Don, I'm zone 6. It's been a horrendously cold first quarter of the year - I would estimate being 4-5 weeks from planting outdoors.

Mine are the exact same size as yours, except potted up to red party cups. My habaneros are much smaller than my less hot varieties. Are you fertilizing at this point? I just posed the question on another thread. Since we're at the same point, I thought I'd ask.

Im from 6a Hamilton Ontario. Todays High 70F and Tuesdays high is 36 F :(

Here's a pic of them enjoying the weather yesterday....

I still have over a foot of snow in the shadier parts of my yard (picture taken just minutes ago). Also shown are some of my overwintered plants and all of my new seedlings.

peps22, yes I began fertilizing with 20-20-20 about a week after they came up, though not heavily. I'm using a store brand of potting soil that seems to be almost all peat, with a bit of perlite thrown in for good measure. My experience with cheap potting soils is that they have almost no available nutrients so I add fertilizer early and regularly.

Forgot to mention, I planted March 15.

I just got mine out in the green house a few days ago but have been battling nearly continuous rain for the last two days and more rain and snow on the way. It doesnt look like optimal greenhouse weather will return for a week now. But here is a photo from two days ago, just before the crappy weather hit.
Bruce

That looks great Bruce! I had to attach a picture of our greenhouse, taken just tonight. No worries, we had to order new coverings for it anyways and they are due in next week. Perfect timing!

Here's a shot or two of what is happening inside instead :)

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Esox07, wow Bruce, many of yours look way ahead of mine, but they should do great in that greenhouse setup. I've seen your results over the past few years, so I know you are going to end up with a great crop!

naturemitch, looks like you've got a great indoor planting setup, about a week or so ahead of my plants. I can see how the outdoor greenhouse setup is crucial to the next phase for those plants. Maybe I should look into something like that, my season is so short as it is...

Wow, don, I started mine the same weekend and mine aren't anywhere as big as yours though if those are 2" pots not 4" (I don't think I've seen 2" rounds, that's the same size as cells?) maybe not too far behind. Some of mine were really slow to germinate, I had some have 1st pair (or 2) of true leaves while others just starting to shed the seed coats. Only 67*F in my house though and I took them off heat when 1st ones in 6-pack started to emerge.

Just potted up most to separate, still in 6-packs but 1 per cell now, have to find more or move to 4" pots (I guess I have some 3" or so tiny square pots) but need to put up more shelves and lights too, getting crowded with tomatoes I just started separating yesterday (seeded 2 weeks after peppers).

I do have a dozen 6-packs filled with lettuce, spinach, kale I could wash out and use but I haven't been able to get those transplanted - expecting more rain tomorrow and snow/sleet tomorrow night, Tues - Thurs nights lows are supposed to be below freezing so won't get them out until weekend, they spent last few nights in garage, last night was 1st outside but lows were in the 50's so that wasn't hardening them off any.

And I want to plant peas and potatoes but don't know how wet/cold the soil is going to be after tomorrow so have to wait for those too. Pity it's a holiday weekend so I can't spend all my time planting.

Greenhouse is coming in really handy:
6" last night and still snowing. Low of 19 predicted for this evening.
Bruce

Holy moly! Is the greenhouse heated?

Tonight we are about to join the cold part of the country with a freeze warning for the area.

I know who did it too. She set out all her plants an herbs on Saturday.

ajsmama: Yah it is heated. I run a small space heater that has a built in thermostat. Lowest it go last night was 47 inside.
Bruce

ajsmama -- those are actually 3" pots I have them in right now. Will move up to 4" in probably 2 or 3 weeks, then hopefully they can stay in 4" until I plant them outdoors.

BTW, they do make 2" pots (see photo below, with chives in a 4" pot, pepper in a 3" pot, and nothing in the 2"). They are so small that I don't ever use them for bedding plants, though when I was into raising cactus from seeds the 2" pots came in very handy. Actually I think that's the only time I've ever used them...
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Good grief! These weather persons are alarmists! Last night they had the anchors instructing people on how to cover their pots because of the coming freeze / frost. [they're all gonna die !!!]

Well I stayed up to see the blood moon and about 2AM the thermometer has crept down from 48F to 47F. This morning it was still 47F.

Rather then admitting that they screwed the pooch, the weather persons claimed that someone up in N.Texas actually recorded a temp of 34F.

Sure. "Wanna buy a bridge?"

P.S. Apologies to you frozen folk up there in the Great White North. I'll shut up now...

78 degrees in Boston on Monday - this AM I have snow on my deck.

Yeah, after an inch of rain yesterday we got sleet last night, just a very thin coating of snow this morning. Supposed to be 25 tonight. My strawberries don't look too good under 4 layers of burlap but I don't want to uncover them for good until it's above freezing at night. I'll just cut off the diseased/rotting leaves, hope to have more crowns to transplant from area covered by pine branches (I haven't checked to see how those are doing).

No apples this year, I hope we get blueberries now - haven't checked to see if they were still dormant but with the warm weather last week and early this week I bet they weren't. At least it should be better than 2 years ago when we had 80's in March and they started blossoming then froze in April.