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Am I correct in thinking it's better to have a medium that dries quickly and needs to be watered every day or every other day?   I've noticed that pretty much all of the store-bought mixes I've tried tend to take a week or more before the soil becomes parched enough to make the plants start wilting.

I tried potting up two of my charapitas into the Miracle-gro Moisture Control potting mix after seeing the mostly glowing reviews about the stuff on Amazon.   They ended up losing almost all of their leaves due to rather severe nutrient burn in less then a week and currently are in rehab...

Been having a similar problem with my aji amarillo where both the new and established pods are shriveling up and becoming soft before they've finished ripening. The stem on each one is also shriveling as though the plant isn't transferring any water to it anymore.   There seems to be some kind...

I finally found a bagged soil that's actually working really well, which is Good Dirt potting mix. The ingredients listed are just spaghnum peat moss, aged forest products, and perlite, though it claims to be made with byproducts from the peat harvesting process,   Despite being peat-based it...

The scorched edges/tips look like possible nutrient burn to me, but aside from that the plant looks fairly healthy.

Something odd has been going on as of late, as the leaf miners have not touched my plants for close to a month now, whether it be the new seedlings or established plants.   I know they're still around though, as they're been attacking some tomato and pepper plants that other members of the...

Have had this problem with literally all of my plants at some point, and it's generally not accompanied by the leaves yellowing beforehand, so it's rather perplexing.   Some recovered, while others just died off completely.

I have a hunch that it was verticillium wilt that killed my aji panca/limons (And is currently afflicting my aji amarillo), not any kind of issue of with soil PH or nutrients because the symptoms can highly resemble a nutrient deficiency (And looked exactly like what I had seen on the plants...

Attempting to grow:   Aji Amarillo Aji Panca Aribibi Gusano Charapita Dhalle Khursani  Wiri Wiri   Have gotten a small number of pods from all of them except the aribibi (Which seems to take a nosedive health-wise whenever it starts flowering and loses most of its foliage for reasons unknown and...

I can't help but feel curious about what that charapita is getting to make it look that way because mine was downright pathetic by comparison.   At the current point in time it's looking pretty sad (Almost all of the its leaves fell off for reasons I don't quite grasp) but I have three new...

Most recent update: Plant looks dumpier then ever, but it finally started to put out new foliage after I watered it with worm tea, so it seems like the soil was just lacking in...something it needed to get going.   Hopefully it can still recover...though the mites are likely to going try to stop...

Soapy water works for the whiteflies as long as it's concentrated enough to properly smother them. You can tell they're dead if they stop producing the white fuzz.   As for the scales, you should be able to just wipe them off the plant using a damp paper towel; perhaps soaked in a mild alcohol...

While bark doesn't seem to be readily available around here (They had some heaping bags of redwood mulch at the local hardware store, but not sure if that's suitable or not), sand is extremely cheap in bulk, so now I'm wondering if that might be worth a try too, since I've heard coarse play sand...

I've still been unable to find a good, cheap source of bark for a 5-1-1 mix, though I've noticed that the Kelloggs brand products used primarily aged bark fines instead of peat or coco coir.   Wondering if maybe combining some of their mulch/topsoil with some coco coir could make a better mix...

I recently tried doing a simplistic 33% compost/33%coco coir/33% perlite mix for a couple of plants (With worm castings being the only fertilizer)...but they don't seem to like the stuff at all as there's been little to no growth since I transplanted them almost a month ago. The soil drains...

Seeds can be very moody as I've had them start sprouting as much as a week apart despite being from the same species.   I seem to get the fastest results by seeding straight out of the pod, though.

It tends to need water at least once a week (Weather has been insanely variable lately with cloudy, rainy, and sunny days scattered about) and I've only been watering when it visibly starts drooping as I suspect I've been overwatering most of my plants by following the "Water when the top two...

Well, it's been over a month now, and the plant's health has only degraded since then, as it still hasn't put out any new foliage and is now dropping leaves. The peppers took forever to ripen to red, but now I've harvested them all.   I put a good amount of worm castings and compost into the...

It seems kind of weird for BLS to show up on an indoor grow as it's mostly commonly spread via getting soil onto the plant's leaves or remaining in moist conditions.

  If the larva actually get into the leaves I just gently dig them out or crush them with a sharp point like a toothpick or needle.   Problem is that even just the punctures the adults make from feeding become infected with bacterial/fungal diseases, so I need to keep them off the plants...