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Amazing results Ezzer! The type of system passive system you are using is a modified Gericke system - named after the professor from Berkeley who coined the term hydroponics. With his initial system though, he used compost for the seedling rack, then the air buffer into a nutrient reservoir...

The organizers of my local farmers market is doing a demo on different types of peppers for salsa making. Knowing that my newborn daughter's name is Pepper, they asked me to pick five or six varieties to show some of the breadth of possibilities in samples for the patrons. Below is a list from...

Couldn't agree more on both points... Na'er have more beautiful words been spoken in the English language...and I agree with the last point... Rape, murder, burglary, theft, etc...

I also sell chile seedlings for farmer's markets; I'm not quite sure about what price would be optimal for your market, but I suggest you also look into selling varieties that can be ornamental as well as good eating. Fish is a good variety because it has attractive, variegated leaves - plus a...

Hello everybody - I am new to this forum, and so far my time on it has been exciting. Not long after signing off from my first visit on 05/03, my wife went into labor and hours later we were blessed with the birth of our first child - my daughter Pepper Ann. Why did we choose Pepper for her...

I used to work/live in Albuquerque; a lot of the restaurants there will offer "red, green, or christmas" as chile toppings. By the way, NM is the only state in the US to have an official question: "Red or green?" Gotta' love it!

It reminds me when you have multiple seedlings emerge from one planter and you cull down to one plant - the headless stems just seem to persist forever...

I've always read you should pinch the first flower on the first split - but like any rule of thumb, it's usefulness is based on the context. Are you keeping it indoors or transplanting out? What cultivar is it?

My wife is a professional winemaker, and a pretty good one at that; she has won a dozen medals at international competitions between two different wineries. She often gets asked to judge local and statewide home winemaker competitions and professional competitions. For some reason, many of...

One good beneficial bacteria you can add is trichoderma, which is said to counteract pythium - hydro growers' biggest waterborne enemy. But I usually only use it with straight hydro. There are a few different product mixes that contain both trichoderma and myco, but they are relatively...

Like I said earlier: Go Blue! Nice pics...

Are you using an airstone? Just wondering because I see the hole on the lid...

Just a quick note: you can grow plants hydroponically with super simple setups that can easily be moved, used outdoors, or set near a window. The image below is a pequin pepper in a 2.5 gallon bucket: the pepper seed was rooted in rockwool, then placed into a perlite-vermiculite mix. Simple...

If your drinking water isn't too hard, you should be fine with using it after letting it sit out for awhile (approx. 12-24 hours) to let the excess chlorine dissipate; there are also some mainstream commercial nutrients that are specifically tailored for use with hard water. If you're system...

Hello all, I'm a market gardener in central IL, specializing in peppers and tomatoes. I grow both in the soil and hydoponically (indoors and in a greenhouse); besides selling plants at market, I also make and sell hobby hydro systems in a couple local indoor gardening stores. Other interests...