Cayenne will work for squirrels. Get a spreader/sticker and the spray will last a lot longer on the plants. Add some garlic, and eggs and it will keep deer away, too.
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These are ground squirrels or voles something like that but they burrow all through roots and eat plants they ve eaten 3 fig trees countless onions and garlic and killed 100’s of $$ in plants and trying not to posion them
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Probably Thomomys bottae.
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I have ghost peppers, Carolina reaper pepper, and Trinidad scorpion peppers mostly. I am hybridizing those varieties with purple and pink variegated peppers. Trying to make a pink Carolina reaper. I have 2 variegated pink ghost pepper hybrids.
These variegated peppers grow much slower than the typical green leaf pepper plant.
That’s ^^ the purple leaf ghost pepper pollinated by carolina reaper 2 generations in a row. Still in development and no fruit yet. 1 year old and still under 1 foot tall. The rest of my peppers are green plants.
Anybody have slow growing peppers? What could I do to speed them up? Its the purple plants that are growing slowly. So far I use liquid kelp as a fertilizer, applied onto the leaves. No other fertilizer, the soil is compost. Thanks.
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Gypsum.
How are you dealing with cross pollination from your other peppers with your reaper crossings? I just tried getting true seeds every year, but ended figuring I’d need about 100 acres, or hermetically sealed greenhouses. Pepper pollen is very busy, lol!
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You can buy mesh bags to hang on the peppers flower to isolate strains, I’m pretty sure peppers are pollinated mostly by insects.
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One of these is my peach ghost scorpion an the other pot has a bunch of aji type peppers in it, I think I put in it.
Aji mango
Aji lemon drop
Aji white fantasy
Aji Sugar rush Strippy
And a sweet pepper called lemon dream.
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Has anyone grown manzano peppers? Those look so cool, I wonder how they taste.
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Okay thank you, I will check out gypsum.
All of my peppers are growing next to a different variety, very close proximity. and after 8+ generations none of them exactly resemble the original.
I put all of the super hot peppers next to purple peppers, I shake the pollen everyday, I use my hand to pollinate the flowers, its not exact but it works. I grow the seeds from the scorpion and the Carolina reaper year after year, they look different each year, I keep track of the origin though.
I put a bunch of scorpion and reaper seeds into soil, then the most purple sprouts I keep, discard the green ones. Then do that again the next year.
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That’s what I used to do, with same results. Oldest son started making hot sauce for sale, and wanted consistency in both flavors and colors. So now it’s new seed starts every season. Everything but Fataliis are pretty easy for us to start!
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I have the seeds for the orange and red verities, there black in color but I haven’t tried growing them yet.
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Hotter temperatures, maybe? 
or maybe warmer night temps?
No experience or wisdom just guessing
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Give them a compost tea brother, I’d do a 36h brew for good spectrum of microbes in the tea. Definitely worth a shot if there not doing anything for you and have no signs of deficiencies.
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You can cover the plants with lightweight row cover, but you would have to make sure there were no pollinated flowers or fruit already on the plant before you cover it.
I’ve never used the AG15, but I have used the heavier grades for frost protection, it’s good stuff as long as you don’t have it supported by something pointy.
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@cannabissequoia Here are a couple of the Hawaiian hybrid seeds you sent me. They need some food but otherwise just started setting fruit!
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Those look pretty good my friend, I have a couple of them going right now also. Still small no peppers yet. Put them outside last week had some good rain and seem to give them a boost. I’m Very curious on heat and flavor profile. Looking forward to trying them 
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How do I know when my peppers are ready? 
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You can eat ornamental peppers?
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I’ve had some of these (didn’t grow them) just purchased the powder some are very yummy.
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