Hello gentlemen,
I thought I'd give growing hot peppers a try this year as well as a few tomato plants. I have never grown anything before so this is all self-taught/research based from what I've found on the internet. It had to have as little a footprint as possible as I live in an apartment, and well, my girlfriend would kill me if it wasn't, and cost under $150 all said and done.
This is what I have so far, unfortunately I broke one of the bulbs doing mock spacing for the shelving so I had to put a temporary small bulb in until the other one is shipped. I've got about 26 jalapeno plants on the go from testing different methods of germination, three Chadwick cherry tomato plants that were given to me, five 100 sweet hybrid tomato plants, and a few habanero plants as well as various herbs. I'm going to be giving a majority of the plants away and we have a garden at work that a bunch will be planted in to as well.
I also just received shipment of some fatalii, pepperoncini, purple jalapeno, trinidad perfume, and Jamaican hot red that will be getting planted pretty quickly.
As for the specs, it has 4 x reflectors, and 3 - 60W (will be 4 soon) 5500k "full spectrum" bulbs, on the top is a plastic box greenhouse with seedling warmer mat insulated with re-purposed styrofoam from the light bulbs. Since the below photos I have wired it into a timer on an 16 on 8 off cycle.
I've also got a mini-hot/light box next to it for the first two weeks. Works like a charm.
Any suggestions or things you can see wrong with these setups? Let me know thanks.
I thought I'd give growing hot peppers a try this year as well as a few tomato plants. I have never grown anything before so this is all self-taught/research based from what I've found on the internet. It had to have as little a footprint as possible as I live in an apartment, and well, my girlfriend would kill me if it wasn't, and cost under $150 all said and done.
This is what I have so far, unfortunately I broke one of the bulbs doing mock spacing for the shelving so I had to put a temporary small bulb in until the other one is shipped. I've got about 26 jalapeno plants on the go from testing different methods of germination, three Chadwick cherry tomato plants that were given to me, five 100 sweet hybrid tomato plants, and a few habanero plants as well as various herbs. I'm going to be giving a majority of the plants away and we have a garden at work that a bunch will be planted in to as well.
I also just received shipment of some fatalii, pepperoncini, purple jalapeno, trinidad perfume, and Jamaican hot red that will be getting planted pretty quickly.
As for the specs, it has 4 x reflectors, and 3 - 60W (will be 4 soon) 5500k "full spectrum" bulbs, on the top is a plastic box greenhouse with seedling warmer mat insulated with re-purposed styrofoam from the light bulbs. Since the below photos I have wired it into a timer on an 16 on 8 off cycle.
I've also got a mini-hot/light box next to it for the first two weeks. Works like a charm.
Any suggestions or things you can see wrong with these setups? Let me know thanks.