Dated 2026. Current month is marked on the board. Planting windows come from Ask IFAS HS732 (Central Florida: August to September and January to March) and UF/IFAS Peppers. Climate pages belong to NWS Melbourne and FAWN. Outlooks are labeled outlook. This page does not invent rainfall totals or harvest yields.
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August 2026 · HS732 Aug to Sept window is open
Ask IFAS HS732 lists August to September as one of two Central Florida pepper planting slots. UF/IFAS Peppers says to start seed indoors in midsummer for that early-fall planting. Late August is the outdoor slot, not a new indoor sow unless a September set is still planned. Indoor lead is 4 to 8 weeks on UF/IFAS Starting Transplants Indoors.
Jan to Mar HS732 Central Florida spring transplant window
Apr to May Spring set fruits. No new HS732 pepper row
Jun to Jul Midsummer indoor start for Aug to Sept (IFAS Peppers)
Aug to Sep HS732 Central Florida fall transplant window
Oct to Nov IFAS Datil harvest window continues July to November
Cues stay on IFAS language. Days-to-harvest belong on the cultivar packet and the IFAS page, not as a house clock. No freeze date and no rainfall total are printed here.
Months
Transplant
Flower / fruit
First pick
Jan to Mar
HS732 Central Florida spring transplant window
Spring set begins after the plant is in the ground
When fruit is full size for the type. UF/IFAS Peppers
Apr to May
No new HS732 pepper row
Spring set fruits
Pick ripe fruit on the spring plants already in
Jun to Jul
Indoor start for the fall slot. UF/IFAS Peppers; 4 to 8 weeks on Starting Transplants Indoors
Summer plants still flower if they survived heat
IFAS Datil harvest window is July to November on the datil page
Aug to Sep
HS732 Central Florida fall transplant window
Fall set flowers after pot-up
Full-size fruit for the type; packet days stay on the packet
Oct to Nov
No HS732 planting row
Fall plants still set in warm stretches
Datil harvest window continues July to November (IFAS Datil)
Dec
No HS732 pepper planting row
None
No harvest figure invented here
Climate pages, not a house rain gauge
NWS Melbourne (MLB) is the National Weather Service office for east-central Florida, including the Orlando metro. Climate normals, monthly summaries, and hazardous-weather products live on that office. This page does not reprint a 2026 rainfall total.
FAWN (Florida Automated Weather Network, UF/IFAS) publishes station rainfall and temperature for growers. Read the station nearest the planting. A number invented here would not be a FAWN reading.
NOAA Climate Prediction Center seasonal temperature and precipitation outlooks are probability maps, not a yard of rain and not a pepper yield. Treat the current CPC three-month outlook as an outlook. Do not read it as a harvest.
