Growing Peppers in Iowa: Fruit Set, Heat and Timing
Peppers set fruit reliably across most of an Iowa season, but two temperature edges can shut flowering down without warning: a stretch of days near or…
Growing Peppers in Indiana: Fruit Set, Heat and Timing
Indiana peppers face a narrow window. The state’s summer heat and its still-unpredictable spring frost mean fruit set can fail on either side of that…
Growing Peppers in Illinois: Fruit Set, Heat and Timing
In Illinois, pepper fruit set runs into trouble at both ends of the thermometer.
Growing Peppers in Idaho: Fruit Set, Heat and Timing
In the Boise valley, peppers face 47.5 days a year at or above 90 F, on average, enough heat to stall fruit set during the hottest stretch of July and…
Growing Peppers in Hawaii: Fruit Set, Heat and Timing
Peppers set fruit in a narrow band: nights need to stay above 55 F and days need to stay below 90 F.
Growing Peppers in New York: Fruit Set, Heat and Timing
Peppers in New York face a narrow window: too cold at night and blossoms drop, too many days over 90 F and blossoms drop again.
Growing Peppers in Michigan: Fruit Set, Heat and Timing
Michigan gives pepper plants a narrow window of good weather sandwiched between two real threats.
Growing Peppers in Newfoundland and Labrador: Fruit Set, Heat and Timing
In Newfoundland and Labrador, the pepper problem isn’t heat, it’s the opposite. St.
Growing Peppers in New Mexico: Fruit Set, Heat and Timing
Albuquerque’s weather record shows 42.5 days a year at or above 90°F, and that number alone explains why pepper plants in New Mexico often flower heavily…
Growing Peppers in Manitoba: Fruit Set, Heat and Timing
In Manitoba, the heat side of pepper trouble barely exists on paper: the reference station logs zero days a year at or above 90 F.