"patience is of the utmost importance"
if you've got some to spare feel free to send it my way. I'm so excited about (eventually) harvesting that I'm going insane.

I'm tip toeing around my plants several times a day now :) After having planted them out, I feel a little empty - no more elaborate watering projects (out of growing frame, watering, root inspection, back in), no more potting up, no more hardening off. All the work is done. I'm considering brewing some beer to keep busy :)

This is definitely one of the hardest stages of pepper growing. You're in between seedlings and harvest. There's really not much you can do. They don't need to be watered everyday, and there's nothing to harvest. This is where a lot of people can self destruct. They really want to do something to help, and usually end up making things worse!
Just sit back and relax, at least that's what I try to keep telling myself!

Tim

I grab a beer, walk around my 126 plants. Come inside, read this forum. Get another beer and go walk around the plants again and over and over until it is time for bed. The good thing for me is right now I am picking a few peppers a day, although they are Cayenne's or Jalapeno's, at least it is something to do.... :)

Bill

Or grow 300 tomatoes along with peppers... Keeps me busy from dawn till dusk :)

My peppers grew an average of .037 MM's in height yesterday. I think I need a new micrometer. I didn't think they grew at all.

This post was edited by esox07 on Thu, Jun 6, 13 at 10:42

I don't ever worry about it. I know in a couple months, I'll have veggies coming out of my ears.

Hell! I have some type of veggy coming out of my ears all year long.

It also doesn't hurt to have a supply of dried and pickled peppers available.

I did, however, have to buy some fresh last week to make a pot of chili.

Here's wishing Bruce and others in cold climes sustain a longer summer.

Kevin