RE: [CH] wind damage to pepper plants
CES (ces@preferred.com)
Wed, 2 Jun 2004 10:54:45 -0400
Don't know if it would work for you but I use 3 or 4ft bamboo stakes on all
my plants. They can take a lot of wind if they're tied to the stakes. I get
a bundle of 25 stakes for about $3 or $4.
Charlie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com
> [mailto:owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com]On Behalf Of Jim Graham
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:11 PM
> To: Chile-Heads Digest
> Subject: [CH] wind damage to pepper plants
>
>
> Ok.... Last year, I kept a screen around all of my pepper plants
> (the idea being to protect them from whatever ate them the year
> before...in *ONE DAY* while I was at work). After I inherited a
> number of additional plants (no screens), that were left alone, I
> removed the screens this year. No predators anymore...but.......
>
> *WIND*! As the usual nightly t-storms move through, they bring lots
> of wind---something I never realized before that the screens were
> protecting my pepper plants from. Aside from keeping unsightly green
> plastic screens around my plants, does anyone have any ideas for
> preventing pepper plants from being blown over (to where they're laying
> flat on the deck---i.e., just over 90 degrees) and severely damaged?
>
> Granted, it's only the cayenne peppers that this is happening to (they
> seem to be the only ones that insist on being tall, skinny/vulnerable
> plants), and not the habaneros, tabascos, priks, chiltepins, or even
> the no-heat peppers (banana peppers, jalapenos, and one mystery pepper
> that might be some form of aji---big/long...compared to jalapenos/banana
> peppers, fat peppers that start off as a deep, dark green, and ripen to
> a chocolate brown color) ... but still ... those cayennes, even though
> they have basically zero heat, are still quite tasty...and I'd hate to
> lose them to the wind......
>
> For now, I've put the green plastic screens back up. Any better ideas
> would be most welcome.
>
> Suggestions?
> --jim
>
> PS: The other pepper plants have grown to be very thick...to the extent
> that, for example, when I'm checking out habanero row, looking for
> new pepper sign (MST3k ref: sim. to movie sign), I'll often miss
> peppers that I saw the day before ... but can't find again, because
> the stems/branches/leaves are so thick that they make finding the
> still-green habaneros rather difficult.... This has never been the
> case in past years---reason (I suspect): per multiple growing tips
> pages, planted all pepper plants much deeper than I had in the past,
> resulting in much thicker, taller, and more productive plants.
>
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