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Originally Posted by greenthumbomaha
Can you fool DTM by starting a pepper early and potting up several times under lights? My harvest is always so late when I follow the rules!
- Lisa
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Lisa, certainly you can, and it's the best way to grow in a cooler climate. There's a pepper forum where you are (The Hot Pepper) and here in the UK (Chillis Galore) with loads of info.
In the UK we won't get ripe pods without starting early under lights. There are specific grow lights for this but you would get some benefit just using small compact fluorescent lights. (CFL)
Capsicums are relatively tolerant of what wavelength light. Relatively cheap domestic lights, not of specific wavelength for growing will work for you.
I'd think of starting chinenses and frutescens, baccatums now. Annuums at the end of February. That's with a view to planting into the greenhouse inlate april/mid may depending on conditions.