Quick back round on my chili growing experience. I have grown for one season before now.
Last year I have 2 Fresno chilies and 1 Jalapeno in a 6" raised bed and 1 Thai Hot in a container.
Late freeze stunted my plants and then they got cooked because of bed placement and 100+ temps. I was able to manipulate the location of my Thai and it did great!.. until some heartless person stole it from my front yard.
So this year containers it is(inside my wooden fenced back yard).
1/10/14
I started in a tray with fertilome ultimate and sowed Anaheim, Poblano, Habenero, Thai Hot, Tobasco, Jalapeno, Sweet Hungarian Yellow Wax, Green Hatch, Bolivian Rainbow, and Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.
This is from today... 2/1/14
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All of the seedlings are in fertilome African violet with a 1/4 of the recommended dose of biotone starter plus(a 1/4 of .75 TBSP per Quart)... now don't worry I checked the website and fertilome ultimate is the EXACT same thing as fertilome African violet. They are both basically a soiless mix having almost no nutrients.
After they are roughly 6" tall I will go into 3 gallon containers with 3 parts Fox Farm Ocean Forest and 1 part mix of perlite and vermiculite.
I got FFOF for $15 a bag which is a great deal so I definitely had to go with it.
Do you think my seedings will be good in that mix until they are 6" tall. Was a 1/4 strength of fert enough to get them there or will I have to feed again before transplanting?
I plan on potting up to 5 gallon later. I am obviously going to have to narrow down my plants. I only have enough soil for 60 gallons.
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I did the recommended dose of Biotone Starter Plus with this one to see if it would get burnt or not.
They are currently under a 400watt MH and I still have my heating mat on because its cold in that room and the ambient temp after the light and heater is about 80-85*F and my soil is ~80*F. Doesn't that sound good for now?
Is that good growth for 3 weeks? Half of my chilis are starting there 3rd and 4th true leaves(although on most of them it is very very tiny).
Any suggestions for a new chili grower?
Should I go from these to 3 gallons then to 5?
On watering?
Feeding?
I really want to have a productive season this year because I have already invested over $100 and last year was devastating. THanks!
Last year I have 2 Fresno chilies and 1 Jalapeno in a 6" raised bed and 1 Thai Hot in a container.
Late freeze stunted my plants and then they got cooked because of bed placement and 100+ temps. I was able to manipulate the location of my Thai and it did great!.. until some heartless person stole it from my front yard.
So this year containers it is(inside my wooden fenced back yard).
1/10/14
I started in a tray with fertilome ultimate and sowed Anaheim, Poblano, Habenero, Thai Hot, Tobasco, Jalapeno, Sweet Hungarian Yellow Wax, Green Hatch, Bolivian Rainbow, and Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.
This is from today... 2/1/14
photo hosting
All of the seedlings are in fertilome African violet with a 1/4 of the recommended dose of biotone starter plus(a 1/4 of .75 TBSP per Quart)... now don't worry I checked the website and fertilome ultimate is the EXACT same thing as fertilome African violet. They are both basically a soiless mix having almost no nutrients.
After they are roughly 6" tall I will go into 3 gallon containers with 3 parts Fox Farm Ocean Forest and 1 part mix of perlite and vermiculite.
I got FFOF for $15 a bag which is a great deal so I definitely had to go with it.
Do you think my seedings will be good in that mix until they are 6" tall. Was a 1/4 strength of fert enough to get them there or will I have to feed again before transplanting?
I plan on potting up to 5 gallon later. I am obviously going to have to narrow down my plants. I only have enough soil for 60 gallons.
imgurl
I did the recommended dose of Biotone Starter Plus with this one to see if it would get burnt or not.
They are currently under a 400watt MH and I still have my heating mat on because its cold in that room and the ambient temp after the light and heater is about 80-85*F and my soil is ~80*F. Doesn't that sound good for now?
Is that good growth for 3 weeks? Half of my chilis are starting there 3rd and 4th true leaves(although on most of them it is very very tiny).
Any suggestions for a new chili grower?
Should I go from these to 3 gallons then to 5?
On watering?
Feeding?
I really want to have a productive season this year because I have already invested over $100 and last year was devastating. THanks!
