You need to harden them off. Check the growing tips at my web site. Dave Anderson TLCC http://www.tough-love.com > Time to delurk for a quick question. My hubby grew some peppers, the long > skinny red hot ones you use in Mexican cooking as well as in Chinese stir > frys, > etc., and some bell peppers. He transplanted them outside, and they are > promptly dying, and we're salvaging all the peppers we can. What can we do > to help them to thrive as they did when they were in pots inside the house? > It's > now in the 100's, so I know water is a key issue. We hate to see our first > endeavor go so well and then collapse once we got the plants outside!