Recent content by Mulcahey

Yep. The pH was too high.   We'll see how iron sulphate does in lowering it.

Foliar fed some iron sulphate on Saturday.   The basil and tomato look great now. The hab is showing improvement.   I'm thinking my next step will be to check pH. I'm still a little shocked (though I probably shouldn't be) that MG's potting mix would be that light in iron. Live and learn, I guess.

  Yeah, I was thinking I'd lay off the Grow Big for awhile. Now I reckon I'll add some iron too. Thanks.

  Thanks. I had seen that picture and thought iron too. But with new potting mix, I wouldn't think that would be it.   Over-fertilizing sounds more likely. While I've been diluting more than Fox Farms calls for, it may not have been enough to account for what nutes came in the potting mix. To my...

New leaves growing from the top of my home-improvement store hab are a pale yellow, some of them to the point of being nearly white.   I potted it up in new MiracleGro Organic potting mix a month ago, and it has gotten some Grow Big a few times since, mostly less than the manufacturer's...

Man...  That's an enviable setup, brother.

There's something very satisfying about seeing such a neat and orderly arrangement of anything... knowing that they're soon-to-be chile plants makes it even more so.

  Mine was a response to your assertion that top watering "pulls oxygen down through the medium", so this reply of yours does not even make enough sense to be wrong... because that would imply that you had followed the conversation and were just incorrect.   This bit of yours is just random...

  I guess some, maybe.   Did you ever notice that, even during a drought, established deciduous trees maintain green leaves? They're doing that because their deep root system pulls water up from below... i.e., without top watering. They've been surviving droughts through bottom watering for over...

  I note the radio silence.

  Please glog that. I've been toying with trying out a hydroponic grow, but I'd want it to be outdoors. There's something about living in one of the sunniest places in the country and paying the electric company for light that I am reluctant to do.

  You damn well should be. I love everything about that pepper, man.

  I believe "leggy" is the word you're looking for... at least on this side of the pond.

God bless you guys. That's the Lord's work you're doing, brothers.

Thanks, all, for your thoughts. Always good advice. Thanks. I'm prepared for pain when I eat a super; it's the delayed thing that I'd like to understand better. I've had the delayed pain before from extract sauces. For what it's worth, yesterday's was a medium-largish Brain Strain... but...