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What's the purpose of raising some rows higher than others?

I've been doing mine since January as well. Comparing mine to some of the pro growers my guys are much smaller. I had inadequate artificial light for much of the duration. After significantly upgrading the lighting I've had very noticeable improvements. Hopefully I didn't fall too far behind, I...

Knowing how to spot and avoid malicious software and scams is better than any antivirus, but failing that it's always good to use an AV. Windows Defender on 10 is like previous versions of WD meshed with Microsoft Security Essentials. It's far better than nothing, but not great. My favorite...

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If you have an iPhone or Android phone you can download the Tapatalk app to use with this forum. It'll let you add photos from your camera roll inline in a couple of taps.   It sounds like over watering. You don't want the soil to be moist; you want to have the soil completely dry before...

Sorry for posting two leaf threads in one week, but I've got another head scratcher. The plants in this one group are all distinctly curling downwards and I don't know why. The group contains Yellow Fataliis and Bhuts and they're both doing it. The leaves are firm and appear to be healthy...

If anyone is having issues getting the stuff above the heat mat warm enough get some home insulation and stick it under. This makes it significantly more efficient, just make sure the heat can rise up; if it's trapped on both sides that will lead to problems. I got a 1, maybe 1.5" thick pink...

Congrats on 1k posts!   I was given seeds, many of which came from PepperLover and were most likely at least a year old and I had very good germination rates, probably 85% or better on most.

If it is suntan, is that detrimental?   I did notice it seems to affect the Jigsaws the most, so maybe they have purple colored leaves at this stage? Or maybe they're more prone to sunburn?   On a possible related note, I have Yellow Fatalli plants with leaves a big on the yellow side, but...

I'd move them. At 2-3 days even if anything's breached the seed it'd barely be poking out. I can't speak from a scientific standpoint, but the tap root seems to actually be pretty sturdy initially. It just broke through the seed and its next step would be to get into position to act as a...

Welcome to THP! That looks like a solid setup. 80-85 is ideal, but people germ successfully in much less than that. If it drops even 10 at night I think you'd be okay. I did mine at a constant temperature because I used a heat mat thermometer, but in nature they'd normally see a day/night...

They're mixed up, but the ones in question are mostly gourmet fatalii jigsaws (not reapers as I mistakenly wrote). They're under 6500K CFL bulbs. I've got space to add other bulbs. Should I throw something else into there too? I've got 2700K smaller CFLs and a 3 blue, 9 red led bulb. Thanks...

It seems to happen mostly on the gourmet fatalii jigsaws, but it's happening on some if the other varieties as well. I don't know if it's some kind of sunburn, a deficiency, some sort of disease, or if it's perfectly fine. Anyone have any insight into this? Thanks

I bottom water. Originally I'd let the trays sit in water until they had their fill, but this would leave the soil very wet, even up top, and as a result I had algae growth. They need a wet environment to grow as well as light. If you're bottom watering keep an eye on the cells and stop when...

I had that happen when I'd mist them too heavily and/or not give it a bit of fresh air every couple days. Don't do what I did and try to soak them in straight 3% hydrogen peroxide after you've begun trying to germinate them. Any of the ones that are close to sprouting will get zapped. Maybe...

Just throwing another design into the mix, the budget reflector hood:     It's raised up higher than it usually is in this first pic.   It's basically a suspended metal duct pipe held open by threaded rod with several cheap fixtures wired in.   Mine's extra wide and I didn't like how the plants...

I put in Y adapters for a few hours and it added light, but the coverage was still skewed. The stuff at the center received several times more light than the stuff at the edge. So I took it down and redid it. I'm still not sure if it's enough, but it's an improvement.

It seems like most setups have more light than mine. I dropped the reflector down a few more inches to get the lights closer. The light meter on my S4 is 5K lux at the plants farthest from the bulbs and like 30K+ at the ones directly under them. It might be time to use the Y adapters to add two...

For me, the fatalis and bhuts definitely took longer than most of my varieties (the only ones that took longer on average were the jigsaws and reapers).   As romy6 suggested the best way to combat them is to sow them deep enough so as to hold the seed down as the plant finds its way out. I...

Thanks guys! I made another thread about my concerns and the general consensus is overwatering. I tend to water most if not all cells at the same time and I think the mix I used early on with the eldest plants is retentive, so I swapped it out for just soil mix (instead of 2:1 that w/ perlite)...