Hi Again:I was driving home yesterday looking at the apple trees beginning to bear fruit. It is common for apple trees to be grafted onto different root stock to control the growth of the tree. Orange trees are often grafted onto lemon tree roots for better yields. I wondered wether the same could be done for chiles, i.e. graft slower …
Chile Pods infested by Worlms
Dave:My problem is when my peppers get ripe and turn red they look so beautiful but when I pick them they have worms in them and some of them they go rotten and fall. If I pick them when they are still green they are not tos bad, but I would like them better when they are red. Could you …
What to do with sunburned Peppers
Hello Dave:What to do with sunburned peppers? They seem to be quite stunned; on the Habanero the fruits stopped maturing and C. praetermissum dropped about 30% of its leaves and some are still in bad shape. Should I take those bad leaves away or leave them be ?Jukka Kilpinen, FinlandJukka:I’ll bet you moved those chiles outside without acclimating them to …
What kind of Pepper is this
Dave,I’m a beginner pepper gardener and bought a six pack of what I thought were jalapenos from a local nursery and planted them in my garden. As the plants matured the peppers coming on were light yellow and now are turning orange. They are approx. 3 inches long and 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Two questions: Are they habaneros? And …
Flower Drop on Chile Plants
Dave,I am from Jacksonville, Florida, just a few miles from St. Augustine. I have a very large, bushy and seemingly healthy Datil plant that I have raised from a pup. As I said it looks healthy enough; however, upon setting a bloom and looking as if it might fruit; it will drop the bloom and not produce anything. Would you …