So far watering has gotten to be the hardest part of maintaining my garden. The heat forces me to water almost daily compared to the once every 3-4 days I used to do. I’m really hating the fluctuations in temperature, humidity, and weather. Worse of all it’s effects are really starting to show themselves on the larger peppers in my garden in the form of blossom end rot. It’s really hard to water consistently when the temperature is ranging 70-100 degrees F.
Anyways I’m going to make a green sauce with the parts I can reclaim off of these unlucky peppers.
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With the extreme weather we’ve got, all my plants that are in full sun are shocked and are not even half the size they should be by now (I didn’t shade them and probably didn’t harden properly.) The shaded one are thriving.
I’m in New England too, and this weather sucks! Heat, humidity. I have no sun for the next few days and then rain for the next five days. I haven’t seen any blossom end rot, probably because I’m growing small peppers. White nights, seven pot Primos, and ghost. No blossom end rot yet anyway. But the weather definitely sucks
I’m in PA and the heat is just coooking them 😭😭😭😭 the fabric pots were great when we were getting a bunch of rain, but now it’s been soooo hard to keep them watered and happy…
“Feels like” temp is 101, I had to drag all 20 onto the porch…
I’m just praying to the pepper gods the 5 I have planted in the ground make it to this evening
I take lots of photos of my plants, and this is by far the worst year – they’re half the size they should be and lots of dropped flowers, both the ones I got from a nursery and the ones I started indoors. I’m hopeful the longer growing season means they’ll finish out okay, but next year I’m going to start them earlier to give them a better chance.
Seedlings feel delayed and pokey. Roots strong and stalks hardening but the leaves are pitiful, the growth is slow, and no fruit yet. A single flower feels like it takes weeks to develop.
That’s odd, my peppers have been loving the weather.
(SE Pennsylvania) This is the first year since I started growing peppers about 10 years ago that my plants totally failed. Had a squirrel destroy most of them and had an earwig problem, then this heat is pretty brutal with the whatever remnants of peppers I have left. I even went back to go get more plants and those didn’t do well either.
As far as natural growth, I like to forage wild berries every summer and this years berries were ready over a week early. I took off work to go pick them next week and ended up having to try to pick some after work this previous week because by the time I have work off on Wednesday they will be well past their peak. I’m not sure how much of that is the heat but it’s very unusual, this is the earliest I ever remember berries being ready and I’ve been tracking when they’re ready for maybe 15 years.
I’m having the same issues. 100-110 *F every day with the plants in full sun for ~8 hours per day
Are you sure this is blossom end rot? This looks more like sunscald. Are the spots all on the side that is exposed to the harshest (afternoon) sun? I’ve found that large, annuum varieties are most susceptible to sunscald. Do you have any chinense or baccatum varieties? Do they have the same problem? I’ve simply stopped growing the large annuum peppers. I have mini bells which seem to do better than the regular bell peppers, fresnos and jalapenos do well. My crosses do really well, I’ve never seen sunscald on them.
Yeah thats what mine look like when the sun cooks them for too long. Our heatwave only just started out west but I’m considering remay to cut the heat a little. My basil is rocking though.