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Try foliar application of AACT (compost tea). There's some support for it to decrease spread and growth of Xanthomonas (and other species of pathogens).

  This answer got long but I hope it's of use to someone who searches for the magic of soap death (to aphids, thrips and related scum).   Believe it or not but it's actually... soap! Soap from (i.e. salts of) long-chained fatty acids. Most likely mechanism of action is decreasing surface tension...

Unwarranted advice (excuse me): Considered to try your chance at a little bonchi to warm your heart during the winter? Or are you dead set on going cold turkey?

Some people might disagree with 75°F (24°C) but I think this is just fine, assuming the transpiration works fine. This brings up another point you didn't raise, the ventilation. With less air movement you're going to see quite a bit less of evaporation (at the same temperature and humidity) from...

Regarding de-chlorination of tap water, I did search around some more which I'd like to share.   See BT_Chlorine.pdf which seems well known by home (beer!) brewers. It's pretty much exactly a first-order process (i.e. characterized by a mono-exponential decay and a well defined half-life)...

I might as well post a little update on my progress. For whom it is of interest:   As I said in the last post, I started another AACT brewing. This time I did de-chlorination for several days since I read some actual measurement somewhere where just de-gassing (without a pump) for 24 hours only...

Thanks for the shoutout Eroll26! I'm by no means an expert, but do try to help however I can. I also agree on the helpfulness and I'm very happy to hear that I could be of such assistance! :)   The plant looks awesome the way! I'm very glad you managed to soap it away. It's almost surprising how...

Good idea. Sterilization is not a bad idea when you seed. You can always add compost/AACT/NCT afterwards to get a good microbiome. Just make sure to sterilize it at high temperature for a long enough time. Just pouring water through might be insufficient. However, you shouldn't heat soil above...

  Thanks for that compliment! I try to absorb as much as possible and have read a bit more than I really have time for...   I grow padrón peppers (of noticeable hotness), bell peppers (not hot at all), purple cayenne (2 phenotypes, one truly glorious), bhut jolokia (3 varieties) and super thai...

  The average one lasts maybe 3 re-pottings or so before they start to disintegrate. They obviously have a limited lifetime, but it can be quite good still. Drilling holes in buckets would not match all of the pros I mentioned, but certainly some of them to some extent. Of course you might start...

  Very much this! Pests are definitely one of the challenges you become quite accustomed to dealing with during indoors growing. Sure, it can be a problem outdoors too but they can truly explode in a terrific fashion indoors, away from all natural predators in a cosy grow space.   On the other...

  Science! Please let us know how it goes.

Sounds like a good plan!   No problems. You're not the only offender out there with vertical videos, and I might have forgotten once or twice. ;)   Wetting agent (really a surfactant, called so since it likes to reside in the surface between liquid/air) is a substance which decreases the surface...

Thank you yourself! Interesting parallel to the clinic. You're absolutely right of course. Okay, so I get your frustration. We've had crinkly leaves for quite a while on our new plants this year during their youth and attributed a lot of it to lack of calcium availability. The funny thing is...

  This is false. You can replicate the exact spectrum of the sun if you so wish in a tent indoors. It's not some magic to it, it's just electromagnetic radiation fully characterized by intensity at a specific wavelength. How would the plants ever know that they were not outdoors? Unless of...