Hello everyone. I gave a short introduction in the hello area so I'm just going to dive into pepper stuff now.
Peppers:
Jalapeno
Padron
Serrano
Bhut Jolokia
Habenero
Soil:
Promix
Light:
Florecents, MH, HPS
Nutrients:
General Organics Base
CalMag
Down to earth bat guano (3-10-1)
Nutriboost
Roots (Yellow bottle)
Soluble K
Mycorrhizae
I have grown out serranos, piquin, and cherry peppers before but I had terrible yields and very small peppers although tasty and hot. I went to Home Depot and bought live plants. The plants basically stayed exactly the same size they were when I got them even after potting up. I like to think I am a good judge of plant health but in the end I have decided the safest route is to not buy live plants from HD again. I now go seed all the way. It only took me 2 years to learn this!
I admittedly started late. I germinated my seeds on the May 1st. I was buy studying for finals (Finishing up an AA in bio and Chem then on to soil studies?) and I let my seeds almost fully sprout in a paper towel before I transplanted them. This means I had root tips growing through the paper towel and delicate root hairs were torn upon placement in a propagation chamber. In my defense I was told to "germinate an entire packet per strain, and to wait at least a week before being concerned about no germ.....Everything except the Bhut germinated in 48hrs and I had something like 85% germination! Despite all the peppers I have right now I threw out at least 2/3 of my germinated seeds....Lesson learned. Also I had roughly 90% success after root tearing so I was gentle in my destruction.
I am planning on trying to run some of these peppers year round by pumping hot air from my indoor nursery into a greenhouse (being built right now) at night since my nursery is on a nocturnal schedule for the power bill. I get enough frost to grow plums and cherries so the peppers will def die if not cared for. We shall delve into the greenhouse at a later date.....Foundation polls are being set up on Saturday.
May 5th. These are rapid rooter cubes. I buy them as a mat of 96 then I tear them up one by one and place them in their own spot.
May 10th
Xplant (transplant) into 4 inch pots on may 18th. Each pot received base, cal/mag, roots, and 1 tsp of guano. No food has been given to them since this time.
May 30th
June 6th (Today) 400w MH
June 6th (Today) Sick bay/straggelers under the floro. I find that they really like the folor better but they grow slower. When i plant starts looking week and stunted I throw it under the floro and they turn out all right normally.
You will notice my peppers look a bit deteriorating. I sprayed them with 2 TBL of Azatrol and 1.5 TBL of Pottassium bicarbonate. Other plants in my nursery had powder mildew and spider mites so I took preventative action. That was done yesterday and they are telling me they didn't like what I did that much but they aren't dead so that's a +
There is also probably a lil bit of overwatering (I'm lifting every pot individually now) and I think maybe a Calcium def? Check pictures below of what I believe to be the most affected plant in the room. This is before any spray so we can rule that out. All the pics from the 6th onward will show stress form spraying.
I have been told it's either C or over watering. I plan on having these guys all outside by the end of next weed (at the very latest) so I'm not taking much action in regards to fert.
Phew that was a long post. I needed to catch up to where I was + I wanted to give as much info as possible about the plants so that maybe I can get help diagnosing the last set of pictures.
If you made it this far I hope you enjoyed my 2nd post. See you all soon!
Edit: I want to add that if anyone sees anything wrong with any of my plants please don't feel shy about pointing it out. I live in the boonies and I am a bachelor and literally no one I know knows anything about hort and if they do they can't be bothered to come out and visit me. So please tell me what you see. I will not take offense. Many thanks.
Peppers:
Jalapeno
Padron
Serrano
Bhut Jolokia
Habenero
Soil:
Promix
Light:
Florecents, MH, HPS
Nutrients:
General Organics Base
CalMag
Down to earth bat guano (3-10-1)
Nutriboost
Roots (Yellow bottle)
Soluble K
Mycorrhizae
I have grown out serranos, piquin, and cherry peppers before but I had terrible yields and very small peppers although tasty and hot. I went to Home Depot and bought live plants. The plants basically stayed exactly the same size they were when I got them even after potting up. I like to think I am a good judge of plant health but in the end I have decided the safest route is to not buy live plants from HD again. I now go seed all the way. It only took me 2 years to learn this!
I admittedly started late. I germinated my seeds on the May 1st. I was buy studying for finals (Finishing up an AA in bio and Chem then on to soil studies?) and I let my seeds almost fully sprout in a paper towel before I transplanted them. This means I had root tips growing through the paper towel and delicate root hairs were torn upon placement in a propagation chamber. In my defense I was told to "germinate an entire packet per strain, and to wait at least a week before being concerned about no germ.....Everything except the Bhut germinated in 48hrs and I had something like 85% germination! Despite all the peppers I have right now I threw out at least 2/3 of my germinated seeds....Lesson learned. Also I had roughly 90% success after root tearing so I was gentle in my destruction.
I am planning on trying to run some of these peppers year round by pumping hot air from my indoor nursery into a greenhouse (being built right now) at night since my nursery is on a nocturnal schedule for the power bill. I get enough frost to grow plums and cherries so the peppers will def die if not cared for. We shall delve into the greenhouse at a later date.....Foundation polls are being set up on Saturday.
May 5th. These are rapid rooter cubes. I buy them as a mat of 96 then I tear them up one by one and place them in their own spot.
May 10th
Xplant (transplant) into 4 inch pots on may 18th. Each pot received base, cal/mag, roots, and 1 tsp of guano. No food has been given to them since this time.
May 30th
June 6th (Today) 400w MH
June 6th (Today) Sick bay/straggelers under the floro. I find that they really like the folor better but they grow slower. When i plant starts looking week and stunted I throw it under the floro and they turn out all right normally.
You will notice my peppers look a bit deteriorating. I sprayed them with 2 TBL of Azatrol and 1.5 TBL of Pottassium bicarbonate. Other plants in my nursery had powder mildew and spider mites so I took preventative action. That was done yesterday and they are telling me they didn't like what I did that much but they aren't dead so that's a +
There is also probably a lil bit of overwatering (I'm lifting every pot individually now) and I think maybe a Calcium def? Check pictures below of what I believe to be the most affected plant in the room. This is before any spray so we can rule that out. All the pics from the 6th onward will show stress form spraying.
I have been told it's either C or over watering. I plan on having these guys all outside by the end of next weed (at the very latest) so I'm not taking much action in regards to fert.
Phew that was a long post. I needed to catch up to where I was + I wanted to give as much info as possible about the plants so that maybe I can get help diagnosing the last set of pictures.
If you made it this far I hope you enjoyed my 2nd post. See you all soon!
Edit: I want to add that if anyone sees anything wrong with any of my plants please don't feel shy about pointing it out. I live in the boonies and I am a bachelor and literally no one I know knows anything about hort and if they do they can't be bothered to come out and visit me. So please tell me what you see. I will not take offense. Many thanks.
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