Recent content by mesatrin

I switched from HPS to led this year. I am using these: http://www.amazon.com/Grow-Light-High-Power-Round/dp/B005FOV4HO. I have around 72 plants under two of them, and realistically I probably could have stuck with 1 of these lights.. My plants are doing much better with these than they did...

+1 for stickman's warnings. You do not want anything to do with tobacco near your plants.

I have in the past used tums to alleviate calcium deficiency or at least what I thought was that. Also, if you are using water that has been treated with chlorine it will retard the absorption of calcium and other nutrients as well as harm beneficial microorganisms from what I have read. There...

Dog food also has protein and fat which are bad for your plants I would use crushed up tums or generic tums before dog food.

First taste of real sunlight for some of my plants today

I got mine from a Steak and Shake. I drove by the dumpster and saw around 30 empty 5 gallon buckets of pickles being thrown out. Just clean them out and you are good. Last year I also got a bunch of 7 gallon nursery pots from a local nursery. The owner of the place said to charge me a dollar...

Time for the first pot up of the year for me. Started later this year because I started too early last year. Who would have guessed we would have such a mild winter.

Less hours of daylight, smaller pot size, and temps no less than 55 degrees and no more then 70 degrees. Your plants will still be healthy and will stay smaller. I wouldn't want to do any of these things for too long though.

The thing that I dislike the most about some places is how they will make up their own name for plants. They will get one plant with larger pods than the rest and will harvest all the seeds and call it jumbo mumbo grandioso <Pepper X> and act like it is a new strain of <Pepper X>. Which...

Most herbs are like weeds and will grown even in bad conditions. So peppers are a bit more temperamental, but still not hugely difficult to get growing. There is a difference between a growing pepper and a flourishing plant, but that is for a different thread. As for 24 hour lights, I do 24/7...

The only seeds in my bank that grow long at all are NuMex Las Cruces Cayenne. I was not planning on growing them this year but I might throw in one or two just to have something to enter that might be respectable. I have a second batch of seeds that I am planning on starting in about a week...

I get that in bells all the time. I have never seen it happen with a hot though.

I used lady bugs last year with great success against aphids. I just had to keep the area warm. They hunted down and killed them all and even started to have little lady bugs. At which point I basically traded the infestation of my plants for an infestation of lady bugs in the house. They...

I thought there was a difference between keeping the plants growing through the winter and overwintering the plants. I thought overwintering was when you put your plants into a dormant state, and not letting them have new growth. You cut them back and keep the soil just barely wet (just...

might be a good idea to wrap the bottle in something. Roots don't like light.