I had been trying real hard for months now to get my gorgeous plants to stop dropping all their flowers... I tried hand polinating every flower, shaking my plants like a madman...
I flushed the hell out of them, and added 6 more 100 Watt Eq. CFLs, this time three above and three hanging below the canopy.
I tried giving them lots of P and K, and even Mg and S.
but still they would all drop...
It seemed it was all to no avail, and I was about to give up when...
The other day I noticed on one of my Orange Habanero plants the petals on a flower was dead, and the stem was neither yellow or shriveld at the end... I crossed my fingers and forgot it for a few days, but tonight I went in to water them, and spray them with distilled water and I decided to check on that flower to see if it had fallen off like the rest and the stem had gotten HUGE, and pushing out the dead petals was a Pepper! SUCCESS!
Then, out of the corner of my eye, on one of my Caribbean Reds, a pepper about a 1/3 inch in length and twice the diameter of a pea.
Looking around more, I discovered four more flowers setting fruit, and another pepper about 1/3 an inch in length...
Then, out of nowhere, on one of my Orange Habanero's stairing me dead in the face, in PLAIN SIGHT was a Green Habenero Pepper the size of a Quarter!
Fianlly, about 13 Pots, huge bushy, gorgeous plants with miles of canopy (it seems) surrounded on four sides by thermal blankets, 19 - 100 Watt Eq. CFLs, mulch, fertilizer, spraying every day and I have something to show for it
You CAN grow and set fruit under CFLs Indoors! Thank you guys for all your help.
I hope to take some pictures later to show you
I flushed the hell out of them, and added 6 more 100 Watt Eq. CFLs, this time three above and three hanging below the canopy.
I tried giving them lots of P and K, and even Mg and S.
but still they would all drop...
It seemed it was all to no avail, and I was about to give up when...
The other day I noticed on one of my Orange Habanero plants the petals on a flower was dead, and the stem was neither yellow or shriveld at the end... I crossed my fingers and forgot it for a few days, but tonight I went in to water them, and spray them with distilled water and I decided to check on that flower to see if it had fallen off like the rest and the stem had gotten HUGE, and pushing out the dead petals was a Pepper! SUCCESS!
Then, out of the corner of my eye, on one of my Caribbean Reds, a pepper about a 1/3 inch in length and twice the diameter of a pea.
Looking around more, I discovered four more flowers setting fruit, and another pepper about 1/3 an inch in length...
Then, out of nowhere, on one of my Orange Habanero's stairing me dead in the face, in PLAIN SIGHT was a Green Habenero Pepper the size of a Quarter!
Fianlly, about 13 Pots, huge bushy, gorgeous plants with miles of canopy (it seems) surrounded on four sides by thermal blankets, 19 - 100 Watt Eq. CFLs, mulch, fertilizer, spraying every day and I have something to show for it
You CAN grow and set fruit under CFLs Indoors! Thank you guys for all your help.
I hope to take some pictures later to show you