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These are four and a half months old.
Humidity about 40-60% temp daytime 75-85F night time 65-75F
Allowed to dry between watering. Misted daily. Currently feeding high phosphorous, calcium and magnesium.
They started under full spectrum cfl's... too be honest I dont recall much more about those. Then I baught this huge CFL grow light full spectrum 6500k 60W self ballasted.
You can see in the pictures that the lower half of the plants seems more compact. this is where they were under the old lights. They were slow growing. When I switched lights they took right off and the internodal spacing looks more natural too me now. They seem healthy and they are flowering like crazy for about three weeks now. The problem is no pollen and full flower drop. now they have a whole new set of flowers about to open.
The only thing I can think of is the fluctuations in temp and humidity... or perhaps its just a matter of sit back and watch. You can also see a little bit of burn on some leaves where I put them back under the lamp while still wet. The light is 24/7.

I hope this post works... I tried to resize the pics but its a work night and I ran out of time. Thanks for all the help and advice !


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If you are ready for flowers, you may want to switch to a bloom spectrum. Plants are iffy under full artificial light and some plants really do require a high percentage of bloom spectrum about 3000K to be able to produce viable flowers. Just what I have seen in the past. Some do great under full spectrum and others don't. Maybe go with a mixed spectrum. Somewhere around the 4300 kelvin mark. But that definitely may help out.
 
yep,lack of humidity usually is the culprit. i have a humidifier at the base of my plants but i am not ready to turn it on yet and will probably target March 1 to turn it on.
i have several blossoming but no pollen, so i just pinch the flowers.
good luck
 
the light should be on 24/7 they need time to rest my hydro ghost pepper is 3 years old and it is under 4 100 watt cfl's i keep the light on about 16hrs a day and they havent stoped producing peppers just my 2 cents
bricke
 
I forgot to mention these are also ghost peppers!
Interesting these are all good points. Im going to try a different spectrum and crank the humidity and set a night cycle for these plants. im wondering if this one bulb is putting out enough light for these plants as well or should I get a second bulb.
The room is white and theres a small window just above bringing in some natural light but not much.
The tray below is full of water to keep the humidity up but I suspect it does get to dry still.
Amy thoughts on the general health of these plants. or do they look ok ?
 
The plants don't look bad but definitely need a night cycle put in. Just noticed you said light was 24/7. In hydro setups we run light 24/7 through germination and then for first 2-3 weeks after germination, We then switch to a 18 hours on 6 hours off schedule during vegetative growth and then I go to 12-13 hours on and 12-11 hours off during bloom. That is industry standard I think.
 
They should be twice that size by this time. I would move the light a little farther away from the plants along with giving them a night cycle.
 
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