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2018-01-30   "Micro Nikkor" (55mm f/2,8)     -I think FloraMato + FloraMicro in different ratios depending on whether soil or hydro and plant lifestage is looking rather good, no noticable dead-leaf problem   -The large humidifier keeps all the windows humid on the inside of my apartment but the...

2018-01-17:   "Some new flowers on the transplants, try to pollinate with a cotton bud, most fall off..the floor of the tent is littered with shrivelled little flowers..fall into the couch, kick back, let "Shards of Love" vibrate through the RX6s"...   But sometimes, just sometimes, there's a...

Wow, looks like a pretty perfectly planned and executed setup : ) Nice shot of the wasps.

2018-01-07:   Hello everyone,   current inhabitants in the tent: -2 unknown transplants from soil, now in hydro in 10l buckets, have grown alot in a few months. No dead or discolored leaves at the moment, lots of flowers, all falling off either when I attempt to pollinate or on their own...

2017-12-30/31:   The horse aten't dead yet!   Hi PaulG and many thanks for your encouraging answer! I suppose root development has lots of potential in a 10l bucket.. for the original transplants are starting to seem like small trees. Cheers for the hint on Nitrogen and regarding yellow leaves...

2017-12-22   "Soldier on"   The transplants continue to grow. When emptying what water is left in the buckets in the tent a host of fallen flowers are included. -Many leaves are partially yellow so I added some Flora Nova Grow to this week's watering (around half a dose).     -The sole purple...

Hello!   The humidifer has been set to 60% and has run for a week now, with the possible exception of two half days when I came home from work and found it set to 40%, strongly suspect certain paws had been stepping on the device.   The rh inside the tent (I measure about 15cm from its bottom)...

Hey Glog, not spotted for some time..fear not:   2017-12-10: "A Sea of Dead Flowers"   As mentioned previously temps outdoors swing between +7 and -4 C, which means the indoor rh varies between 35% and 50% @20C. As long as the channel fan is running the grow tent is always 3-5 points drier...

2017-11-26:   RH is a tricky thing in central Sweden during winter. About half the time we have sub-zero Cs and the humidity inside and as such inside the tent varies with the outdoor climate. I can feel it and the plants most likely can. With water in a bucket and on the tray the two...

2017-11-20:   The sole remaining purpe cayenne, looking a bit chewed upon, now in soil in a clay pot, is not dead yet.   I attempted to pollinate the largest transplant just now, the flowers were open and..they fall off, taking the first part of the stem they grow on with them, as in the picture...

Potassium, manganese, nitrogen, as per the link in the next-to-last post above..hard to say, but the transplants have recovered fairly well I dare say. Whether I get any fruit remains to be seen.   Many chili growers swear by rock wool and I think that if I had some place to put it with even...

2917-11-19: Catsaster!   Weekends are seldom restful now as nothing gets done during the work week, as a result the mind sometimes strays...as I was shopping for cat food among other things I had left the zipper of the tent open by two decimeters or so..that doesn't make a hole as the tent...

2017-11-18: The fourth and smallest of the small ones is gone, the rock wool was slightly moist in the morning when I went to work, came home late after a long day to find it shrivelled and the rock wool dry (and still moldy). Lessons learnt:   -Seedlings must have a moist substrate at all...

2017-11-14: Small ones are (still) looking a bit patchy..from nutrient imbalance or mold is hard to say.   More flowers on the largest transplant. They are swaying in the wind from the turbo fan but I've tried pollinating with a qtip as per a short youtube video with an italian guy saying it is...

2017-11-13: Increased RH (channel fan blows 24/7, there's quite a lot of air going out of that tent, which means there's quite a lot going in, so the air shouldn't be very stagnant) has caused the rock wool to grow more than chilies..  I've gotten a light kind of white mold on soil, rockwool...

2017-11-12:   I happened to read http://thehotpepper.com/topic/61193-how-long-after-hydro-nutrient-switch-until-flowers-stop-dropping/ and http://thehotpepper.com/topic/66512-hydro-grow-never-any-fruit-need-advise/ ...felt some trepidation...surely it can't be impossible (even if I haven't seen...

2017-11-11 supplemental:   Since I've experienced dead flowers before I've read: https://dengarden.com/gardening/Pepper-Plant-Blossom-Drop   and all mentioned variables are somewhat under control I feel.   Temps vary between 21 and 27C, RH between 32 and 42%, temp fluctuations aren't terribly...

2017-11-05:  Seedlings and transplants doing OK in the orange light.  The larger one looks about to produce flower pods.   2017-11-11: Transplants looking rather healthy, seedlings OK. The seednlings have been watered once per week and then until the reservoir overflows (and the hole a few cms...

2017-10-30: The top leaves of the seedlings are turning a shade of black.   2017-11-01: Transplants getting larger. A turbo fan was added at the bottom back of the tent to blow against the transplants in order to strengthen the branchwork. Re-planting the seedlings..had to improvize to get them...

2017-10-21: More cayennes are seeing the light (of the window), I found a way to keep those coffee filters moist (had them on a saucer on a heat mat but they dried out quickly): two round clay pot trays against each other, to form a round chamber, upon the heatmat, and the coffee filters taped...