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Thanks. So the implication is that soil has bacteria/other life that maintain a healthy ph for plants?

I just use cheapo pool shock: http://www.amazon.com/Arch-Chemical-51109-Shock-1-Pound/dp/B000JWCB06/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1396291637&sr=8-5&keywords=pool+shock

Make sure the container is well draining and you will be fine. Brutes are expensive though, so I personally would feel weird drilling big holes all over them. For my money, I'd stick to fabric pots. But there's no reason it won't work.

I hear that a simple mix of properly ph'd peat moss and perlite by itself is a "soil-less" medium, and that you should treat it more like "hydro" in terms of using a lower-ph water. It seems to me that the main difference between what I've just described and "soil" are amendments, namely humus...

You Florida and Georgia folks can grow some nice big plants. Not sure if it's fair to compare to Wisconsin though! :)

Nice plants. I don't top, for what it's worth.

Congrats - it's nice when everything starts to come together.

I think Jeff aka SpicyChicken knows something about harvesting peppers: http://driedhotpeppers.com/images/2012-Grow_Log/2012_Grow_Log_216.jpg http://driedhotpeppers.com/2013_grow/2013_grow_019.jpg

A little update on mine. The seeds popped pretty quickly in a paper towel/baggy. But for the first time ever, some of them didn't survive the transfer to my potting mix. The fatalis did fine, and they were what I was most excited about anyway. So I have 3 fatali seedlings springing up, and I'm...

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I didn't know peat moss could get like that.

Thanks - your plants look good. Do you have a fan circulating air around/through the plants?

Are you mixing your nutrients in straight tap water? Also, have you ever grown with coco outdoors before?

There's definitely nothing wrong with it, mine just didn't have any flavor - just lots of heat.

It looks like my goatsweed pepper. Not to be negative, but just FYI I don't like the taste, so I'm not growing it this year.

Chlorine from tap water doesn't hurt plants.  I even add pool shock to my reservoir to keep things clean.

What is the PH of your water?

+1, the amount of heat ultimately produced by an 400W LED light, HID light, incandescent light, or 400W heater for that matter, will all be the same. The energy stored chemically is practically negligible.

Cool! Does anyone know if mycorrhizae can survive deep freezes?