Hey All, I've had luck with a once a week 10-10-10, as recommended in "The Pepper Garden". Of my 400 seedlings I am down to about 160 as I have had excessive trouble with birds eating them to the stem. I ended up building a 15 ft by 6 ft by 6 ft high nylon screening "box" over my garden, and laid out the seedlings (I started this after loosing 28 Red Savina's over night). The crazy thing is, is that my plants (large old plants) are being attacked as well. My two year old Red Savina plant (in full bloom) is with out any flowers nor blooms. I draped some cheese cloth around an a cage with some you plants, but I only have so much time, and space. I was kind of hoping I could hide the seedlings further up on my back porch get during construction of my "box" the took out 32 Caribbean Reds. If any one has a solution or any experience with this matter send me an e-mail. muito obrigado Shad ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]