JRF—We have rain coming this weekend also. This month I recorded our rainfall, it wasn’t too hard, it only rained 3 times but we had 11in at our place, Marcella hay have been a lot different being 9mi away. On one rainy day, I had 5in she had only about 1 1/2. Our local average for this area is 4.46 measured about 3mi from here.
ALL—I re-potted my ghost peppers last weekend and they are looking OK, but the existing peppers have not ripened, I guess they will. I dried and de-seeded my first batch of 14 and flaked them. Gunna have kids out at Christmas, SIL likes hot, so I am gunna fix him up, plus send him home with some seedlings.
The mater cuttings that we took a short time back were re-potted last weekend and the root systems looked good. The only problem is they are vine type heirlooms. I wonder if I can prune them regularly to contain them while indoors over the winter and still get maters from them.
You could stick 2 or 3 poles in the pots, and let them grow up those and pinch back when they get to the top. I have done that with regular tomatoes grown in buckets on the patio, but they weren’t the vining types.
It might work. You can try it and see. I’d probably give it a whirl.