Hello everyone.. This is my first year growing peppers. I'm growing them in soil from a local greenhouse inside in a grow tent under a powerful light. (Lights on temp hoovers around 83, lights off temp around 65) I understand that a schedule for watering/feeding is a delicate balance and requires time to get right, I just have a few questions to help point me in the right direction...
My plants background:
Serranos and Scotch Bonnets. Started them in a root shooter, then to small 3.5" pots, and now they're in 5.5" pots. I think that i left them in the 3.5" pots too long as they were quite root bound when i moved them up. They seem to be growing quite well for the most part, lots of growth and leaves, I have tons of buds on the various plants and a few flowers have popped out. But I've got some problems...
Initially i was seeing some white dots on the under side of the leaves... I posted here and the general consensus was Edema due to overwatering. At the time i was watering thoroughly every other day, but the soil seemed to be dry when i went to water again... i stuck my finger in the side of the pot and it felt dry. I freaked and spaced out my waterings too far and had a lot of wilting and even lost a few plants. When i moved the plants to the 5.5" pots, I gave them all a serious trim. I took off all the leaves that had the white dots and some of the more wilted and or dead leaves.. The plants all seemed to bounce back pretty well. I'm trying to space out waterings to roughly 2 and a half days, and i do start to see some wilt by the time I water, but I'm still seeing the dots. Add to this, I'm seeing some yellowing along the veins of some of the larger leaves. See pictures below.
My fertilizer:
I'm using biothrive by general organics... it's 4-3-3. The label gives a recipe of a light feeding of 2t/gallon or a heavy feeding of 4t/gallon. I'm currently at 3t/gallon and I feed them every time I water.
My questions:
As I understand it, yellowing normally means some sort of deficency... I see some other fertilizers at the hydro store that have much higher numbers... since I'm growing indoors and can't count on the soil web, etc. should i be upping the strength of my feedings? Or maybe switch to a different product?
Should i water one time and then the next time heavy feed? Or is it ok to feed every time?
As always, thanks in advance for any help!
Pictures:
All the plants:
The yellowing i'm seeing:
My plants background:
Serranos and Scotch Bonnets. Started them in a root shooter, then to small 3.5" pots, and now they're in 5.5" pots. I think that i left them in the 3.5" pots too long as they were quite root bound when i moved them up. They seem to be growing quite well for the most part, lots of growth and leaves, I have tons of buds on the various plants and a few flowers have popped out. But I've got some problems...
Initially i was seeing some white dots on the under side of the leaves... I posted here and the general consensus was Edema due to overwatering. At the time i was watering thoroughly every other day, but the soil seemed to be dry when i went to water again... i stuck my finger in the side of the pot and it felt dry. I freaked and spaced out my waterings too far and had a lot of wilting and even lost a few plants. When i moved the plants to the 5.5" pots, I gave them all a serious trim. I took off all the leaves that had the white dots and some of the more wilted and or dead leaves.. The plants all seemed to bounce back pretty well. I'm trying to space out waterings to roughly 2 and a half days, and i do start to see some wilt by the time I water, but I'm still seeing the dots. Add to this, I'm seeing some yellowing along the veins of some of the larger leaves. See pictures below.
My fertilizer:
I'm using biothrive by general organics... it's 4-3-3. The label gives a recipe of a light feeding of 2t/gallon or a heavy feeding of 4t/gallon. I'm currently at 3t/gallon and I feed them every time I water.
My questions:
As I understand it, yellowing normally means some sort of deficency... I see some other fertilizers at the hydro store that have much higher numbers... since I'm growing indoors and can't count on the soil web, etc. should i be upping the strength of my feedings? Or maybe switch to a different product?
Should i water one time and then the next time heavy feed? Or is it ok to feed every time?
As always, thanks in advance for any help!
Pictures:
All the plants:
The yellowing i'm seeing: