Yah, I threw mine out into the green house with no hardening off. Just be careful not to let the temps sky rocket inside when the sun is out. Your plants probably won't be happy at 100 degrees. Bruce

Hi George. Good to see you're still plantin. Sorry, I don't have any of what you seek, but I thought I'd let you know you can e-mail Chris through his member page (linked below). Nice to see you back and posting. Rick Here is a link that might be useful: cmpman1974's Member Page

As the sun's path has changed, and the shade falls differently, I've moved the pots every few days so they maintain the same amount of sun exposure each day. But the sun is definitely less intense. I don't have anywhere in my place that gets decent direct light, so I don't think I'll leave them inside permanently. I'll see if I can set up a cover outside, and if not I'll just carry them inside around 6:00pm when they lose the sun. On another note, I have 6 plants (5 scorpions and 1 ghost) and they grew very differently, and are producing very differently. 2 are very bushy with lots of peppers. 1 is bushy with no peppers. And 3 are very tall with almost no leaves on the bottom half. They instead fan out about 2 feet wide within the last 10 inches of stalk. These ones also have almost no peppers. I will be trying to overwinter the 3 bushy plants, so I'll see how that plays out.

I would think at this point that they should be a littlebit further along. Also your germination rate is not real good. But at least you got a few of each variety. I started my plants February 15th. And here is a photo of some of them after 95 days which is about how far along yours are. I have Reapers, Yellow Ghost and Yellow 7pot Brainstrains in the group. All super hots. The one on the top right is a Hot Hungarian Wax (not super hot) Your method for sunlight sounds fine. But there are two other possibilities. First is temps. Are your plants experiencing temps below 50 degrees at all? Second, even with your efforts to keep them out of the rain, are they staying too wet for too long? Neither of these conditions are prime growing conditions for peppers.