Ghost Peppers after only one week.

[Cajun Smokes]

Many of us have suffered with our ghost pepper plants not producing while every other pepper in the garden if fully loaded. Down here in South Louisiana, temps had elevated as high as 111° just a couple weeks ago. A week ago temps finally dropped to lowers 90s during the day here and now my ghost are not only holding flowers again but actually producing, with more flowers budding. I was so excited I had to share with someone lol. Picture was a little difficult to see all the peppers in this one shot that have formed already in this small area of 1 plant, so they are marked with the red dot. I'm about to be pepper rich with probably at least one more crop before winter really arrives here...happy gardening.

 

[Retired Spook]

The heat and drought killed my ghost pepper plants this year and I actually had to buy some online.

 

[Cajun Smokes]

The heat and drought killed my ghost pepper plants this year and I actually had to buy some online.

Ugh such a disaster. I literally watered mine every day until the drought was over. I think that's what saved me.

 

[Retired Spook]

Ugh such a disaster. I literally watered mine every day until the drought was over. I think that's what saved me.

We were placed on a water restriction (still in effect) - absolutely no watering landscape or plants - my beautiful roses are dead too.

 

[Cajun Smokes]

We were placed on a water restriction (still in effect) - absolutely no watering landscape or plants - my beautiful roses are dead too.

Wow that makes it even worse for you. Sorry to hear that, hope you get a good rain soon

 

[Fueling Around]

Didn’t the blistering heat of the south but we got our July heat and lack of rain in June
The peppers bounced back in July somewhat
My Datil peppers are just starting to ripen some fruit and we’re close to getting frost

 

[JLeonard]

You gonna have a bountiful harvest if all those produce! The weather this year has been rough for sure.

Jim

 

[Cajun Smokes]

It's a satisfying moment to receive the fruits of your labor. Got almost 2lbs of each and trying to protect my plants for the remaining peppers to ripen.

 

[chopsaw]

Nice haul .

trying to protect my plants for the remaining peppers to ripen.

Don't wait to long . Pick them green if you have too .
These are from last year . I grew everything but the ones in the bag .
Carolina Reapers in various states of ripe . About 2/3's of the green ones turned on the counter . The cherry red were picked that way . The rest were green when I brought them in .

 

[indaswamp]

We were placed on a water restriction (still in effect) - absolutely no watering landscape or plants - my beautiful roses are dead too.

I saw a documentary on growing plants in the desert. They make a contraption that you put around your plants that will harvest condensation from the air at night/early morning and uses that moisture to water your plants. No idea who makes it though...might want to research that.

 

[Retired Spook]

I saw a documentary on growing plants in the desert. They make a contraption that you put around your plants that will harvest condensation from the air at night/early morning and uses that moisture to water your plants. No idea who makes it though...might want to research that.

I read something about that years ago when I lived in AZ, but I do not recall the details.

I am going to just go Texas native and let the weeds grow everywhere - they're the only things that grow well here...

 

[Cajun Smokes]

Nice haul .

Don't wait to long . Pick them green if you have too .
These are from last year . I grew everything but the ones in the bag .
Carolina Reapers in various states of ripe . About 2/3's of the green ones turned on the counter . The cherry red were picked that way . The rest were green when I brought them in .

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Thanks I will certainly pick the remainder if conditions worsen. Only down to 40° this morning (plants protected) and temps are supposed to trend back up to upper 50s for the low this week. It's a growing advantage we have down in South Louisiana.

I saw a documentary on growing plants in the desert. They make a contraption that you put around your plants that will harvest condensation from the air at night/early morning and uses that moisture to water your plants. No idea who makes it though...might want to research that.

This is interesting, I will look it to see what it's about.

I read something about that years ago when I lived in AZ, but I do not recall the details.

I am going to just go Texas native and let the weeds grow everywhere - they're the only things that grow well here...

The weeds are on this side of the river too my friend

 

[Fueling Around]

Nice
Pepper plans are pretty resilient as long as they don't freeze. get some decent heat and sunshine and they'll shrug off the cool and keep going.

I saw a documentary on growing plants in the desert. They make a contraption that you put around your plants that will harvest condensation from the air at night/early morning and uses that moisture to water your plants. No idea who makes it though...might want to research that.

Search "solar still".

 

[fxsales1959]

Many of us have suffered with our ghost pepper plants not producing while every other pepper in the garden if fully loaded. Down here in South Louisiana, temps had elevated as high as 111° just a couple weeks ago. A week ago temps finally dropped to lowers 90s during the day here and now my ghost are not only holding flowers again but actually producing, with more flowers budding. I was so excited I had to share with someone lol. Picture was a little difficult to see all the peppers in this one shot that have formed already in this small area of 1 plant, so they are marked with the red dot. I'm about to be pepper rich with probably at least one more crop before winter really arrives here...happy gardening.

cool. i can't even keep my basil plants happy this year in S Florida.

 

[indaswamp]

Fueling Around ; similar design, but does not use solar energy as it operates at night, very early morning when the sun is not out. Works off dew point condensation.

 

[indaswamp]

Not the unit I saw, but this one uses a special metal sponge like material to absorb and concentrate water vapor, and a TEM peltier unit to create a cold surface to condense the moisture. Solar powered. Claims it can condense 3L of water a day from the air.
https://www.science.org/content/article/new-solar-powered-device-can-pull-water-straight-desert-air

 

[Retired Spook]

In my own defense, I wound up in Texas via a series of extremely poor choices.

 

[Cajun Smokes]

Not the unit I saw, but this one uses a special metal sponge like material to absorb and concentrate water vapor, and a TEM peltier unit to create a cold surface to condense the moisture. Solar powered. Claims it can condense 3L of water a day from the air.
https://www.science.org/content/article/new-solar-powered-device-can-pull-water-straight-desert-air

This is a cool concept

 

[dons2346]

Anyone grow Padron's ? I picked up one plant back in April and it is now loading up on fruit. I have red that they can be eaten as tapas by roasting them in olive oil to soften them up and then a sprinkle of course salt.