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pepperdan's Glog 2012

little background, always been a somewhat pepper head, to the point of carrying bottles of hotsauce everywhere, local grocery store started carrying orange habaneros, i eat 1-2 each morning with hash rounds and egg whites for breakfast, started making hot sauce awhile back, and got bit by the bug, gotta sweat at least once a day, and it being the off season i got a late start, and planned on over wintering, but turned into indoor growing due to stupid hot weather in the midwest this year

purchased an aerogarden at a goodwill for 20 bucks, thought i would start there, ordered some bhut jolokia's and scotch bonnets from pepper joes, after reading reviews i decided to go with him, i liked his replies to some negative comment


so on with it


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june 14th


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at this point i started looking into dwc hydroponics

built my first couple of buckets, and installed a couple of cheap wally world grow lights under my desk

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few weeks later, and i added a drip sytem


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about 5 weeks in, i picked up a cheap 400 watt mh on c-list, picked a corner in my utility room, a few scotch bonnets in soil with the mix







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took the sb out of hydro, and dedicated it to the bhuts, because the require vastly differents needs, and then tied 6 units into one with a resivoir so i can test ph and ec in on bucket




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now i have really started to prepare for having peppers fresh for breakfast by christmas, upgraded to a bigger light, and they are taking off like crazy



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my goal is to have peppers all winter, and use the seeds to go pretty big out doors next summer, right now i have 6 bhut jolokia's in hydro, 1 soil {no comparison}, 5 scotch bonnets in soil, 2 thai dragons just started in hydro, under 1000 watt mh , plenty of light to go around

ph 6, tds 600 +/- which put my ec at 1.2 using cns17
 
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this is one plant, second part of one in upper right


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there is about 14 flower/pods in focus in this pic


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typical undergrowth on my hydro plants

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Your grow is fantastic. Your plants look absolutely wonderful. I wish I had the room and the knowledge to do a hydro grow so I could have peppers year round. I just dont have the room so its seasonal growing for me. Are you going to continue making sauces only or are you also going to do powders?
 
Sanarda said:
Your grow is fantastic. Your plants look absolutely wonderful. I wish I had the room and the knowledge to do a hydro grow so I could have peppers year round. I just dont have the room so its seasonal growing for me. Are you going to continue making sauces only or are you also going to do powders?
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thank you very much, if you have room for a 5 gallon bucket you can have peppers year round

i prefer fresh raw peppers, then sauce, then powder, sometimes all three at same time :onfire:
 
Man, this makes me want to try DWC again, i tried b efore but nothing like that, but i think my airstone wasnt strong enought,, but good looking plants there. And who are you using as a fertlizer?
 
Joshuap2000 said:
Man, this makes me want to try DWC again, i tried b efore but nothing like that, but i think my airstone wasnt strong enought,, but good looking plants there. And who are you using as a fertlizer?
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i am using cns17 due to its low npk formula i tried it first, i keep it between 500-600ppm and ph at 6

airstones are important, you need a min of 40gph of air for each bucket, i am running 4x that with a 1,000gph pump split between 6 buckets, each bucket has 2, 2" oxystones in it, i started with a wal-mart dual auqa pumps each bucket, when i made the jump to the bigger pump growth just exploded, leaves where reaching for the lights most of the day vs just morning, they are sucking up several gallons a day now
 
90 days from sowing seed, i found this when hand polinating


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along with some damage i am pretty sure is broad mites, at least the little sob's could trade food for pollinating, but noooo

i have neem oil at the ready for tonight when the lights go out, i am going to hose it down
 
Amazing looking plants and awesome setup! I should really do my research since I have a basement with plenty of room for such a venture. I started 200 plants in the basement this spring but would love a few hydro for year round enjoyment.
 
thanks guys

i'll update some pics tomorrow, i would be more than happy to share anything i have learned, super hots are an entire new world from growing anything else

i have an average of 20 bucks a bucket, thats with the upgraded 1000 gph air pump, and just switched to a hps bulb with blue spectrum today, so it increased the light by 30% and allowed me to raise the light a few inches to protect from over heating the top of the canopy, 145,000 lumens in a 4x6 area thats 6,000 lumens per foot


HORTILUX™ SUPER HPS

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i chose that one because it has more blues than traditional hps and i wont have to worry about chlorophyll production, i also switched to a lower nitrogen higher phosphorus nute due to some flower drop, hope it works out
 
this is the same pepper pictured above 6 days ago

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the entire plant



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my morning view while drinking coffee
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here you can see 5 of 6 plants in a recirculating dwc, and 1 in soil


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That is one awesome setup you have. I wish I had that kind of knowledge. I have to step my game up. Studyingggg timeeee
 
this is my biggest plant on the left of the dollar, was the second, but shot up and spread out

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group shot, thats about 8' across









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waiting to become flowers



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flower just opened waiting on stigma


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nice open and producing plenty of pollen


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