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I always do the epsom foliar thing late at night - 10 or 11 pm, when it's nice and cool and dark, and the plants aren't under stress and will have time to absorb the magnesium before getting up for work the next morning. I haven't seen anything but good results from this. I don't see why the...

Greetings... here we have a Caribbean Red, with extreme leaf bubbling. What do you guys think? It's in ProMix, has received two feedings of Fish/Seaweed, has been foliar fed Epsom twice since its transplant on 5/26, and one feeding of CalMag directly into the soil (1/2 strength). Any ideas...

I do have some side-by-side organic vs. non-organic pics, but they might be lost in a camera someplace; I'll take a look. It seems to me like it's really a hare vs. tortoise thing. The organics (I use TomatoTone extensively and mostly; and Fish/Seaweed; and bone meal) are slow to impact the...

I used the Alaska 5-1-1 fish emulsion for two years and thought it was pretty good. A significant upgrade on the basic idea would be to go to Neptune's Fish + Seaweed 2-3-1. Seaweed is really good stuff, and is not in the Alaska product. Here's a link...

Greetings, and welcome... As you noted, ProMix would be the first choice for a potting mix. Sounds like it's a long drive to acquire it, but the results would be probably be well worth it. If you're not going to use ProMix, then it basically boils down to two choices: buy some potting mix...

haha .... good catch. I meant to say I combined the CalMag with a tbsp of Fish Emulsion, not Epsom Salt. Calmag already contains the magnesium, there'd be no reason to combine it with Epsom. I used the Botanicare product that's in your Amazon link. So far, I think I like the results. I...

I just started Cal-Mag treatment, for the same reason - habs that are too curly and bubbly at the top. I mixed a 1/2 tsp. of Cal-Mag and 1 tbs of epsom salt into a gallon of water, and foliar-sprayed all the plants. That was 2 days ago. I could be imagining things, but there does seem to be...

Very nice! I much prefer container growing, though I do both. I just find it easier to control and manage the plants through their whole lifecycle. 4 days of rainstorms coming up? Bring them inside. Nasty windy weather coming? Move them against a wall. Soil too acidic, or too much clay...

I don't open the lid at all until I see some green - which is usually 5 or 6 days. After that, I give them 1 day with the lid ajar (like propped up with a toothpick in one corner), kind of a transition phase. Then I put the lid away until next year. If you're growing mostly habs, it could...

thanks, man. Yeah, the walking onions are cool ... but hard to come by. Most of the catalogs don't actually have them in inventory; I was recently trying to find some online for my father in law, and couldn't find a single one to buy for him. Mine was actually a lucky break - a nursery owner...

Howdy...I use a SunBlaze T5 fixture, too. Good stuff!! I know you're supposed to get as close as possible, but personally, I like a distance of 6 to 9", at least at first, for a few weeks after sprouting. Later, when the plants have a few sets of true leaves and are really taking off, I might...

I'm always in search of the Next Big Thing to yield more, bigger peppers. I've heard good stuff about Cal-Mag recently. I already use Epsom Salt and Bone Meal to juice the pepper production. Pretty happy with both of them, actually. Anyone using Cal-Mag? Does it replace or supplement epsom...

Yes, the hinged 4x4 bed can be made into any shape. We actually have two 4x4's, and were thinking about making them into an unusual shape, like a trapezoidal thing. But we decided to keep them separate and use one for 9 peppers, and the other for cucumbers and beans. Cucumbers get kinda crazy...

Here are a few pics of my peppers... The Deck peppers (14 of them and a couple 'o tomatoes): and another view: The front garden (7 more peppers and a Jefferson Walking Onion [rare]): Backyard pepper bed: Some "extras" sitting in pots - a few jalapenos and a Suaharo: And now for...

I've heard many different theories on when to remove buds, so as not to inhibit foilage growth when the peppers are in the early stages. Please take the poll about how you feel about this. At the two extremes, there are people who NEVER pinch buds, and people who pinch well into the growing...

Well, in the absence of pix, it's of course rather hard to speculate. I've been focusing a lot on growing those types of peppers recently, along with Sandias and Suharos. Anaheims, as you say, should be glossy and hard - with a thick, shiny skin that you'd normally want to roast off because...

I use 100 % Promix in my outdoor pots. I have about 25 of them going. This is my 3rd growing season. The first year, I didn't know that Promix had no organic matter/nutrients, so I didn't add anything to it, and the plants grew great! The 2nd year I mixed in 1/3 compost, and got pepper...

Greetings - am trying epsom salt this year, for the first time. Have used it twice so far and it's making a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge difference. Everything is greener and better!!! My question is: how often to give 'em the epsom treatment? I'm mixing a tablespoon into a gallon of water. I'm...

Hi guys, tnx for the info. I've now searched around the web and compared some pix, and it does look like it's chlorosis from perhaps too high pH. The weird thing is, these were grown in ProMix, which I thought had a carefully-tuned neutral pH. So maybe it's chlorosis due to something else. I...

No, not abruptly, I've been struggling with these three since they were seedlings. When they were in 4" pots as seedlings, I gave them 1/2 strength fish emulsion and a smidge of bone meal. Plus I misted them with epsom salt once or twice. When I up-potted them and put them outside, they got...