SadisticPeppers
eXtreme Business
After the disasterous bug infestation that was my first go at growing peppers (with only 4 De Arbol peppers to show for it), I've effectively rebooted my growing efforts. Don't know if I mentioned it before, but it looks like the bug infestation was due to the insect eggs being present in large numbers in the soil I had initially used. Other people complained to the local Home Depot about the same problem with the same soil I used, and around the same time, so it definitely fits. The soil I'm using now, a mix of Scotts Garden Soil and Vigoro Organic Mix, has been good so far, and as a precaution, I gave my plants a 2nd dose of neem oil mix just to be sure.
Today, I transplanted 15 seedlings into pots and have each breed under its own grow light. I posted up pictures in my Blog earlier today right after I finished, and after someone commented, asking if there was any particular reason why I had them on the bottom rung, I got to thinking why they shouldn't, at least for the time being, be sitting closer to the lights. My initial logic was that they should start with as much room as possible. So I moved them up to just under 2 feet under the grow lights. As they grow of course, I'll gradually move them lower down the grow houses until they reach their full height.
I should be ready to go to have all four breeds I've got seeds for (Butch T, Naga Morich, Bhut, and TS Moruga) ready to go within the next couple of weeks, since I still have a few seedlings yet that are still way too young to be transplanted just yet. In about two weeks though, they should be good to go, so by then, I'll be going at full tilt on these, and knock on wood, I'll have the first pods growing by August or so.
Hopefully, this go around will be smoother since I learned quite a bit from my experiences and from the recommendations on here as well (many thanks for that!
).
Today, I transplanted 15 seedlings into pots and have each breed under its own grow light. I posted up pictures in my Blog earlier today right after I finished, and after someone commented, asking if there was any particular reason why I had them on the bottom rung, I got to thinking why they shouldn't, at least for the time being, be sitting closer to the lights. My initial logic was that they should start with as much room as possible. So I moved them up to just under 2 feet under the grow lights. As they grow of course, I'll gradually move them lower down the grow houses until they reach their full height.
I should be ready to go to have all four breeds I've got seeds for (Butch T, Naga Morich, Bhut, and TS Moruga) ready to go within the next couple of weeks, since I still have a few seedlings yet that are still way too young to be transplanted just yet. In about two weeks though, they should be good to go, so by then, I'll be going at full tilt on these, and knock on wood, I'll have the first pods growing by August or so.
Hopefully, this go around will be smoother since I learned quite a bit from my experiences and from the recommendations on here as well (many thanks for that!
).