[tjg911]

my pepper output sucks to put it mildly!

my plants are small, they have very few peppers and very few flowers. they are in the ground as always. my soil is sandy loam and always has grown good peppers along with anything else i plant. i water regularly and fertilize every 14 days spraying with neptune's harvest.

nothing i have said is different than any other season other than the cooler weather and THE variety. i settled for king arthur from a greenhouse, a variety i never grew before. i often see flower and therefore fruit production sky roacket in later august when the extreme heat of summer fades but since this summer has been a little cooler why the problem? rhetoric question btw. could it have been the 98 and 100+ days 2 weeks ago? i didn't see any flowers drop. the way things are going i may get 12 or 15 peppers from 6 plants for the whole season! btw, at least 4 have rotted and 3 or 4 have bad spots.

i may start to grow my peppers from seeds since i can't get the varieties i have grown and have liked in the past. peppers are one of the 2 things i don't start myself from seed.

tom