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First time grower and sort of an accident! (help!)

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_i_K

So, recently acquired some seeds for Scotch bonnets and Peruvian white lightning habanero. I wasn't really expecting anything to grow, I'm indoors in Boston and I threw some in a pot on the window sill and this happened:


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The first two images are the Scotch bonnets, the second two images are the habanero. I planted the seeds on January 7th around 11am. I give them tap water almost daily, making sure the soil is moist and they've been getting plenty of sunlight. What should I expect? Any help is appreciated, thanks!!
 
Nice looking!

You need to seperate them as soon as you can, so the roots dont get damged if you do it to late!

Do you plan on saving more then one plant per varity? If you want, can try to pull them up and just replant them in a new pot and they should be fine.
Then you can give some away or sell or what you want. But you should only have 1 plant per pot in those pots.

Only sun light? Those looks really good not leggy as all!

It looks great so far, hope you have a great season!

//Oscar
 
Lookin' good. I agree, you need to decided what you want to do with them, if you don't care so much, just pluck all but one and leave that one to grow. If you want to keep some, I'd recommend what orrevs said and pull them up and replant them, they probably don't have much but a tap root and some side shoots at that size. Do it a little bit after you water, that way the soil is more pliable. In the pots you are going to transplant to, moisten the soil as well a little bit before transplanting, push a pencil (or your finger) down however long the root is and gently put it in and cover. You can bury the stem up to the cotyledon (first set of false leaves at the bottom)

Don't expect the transplants to start growing again right away, it could 5-10 days for them to recover from the shock of transplanting them.

Only other thing I would say is; don't over love them. Don't water too often. That's the number one killer. Bottom watering is the best method as you will prevent compaction. Put a watering plate under your pot and fill with the same amount of water that you would normally water with. Pepper plants like dryer conditions. They don't like to have wet "feet"

Good luck!
 
Water the soil and then use a fork to loosen the soil up prior to attempting to seperate. Looks like you are on the path to a good grow. Put them in a seperate solo cup each (make sure the cups have plenty of holes or snip the corners with scissors for drainage). Happy growing!
-Mark
 
If you decide to cull the extras use a pair of scissors and cut them off at the soil. You may want to get a bit of air movement on them to strengthen the stem. They are a tad leggy. You can add soil to just short of the first set of leaves. That will give the roots more room to roam. Good luck!
 
you can start in a ice cream pot (with drilled holes in the bottom) and one they are much bigger upgrade pot side and bring new soil...

dont worry those plants are tough and can grow very bin in a tight container...
i had some huge plants in plastic beer cup (about 6 inch high by 3 inch diameter...
son dont worry... just seperate them before they are too big...

i trick you take all the plants and all the soil underneath the plants (maybe 4 inch deep) and carefully break the soil (you can also use wate rto help you...) and replant be just carefull not to break too much roots and use good soil

youll be fine and post picture when they get bigger :) we like that kind of porn
 
Really depends. Some of these guys have grown decent size plants out of solo cups. Really whatever works for your space. 5 gallon would be ideal. You are going to have a tough time separating all of them. The roots more than likely are crossed with each other. Some can do it but it doesn't look easy to me.... 4 plants would be plenty for just you I would guess.
 
If you're wanting a big harvest from them you'll want to end up in five gallon pots at least. You can go straight to them if you want but many folks prefer to have a step in between, usually into a one gallon pot then into the five. Not a big difference really as far as the plant growth it just gives you the opportunity to examine the roots.
 
Examining the roots has to do with maintaining overall health of the plant, no? This is why people go from seedling pot, to 1 gal, to 5 gal? Is this correct?

I don't mind going right to 5 gal. I just need to find the room for all these pots.
 
_i_K said:
Examining the roots has to do with maintaining overall health of the plant, no? This is why people go from seedling pot, to 1 gal, to 5 gal? Is this correct?

I don't mind going right to 5 gal. I just need to find the room for all these pots.
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Examining the roots just gives us another way to asses the overall health of the plant. Usually if the plant is doing well the roots are fine. I just like to see the overall growth so I pot up a couple of times. It's also beneficial to break the roots up a little before replanting, air them out a bit and give them direct contact to new, fresh dirt. It's also much more convenient and easier to move a bunch of cups around as opposed to five gallon buckets. If you germinated your seeds in five gallon buckets the plant should do just fine but who wants to lug 50 to 100 of those around? I go up to five gallon and larger buckets when the plants go outside.
 
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