Jim,
What author tries to communicate is peppers can withstand excessive amount of fertilizer and still can produce fruits.It shows how robust pepper plants are.Pressumably root system will allow only necessary amount of fertilizer to enter when there is excessive supply of fertilizer out side around the roots.
Now let us read the sentence as is and then read with substituting---- will--- in place of can.

------Peppers can actually produce fruit quite well under almost ridiculously high fertility programs-----

Same statement with writing--- will-- instead of can.
------Peppers will actually produce fruit quite well under almost ridiculously high fertilizer programs.

Author has been careful in writing --can--in the statement for clarity of the meaning.

Interesting observation, chaman. In addition to that we can parse the sentence to highlight the "quite well" part of it. Then maybe just the "quite". :-)

Where does that leave us?

Jim

Remember, though, that there is a fine line between "Ridiculously High Fertilization" and fertilizer burn.

Alan

As William Blake proclaimed: "Enough or too much!" You can't tell how much is enough until you've experienced too much.

Coming from an authoritative source, I thought it was a bold and interesting statement. It encourages me to fertilize a little more heavily. What is your opinion of it? Will it encourage you to change your fertilizer applications at all?

Jim

I started out with too high fert for peppers and can tell you that the leaves: will curl, have dimples, fall off and will still produce peppers if and I say if the peppers are already on the plant. If flowering they will sometimes produce fruit, but blossom drop is common. In the end your plant looks like crap, but you still get peppers.

Advice, do not use more than 550 ppm of sauce on your plants unless you like ugly pepper plants.

I was at 1500 ppm when my plants could take no more sauce. Also the Bell Peppers can take the 1500 ppm, while plants like Serano, Thai, Pepperconni, Cayenne, Scott Bonnet can take only about 1200 ppm, and Anaheim can take only 800 ppm.

I have done lots of experimenting.

However, do not let me stop you from having a go at it.

mhargraves, your information is far more precise than any I have seen or expected to see. It is much appreciated. I need to translate the ppm figures to my fertilizing practices, but I can do that.

How close to the maximum tolerances would you recommend going? I imagine 50% of the maximum would produce very satisfactory growth and yield while maintaining a good margin of safety.

Jim

What is the sauce? Are we discussing hydroponics?