Hi! This will be my gf's and I first attempt at growing our own hot peppers. So im hoping all goes well, and we'll be able to give our families some quality spicy peppers. We started growing around mid-April(April 16 or 17). Started off with buying seeds from Hell Hot Products(ebay), a germination station, Miracle Gro Organic Choice Potting Mix, Miracle Gro Bloom Booster, distilled water. On the germination tray, i sowed them per row:
1st row: Naga Morich
2nd: Datil
3rd: Yellow Scotch Bonnet
4th: Butch T
5th: Jamaican Chocolate Habanero
and the 6th row was a mixed bag of the leftover seeds. And basically followed these instructions to germinate the seeds: http://www.ecoseeds.com/Pepper.growing.tips.html.
After the first 7 days I had 50% of the seeds germinating. It was mostly the Datil , NM, and scotch bonnet that had sprouted, maybe a couple Butch T's and and JCH here and there.
Then I decided to transplant the sprouted seedlings into styrofoam cups filled with the MG potting soil and started watering with just distilled water. I put half on a window sill with lots of sunshine all day, and the rest in a mylar lined cooler, with a utility light(6500k grow bulb) right beside them inside the cooler. I left the unsprouted seeds in tray station. After 5 days another 20-25% sprouted. Transplanted those and put them in my poormans light setup. Maybe 4-5 days ago I decided to bring the seedlings out from under the artificial lights because I was losing plants fast, the stems were turning purple, and put them out to harden off so they can join their buddies on the window sill. As a matter of fact, the seedlings that were outside getting natural sunlight looked healthier than the others. Two days after I started noticing alot of leaf curl and stems that were a neon purple. Which brings to today. Im sitting around reading THP forums, and read a couple post where they talk about repotting damaged plants, and thats what I did to the seedling that looked like they were not gonna make it. I added vermiculite to the MG potting soil and transplanted the injured/damaged into that mix. We'll see how that goes. Here are some pics:
Datil seedlings
Mixed(Unknown)
Camera Phone pics
Ghetto Setup
Scotch Bonnett
Butch T
I'll keep you all posted of any changes, good or bad. Hopefully good.
1st row: Naga Morich
2nd: Datil
3rd: Yellow Scotch Bonnet
4th: Butch T
5th: Jamaican Chocolate Habanero
and the 6th row was a mixed bag of the leftover seeds. And basically followed these instructions to germinate the seeds: http://www.ecoseeds.com/Pepper.growing.tips.html.
After the first 7 days I had 50% of the seeds germinating. It was mostly the Datil , NM, and scotch bonnet that had sprouted, maybe a couple Butch T's and and JCH here and there.
Then I decided to transplant the sprouted seedlings into styrofoam cups filled with the MG potting soil and started watering with just distilled water. I put half on a window sill with lots of sunshine all day, and the rest in a mylar lined cooler, with a utility light(6500k grow bulb) right beside them inside the cooler. I left the unsprouted seeds in tray station. After 5 days another 20-25% sprouted. Transplanted those and put them in my poormans light setup. Maybe 4-5 days ago I decided to bring the seedlings out from under the artificial lights because I was losing plants fast, the stems were turning purple, and put them out to harden off so they can join their buddies on the window sill. As a matter of fact, the seedlings that were outside getting natural sunlight looked healthier than the others. Two days after I started noticing alot of leaf curl and stems that were a neon purple. Which brings to today. Im sitting around reading THP forums, and read a couple post where they talk about repotting damaged plants, and thats what I did to the seedling that looked like they were not gonna make it. I added vermiculite to the MG potting soil and transplanted the injured/damaged into that mix. We'll see how that goes. Here are some pics:
Datil seedlings
Mixed(Unknown)
Camera Phone pics
Ghetto Setup
Scotch Bonnett
Butch T
I'll keep you all posted of any changes, good or bad. Hopefully good.
