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water in the a natural rain forest is not 7 where plants thrive in a natural habitat where the atmosphere is much cleaner., it might be much lower or higher in the city due to air pollutants as explained in the EPA site..

imo i would stick with 5.5 if i had to choose. peppers prefer more on the acidic side, between 5.6 and 6.2 is "ideal"   PURE unpolluted rain water has a PH of 5.0 to 5.6.. http://www3.epa.gov/acidrain/education/site_students/phscale.html

pics of the plants that i started on first week of August.. they are 2 months old today, tons and tons of flowers, but some peppers too :D pics came out kinda of shitty due to the HPS spectrum.. but you get the idea. check out the growth since Sept 8th on my last update! ended up with just 2 of...

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i have plenty of space heats, was just trying to avoid using them as they use more electricity than the lights. i may just set the space heater to go on only when temp drop to 60 or below..   personally, i think hot peppers tend to be more hardy than sweet peppers.. even my outdoor hot peppers...

it really boils down to how much moisture is inside the seed when the pepper was frozen. the problem with freezing seeds that weren't dried is there will be a high chance that the cells inside the seeds will basically rip apart (via micro ice crystals).. when the seeds are dried before being...

  mini sweet peppers and hot cherry.

i was just concerned after reading this: http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/info_tomtemp.htm   (second table): Less than 15.5° C (60° F) or greater than 24° C (75° F) night temp, Poor fruit set. Fact… Night temperatures of 7-10°C (45-50°F) during pepper flower development can...

at what temp does peppers will not grow / fruit? i have an indoor grow area which isn't really heated and temps are decent when light is on round 70, but at night when the light is off temps are dipping to 55-60. wondering if these night temp will slow growth down.

 i've had good success with idole 3 butyric acid (iirc its about 0.1%) local home improvement garden section at homedepot has some for a few bucks. cut stem, quickly put stem in a cup of water until you ready to add the hormone and then stick the stem some rooting plugs, they're dirt cheap and...

how the heck they do this?  

i hear cream cheese works.

the higher you put the lights the less pods you will get.. on a T5HO you want the lights no more than 10 inches. for that many plants you need about 2 1000W HID.. you can put the light much higher and the light spectrum will penetrate better and not fall off as fast as florescent does as...

you can but you have to clean the shit outta them roots, otherwise organic matter (soil) in the water will make the water stinky and well, nasty. my suggestion is to take cuttings from the plant and root them with some hormone and then use those plants in the hydro and wish the mother plant...

you better get some serious lights if you plan to grow 20+ plants indoors until spring as they will get huge (if you give them enough light) and if you don't give them enough light then you won't have very good plants for next season as they probably be weak and thin stems...   my advice is cut...

yeah, it's DWC with oxygen pump.   peppers just started to develop in the past week or so and already have several 1 inch size pods and blossom drop has stopped. the strange part is i have another type of pepper growing (cherry hots) and that plant didn't suffer from blossom drop at all despite...

i'm looking for a mildish/hot sweet pepper to grow next year.   perhaps like a jalapeno, but definitely not hotter.. meaty too. i was at stop and shop today and saw they had some red cherry sweet peppers which were pretty mild which i liked. don't think they are a hybrid so i saved some of the...

take a scissors, cut vine, add rooting hormone to stem and stick in a 2 quart pot. overwintering is for people who don't know how to root peppers. ;) next year you'll have early pods and likely a better plant that what you previously had.

uhm you live in phoenix, there is no such thing as heat wave, those temps are normal there lol.. perhaps consider growing indoors in a climate controlled environment?

i don't overwinter, i start new plants from cuttings.. i get much better plant next season from cutting.