I just finished prepping my pepper plants for overwintering.  This is often what I consider the last gardening task of the year.  People are often surprised when I tell them that I have pepper plants that are a decade old.  Many varieties of peppers grown from seed never have a chance to produce prolific fruit in the climate here.  Doing this allows you to get a jump start in subsequent seasons.

This process is fairly easy.  I plant most of my peppers in containers.  As soon as the threat of night time temperatures drop below 50 consistently, I start thinking about moving them.  First step, blast them with a high powered stream of water to remove any pests that might be hanging on.  Bring them inside, and if they still have fruit (and you have space), put them in a warm, lighted spot until you can harvest everything.  After this occurs, cut them down to next to nothing and move the containers to an unheated garage or some other spot that maintains temps around 50 degrees F.  You don't really need direct light here and you can water them lightly once or twice a month.  Reverse this whole process shortly after your last frost to prepare them for going back outside.

The bulk of my "Fermenting Solutions" time this month went toward preparing for and interviewing to get a spot in the next Kernel Cohort scheduled for January.  Kernel is "A peer-learning environment dedicated to building a better web, together".  Each block runs for 8 weeks and this will be the 8th block.  I've made the short list of participants and I should hear within a few days if I made the cut or not.  My participation so far involved a deep dive on Trust and whether it's necessary in computing systems.  While doing this, I came across this game that allows you to explore Trust on a game theoretic basis.  I encourage everyone to check this out!

Finally, I completed an HRV experiment that I've been doing on and off for the last few months using the Kineon Move+.  The idea arose from a discussion that I had with the founder when I first acquired the device.  It basically involved wearing the device around my neck while exercising with the red light emitting devices positioned precisely over my carotid arteries.  This did end up increasing my HRV.  The interesting thing about it was that it was not additive with other device-based means of increasing HRV.  Initially, I expected to get an additional boost beyond what I was already seeing from things like sauna and the Apollo Neuro.  This is useful information for my upcoming HRV boosting blog post.  Things that I dismissed in the past as 'definitely doesn't work' should be reevaluated in the absence of other things that I know do.

As a result of this experiment,  I rewrote my original post on red light therapy to reflect my latest experiences.  Originally, this was mostly a review of the Joovv red light panels.  I have a new review of the panels and went deeper into photobiomodulation in the post below:

The NAD+ experiment that I mentioned last issue is over.  I don't have the results yet, so not much to discuss there.  I plan to write a blog post on increasing NAD+ in the future.  I also mentioned my theory regarding fresh air/nature's impact on HRV.  I've done a few, as yet undocumented, experiments on how breathwork impacts HRV in the past.  I'm also playing around with a new device that fits into this theme.  Expect to hear more about this soon.  If I'm selected for Kernel, there will likely be some future news related to that.  Until the next issue!

J

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