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Gardening

BusyBeingBest

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5. Mine are growing (a type of jalapeno called "coolapeno")

Reply to happybird (Original post)

Tue Aug 4, 2020, 05:51 PM

Aug 2020

in a pot, got peppers, but some of them have rotten areas at the bottom ends. Maybe it's blossom end rot like tomatoes get from calcium deficiency, or it's a bug of some kind, I don't know. Also, coolapeno is not all that tasty--lacks the heat of a hot pepper, lacks the flavor of a sweet pepper. It's neither here nor there, and I won't grow it again.

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Anyone else having problems with peppers this year? [View all] happybird Aug 2020 OP

My peppers (and tomatoes) are doing great. Squash - not so much Siwsan Aug 2020 #1

My tomatoes are doing great, too! happybird Aug 2020 #6

high temps impact pollination of some peppers and large tomatoes NRaleighLiberal Aug 2020 #2

Do you have advice for when to pick Purple Cherokee? happybird Aug 2020 #8

Any large heirloom type tomatoes are most safely picked half NRaleighLiberal Aug 2020 #13

Thank you! n/t happybird Aug 2020 #14

i grow sweet banana peppers in buckets questionseverything Aug 2020 #3

The plants have hardly grown but making peppers OhNo-Really Aug 2020 #4

If you mean your tomatoes are black on the bottom Mr.Bill Aug 2020 #9

I had a few early tomatoes end rot, but that seems to be over happybird Aug 2020 #10

Mine are growing (a type of jalapeno called "coolapeno") BusyBeingBest Aug 2020 #5

Not at all brokephibroke Aug 2020 #7

Sounds like a pollination problem Major Nikon Aug 2020 #11

I thought it was a matter of not having murielm99 Aug 2020 #12

I've got more peppers than usual. As a rule, I'm in your boat and muttering that I'll never grow Vinca Aug 2020 #15

Mine seem fine spinbaby Aug 2020 #16

Well, my pepper problem has been solved by deer happybird Aug 2020 #17