are you talking about hot peppers, or does it matter. i mean sure, as we struggle thru june-uary it seems like no pepper will ever add another leaf, but lets hope that changes soon. its not quite solstice yet after all. i live in the san juan islands and i almost always have had thai peppers do well and serranos seem to do alright. last year i was given a serbian pepper named slonovo uvo (elephant ear) that still had un-moldy fruit on it in late november outside. that to me says a lot to be able to last that long. it is a sweet pepper by the way. i planted all the seeds i had from last year, but write me next sept or oct if you are interested in seeds for next year. i probably won't remember otherwise. good luck with it and lets hope we get some sun soon---bob

I live in upstate NY and can grow any chile I have tried and I have tried many. Not that warm here and just as cold as any place in Wa.

willard,
i don't know where in upstate new york you live, but i have a step daughter in canadaigua, yew nork and so i used it on weatherunderground.com compared to where i live on lopez island, washington on weatherunderground.com.

for us the highest average low is 47 in the middle of july for a short time(2 weeks). average highest low in canadaigua is 60 from the 1'st of july until around the mid part of august(6 weeks)...
canadaigua average low is above our highest low of 47 from 3'rd week of may until 3'rd week of september. our average low of 45 and above only last from 1'st week of june until mid september.....

as far as the highs, we have an average high of 65 and above from 1'st week of june until 1'st week of september with a high of 71 for about 2 weeks total.......canandaigua has an average high of 65 or higher from mid may until 1'st of october with an average high of 80 or more from mid of june until mid august

so, as you can see from the data, we do have much cooler nightime temps here in western washington for a longer time than new york and not near as high as highs in new york. then i'm not even mentioning the amount of cloudy hours between the two places, but i'm betting washington has many more cloudy days and days that are cloudy for days after days. whereas new york is more likely to have thunderstorms and then clear up an hour later

now maybe you live in a place that is cooler than canadaigua, but my guess is that we have much cooler area than you....i'd be interested to know---bob

EVERYTHING IS ON SCHEDULE EXCEPT FOR

HOT ISRAEL AND FIDALGA ROXA THERE GROWING VERY SLOW IT SEEMS THERE AT A HALT RIGHT NOW

I THINK ITS BECAUSE THE NIGHTS ARE STILL A TOUCH TOO COLD YET?/

THANKS YOUR FRIEND JOE

I'm in Minnesota, which has hotter, drier, sunnier summers than where you are - but a local weather guy keeps swearing we're having an average Seattle summer this year, so maybe my observations will help... I planted 12 kinds of sweet and hot peppers this spring. The only one that seems to be thriving in these temperatures (I moved them outside in March, so they had two months of lows in the 30s and 40s) is the Czech Black. The second-best grower is Candlelight - small (it even works well in containers), but it's got good color and nice dark green leaves.

Wisconsin Lakes and Beaver Dam are meant for our shorter, cooler summers (shorter than most of the US anyway, I guess long compared to you!!) but they haven't liked all the rain we had these last three weeks, they're not doing better than anything else. The Tabasco, Shishito, and Serrano are suffering the most - they didn't like the cold earlier this spring, and they definitely didn't like the wet this month.

Hope that helps a little...

I have planted various peppers (from same batch) in two different locations.
In one location they get over 7 hours sun, in the second less than 5 hrs direct sun,
some filtered sun and shade. The peppers in the second spot are doing far better.

From what I've noticed in the NW UK humidity seems to be a definate benefit, this is with a small batch of 'random' bell pepper, and hot chilli seeds I've had from store bought peppers.

Temps here Atm are 10-20C.

I've got mine in assorted soda bottles, although a 3inch Pot with a soda bottle top *seems* to work better at least until thery're 6-8in (I assume they don't like the sun on the roots/lower soil)

This is from my 1st year of experience with chillis though, still learning. :)

Grow rocoto