I started a small LED set up a whilre ago and havn't posted since. I introduced my set up a little in this post, http://thehotpepper.com/topic/58892-small-led-build/ .
Here's a little update. I'd received my seeds on Feb. 1/2 and planted them right away. What didn't occur to me is that I was going away feb 6-13. So I watered them heavily before I left and hoped for the best. When I got back I was happy to see that the reapers, habs, and one of the ghosts had sprouted nicely.
what I wasn't happy to see was that the fatalliis were doing terrible. Of the 6 fatalliis planted only 1 came up at all (on the 16th) and it had a seed stuck to the top that would end up killing it.
I later decided this was a result of my vacation and the hot and dry conditions it forced on them. 6/6 reapers came up, 2 with seed hats that resulted in death and 1 that was weak/slow that I killed (only wanted 3 total). 1 out of 4 ghosts came up but they were 5 year old seeds. Many of the chocolate habaneros (I shook in 5 to 10 seeds) came up but I only kept 3 of them for space concerns.
On the 20th of feb I decided to try another set of fatalliis so I planted 3 more on the 20th. By march 1st all 3 had come up leading me to think the dry conditions were what lead to their death last time. this time 2 of them had seed hats of doom but one of them was meekly coming along. A few days later I think the heat got to the poor little guy.
A slightly cooler night and opening the cabinets to keep the temperature under 30C and he recovered.
I've got more to update but I'll wait a while before I type that up.
Here's a little update. I'd received my seeds on Feb. 1/2 and planted them right away. What didn't occur to me is that I was going away feb 6-13. So I watered them heavily before I left and hoped for the best. When I got back I was happy to see that the reapers, habs, and one of the ghosts had sprouted nicely.
what I wasn't happy to see was that the fatalliis were doing terrible. Of the 6 fatalliis planted only 1 came up at all (on the 16th) and it had a seed stuck to the top that would end up killing it.
I later decided this was a result of my vacation and the hot and dry conditions it forced on them. 6/6 reapers came up, 2 with seed hats that resulted in death and 1 that was weak/slow that I killed (only wanted 3 total). 1 out of 4 ghosts came up but they were 5 year old seeds. Many of the chocolate habaneros (I shook in 5 to 10 seeds) came up but I only kept 3 of them for space concerns.
On the 20th of feb I decided to try another set of fatalliis so I planted 3 more on the 20th. By march 1st all 3 had come up leading me to think the dry conditions were what lead to their death last time. this time 2 of them had seed hats of doom but one of them was meekly coming along. A few days later I think the heat got to the poor little guy.
A slightly cooler night and opening the cabinets to keep the temperature under 30C and he recovered.
I've got more to update but I'll wait a while before I type that up.
