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New Grower this year

My Dad had a pepper I really enjoyed so I decided to grow my own. I'm not a total newbie but I need help. The pepper is a mild pepper named Aji Dolce with that wonderful habanero flavor without the burn. I like hot peppers but my wife does not so we can cook with habanero flavor and I can add heat after the fact.

My seeds were started on January19 and a week later. I used jiffy peat pellets for the second batch and a hydroponic peat cube for the first batch. Seeds were soaked in saltpeter for 24 hours prior to planting.

Lighting is six T5 bulbs with daylight spectrum in mirror polished fixture about 16" above the table top. Light cycle is 18/6.

Up potted in 3" jiffy pots with Calloway's Black Gold natural and organic potting soil plus fertilizer. Soaked the plants in sea weed extract (two ounces per gallon) and potted. Watered in with reverse osmosis water as tap water here is chlorinated.

I'm sorry I wanted to upload pictures but Flickr is not cooperating. I'm using the iPad maybe that is the problem. I cant seem to copy and paste the URL.
 
You need to upload your pictures to a "picture host" first such as Tinypic, Image Shack, Post Image and etc.  From there you grab the direct picture link and add it to your post here.  
 
 
Welcome to THP. 
 
Welcome.  I use Imgur for image hosting.  I'm out of the seeds at the moment, but if you will remind me via PM around May to mail you some Trinidad Perfume seeds, mine should have podded up by then.  You can grow them late or start some next year.  They're pretty much exactly what you're after.  Solid habanero flavor with virtually zero heat.
 
over-watering is the enemy of all chili growers, killing them with kindness one plant at a time.  I always follow the rule dont water the plants until they start to droop, works for me.
 
 
 
Thank you for the replies! My first concern was lighting related, too much light or light burn. The plants are short and the leaves have a lot of purple and not as dark green as I expected. The light green/ yellowing seems to be overwatering, so does the amount of purple seem to indicate too much light? I have six T5 bulbs at 16". I don't feel heat with my hands but if I put my head under the light it feels pretty intense. Is the UV too strong?
 
My Grandad was from Weatherford, ended up settling in Seymour. I spent a good part of my youth out there. I sure miss Texas!  
Chewi said:
Can always use another Texas grower. Welcome from Weatherford!
 
 
SL3 said:
My Grandad was from Weatherford, ended up settling in Seymour. I spent a good part of my youth out there. I sure miss Texas!  
 
 

Damn small world saying is no joke! Looks like your Grandad just got on the Brazos and paddled upstream a bit!
 
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