>>2364455thanks for the advice I already pre fertilized my soil by using 2 parts potting soil/old potting soil to 1 part cow manure thats heavily decomposed. I have over 33 pepper plants on my small apartment deck but I figured I would lose some of them due to various reasons over the growing season. I already am dealing with the Aphid menace this year to which on monday when I get payed I will buy some Neem Oil & use some of the plant safe down to make a natural concoction to deal with aphids. I am mostly growing sweet/mild peppers but I did pick up a second Habenero from one of my local nurseries that had one that was further along then the one I currently have and they had a single ghost pepper plant left for sale so I snatched that up as well. Mostly I want to have some veggies to go with my rice in case an economic recession hits this year or next.