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Cold country, small balcony, grow accordingly 2020

Hello and a warning: this is going to be boring and small grow located in finland, mainly for keeping record.
 
This is my 4th or 5th season and 2nd in the same appartment. I have a small windowed balcony facing so, that in the summer sun hits it from ~12 to late evening between 18-22 if I remember correctly.
 
Last summer I had 2x aji fantasy, 2x harold st bart as main plants, then amashito wild and moruglah in a more shady spot. Results were nice for aji fantasies, got around 2kg overall from them and maybe 500+g from harolds. This year I'm not going to waste space with  chinenses, the conditions just aren't there.
 
This years grow will be:
2x Challuaruro
2x Jalapeno orange spice
1x aji fantasy x harold st bart (if seeds viable, own cross)
1x spanish giant.
 
I have a tent for germinating and getting to summer, 120x60x180 sized, so 2'x4'x6'. Seeds will hit the rockwool next week, will put out pics then. My growlight is solux twin 2x55 tubes, 6400k and around 10 000 lumens.
Basicly plan is, rockwool -> coco coir with maybe perlite/vermiculite, final pots will be pots with water reservoir below, acts kinda like passive hydro with coco. 
 
 
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That is my now 3yo starfish.
 
edit what is the best way to up pics? can I upload them to place X and embed link here?
 
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Looking very good, Risto!
 
Lovin' the yellow/white pods on the plants
with the darker foliage!
 
Beautiful plant, Risto! The foliage, flowers and pods
all just nice!
 
Potted up (still small) my 3,5yo Brazilian starfish and gave some food to it. Grew nicely and has some flowers with pollen too.

Plan is to keep this one small all summer.
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So here goes, potted up 5 of the 8 plants. These ones will end up in balcony. Rocoto montufar Will end up out on the yard. I might give away my dalle khrusani and Harold x aji fantasy.

Reason is the fact that I'm running out of space in tent, mostly because of that montufar going nuts.

I'll try to up pics in some kind of order.

First being roots of spanish giant and plant after up. Then jalapeno, challuaruro and some overview pics + montu in tent.

Oh and these will go to pots with ~3,2l soilspace ans 1,9l water reservoir.

I was planning to use coco coir only but ran out, so i mixed up that, clay pebbles and common garden soilmix, never grown chilis in other than Coco coir, so that will be interesting.
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Awesome plants, Risto! Looking comfy
in their new homes.
 
Very interesting container system.
 
They work like a passive hyrdo with pure Coco coir, no idea how these work with soilmix, probably fine :)

Edit. How does nutritient uptake work with Soil and that kind of container/bottom feeding? They get all they need from soil for a while anyway?
 
Yeah, very nice plants indeed! You're going to have a great season with them and I'm wishing you lots of sunshine and warmth this summer!

Those pots look very nice and practical too, do you know what they're called?

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lespaulde said:
Yeah, very nice plants indeed! You're going to have a great season with them and I'm wishing you lots of sunshine and warmth this summer!

Those pots look very nice and practical too, do you know what they're called?

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They are made by finnish brand orthex, mine are called orthex Eden, there are multiple sizes, mine are 20cm diameter.
Theres also orthex Pauliina, same idea but round shape and a bit different design.

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I like them a lot, thanks for the info! Did you use them before or is it your first season with them? Almost 2L of water should last a week or 2 even during summer I reckon?

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Inoks said:
Montufar has a couple of flowers, first time I see such a thing live.

Also got him new shoes, concrete Pot, 24cm diameter and pretty deep
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I grew 2 Montufars last year and had a good crop from both of them. One was in a 12 litre pot and the other one was in a 240 litre box. You need to support them with at least 4 bamboo poles, systematically tying the branches like espalier, otherwise they are just a big falling over mess that can't support the weight of the own fruit.
 
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