Ok, I can get carried away with things but I'm not sure if I should continue with this or not.
Question – should I transplant 6 fatali plants that are presently in a 6 pack and grow them on the window sill all winter? Or how about putting them under a shop light with 2 4' T8 tubes that I calculate will use $15 of electricity from mid November to mid February. I would turn the shop lights on for onions in mid February anyway. $15 isn't going to break me but why bother if they won't do well come summer if growing them over the winter will negatively effect them?
Will these plants do well come summer or is starting them in late September and keeping them thru the winter yield plants unfit for producing peppers in the garden come June when they'd be put out?
Can they grow ok in a window sill with weak sun or must they be under lights? So far they are stocky and very healthy looking! They have 4 sets of leaves and are about 1.5” tall and 2” wide. Tomatoes would be leggy by now so these plants look pretty healthy considering the weak sun coming thru the window. It has been sunny most of the time, very few cloudy days.
They were started on 9/25, transplanted on 10/17 into a 6 pack 1 plant per cell. 2 are the largest, 3 are a bit smaller but close and 1 is ½ the size of the biggest.
There's no sense doing this if the plants won't do well come June out in the garden. I really don't want to bring a grow light stand up from the basement to keep them under lights plus spend the $15. It is too cold down in the basement during the winter as it is often 45-48 degrees. So I have to do this upstairs.
I could just start new seeds come late January but I hate to toss 6 good looking plants. I'm in Connecticut so the sun is low and weak, this isn't Florida.
So what would you do? Window sill no shop lights? Shop lights for 2 ½ months? Toss them?
thanks,
tom
Question – should I transplant 6 fatali plants that are presently in a 6 pack and grow them on the window sill all winter? Or how about putting them under a shop light with 2 4' T8 tubes that I calculate will use $15 of electricity from mid November to mid February. I would turn the shop lights on for onions in mid February anyway. $15 isn't going to break me but why bother if they won't do well come summer if growing them over the winter will negatively effect them?
Will these plants do well come summer or is starting them in late September and keeping them thru the winter yield plants unfit for producing peppers in the garden come June when they'd be put out?
Can they grow ok in a window sill with weak sun or must they be under lights? So far they are stocky and very healthy looking! They have 4 sets of leaves and are about 1.5” tall and 2” wide. Tomatoes would be leggy by now so these plants look pretty healthy considering the weak sun coming thru the window. It has been sunny most of the time, very few cloudy days.
They were started on 9/25, transplanted on 10/17 into a 6 pack 1 plant per cell. 2 are the largest, 3 are a bit smaller but close and 1 is ½ the size of the biggest.
There's no sense doing this if the plants won't do well come June out in the garden. I really don't want to bring a grow light stand up from the basement to keep them under lights plus spend the $15. It is too cold down in the basement during the winter as it is often 45-48 degrees. So I have to do this upstairs.
I could just start new seeds come late January but I hate to toss 6 good looking plants. I'm in Connecticut so the sun is low and weak, this isn't Florida.
So what would you do? Window sill no shop lights? Shop lights for 2 ½ months? Toss them?
thanks,
tom