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Wellll, I killed my first set of seeds by accidentally soaking them in a nutrient solution instead of water with a little hydrogen peroxide. They germinated after a while but the root tips immediately turned brown and stopped growing and then I figured out my mistake.   Started a new set on...

I started soaking some seeds on about December 1st, trying to get an early start this year. Grew slooow through December and first week of January and then got some growth. I'll put up some recent pictures later.    I've also started planning for outdoors. Bought some bales of straw for compost...

Got my seeds from Andy (thank you!) and just got them soaking    

What temp/wavelength of lights are you using? I just found this link and am wondering if people have experiences that match this. It says that blue, green, and UV light are supposed to help keep edema from happening. It says fluorescent are generally good at this because it has some of each.  ...

I was wondering about how many PPMs thefish was talking about in their recommendation, just because I've seen other charts that put fertilizer concentrations in terms other than ml per gallon. In case anyone else was wondering, here's what I did.   1.5 mL (of anything close to water) = 1.5 grams...

Thanks for the advice Masher, you're right about the NPK. I just get too into messing with the plants.    And about the vinegar, the only reason I've found for not using it is that in hydroponic systems it can cause growth of the bacteria that produce the acetic acid in vinegar.  

A couple thousand plants yiiiikes!   I think you're right, my person-plant communication is a little weak.   Okay, I'll follow my plan and update on here when I know how things are looking. I'll also tell you all how the Plant-Tom connection is going—if I start shooting out roots or buds you'll...

I'll keep that in mind, thanks. I definitely should try adding nutes and then vinegar and pHing afterwards. The N in both of my sources comes from nitrates, and I think these generally raise pH, so I might have had problems with high pH as well.

I'm using 2 parts Jack's Classic Citrus Feed (20-10-20) and 1 part calcium nitrate (15.5-0-0), shooting to make something with a 3-1-2 ratio plus all the micros from the Jack's. I gave this at 1/2 tsp per gallon, thinking that this was low... for seedlings it probably shoulda been muuuch lower...

No lottery numbers, I was focusing on my seeds.   I'm using 4 T5 bulbs, about 6-8" above the seedlings with a fan blowing to keep temps reasonable.    If you're a noob I don't even know what I am. I'm happy to listen to any info. Thanks for looking!   Tom    

Lol wow I thought I had everything covered in that post. 3/22 was the date on those—if I could time travel I would start them right now, in late February haha

Whoops, forgot that. They're in mostly vermiculite, with some perlite and old garden soil. It doesn't drain the best, but I've only been watering every 4-5 days and only when the soil is noticeably lighter in weight. 

Hi all,   I'm new to seed starting, in the past I've only grown from nurseries, and I've only been doing that for a couple of years. I've read WAAY too much online compared to how much experience I have growing peppers.   I posted some earlier pictures in my grow log and wrote about this there...

I've been reading TrentL's glog about his farm operation and I saw some of the old pictures of seedlings he posted with some purple around the outside of the cotys, and I thought they looked similar to my MoAs. He said his had nutrient toxicity because of the excess nutrients supplied by his...

Hey all,   This is my first grow from seed! I've grown peppers from transplants before, and grown plenty of other vegetables, but never started anything indoors. I'm hoping to get plants started off right and big enough for the outdoors by mid May. From what I've read, I probably started too...

Hello all,   I've been looking through this forum for about a year now for growing info and awesome plant/pod pics, and I figured it was about time I started posting! I hope that this will also help me log my pepper growing methods and results—I try lots of things but rarely get good results or...