Hi! I found this forum yesterday and I spent two hours straight reading through some of the posts. Some of the people here sure know how to grow peppers, and I hope to learn something!
I'm in college at University of Illinois Champaign, and I'm a senior chemistry major. My pepper growing experience is such that for the past three years I've used a 1x10 space during the summer to plant various vegetables, and of course hot peppers. (I gave the best spots to the peppers) I've grown serranos, jalapenos, habs, hot banana and another which I forget the name. The reason it's such a small space is because it was in Chicago.
Currently I'm at school, and I have my hab plant in a 5/8? gallon pot under a 3800 lumen (60w?) extended CFL, it's like a foot long. I also have 8 other plants;rosemary, basil, marjoram and I'm trying to get a cactus to root.
Here's a picture of my setup right after I potted some of those smaller plants. My parents almost killed that basil in the far right.
I took the paper towels out of there, i put some worms / castings in there, thats why they're there.
I'm in college at University of Illinois Champaign, and I'm a senior chemistry major. My pepper growing experience is such that for the past three years I've used a 1x10 space during the summer to plant various vegetables, and of course hot peppers. (I gave the best spots to the peppers) I've grown serranos, jalapenos, habs, hot banana and another which I forget the name. The reason it's such a small space is because it was in Chicago.
Currently I'm at school, and I have my hab plant in a 5/8? gallon pot under a 3800 lumen (60w?) extended CFL, it's like a foot long. I also have 8 other plants;rosemary, basil, marjoram and I'm trying to get a cactus to root.
Here's a picture of my setup right after I potted some of those smaller plants. My parents almost killed that basil in the far right.
from sunny South Florida! 
