Hi,
It's my first time growing super hots and also my first time growing indoors. I decided to grow indoors due to the climate in my area and limited grow season. I planted Bhut Jolokia, Carolina Reaper, and Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper plants. The seeds were mostly from Pepper Joe's. I started the seeds in a Jiffy peat moss seed started with a heating mat underneath. The seeds sprouted on 12/26/15. The germination rate wasn't that great around 50 - 70% for most of the peppers. I planted 10 douglah seeds but zero sprouted. I plan to post progress pics of this years grow to this glog.
Transplanted to a grow box that has soil suspended above a water reservoir. There is a heater controlling temperature between 70- 85 deg F. I am using red/blue LED lights set to 14 hours on 10 off.
Progress pic on 2/2/16
Progress pic on 2/16/16. One of the ghost pepper plants decided to die between the last pic and this one. Not sure why, when I removed it the roots were not well developed. The plants around it expanded into its area very quickly.
On 2/28/16 I added a external reservoir tank. I have to go out of town for several weeks at a time. This set up allows the plants to be fully automated for up to a month. The water is continuously circulated between the larger tank and the bottom of the grow box. The water level in the grow box is always maintained at the same level with the excess draining back to the reservoir tank.
3/10/16 Progress pic. Most of the flowers that were on the plants for the last 2 weeks have fallen off. There are still a lot of flowers on the plants. I do not see any peppers forming yet.
It's my first time growing super hots and also my first time growing indoors. I decided to grow indoors due to the climate in my area and limited grow season. I planted Bhut Jolokia, Carolina Reaper, and Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper plants. The seeds were mostly from Pepper Joe's. I started the seeds in a Jiffy peat moss seed started with a heating mat underneath. The seeds sprouted on 12/26/15. The germination rate wasn't that great around 50 - 70% for most of the peppers. I planted 10 douglah seeds but zero sprouted. I plan to post progress pics of this years grow to this glog.
Transplanted to a grow box that has soil suspended above a water reservoir. There is a heater controlling temperature between 70- 85 deg F. I am using red/blue LED lights set to 14 hours on 10 off.
Progress pic on 2/2/16
Progress pic on 2/16/16. One of the ghost pepper plants decided to die between the last pic and this one. Not sure why, when I removed it the roots were not well developed. The plants around it expanded into its area very quickly.
On 2/28/16 I added a external reservoir tank. I have to go out of town for several weeks at a time. This set up allows the plants to be fully automated for up to a month. The water is continuously circulated between the larger tank and the bottom of the grow box. The water level in the grow box is always maintained at the same level with the excess draining back to the reservoir tank.
3/10/16 Progress pic. Most of the flowers that were on the plants for the last 2 weeks have fallen off. There are still a lot of flowers on the plants. I do not see any peppers forming yet.
plants look great!
