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madzx2's grow thread

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madzx2

i started about 75 seeds this morning. i did some jamaican red, thai dragon, tabasco, and some mixed seeds that i got from a buddy last year.
 
You will have more seeds to start in a couple days. :D :D :D Yep, we need pics, its a forum rule, germinated or sprouted, its all pepper porn!!!. LOL J/K
 
You have to open an account at an image hosting site like SS mentioned. Once you upload them there you can copy the img code and post pics here.
 
Derek-
You can link Facebook pics here- dunno if people without a Facebook account can see them or not, but if they can't see the linked pic, they can't see the pic at the link either :lol:

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today i picked up a reptile tank heating mat. its a ex0-terra brand mat. its 8x8 and its an 8 watt mat. it stays at about 87' F. i will post pics of it in a bit.
 
today i bought another mini greenhouse. its a 75 spot tray, with a 17 watt heating mat. i also picked up a 15 watt verilux instant sun with phophor3 bulb. its 6280k and cri is 94.5.
 
The ones in the big tray, I would leave alone and let them do their thing for awhile, they will grow nice root balls in that tray. The ones in the peat pucks, when you have 2 sets of true leaves, carefully snip the gauze off and put them into larger containers. I found that 9-10 ounce solo cups (the keg party cups) work great as pots til they are bigger.

Get some good potting soil with perilite in it and minimal garbage (twigs and bark and crap). Fill the cup halfway and put your peat puck that you freed from the gauze into it. Put a little more potting mix around and on top of the peat. You can plant them a little deep, upto the original sprout leaves. They will grow roots out the stem under the dirt.
 
I found last year that you can tear the mesh off the peat pellets. I started at the top and tour 1/2" strips down to the bottom once i made it the whole way around i simply grabbed all the strips and removed the bottom section. The roots i lost were very minimal and the plants seemed to take right off. Some of the roots even slipped through the mesh.

Good Luck!
 
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