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OKGrowin- Newbie 5 gal pepper journey - Fin

finished nov 10 2014, last post
 
Hey i'm new here and my 2nd year growing peppers.
 
Grow list:
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Soilmix:
5-1-1
pine bark fines
perlite
coco or peat
+
dolomite lime
 
Fertilizer:
Dynagrow 9-3-6 Foliage pro
 
Indoor light (until they can go outside in april):
Sun system T5 4ft 8lamp
 
Containers:
1. solo cups
2. Viagrow 5gal bags
 
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Step 1 - Germination:
Got my seeds all in so i decided to soak them in some tea for an hour and now they are in ziploc bags
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But they look great!
 
They are adjusting and will reward you very soon!
 
9gal bags should do you well. I went a bit overboard with 20's, only because they're heavy and take so much too fill!
 
Keep doing what you're doing!
 
they seem to be doing ok in my light.
 
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these are the rest of em finally popped.. They are variety yaki brown(free seeds from buckeye), going to put them all under the LED for testing.
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The ones i left in solo cups are doing just as well as the ones in the 5 gal containers at the moment lol..
 
When i get my drip setup installed with a fertilizer injector in the next couple weeks i'm sure the 5 gallon plants will take off.
 
 
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I gave them about half a gallon of full strength fert water, they greened up nicely 2 days later. Leads me to believe the obvious, my mix has little nutrients,. Of course that was obvious when i was making it just have been too lazy to mix lots of fert water by hand until i get my fert injector setup.
 
 
my helper was watering / taking the pictures, i was digging up shrubs in a flower bed near her lol.
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all my superhots have yet to flower, they take longer so i understand, sux waiting though lol
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This guy has a 4 inch cayenne in may already lol
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oh i removed most of the "bigger" peppers(about the size of a quarter) off the plants so they wouldn't waste too much energy on them.
 
Minibells, then last one with grooves i think is a habenero maybe choc?
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Looking good OK, drip irrigation IS THE way to go.
 
I wish I could use it here, the minerals from the well foul the emitters. Same thang with a soaker hose, it just turns into a hose ;)
 
So ditches it is...
 
well you know people are always saying remove the peppers while the plants are still growing... it makes me feel bad i'll have to wait longerrrr
 
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so my bigger plants weren't doing good because the siphon mixer wasn't working so they haven't recieved ferts in my nuteless soilmix for like 3 weeks.... ooops lol
 
I got a more professional water powered piston mixer in the mail ($$). Hopefully my plants bounce back soon.
 
Those plants should attract buyers with the pods on them, good luck!
 
Heck, why wait mix some nutes and hand water ;)
 
Devv said:
Those plants should attract buyers with the pods on them, good luck!
 
Heck, why wait mix some nutes and hand water ;)
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oh yeah i did, siphon mixer works when using the hose with no attachments(non restrictive unlike the drippers) so i just used all the fert i had mixed up for it and dumped it on the plants. 
 
I ordered cal mag but USPS lost it in the mail, so submitted a claim and am waiting on that.
 
My small plants are all falling over with 20-30 mph winds for the rest of the week lol
 
so moved the rows back to back to save some space, also laid them on the black row cover stuff so that grass etc doesn't grow up in there. (i even have more space for another row, hehehe)..
 
You can see i  put my smaller plants in between the 5 gal bags, really shields them from the wind lol..
 
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