I have been growing in Florida and my plant is not doing too well. The leaves are turning yellow except the vein area and the very edges are turning brown. Growth has halted and some leaf loos has occured. This seems like a nutrient deficienty but I have been giving it Dyna gro foliage pro 1tsp to 1gallon ratio. The potting mix is a 3:1 coco coir perlite mix. The pot is roughly 8 gallons with 6 1/4in holes for drainage. The plant is kept out of the heavy Florida rains and only gets its water from me. The water I give it is plain tap water with 1tsp of dyna gro. I plan on testing sool Ph soon. Attached is a pic of the plant.
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If you're going to grow outdoors, you'll not want straight coco and perlite. You should have put 10% worm castings, by volume in there, after you mixed the coco and perlite. That's your nutrient retention. Then, there's the matter of pH. You should know that our environment is extremely alkaline. My rain water sitting in barrels will quickly rise to ~8 pH. A buffer would be something that will keep the substrate pH in check. I like to let the compost help with that, but some humic acid from leonardite is nice, too. And finally, I can't say that the heat is a problem for the pot, but I can't rule it out.
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2X a week on the feeding is pretty heavy. You should really get an EC meter, and do a slurry test. There's no way you'll have a nutrient deficiency feeding 2X per week. More likely you've got a lockout.
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2X a week on the feeding is pretty heavy. You should really get an EC meter, and do a slurry test. There's no way you'll have a nutrient deficiency feeding 2X per week. More likely you've got a lockout.
Powelly said:
That's not a great idea for a mature plant in a hot, high humidity environment. It isn't really all that simple. I've had very mixed results with that method here. The traditional "overwinter" is not as easily do-able at this time of year.
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If one were so inclined to do this, I'd take it indoors and put it under lights.
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That being said, it's just a jalapeno, and you can probably still pick one up at the local stores, for what it's worth.
Powelly said:
Fine. You didn't want to tell him to throw it away. But like I said, plants in the hottest and humidest days of summer, don't like to be uprooted and replanted. You gave a not very great option, and I qualified it.
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I'm just relaying my own personal experiences with that. I've lost too many plants, when I relied on the optimism that I could save them with a full transplant in the summer heat. But like I said... If one were so inclined to do that, they'd want to take it indoors, under lights, for the best chance of success.
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Do you think that there is something wrong with that advice?
Powelly said:
You seem to be mistaken, or else you have a very low threshold for disagreement/differentiating opinion.
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There was nothing negative or hostile about my post. (I'm actually very direct when I'm being either of those things) My last question was, "Do you think that there is something wrong with that advice?" That was, and still is, a valid question. If you think that I gave the wrong advice, I think you owe it to the OP to clarify your own position, or state why I might be wrong. This honestly isn't about you and me.
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I try not to give anyone advice that I feel would potentially fatal to one of their plants, without properly qualifying as such.
