RE: [CH] transplanting time experts

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> (and our leggy indoor seedlings are still waiting to be 
> hardened off for our own crop)

   I transplanted the first week of May, after chance of
a killing frost was less than 5%, between rainstorms and
tornadoes, when the nightly temps were in the mid 50's.
Then the cool, wet weather came back and started mucking
things up.
   The  C annuums are holding their own.  Not much growth
but a few blossoms.  No big problems with sunscald.
   The yatsufusa are thriving.  They seem happy to grow
bushier every day, even if they aren't getting much taller.
A few blossoms on these.  No sign of sunscald.
   The saddest are the two types of  habaneros.  The chocolate
habs lost all of their original leaves to sunscald and/or
critters.  All were reduced to 3 inch stems poking out of
the ground.  Amazingly, they are all growing new leaves
all up and down the stems.  If the season ever warms up
they should be dense little shrubs.
   The white bullet habs lost their leaves to sunscald, but
not as rapidly as the chocos, and they are regenerating
as bushily as well.
   Last year I waited for the weather to warm up and dry
out a little.  I ended up with leggy root-bound seedlings
that took forever to perk up.  I think I'm ahead of the game
this year by letting them fend for themselves in the great
outdoors.

Scott... KCK

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