Nice sea of green. What size pot are you using on the next move?
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Douglah Cappy 2010
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now you're growing people ?!?! D:
healthy looking babies you got there dude, keep it up.
healthy looking babies you got there dude, keep it up.
Silver_Surfer said:
Moving to 4 gallon black nursery containers next week.
JayT said:
That really means a lot Jay! Thanks.
They are coming on great Cappy. There appears to be a young girl acting suspiciously around your plants - or is she just your apprentice?
Had excellent germ rates (near 100%) from the BS buddy. The plants are all healthy and growing vigorusly. Look out for the pictures of them being transplanted into the hydro system in the next few weeks. I hope for some monsters.
Thanks again, Chris
Had excellent germ rates (near 100%) from the BS buddy. The plants are all healthy and growing vigorusly. Look out for the pictures of them being transplanted into the hydro system in the next few weeks. I hope for some monsters.
Thanks again, Chris
Pepper Ridge Farm said:Chris, I do give my plants a 1 tsp/gal one time feeding of Flora Nova grow or about 500 ppm when they are under my light and use fish emulsion the rest. I have just rotated the third set of plants under my light and in about 10 days will triple in size. I have to do this because of several reasons first the light is best used in conjunction with natural sunlight and I can fit only about 80 cups under the lights at a time. I have the first Douglah hardening off and my main crop that just came from under the light in the windowsill going outside April 1st. Few pics of the plants on a cloudy Sunday morning.
I use the cups as well and I see some people using two cups per plant..... whats the reason for that??? then once you get them out side it looks like you removed the second cup??
Just curious
The inside cup has a hole and the outside cup acts as a saucer. I always remove the outside cup when watering and let completely drain before placing back in the dry outer cup. I recycle and use the same solo cups every year after the dishwasher they are just stacked till next year.
I take much pride in the seed that I share only collecting seed from my best pods. I think your best seed also comes from pods that have huge seed clusters in them and pass on nice looking pods with poor or undeveloped seed production. I believe a cross pollinated pod doesn't produce as many seed as a pure pod, JMO. I dry seed in cups on a well ventilated shelf turning daily and then store in glass jars for many years. Glad they're growing well for you.
Not too much of an update just getting containers cleaned and organized. I have only moved my Pequins to their final home as started mid-winter and were getting rootbound. I am leaving my plant starts in the solo cups longer this year because they seem real happy and very easy to water, takes all of 5 minutes together. I have told the wife and kids to enjoy the yard now, because soon there will be plants everywhere there's sunshine.
Lookin' great Cappy. It looks as if it will be even more crowded under that tree this season.
Don't ya just hate the waiting till the pods arrive.......
Silver_Surfer said:Lookin' great Cappy. It looks as if it will be even more crowded under that tree this season.
I took down a big Bradford Pear tree in my yard so I have a lot more sunshine this year, thinking of making two beds 5 pots deep 20 rows long right in the middle. You can surely see where the pots were growing last year.
JungleRain said:
I still have pods everywhere from last season JR. Definitely selling pods at farmer markets around town and online this season. No lack of heat my way.
Maligator, I get a lot of wind at the beach so I grow my plants very close together to help support each other and I only have to stake some on the perimeter. I don't move my containers around and let the roots grow in to the ground, keeping them from blowing over during a storm.
Gotcha, so staking them is more of a personal thing due to your environment and not a requirement for all pepper plants then? I know you need some sort of support structure for tomatoes and was just curious if a similar need was there for pepper plants. Seems like the answer is no unless, as you say, you live in a higher wind area. I know these are pretty simple questions but I'm new to this and appreciate learning from those that have been there and done that so to speak.
Maligator said:
Peppers need support, especially if they get overburdened with pods.
I learned the hard way last season and had branches break under the added weight. Cappy lets his plants support each other in a dense jungle of growth. Check his grow log from last season.I'm letting my tomatoes run on the ground in the garden this season with no support, so support for them isn't mandatory depending on the grow and this is the way they grow naturally.