Recent content by jswieton

My plants seem to be improving since I gave them a heavy dose of Nitrogen and some CalMag.  Here is what I pulled from 3 plants today.  The ElScorpanero is definitely my most productive plant at the moment.  It still has another 20+ pods that should ripen up sometime in the next week.

I did the PH test and my levels seem ok.  They are maybe a slight bit alkaline but nothing crazy.  However, my problem seems to be getting worse instead of better.  I was looking at my plants and I came across a few peppers that look like they have some sort of blossom end rot or some other...

    I haven’t noticed anything yet.  I just topped dressed my plants with some nitro bat guano, so I’m sure it might take a little time to see some results with the nitrogen.  I’m hesitant to hit my plants with full strength chemical ferts because I did amend my soil with some blood and feather...

I think it is very possible that my issue is from over watering.  I checked the drainage holes and I might have made them too small; soI drilled out the existing holes with much larger ones.  When I removed the drill bit the soil in the bottom of the containers was like soup.  Hopefully this...

Despite appearing relatively healthy, a few of my plants have very light green leaves compared to the rest of my plants.  Is this generally do to a nitrogen or nutrient deficiency?  I have been using ¼-1/2 strength fert since I potted them up.  Should I increase the steaghth of my fert when I...

I have really been slacking with my glog updates.  It has been a couple of months since my last update.  All of my plants are doing pretty well and I have pods on all of them and the pods are beginning to ripen.  Here is the list of everything that I have in containers. Brainstrain (red) (seeds...

  ok, the blend I'm useing is 1 part P. moss, 1 part mushroom compost, 0.5 part perlite, 0.5 part coco, 0.5 part worm casting,and then I several amendments like fish bone/feather/kelp/allfelfa meal, azomite,epsom salt, leonardite/humic acid, and mycos.  I wanted to use more coco coir instead of...

  Whats wrong with using mushroom compost?  I picked up several bags at the end of last season that were on sale.  I'm in the process of enoculating my soil for my 5 gallon container grow and I'm using 1/3 part mushroom compost in my mix.  Was this a mistake using it in my mix?

What do you do when you run out of growing space under your T5 lights?  I have another month until I can transplant my plants outdoors and at this late in the growing stage I really don’t want to invest in a new light.  I don’t have any issues with pests or disease.  Do I run any risk in harming...

My plants have really started to take off.  I am running out of space fast and I'm not really sure what to do because I have at least another 4 weeks until I can transplant them outside.  

I’ve also topped the majority of my plants and my plants seem to love it.  Within a few days of topping them I have tons of side shoots coming off each of the stems.  I was reluctant to do it but the growth really took off as soon as I did it.        

It’s been a few weeks since my last update and things seem to be going very well.  Due to lack of growing space, I have thinned out my plants from 45 down to about 30 and I’ve replanted everything in 24oz cups in a mix of peat, coco coir, and worm castings.

My plants seemed to be doing well when all of a sudden all of my new growth was becoming yellow and shriveled.  The older leaves are now becoming very puffy looking and developing a yellow tinge around the outside edges of the leaves.  Have my plants developing some sort of deficiency or is this...