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What soil did you use for your garden ? Did you experience any Blossom End Rot (BER) before you started adding Ca and Mg ?  I've had a lot of trouble BER in my outdoor garden. For me, it didn't matter how much Ca (Cal-Mag) I added. Nothing fixed it the first year.   For me, this is what I...

  I'm thankful too about this community !!  Everyone has to start at the beginning.  It doesn't matter how much you read about growing peppers ( reading is highly recommended... ). Sooner or later we have all run into problems or questions. For me, this forum has been very supportive and helpful...

From your original post I would not worry about the condition of the plants at that stage. They are alive and that's all I would concern myself with.   From the pics I can't tell what Hydroponic system you plant on using.   Don't react too quickly to minor changes in your system... if things get...

Interesting.... This is an indoor plant.   Any way that the plant could have been subject to trauma (cats maybe... or other critters ?)   This could be natural.  Like tomatoes, too much water (under some conditions) can create a pressure inside of the fruit that will stress the outer skin...

  Karoo, I appreciate the feedback. Perhaps it is the Nitrogen that I need to focus on.  These plants are just growing way too fast and I'm not able to clip off enough leaf material to keep these plants under control !!   Two days ago I decided to change the nutes. The previous mix was using...

I don't look at this plant and say it's recovered. Not trying to be an (sphincter) but those leaves are very pale. The leaves are suffering because the roots are suffering from too much water.   After a while the roots will recover. And then the leaves will give you happiness !! And fruit...

:welcome:  to the forum !   I like your list.  My favorite is the Jalapeno !  I grow other peppers for the fun of it. I think there are a lot of people that grow the Reaper just because it is a Reaper !!  Too damn hot for me, but I think it looks really cool  :party:   Are you going to grow in a...

I'd love to see pics of the plants... and NOT under the LED lights if you can. LED's are too red and blue so the PIC's look..... just bad.   Anyway, I'm not an expert by any expanse of imagination... but I have had two grows where I had problems with flower drop.  While I haven't been able to...

General update and comments.....   Last night I recorded the temperature and humidity inside of my experimental grow tent. It was 88 degF with a relative humidity of 88% with th lights ON !!!!!!    Holy happyness !   Or maybe not.... ?   I have been pursuing High temps and High Humidity in my...

  The buckets are 5 gallon, the spacing is a few inches between each bucket one the sides. Way too close. The tent is just too small for my project... know that now... not back then eh !   Nutes are General Hydroponics Flora Series. The plants are less than 6 weeks in the 5 gallons. The growth...

Yet another update.  The Reaper is growing like....way too fast !!  It's going to overtake this (very) small tent in no time !  It is shading some of the Bhut leaves.   I trimmed the Reaper to look more like a tree than a bush.  I like that look. Both plants now have little flower buds. The...

My opinion is that if your can recoup/recover the lost nutrients with compost, then you should be able to continue growing the same crops over and over.   Why doesn't this work in normal practice ?   The compost /or additives that we use to recuperate the soil year in and year out doesn't always...

Hafners.... I love ND !  I visit once a year. Down to Bowman and the expanse of the wild grasslands ... I shoot there.   Anyway... if you want to grow indoors, I'd suggest something a lot more powerful than 45W.  Not that I know a ton about LED (have one myself.... supposed to be 700W equivalent...

I have two Tasmanian Habanero plants in three gallon fiber pots that have been indoors their entire life. They are in big-box "organic potting mix". I will say that I have not treated them very well. What I mean is that they have been inside of my grow tent from germination until now, but I...

Added a nutrient chiller today. I have two wedding coming up in the next year, so I hope that this was the right choice. No more cash for my project !   To recap, the point of my experiment is to re-create the natural environment of the Super Hot pepper. From what I have read, this would be...

The proper chemistry is key to any living organism. And then the chemistry conditions (all of it)  in which a super hot grows are also key to its technical heat. I can imagine that there have been a few, or perhaps many growers that have had peppers in their garden that were hotter than the...

  That my friend is very good new indeed !   Thanks for the reply Black  :P   Jeff

Question >> How long does a seed have to rest before it becomes viable for a new plant ?   >> please read on .   I have a Jalapeno pepper plant that made some pretty small peppers this year, but the heat from those little peppers was amazing !. Not sure that I have ever had a hotter Jalapeno.  I...

  The mottle.... I was hoping that you knew !!    Nutrient deficiency ? Can be sure if that is a cause. The pH was running at 6.4 to 6.5 for three days in the "new system". I was expecting the pH to drop after moving the plants to the new system. I had trouble with these two plants when I had...

Plants in the new system. I'll post any major changes, but I won't update regularly unless somebody asks.      Carolina Reaper   Bhut Jolokia   It seems that both the Reaper and the Bhut gained some yellow mottle after the transplant. I'm ignoring that for now. Buds are starting to show as...