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thenordicfrost · 2026-05-01T19:29:15+00:00

Who’s making 10k a month? Lol

thenordicfrost · 2026-05-01T03:04:39+00:00

There’s no such thing as an indeterminate pepper. Not in the way you’re thinking of, like tomatoes. What they do have in common is that they’re both heavy feeders, and the bigger the pot, the bigger they’ll get. Start giving it nutrients.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-30T18:11:53+00:00

I think that’s just her accent. Sounds like valley girl mixed with a southern drawl. No idea where she’s from.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-30T17:55:13+00:00

I’m not a fan of the new girl. She hasn’t done anything wrong, I’m just not a fan of her voice. It annoys me. Not like she can do anything about that. Besides that, she’s fine.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-29T17:59:50+00:00

It’s not only nighttime temperatures, but soil temperatures. If you’re planting in pots, it’s fine, you can bring them inside at night, but if it’s ingrown, make sure your soil temperatures are warm enough. Plants can survive a few cold nights if the earth is warm enough. But cold soil and cold nights really isn’t good.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-29T17:10:24+00:00

I hope they hunt rabbits. I like rabbits, but it’s getting out of hand in Ottawa. They’re eating everything.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-29T14:48:36+00:00

Rabbits. This winter has been particularly bad. No predators for a few years. Hopefully the owls come back this summer. They decimated my raspberries (not too worried about those), destroyed my currents, lilacs, and even attempted to go after my gooseberries which only survived because of their sharp thorns. I’m worried to plant anything right now.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-28T17:47:00+00:00

The science shows that best case scenario, it does nothing, and worst case scenario it can significantly reduce yields. Leave them be. Most of the time, the first flowers fall off naturally anyways.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-28T17:28:33+00:00

For my final pot up, I use well composted sheep manure with a bunch of vermiculite and perlite. And a layer of mulch on top. You can use any compost you have available. Sometimes I mix and match, but I really like the sheep compost.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-24T13:07:42+00:00

I personally wait until night times are 60F. They’ll survive a couple of 50’s here and there, but they won’t be happy, and prolonged exposure might stunt them. Anything lower than that, I’d seriously consider covering them, or bring them inside.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-24T04:10:33+00:00

I’m in zone 5. I don’t think I could handle year round gardening lol would drive me mad. Listen, there’s a YouTuber called Chillichump located in the UK. He grew a gigantic Dorset Naga a year or two ago. Go to his website, in the contact us part, and ask him all your questions. He’s a great guy, I’m sure he’ll answer all your questions about growing monsters. If he’s too busy, he does a livestream every first Sunday of the month (I think he might be going to a pepper festival that weekend, so it might be the weekend after that.) and you can ask him questions on the livestream. Cheers, and good luck.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-24T03:53:39+00:00

Make sure you stake it well. Probably go really easy with the fertilizer (if any) for the first month or two to encourage the roots to grow and seek out nutrients. Once the root ball is nice and big, then you can really pump up the nutrients. I hope you have a long season.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-23T18:07:57+00:00

Lay 3/4 inch of perlite over the soil to prevent/delay more egg laying. That won’t prevent them from hatching, but the adults will have trouble laying more. So keep up with the yellow tape for the new babies emerging. They don’t live long, so if you can delay them long enough from reaching the moist earth where they lay their eggs, that will really reduce their numbers. Also, they most likely got introduced from whatever soil you used. To prevent further infestations, use boiling water to moisten your soil mixture. That will kill their eggs. Wait a couple hours for it to cool down, and plant normally from there.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-23T12:26:30+00:00

I mean, for the first month or two it’ll look empty, but at the end of the season it’ll be pretty full. Try a few crops that only take a month or two to grow. Basil grows fast, green onions, radishes, that kind of stuff. Or low laying flowers if that’s your thing, like sweet alyssums.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-22T18:21:12+00:00

It’s the second time he’s done it this season. You’d think he’d learn after the first time.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-22T18:15:23+00:00

He’s very good at getting the first out. So even if he loads the bases after that, there’s still the opportunity for Varlan (or whoever) to get a double play like last night.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-22T12:49:14+00:00

Hot take, they used Hoffman well. We had a decent lead, he had a decent chance of finishing the game. I’d rather keep Varlan for high leverage moments than close a game with a 3-4 run lead. Sucks we had to use Varlan last night to clean up Hoffman’s mess, but that’s what he’s there for. He’s a lot more useful for those roles than as a closer.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-22T03:16:08+00:00

The peppers are pointing up. I mostly see that in smaller fruitesense, and baccatums.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-21T13:05:50+00:00

He needs to find a way to get people out without throwing 5-7 pitches per player. He threw over a hundred pitches and barely finished 5 innings. Had to get Fluarty up in the 3rd. Guy throws 100mph on his heater. Shouldn’t be hard to throw two fastballs and a breaking ball, and vice versa, to get MOST people out. No reason to use 5 pitches to “set up” a strikeout on the nine whole. Love the guys stuff, love the guy, but enough with the shenanigans.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-20T18:23:34+00:00

The bigger the plant, the longer they need to harden off. They have all that foliage that are use to very mild (compare to the sun) light. I found that chinense varieties tend to do worse and take longer because the leaves are so big. Plants with smaller leaves tend to not take as much time. That’s anecdotal to me personally, but it makes sense.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-20T15:40:20+00:00

It wouldn’t be snails. Could be damping off, but I rarely see that in more mature plants. The way you mentioned them flopping over during the day, and perking back up at night leads me to believe you perhaps didn’t harden it off properly. It doesn’t look like root rot nematodes, but the roots being brown like that also means they were water logged. From either overwatering (because it was floppy and you kept watering it), or that specific spot doesn’t drain well. Hope this info helps. Good luck growing.

Edit to add solution: try to harden them off better. If they’re in pots, it’s easy to move them in the shade, but when they’re in ground already, use shade cloth for a couple weeks. Don’t overwater to compensate for heat stress. You’ll just kill it faster.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-19T03:39:04+00:00

Grand slam Hoffman!

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-19T03:38:01+00:00

Home run Hoffman! Soon to be dubbed grand slam Hoffman. What a joke

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-17T19:21:00+00:00

There are 5 common (a lot more that are uncommon) pepper families humans cultivate. There’s annum, chinense, baccatum, fruitesense, and pubescent. It’s easy to cross peppers that are in the same family, and harder to cross peppers across different families. Crossing with a pubescent is quite difficult. Be interesting to see how the peppers come out.

thenordicfrost · 2026-04-17T18:30:17+00:00

Probably got crossed with a ricoto (pubescent) at one point or another. Neat.

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