I check the pepper plants every two days. They have indoors now for 3 to 4 weeks. A few are in the sunroom, to ripen remaining peppers (Thai, Tabasco, a Serranno). The others are in a 50s to 60s cool bright room.
I am moving the rest into the cool, bright room too. I want them to be dormant.
Here are a Tabasco (left ) and Serrano (right)
They look about the same as when I transplanted them. The stems are still green. The peppers are about the same. That's fine. I want dormancy, not growth.
The Serrano had tiny fuzzy things on the soil. I think they are whiteflies. Not very active in the coolness.
I sprayed the plant and soil with this stuff.
Most of the fuzzy things disappeared immediately. There were a few remaining, so I sprayed with some old Safer brand neem spray too.
Here are some of the other pepper plants. Left to Right, Cayenne, Banana, Early Jalapeño.
The Cayenne is pushing a few buds. So is the Banana. Not much, but you can tell they are alive. The stems are still green. I didn't defoliate the Jalapeño. It's mostly just sitting there, but the nodes are a little knobby, like some buds want to show.
Closeup of the Cayenne.
So far, so good. They still have a long way to go.
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