones yesterday) and a few with some ripening on the blossom end. By noon, we had a half-dozen that have beautiful ripe-looking color although I'll probably not pick them until tomorrow. Who'd think they could develop that much color in about 5 or 6 hours? Lynn, Broccoli is so hard to get a crop from. If it gets too cold too early, it either doesn't head up or it gives you button heads, which are about the size of a quarter. If it stalls for any reason (too much rain, too little rain, too cold, too hot, too windy, etc.), it loses valuable time and doesn't set heads until the heat has arrived and then the heads bloom prematurely. I don't know what to tell you. I'd certainly hang in there and give it a chance to form heads. One variety we grew, Major, had no heads at all on Monday or Tuesday, and I harvested 5" to 6" heads from some of those plants around 6 a.m. today, although others look completely unchanged and may not form heads. Broccoli is just a diva and can be very frustrating to grow in our climate because we go from too cold to too hot just too quickly many years. You can do everything right, but since you cannot control the weather, you still may not get a harvest. That may be what is happening to yours. Perhaps the coming cold front, which will cool down most of the state at least somewhat, will give your broccoli the right temps and it will quickly form flowerheads. I think this is the hottest Memorial Day weekend I can remember having since we moved here. The dogs and cats are inside the house sleeping in air conditioned comfort and I think the chickens would have followed them right into the house if I would have let them. We went to the grocery store and all we wanted to buy was ice cream (we did buy other stuff, but we spent way too long on the ice cream aisle). It is too hot to think about cooking something. If it is this hot in May, what in the world will June, July and August be like? Dawn

Hey All ! I'm a newbie to the forum here and was reading Dave's post and looking at his pic's ..Dave I understand, the same thing happened to me I have the same peppers you have Very "heart breaking" I can't believe people could actually do that to someone. I have seeds from 2 different people some aren't big enough to tell if they are really Bhuts or not yet.Hopefully the will be , But so far they are just what you have. I live in South/Central Georgia

Thanks for the input ...... how many lady bugs would you say you release in your room?? AS MANY AS I COULD CATCH - PERHAPS 25? Also, Im curious how many bhuts you have there? Looks like three or four and then the hanging one?? 11 BJ PLANTS INCLUDING 2 THREE YEAR OLDS AND 5 TWO YEAR OLDS. Fantastic looking plants for sure!! THANKS Posted by pizzaburgers (My Page) on Wed, Nov 11, 09 at 18:16 Awesome looking peppers! I'm jealous! It'd be pretty awesome if you shared some of your overwintering experience with us less experienced pepperheads. Are the florescent lights you have hanging there the only light the plants get? YES. Do the plants produce over the winter, or do you just keep them dormant? I HAVE DONE BOTH. THREE SONS ARE KEEPING ME TOO BUSY TO DO IT THIS YEAR BUT IT IS POSSIBLE FOR SURE. How often do you water, and what do you feed them? I HAVE FOUND THAT BJ MORESO THAN OTHER PEPPERS REQUIRE FREQUENT WATERING - EVERY FEW DAYS. I EXPERIMENTED THIS SUMMER WITH FERTILIZER, NO FERTILIZER AND A COMBINATION FISH EMULSION/SEAWEED EXTRACT - THE WINNER HANDS DOWN WAS FE/SE. I WISH I WAS MORE COMPUTER LITERATE TO COPY IT - I DID A WHOLE THREAD ON THE EXPERIMENT SO YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEARCH FOR IT. HOPE THIS HELPS GUYS, SORRY FOR THE LATE RESPONSE - I'M NOT ON THE COMPUTER TOO OFTEN. RAVI