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AWESOME!!! I've never had so many wonderful maders, peppers and egg plants. I had 4 Fairy tale Eggplant plants. One of them had 15 on it at the same time. It is still producing. I used it on a Lemon Drop pepper plant and the plant has been loaded with peppers and it grew to 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide. it looks like a big shrub. I have another Lemon Drop plant that I didn't use it on and it is not even a foot tall and only has a few peppers on it. TOMATOES??? I've never ever seen so many tomatoes. I used it on my Costoluto Genovese and they are still producing. Next year it goes in all my Mader/pepprs/eggplants and maybe I'll try it on a few other things. I'm sold on it!!! Thanks so much for Sharing that recipe!


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Posts: 1043 | Location: Texas Zone 8 | Registered: March 06, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Hi Hairy, tell me how hot your lemon drop peppers are, please.
Do you have the link for Mumsey's mix? The search feature is struggling today, or I am Roll Eyes
Edit: I found it. If I remember correctly, didn't she add kelp meal to the list?


Muddy knees David! Compost is my friend. Every day I enroll in gardening school. Some days it feels like kindergarten!
 
Posts: 3707 | Location: Oregon-zone 8 | Registered: August 17, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Dave, my peppers be pretty hot. I will Amal you a pic so you can judge the difference. Did you want some seed? I used the basic mix.


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You can call me Hairy, Moose, or Knuckle. Knucklehead is ok too, as well as Anthony, Tony or perhaps if you prefer, an old Fudknucker.

It don't matter what you call me; as long as you call me in time for supper!

Anthony~anthonydotchaneyathotmaildotcom~



 
Posts: 1043 | Location: Texas Zone 8 | Registered: March 06, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Hi Hairy, I grew them myself this year and found them hotter than a jalapeno! Which turned out to be a good thing. None of my other hot peppers did anything besides lemon drop and cayenne from MHG. Thanks for the seed offer. I am good.


Muddy knees David! Compost is my friend. Every day I enroll in gardening school. Some days it feels like kindergarten!
 
Posts: 3707 | Location: Oregon-zone 8 | Registered: August 17, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Moose, so glad it worked for you down there in TX! My pepper plants are huge as well, over 3 feet tall and I'm still picking tomatoes, eggplant and peppers here in Ioway! Not to mention still picking green beans and chard!

My green pepper plants are so loaded they are falling over. Unheard of this late in the season.


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Posts: 2365 | Location: Zone 4-5, North Central Iowa | Registered: April 12, 2002Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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I am definitely using the mix next year- that is to say adding the cornmeal to what I already do. Smiler
I used lots of rabbit manure on my pepper area and the cayenne had 1000 peppers on each plant I think! But as for the rest (bell mostly), they didn't set flowers very well (used seed mix never used before though) and were the biggest, healthiest plants I have ever seen with the fewest peppers I have had. The ones I did get were huge and thick but took a long time to color. The stems of the plants were thicker than most tomatoes and woody and strong and the leaves were lush and healthy, I assume from the rabbit manure. But with so few peppers I still have to deem the season a disappointment. The plants also withstood a frost for the most part! I have some in wall 0 waters but the ones without just lost the top edges and the rest lived, whereas my beans completely died. The peppers are on black weed blocker too. I am just rambling now sorry. Roll Eyes


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Posts: 205 | Location: Central Minnesota, zone 4 | Registered: July 27, 2008Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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