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Posted by oosul z8 az (My Page) on Fri, Nov 18, 05 at 23:01
I have been growing them now for over two years and
everything was great over the summer, lots of new growth,
really green, and now they are flowering, but they are
losing leaves and the leaves are rigid but getting wrinkley.
This happened last year, if I remember right.....
Is it because it is getting colder at night?
Should I bring them in at night time and put them out in the
sun in the day?
Steve |
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RE: habanero pepper plants
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| could be, if nights are quite cool - peppers are perenniel but don't like big swings in day to night temps Bill |
RE: habanero pepper plants
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Hababeros are pretty tropical and dislike cold nights. We still have ours in the ground but expect them to start shedding leaves when night-time temps fall into the lower 40s.
The pepper is Capsicum chinensis and is likely of Brazilian origin. |
RE: habanero pepper plants
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- Posted by Byron 4a/5b NH (My Page) on
Sat, Nov 19, 05 at 19:15
| Also might be excessive fertilizer, chiles are very sensitive to over feeding Marsh, FWIW C.Chinense was Caribbean find, Ajís came from Bolvia |
RE: habanero pepper plants
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| Hi Byron, I bow to your superior knowledge. I just reported what I read from a Capsicum data sheet (USDA ARS). Aji is the Andean term for hot peppers, not just Bolivia. Each dialect is some variation on our word aji. |
RE: habanero pepper plants
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| C. baccatums come from Bolivia? Actually, I thought they all come from Bolivia, or rather the Andes in general. |
RE: habanero pepper plants
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| Hard to say because of long period of domestication and probable dispersal of "wild" Capsicum spp. by human agencies. |
RE: habanero pepper plants
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| If the weather is getting cool , bring the peppers in. They can live up to 7 years in the same pot, yes, I have done this, they will winter in the house and produce a great harvest in the winter months as long as you can keep the mites away,,, (a good hosing 1ce a week and some soap water should do it) I have habeneros that are 10 yrs. old and still going gangbusters, but have transplanted to larger pots. If you treat peppers right,, they will live for years. darlene |
RE: habanero pepper plants
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| maybe you should ask in the hot pepper forum. |
RE: habanero pepper plants
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- Posted by Byron 4a/5b NH (My Page) on
Fri, Dec 2, 05 at 18:52
| Alfie C Baccatum? or all chiles?? Many came from the Andes region, but not all. |
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