Capsicum chinense doesn't like Fox Farms' Light Warrior mix. The C. annuum and C. pubescens are doing fine on the stuff, but the C. chinense--and especially the superhots--have looked poorly from sprouting. Maybe it's the lack of nutes (my opinion) or maybe its the pH, but a week after potting up some of those...
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Bought half a yard of premium compost (composted horse manure and coffee grounds) and half a yard of potting mix (the premium compost plus sand and perlite) from the local joint that processes waste from all of the local stables: $30 for a heaping truckload of good soil. Filled 30 pots and the rest is under wraps to top-dress things...
Okay, so I am germinating Capsicum seeds of all different stripes and dropping them into Light Warrior seedling medium as they pop. So far I've got a lot of the cells filled in the 72-tray, but germination has been at a dead stop for the past couple of days. Eh well, so I started a second batch of seeds with the hope of filling out all the cells...
This wasn’t intended to be a race or an experiment, but I did start a whole bunch of seeds on in plastic bags and I’ve been transferring them into a 72-cell tray as they have been germinating (popping radicles from their seed coats). But it did turn into a horse race. I have been checking and transferring about three times a day for the past...
Not complaining because I know it’s nothing like a real winter—did five of those in Chicago when I was in grad school. Then I moved back home (and anyone want to buy a pair of hockey skates?). “Cold and dismal” here means that the sun won’t show for a couple of days, and when it does clear up, the night-time temps will drop...
The first blog post is always the hardest...
A spell of hot, sunny weather in late November has tested me. Highs pushing 80°F in Southern California over Thanksgiving weekend made me think and think again about why I'm not planting the growing number of seeds (mostly pepper) that are accumulating in my pantry stash. But I know from experience that...
A spell of hot, sunny weather in late November has tested me. Highs pushing 80°F in Southern California over Thanksgiving weekend made me think and think again about why I'm not planting the growing number of seeds (mostly pepper) that are accumulating in my pantry stash. But I know from experience that...
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