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  1. Dave2000

    Your Help Needed - Evalutating NEW Forum Software

    Did some testing and figured out that the problem of selecting only portions of a paragraph is being caused by a Firefox add-on called FastestFox (but not the similarly named FasterFox add-on). Disabling FastestFox add-on fixes it. Odd how it has never caused a problem before, though I've only...
  2. Dave2000

    Pennies for Tomatoes?

    What I don't understand is, if the test service was testing every month, why did they wait until the copper levels were that excessive before they said anything about it? Did they just send out incompetent techs then finally one that knew what he or she was doing? I guess it could have instead...
  3. Dave2000

    Suggestions for Early Maturing Tomato/Pepper Varieties?

    I catch rain off my gutters for watering but only a barrel full at a time, nowhere near enough water so I'd say I use 90% tap water. Tap water from my municipal source is usually slightly alkaline though I would expect it is everywhere that uses similar treatment methods and chemicals...
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    Suggestions for Early Maturing Tomato/Pepper Varieties?

    ^ Yeah I was happy with it, just that one plant is more Chocolate Jamaicans than I can eat in a year myself and nobody else around me is crazy enough to eat more than a tiny fraction of one at a time in or out of food, so the extras get put into hot sauce.
  5. Dave2000

    Your Help Needed - Evalutating NEW Forum Software

    I'm using Firefox 26.0 To give an example, I have just clicked the reply link on the quoted post above and am typing in the comment box. If I take my mouse and left click and move, attempt to highlight this entire paragraph I'm typing, it creates a blue field over the text like it should and...
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    Your Help Needed - Evalutating NEW Forum Software

    Apologies if it's already been covered but is there a bug where you can't right click copy and paste or highlight text with your mouse in the reply box a lot of the time? I'm using Firefox 26.0
  7. Dave2000

    Pennies for Tomatoes?

    Once I took a scrap piece of copper pipe to a belt sander to make powder I mixed into a fertilizer mix. The plants seemed indifferent to it. Then again I keep reusing soil in pots by amending it every season so maybe maintaining the same results is a good outcome.
  8. Dave2000

    upside down tomatos.

    The problem I have with upside down tomatoes is I get good enough results with indeterminate varieties in the ground that even putting them in a 10 gallon pot results in a smaller plant and roughly ~50% less fruit. More soil than that is more than I want to hoist up in the air and needs a...
  9. Dave2000

    Suggestions for Early Maturing Tomato/Pepper Varieties?

    For the peppers, just about any capsicum annuum meant to be eaten green or for a little longer wait, yellow, though central ohio isn't a particularly cold or hot climate. You're only ~ 100mi NE of me and I can grow just about any tomato or peppers, BUT I start them from seed inside under lights...
  10. Dave2000

    Pennies for Tomatoes?

    You shouldn't have to use old all copper pennies, even new ones have enough copper plating that it will have oxidized a coating at the same rate, be effective for just as long as an all copper one if not longer since a newer penny has had less time to oxidize.
  11. Dave2000

    TomTato ? A hybrid potato / tomato plant?! This is CRAZY Cool!

    What would concern me is that every now and then a potato plant may produce fruit by itself, berries that look like big cherry tomatoes but are toxic to humans due to containing solanine.
  12. Dave2000

    Volunteer Pepper

    The weather has been crazy here this year so you never know. Frost might wipe it out in a month or it might make it till nearly Christmas. With blooms forming now there is a fair chance you might get some of the pods to full size, then ripen in a paper bag inside when the time comes. Let a...
  13. Dave2000

    Eggplant Question

    Are you using cages or staking and tying them? I'd try the latter... since I have more spare wood than cages.
  14. Dave2000

    Whats more important to you when selecting a tomato variety

    I'd go with the larger 10-12oz. That way you have more that are sandwich sized slices, and inevitably not all of them will get to be that large. Pick a smaller fruiting plant and the last batch of the season may be mostly golf ball sized. Larger fruit also means less labor if you want to...
  15. Dave2000

    Mysterious Hot Pepper

    A couple of its children... 1st one used to be larger but started collapsing under the weight of the pods so I lost a few and had to prune it. :/
  16. Dave2000

    Mysterious Hot Pepper

    ^ That's what I'm doing. I have a few interesting hybrids this year, but still no idea what to name them!... except delicious. ;)
  17. Dave2000

    Mysterious Hot Pepper

    No type of serrano, among other things mentioned it also has the typical smaller size/structure/color blooms of a chinense, as well as being somewhere in the lower 100's of SHU heat range, a smokier flavor, more waxy pod, etc.
  18. Dave2000

    Hot peppers are perennials?

    If the plant is large one cup a month may not be enough. Mine were in a cool (but heated) dark basement corner, dormant, and given about 2 cups each, every couple of weeks but they still seemed to die from drying out too much.
  19. Dave2000

    Mysterious Hot Pepper

    It's not a Super Chili, not annuum, pods don't grow upside down, smaller calyx, and the flash is different besides which the person who sold me the seeds didn't grow anything that looked like that so it has to be a hybrid of something he grew. It is (was) definitely at least part Chinense...
  20. Dave2000

    cilantro

    Strong flavor, hmm. I either use more, or cook it just enough that the leaves turn darker. I'm sort of in the opposite boat in that I love cilantro and want some way to tone it down so the amount I want in a dish is acceptable to others. I do still harvest leaves when/after it flowers, just...
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