Will my peppers and habaneros survive the 110 degree summer?

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Waterfowler Indio, CA Apr 06, 2011

Will my bell peppers, habaneros, tropical ornamental peppers and ghost peppers survive the brutal heat of the SoCal lower desert heat? This is my first attempt at growing vegetables, so I don't really know what I am doing.

They will be in the shade up against the house and have lots of water. I also will have them planted tight together so the inner most plants will have the fruit protected. I am just getting the seedlings to pop up now so right when they reach maturity it pretty much won't be getting under 100 degrees. And in July, August and September even the nights won't be getting under 85 degrees.

Will they survive and if so, will they bear fruit in the summer?

Also I planted about 40 feet of pablanos, tomatillos, golden midget watermelons, corn and habaneros along an okra farmer's drip line. How do you think those will fare? I was going to plant them as seedlings but the farmer said told me not to be ridiculous and just stick them(dry seed) in the ground on either side of the drip line. To my surprise, it's been about 10 days and over 70% of all the plants have popped up already except for the habaneros. Are these slow germinators?

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PrissyJo Roswell, NM(Zone 6a) Apr 07, 2011

Hi. We have the same heat here in May and June up to 117 and I built a shade covering for my peppers, cukes and tomatoes for that time. In July and August it's not as hot... only about 100 or so and that's when we get our annual rainfall, about 5". I had more veggies than I knew what to do with and last year very few other gardeners got many veggies at all. When the package says plant in full sun, they don't mean it for around here. I'm sure you'll be very pleasantly surprised at your production! Good luck!

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Gymgirl SE Houston (Hobby), TX(Zone 9a) Apr 08, 2011

All the veggies you mentioned are heat lovers (within reason, of course!). If they start to get some sort of sun scald, put some shade cover. I've found that my bell peppers in containers like to be watered from the top, so I try to keep the soil moist, but not overly wet.

Godspeed and Good Harvest!

Linda

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Waterfowler Indio, CA Apr 09, 2011

Thanks for the advice. I have almost given up on the habaneros. Some of my bell peppers on the drip line are 4 inches tall already, so I am seeding some in trays indoors to see if these come up and then transplant them out in the field. If not I will put some White Lightening eggplant. In just 3 days I had one eggplant and 2 red burgundy okra seedlings pop up out of the soil in the tray, but the farmer says he doesn't want the red okra in his field because of cross pollination with his green variety.

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