Hi Doug and Pam

Congratulations on your new ideas to get light for your garden.
Those peppers look so healthy! Somebody is going to be very happy with them.
I have peppers leftover from last season and they are in the greenhouse and producing. I used a combination of sweet and hot for enchiladas that I made yesterday for a party, it came out really good, you could taste the flavor on the roasted peppers...

Have a happy rainy Sunday!

Silvia

Man Doug, you did start a lot of peppers! They look great compared to my puny little seedlings, wish I were closer....Enjoy your new found sunshine ;-)

Tom

HiYa Silvia.....Thanks....I'm sure the enchiladas were a hit......Here's a picture of (your) Artie the artichoke container....I had to "cage" him 'cause the cats found it irresistable to lay on top.....

Here are my 40+ containers of Chilies and Peppers.......

and Jalepenos....

Thanks Tom....that tumbler makes the fluffiest mix....Wow! ...remember I fought thrips early on my seedlings....most of those plants died...

Tampa/StPete would be a stretch for free peppers !

Here are the roots on the Giveaway Bishop Crown Pepper.....

dougandpam

Doug - wow! those peppers are looking good and you have so many! love the set up, you are very creative.

Here is my artie, lol

And my staghorn

My very small number of peppers started, still have some in the greenhouse. When Willy was watching the seedlings for me, he said that all of them look good except for one, then I found out that it was the fish pepper that I got in Monticello and has variegated foliage, he thought it was sick,lol.

Silvia

Have peppers will take. The hotter the better and love or should I say simply devour jalepenos by the bucket load. I'll take what you want to give. By the way the tomatoes and kale are growing like weeds and I can't stake them fast enough. You are so generous and just wish I had something you want. Linda sending email also loverofwords at hotmail dot com

OK....Wanda from Brevard.....and Disney Linda....any more ?

...still plenty of Seasoning/cooking peppers...as well as Banana, Cubanella and Sahuaro....and a few more Jalepenos

I also found a few more Eggplants....2-Orlando and a Black Beauty.......

doug

Thanks and would like cubanella also as I love stuffing them. A black beauty egg plant would continue to add to my egg plant collection.

Would tomorrow afternoon around 5:30 be a good time? Or Thursday I get off at 12:30 pm so any time after that would be good for me.

Yesss............

Wow Doug, what a cool setup. I'll be curious to see if those #10 (7 gallon) containers make any difference over the 4 gallon and 5 gallon buckets for the peppers. I know you had a problem earlier with thrips, I fight them here all the time and I'm amazed that my new cukes that are only 5" tall and INSIDE the pool cage are already decimated with worms :-( I had to spray them tonight with spinosad, at least I don't have to worry about killing the bees :-) You all know how I feel about the bees, I'd give up my veggie garden before killing them off again....

Tom

Thanks.....I saw you feed your bees with Veronica !

I spray only at nite.....Bee-careful

The containers are smaller.... 3 gallon white kittylitterbuckets OR two types dollar store 2.5/3 gal buckets....One is a MopBucket the other had a white-rope-handle

....and some of the seasoning peppers are in one gallon black pots.

later..... doug

Thank you, Doug, for the pepper plants. It was a nice surprise!

Wanda...you are welcome....It was pepper delivery day....My sister also got her planted ACE buckets.....

You asked about the "Take-Out" containers.....

That's a recycled KittyLitterJug that I drill with holes ....Makes for easier handling when growing and great for carrying the plant-give-aways "home"....10 oz cup fits in a 2 3/8" hole.....Five at a time

I get Nine 2" holes in the jug for those 5 oz bathroom cups.....

doug

That's a great idea Doug! I have a set of various hole-saw blade sizes...I see my next project coming up :-)

Tom

Thanks once again, Doug, for the pepper and eggplant. I walked around the side of my house to look at the tomatoes I received earlier from you and they look like they have been planted for months. I will have to send Ted out with the camera soon and one of the beefsteaks you gave me last time has bloomed again and began as a new plant from the bottom of the original plant. Things are hopping here and I owe it all to you. Thanks from the bottom of this gardener's heart.

You are welcome...........doug

Man, your peppers look great.

Do you fertilize yours? I was told by a supposed "master gardener" that I should not fertilize them because it would increase foliage but hinder fruit production. Mine are in the ground and are blossoming nice, but they are not the nice green color yours are.

Thanks.

Oh yes they get "chemical" fertilized......They are in buckets of 511 (without Controlled Release Fertilizer).....and are fed each week with a normal solution of Dyna-Gro Plant food (sourced from Silvia's recommended hydroponics store)

The seedling's intense color was produced while under very bright CFLs that moved over the seedlings 24/7 for 30+ days.... as a group the seedlings were kept very dry....fed only tiny gulps of weak fertilized water

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doug

Hi Doug,

Just last night I was working late in the garden and thanking you and Pam again for my fab tomatoes and peppers from earlier this spring. I'll be in Orlando this weekend, and my hot peppers did not germinate as well as I had hoped.

so..... If you still have any that can be roasted (like a chili pepper) or pickled like a jap, I would take a few more of those.

You've already been quite generous to me though, so if any one else can use them I'll defer to them!

Elizabeth

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