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You should really buy a cheap fan and point it at your plants while they are young. Air movement strengthens the stems and prevents fungal issues from occurring. If you dont have strong stems you might have some damage when you put them outside or once they set pods inside.

I seem to remember some strains of scorpions growing fairly fast for me, I just had crappy yields. Its like the plant wants to get huge then set a bunch of pods, but with our short season it just has enough time to grow the plant but only set a couple pods before the season ends. I still...

Did they set many pods? 4 tall sounds like you were certainly doing something right. I found I can get decent foliage the first year, but the pod production is limited to 5-10 pods. I had a couple like the butch T scorpion that wouldnt set pods at all the first year. I overwintered it and got a...

When I overwintered in the past, it was only in a window sill so the light requirements werent there for pod production. The plants would drop all their leaves over time and some of the outer branches would dry up and die. As long as I kept them lightly watered I had a very high success rate...

Ive been growing super hots in edmonton for the last 10 years or so. Overwintering is your friend. I used to start my plants in January, grow them all season, overwinter in my window sill, then get a huge harvest the second year. It sucks to grow a plant for 2 full seasons only to find out you...

Ive happened across a lot of interesting recipes involving these lately. Does anyone have 10 or so seeds for trade?

The above advice is solid. I would mix 20-30% perlite into that MG soil if that's all you have. Ideally, you could have better soil for less money if you mixed your own.

I have had my 2 gal smart pots for 3 seasons and my 7 gal geo pots for 2 seasons. As stated above, the geos are much thicker and seem to have better stitching. To their credit, the smart pots have held up just fine, I can foresee a few more years of use out of them at least. My main issue with...

It's funny to see this thread pop up again. In the two years since, I've changed my tune miracle grow wise. After using better soil (promix) for a couple seasons I wouldn't go back to MG.

I grew a butch T last year in a 7 gal geo pot and got a grand total of 6 pods. Directly beside it, I grew a Dorset naga in a 7 gallon geo pot and got 100+ pods off that plant. You need to find a strain that thrives in your micro climate and exploit the hell out of it if you are interested in...

The last couple seasons I've just been growing Glacier tomatoes, an heirloom variety from Sweden .Ive already got a couple tiny fruits and between 2 plants they will continue to pump out 2-3 golf ball sized ripe fruits per week until October. That's all the maters I require, I save the rest of...

I had a Trinidad scorpion butch T plant a couple years ago that just totally stalled at about 8" high. It would not grow no matter what I did, full sun, partial sun, full shade, indoors under lights, outdoors, no luck. I was too stubborn to give up on it so I over wintered it and the next...

Just re-read your grow list, everything but cayenne is a Chinese I think. I'm not sure about the apache. You should try growing some annums next year, they do pretty well with our short season

I don't have a greenhouse, but the nighttime temps in my area are nearly always in the 50s during my growing season. I've never had any pod setting issues, and I grew most of the common superhots last year. Ymmv, but hopefully that gives you some perspective.

Koi pond water would be great for your plants. As for picking the first pods, I usually leave the c. Chinese pods since they take a while to ripen. I pick all the early pods on my c. annums and other quick podding varieties