Hi all,
Long time lurker and first time poster. As you'll see in the pics below, I'm trying to grow a dozen or so plants in my hydro setup in my basement. I've jerry-rigged 5 gallon buckets with 6" Net pots and clay pellets, intending to find something further down the line (such as a tomato cage) to stabilize the plant. That's when I ran into my first problem with the plants:
Namely, they exploded.
The Pepperoncini, Poblano, and Jalapeno M on the right side of the pictures grew so fast that I never had a chance to attach something to stabilize them (apparently this hydroponics thing really works). The Pepperoncini has probably thirty or more pods on it, and the Poblano has a bunch of tiny pods developing already...I'm beginning to worry about the weight and the plant falling over.
The question I have for all of you is to let things go, or to butcher the plants and attach the cages, with the hope of them regrowing and catching back up. I really hate to hack up the plants as they're just starting to produce, but then again this is going to be a year round grow, and I'm hoping that they'll survive and flourish.
What say you?
And just for giggles, the smaller plants coming in the pipeline, and my Omar's Lebanese that are about to go outside:
Now if I could only get any of my superhots to pop/live long enough to be a plant....
Long time lurker and first time poster. As you'll see in the pics below, I'm trying to grow a dozen or so plants in my hydro setup in my basement. I've jerry-rigged 5 gallon buckets with 6" Net pots and clay pellets, intending to find something further down the line (such as a tomato cage) to stabilize the plant. That's when I ran into my first problem with the plants:
Namely, they exploded.
The Pepperoncini, Poblano, and Jalapeno M on the right side of the pictures grew so fast that I never had a chance to attach something to stabilize them (apparently this hydroponics thing really works). The Pepperoncini has probably thirty or more pods on it, and the Poblano has a bunch of tiny pods developing already...I'm beginning to worry about the weight and the plant falling over.
The question I have for all of you is to let things go, or to butcher the plants and attach the cages, with the hope of them regrowing and catching back up. I really hate to hack up the plants as they're just starting to produce, but then again this is going to be a year round grow, and I'm hoping that they'll survive and flourish.
What say you?
And just for giggles, the smaller plants coming in the pipeline, and my Omar's Lebanese that are about to go outside:
Now if I could only get any of my superhots to pop/live long enough to be a plant....