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I figured they're a little too young to fertilize much, but I put a very tiny amount of blood meal in with them. The soil is 1/3 perlite, 1/3 peat moss, and 1/3 miracle grow potting soil.   I water them so the soil stays damp and never fully dries out on top, but I don't keep them dripping wet...

I have some 10-15-10 liquid plant "food".

I have whatever the opposite of a green thumb is but after several months my morguas are growing very slowly. But they're starting to look very pale green and even have white patches following the veins on several of the leaves.   I bought some blood meal because someone told me on here that...

It could make anything better, but I obviously don't put it on everything since it's worth its weight in silver practically. Anyone else like truffle flavored stuff?

Put it under 2 T12 grow bulbs. Real growing equipment for once. We'll see if that does much.

Once again (and as always will be the case) I had JUST sprayed them with water literally 5 seconds before I took the picture, so it's gonna look wet. Thanks for the knowledge. Since this is already my second try I'll spray a little h2o-h2o2 on it and see what happens. I'll put a fan by 'em too.

wtf? I have no idea what the hell my phone's problem is when it takes pictures, so that's the best I could do. I'm pretty sure leaves aren't supposed to look like that.

Lol it's the hottest pepper in the world. I don't know what you mean by hotter varieties. Anyway, The seedlings have 2 "big (half inch at most)" leaves and most of them also have 2 tiny little milimeter long leaves starting to grow out now. And on several of the larger-leafed seedlings, the...

Rather than starting a new thread I think I'll put this here. I've been told on here that the closer you come to killing your peppers, the hotter they turn out. What exactly does this involve other than underwatering? I heard something about using a lot of high nitrogen fertilizer?

I went to Bachman's (garden store(only in MN?)) and got 8 quarts of perlite and 8 quarts of peat moss. I figure I can mix that with my seed starter soil and get more than enough.

lol. Yeah. I know too much is bad and too little is also bad. Probably especially true for beginners that are likely to do other things like overwater.

So a good bit of vermiculate in any regular potting soil would do just fine?

Every time I ask what kind of soil to use at different stages I never get the same answer twice :/ I hear these plants (at least later on) like a pretty low ph, like 5.5 or something. Is that true?

I'm getting close to the point where I should transplant my seedlings to something a little bigger. I have the pots, but I don't know what I should use for soil. I still have a few quarts of miracle grow seed starter, but I don't think it'll be enough for 10 or so plants each in their own pot...

The peat moss tray dries out insanely fast, like I water it at night and by morning it's practically desert sand even though I have it covered. Any advice? Bottom water?

What about whoretalking them? "you dirty plants aren't good for anything. I've seen russet potatoes hotter. Go back to the red light district."

What exactly do you do to get the peppers to maximum hotness? The wiki article says runoff from worm farms or something like that. I know they can range from barely above a habanero to hottest in the world.

I don't have anything clear left to cover it so I dropped some saran wrap on it.

Does it otherwise seem like a better start? It's a warm spot that will stay at least 80º as long as I want it to. Miracle grow seed starter. Bought a spray bottle capable of misting, of course

So what do we think of my second attempt? THIS WAS JUST WATERED A FEW SECONDS BEFORE I TOOK THE PICTURE. THE MIRACLE GROW SEED STARTER WAS EXTREMELY DRY. The moisture goes barely surface-deep. edit: more recent, water has been absorbed. still doesn't look this wet IRL