Very Nice! It has so many blooms and was such a good price. I just bought one last weekend and paid $10. I probably could have found one cheaper but I had been waiting for the stores to get some fresh ones. The ones I had seen before were not looking so good.

Limiting the volume of soil limits the size of the plant. Limiting the size of the plant limits the amount of peppers it can sustain. Fish fertilizer is very high in N relative P and K and this triggered the plant for foliar growth, but too much N can prevent the plant from switching to setting fruit when it normally would. People who choose to overwinter generally do so by yanking the plants out of their pots, cutting both the root ball and the top growth way back, sticking that into a smaller pot for the winter, then repotting into a bigger pot for the growing season. Your chosen pot might do for a slower growing C. chinense like a habanero or a reaper, but cayenne varieties grow fast and big and need a lot of root for roots. Worm castings contain very limited amounts of nutrients. Both they and bone meal will break down in potting soil, but it will take a long, long time because both depend on microbial action to do so. Microbial activity is either limited or missing entirely from containers due to the highly fluctuating environment. The container gardening forum here has lots of discussion about good choices of container fertilizers, both organic and synthetic. The general consensus is that the purely organic route is possible but takes more effort and money. I have similar problems with tap water. If you fill the watering can, bucket, whatever and let it sit out, uncovered, for a day or so a lot of the bad stuff will offgas. Cheaper than buying bottled water, which is way less regulated than your tap water and may contain who knows what... Good call on the garden soil, though. The stuff tends to compact in containers and will starve the roots of oxygen. Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) are one of the myths that the Internet (and the seller) loves to propagate as a miracle fix-all cure, but in reality they may only solve one problem (magnesium deficiency) that is really not all that commonly occurring to begin with. Foliar application does no good because the plants do not absorb magnesium through their leaves. There's a good discussion over at the Growing Tomatoes forum right now about the kind of damage ill-informed application of Epsom salts can do to tomato plants. Pepper plants are in the same family as tomatoes. If you do a bit of research you can find any one of many good fertilizers that contain more than enough magnesium. Not trying to harsh your mellow, bring you down, etc., just speaking from experience so that you can avoid making the kinds of mistakes I, and many others, have already made.

Hmm, thanks! I've used it on other philodendrons with no problems, but perhaps this plant was already stressed. Do you think it's odd that if it's the spray, it only seriously effected one leaf, and a older one at that? There were brand new leaves on it too, and they look fine. I put it outside for the time being, I don't want to bring it back inside until I feel confident about what this is. Thanks for your help!

Jane, if you go to KitchenAid’s website you can do a side-by-side comparison of all three models. I believe the KDTM404 & 704 are the newest, supposedly most advanced system with dynamic wash arms, clean water wash, and an advance dry system. I believe it also has more cycles. I do like the setting that senses how much food is on the dishes and cycles accordingly. My dishes come out dry and amazingly clean, not something I’m used to with my well water. But my trusted salesman said he wasn’t sure all the new bells and whistles would actually perform significantly better than the other KA models and I’d be happy with any of them. I replaced an old bottom of the line KA, and it did a pretty good job too. So many models got confusing, but I picked the KDTM because I could easily configure the interior in different ways as needed. The racks also seemed more solid if I recall correctly.