In my first year of growing I had my best results, without any knowledge.
Now after 5 years, I'm having the worst year of all. I try to experience a lot with different soil mixes, but the desired results are simply not there. The very exact soil which produced nice peppers last year, just doesn't work. All my Reapers popped up started nicely then stopped at 2-3 inch, and don't move anywhere since 5 weeks. Maybe I can get a prize for the shortest plants...
No matter what I give them (no chemicals), worm tea, compost tea, EWC, liquid humic extract, etc., they are frozen in time seemingly permanently.
When you guys grow these impossibly huge plants, what soil mixes and nutes/ferts are you using?