Looks like I got some pepper learnin’ ahead 
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i have been growing jalapeno, serrano, cayenne, habanero and thai peppers for a few years. i have eaten hotter peppers, but no one else in the house appreciates them so only grow the ones i (can) cook with.
going to try to grow out a new pepper this year my wife’s brother brought up from peru. a yellow pepper good on flavor, low(er) on heat called the aji.
sorry, no photos (now) kept a few of my pepper plants alive inside over the winter. going to pop them outside in a few more weeks. will take photos once they’re rolling again. the thai peppers will probably bloom right away.
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I just like them for munching!
The Numex Suave Orange and Shishitos were intended to be the snackers out of the garden. I grew a Numex Orange a few years ago and I remember it being so fragrant that you could smell them from across the room after someone bit into them.
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I am from New England, between providence and Worcester.
They will occasionally hit different varieties for me, but it will be sporadic, maybe lose half a dozen fruits a year. But the Cherry peppers, I don’t think I have ever gotten one to ripe without a pepper fly laying in it. And since the adult doesn’t eat the fruit, they just lay an egg into it, there isn’t really any spray or whatever that is effective. Your first thought will be “oh wow, all my peppers are ripening extra fast!” Until you notice that every one has a black mark or two from being oviposited and they don’t finish ripening before starting to rot. Real fuckers.
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That’s discouraging. I’m in the same area as you. I have one squash variety that succumbs to vine borers every year. Pests suck
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Dont sweat broskie. Theres always something to solve most things. On amazon i used this for my peppers stops hornworm (( huge caterpillar )) lol!.. Search around for different sizes an prices
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Early summer crookneck is the most susceptible here. The only pesticide I use at all is a spray of pyrethrin on and under the stalk of squash just when it’s blooming.It harms nothing and holds the borers off until the bush is played out.
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@CADMAN
Hay glad to see your still having fun an putting in work
Are those pots you up putted indoors
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Yes it’s all indoors for now. I’ll uppot again to 5gal buckets and place outside once the possibility of frost is gone. Can’t wait.
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That’s cool
I have big plans for a lot of outdoor fun soon
Patient to do it little by little is a B 
Ive only grown a couple types but I remember this thread like 3 yrs ago
@CADMAN they look beautiful
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Here is the tent currently.
1 garlic
1 grape vine
Lots of peppers
3 cannabis
This is the Frensno peppers
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Looking great buddy… I love the variety u got together
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It’s a small tent, wish I had more space to plant seedlings before going outside for the summer. I haven’t even started building the garden hahaha
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I’ve been trying to harden off my peppers the past few days.
Maybe today I will transplant them outside.
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Not those, but I’ve had some hot peppers take over a month show something. Don’t give u yet
I hope this isn’t too personal… but how do you know that taste 
We’ve been growing some aji or another for a few years. Not straight from Peru, but all have had great flavor. I especially like the lemon ones.
We have found planting a little later, and gradually mounding up the soil around the stems works pretty well for summer squash.
We used to spray with BTi, but that killed the butterfly cats too 
When we stopped spraying, we handpicked and stomped on 'em, but noticed a lot with little white things sucking the life out of them. Braconid wasps, I think, Now, a few years later, we may see a little damage, but the hornworms all have the wasp larvae… cheap entertainment, lol!
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Don’t knock it til you try it.
Just kidding, knock it all down, you dont have to try anything. These things are fucking gross lol 
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Plant some milkweed nearby, I would not doubt the caterpillars would rather eat on those & u get nice flower that attracts butterflies an hummingbirds.
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Those are awesome …i wish i had them here… Now every morning i inspect the bottom of the leafs for their eggs its like a small grain of salt but a perfect circle and green as green as the leaf. Lol. Now i get em before they even born lol
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I noticed this too. The chiltepin cross I was growing looked miserable in 1/2 gallon pots before transplant and refused to get bigger than 6". The plants in 1g pots looked far better but still not happy and also refused to get much bigger. All started growing rapidly within 2 weeks of being planted in the earth and some were over 5.5’ tall by late summer.
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Yeah, it is a real reminder of the work that is done to get qualities from wild plants to exist in plants that are happy to be grown using our standard horticultural practices. Or in the case of the super hots, qualities that are ignored (health, ease of growth) in the quest for something that does not exist in nature.
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