Hey guys, thought I would share how I solved my issue of flowers dropping. For months my indoor Pepper plants have been flowering but have never set any fruit which left me feeling pretty disappointed. I narrowed down the issue to pollen production since the plants were failing to produce any pollen at all. After weeks of varying my feeding, light, temperature, etc. I found out that my humidity was at the 35-40% mark by chance when I found an old hygrometer thermometer combo and put it in my grow chamber. No wonder the plants didn't have any pollen! The flowers were getting desiccated before they could produce.
So I busted out a 9 head mister humidifier and RH controller that I had from an attempt at growing mushrooms. I've gotten the humidity up to 65-70% which seems to be good, any higher and I'm risking mold I think. It bathes my plants in a foggy mist every 15 mins or so for 10 seconds which keeps them hydrated but not wet. It's only been a day since I setup the humidifier and I can already smell the pollen again and see fruit setting on my Caribbean Red and White Fatalii.
I'm happy that I'll now have some indoor pods going and I can reliably grow pepper plants through their complete life cycle from Seed to Pods.
So I busted out a 9 head mister humidifier and RH controller that I had from an attempt at growing mushrooms. I've gotten the humidity up to 65-70% which seems to be good, any higher and I'm risking mold I think. It bathes my plants in a foggy mist every 15 mins or so for 10 seconds which keeps them hydrated but not wet. It's only been a day since I setup the humidifier and I can already smell the pollen again and see fruit setting on my Caribbean Red and White Fatalii.
I'm happy that I'll now have some indoor pods going and I can reliably grow pepper plants through their complete life cycle from Seed to Pods.