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For the most part, these jalapeño plants are growing well, flowering, and setting fruit. But the lower leaves have been progressively yellowing. New growth is green and healthy looking. They are being grown indoors, under a 315 watt ceramic metal halide that is on 16 hours/day. The soil...

The Apache jalapeño is apparently an F3 jalapeño hybrid, presumably from the growers at buckeyepepper.com - they sent them to me as freebies when I ordered my Biker Billy seeds.

Still growing. The flush got rid of the yellowing new growth, so I'll just be more careful about possible salt accumulation. The growth habits couldn't be more different between these two. Jalapeños! Each Biker Billy plant has about ten right now. The Apache jalapeño plants only have a...

Still coming along! The two varieties have amazingly different growth habits. Pods! Biker Billy jalapeño. Several of the plants have started dropping flowers that have clearly been pollinated and were beginning to grow into pods. The stems start to turn yellow, and then they fall off the...

Thank you :)

If I am watering such that 20% or so drains out each time, as Al (indeed) suggested, won't that be enough to flush any salt buildup from the soil? Will that make inorganic N supplementation workable?

Possible, of course. I have not done a saturation test, but instead built a soilless mixture as directed by someone that has gone to great efforts to educate other growers about the problem of perched water tables in containers. It is supposed to be extremely forgiving when it comes to...

I have an oscillating fan on the plants, as well as good air exchange between the growing enclosure and the rest of the room. They are kept well watered, and are growing in a very coarse mixture that drains quickly and holds a very low perched water table. It is about 80% bark, and I added lime...

Hello, I've been growing some jalapeños indoors under lights, and it has been going well so far. But in the past few days, the flowers/new pods on one of the plants have been yellowing slightly and then dropping off the plant, stem and all, if the plant is jostled even a tiny bit. Daytime...

I took 18 cuttings from the 4 extra Biker Billy jalapeño plants, just to do something with the plants instead of throwing them out. I'll see what sort of success I have rooting them. One of the plants after. I'm going to hang on to them for now, even though they are becoming root bound, just...

First pod forming! Biker Billy jalapeño.

First flowers have opened! There is pretty good air movement inside the growing area, so I am going to see if that plus the occasional shake of the plants will be enough for pollination.

Thanks! I tried to make it look decent, since it is in the main room of my apartment.. I took the stadium-style risers out of the enclosure and cut an extra piece of Orca film to line the bottom (it is a wire shelf otherwise). I repotted the four I plan to grow to full size in 5-gallon...

I came home yesterday to find that my ultrasonic fogger was no longer producing fog. Bummer. I contacted the supplier and they are shipping me a replacement, which should be here Monday. I don't really want to unpack the humidifier and start it up in the meantime, so they will just have to deal...

Still growing. I've had some fungus gnats show up, which I haven't had to deal with in a while because the soilless mix I've been growing in is fast-draining enough that the top dries out pretty quickly. I think the latest batch I mixed is a bit more water-retentive. I've added a food-crop-safe...

Do you have anything that can measure the humidity, or are you going by how it feels to you? Pictures?

Could you post some pictures? Humidity levels indoors during the winter can get very, very low, and can lead to issues like this.

I wondered what all those starts were! I had seen them in the background in one of the pictures from your your indoor glog. Next mystery - what is the giant plant growing along the back wall of your grow room? :)

I built my humidifier for the enclosure. It uses an ultrasonic fogger in a big tub of water, and a waterproof 120mm fan to blow the fog through the tube into the grow area. The fogger and the fan are both plugged into a humidistat, so the humidification is now automated. And the reservoir is a...

I moved them under the big light maybe a week ago. The Apache jalapeños are growing far, far slower than the Biker Billy jalapeños are, but look healthy regardless. I have had to leave the front panel off of the enclosure to maintain the correct humidity/temperature combination. With the...