Saphiras very late Glog for 2023

Hey,

i was sometimes thinking to open a glog to aks my questions there.
I wasnt sure if I use my actually chili plants for completely indoor for a few years or just for these year.

I am nearly sure that I dont plan atm to have chilis much longer than one year because I want to be a few weeks or even month to an other place.

Here are my chilis atm.



I think they are looking much better than a few weeks ago.

But my fan is to load, makes also to much wind and is to cold for the tent.

I dont like the sound of my USB-fan.
It is much quieter than my big fan but it has a very uncomfortable frequency.

Does someone has a cheap alternative?
My tent has round about 15°C and I wonder why my chilis still looks so beautiful.

They dont have much light and its very cold in the tent but I think that they are still growing?


Greeting Saphira

 

[Saphira]

Hey,

I dont know what is wrong with my peppers.

Did they have to much light?

 

[Saphira]

Maybe it was also too much neem?
But the insects are not anymore there.

 

[Saphira]

Hey,

does anybody know whats wrong with my chilis?
I first thought that they have to much light (LED) and was dimming yesterday the LED but I am not sure if they are wanting fertilizer?

They are round about 4 weeks in these earth now.



2 very very very little strange ones:



And one which really doesn't look good. These one I was also removing out from the tent and was placing it in the living room.




Thanks
Greeting Saphira

 

[CaneDog]

Bummer that you're continuing to have troubles, @Saphira. It's hard to figure out what's going wrong. What is your lighting setup in terms of fixtures, bulbs, and distance from the plants?

Browning at the tips and edges typically means burn, whether nutrient or light/heat. The littlest sprout looks more like light burn than nute burn to me. Too much Neem oil can smother the stomata impacting transpiration and can burn the plant - new growth especially - and result in an oily sheen and leaf drop. I don't see the symptoms I would expect from a Neem overdose, but the effect of a small overdose on leaf transpiration could certainly exacerbate another problem. Also, the plants looked similar before the Neem if I remember correctly, so it's probably not the main issue. If you're using tomato container soil mixed with some compost and no fertilizer yet, you shouldn't have a nutrient issue - and certainly not any significantly noticeable one.

It's possible the seeds had some contamination or some outside pest has gotten inside. I don't recognize any specific seed contamination or pest issue, but I surely don't know them all and what they look like in different conditions. Fungus gnats wouldn't cause this and they're the only insect that typically comes in with packaged soil. Unless there are plants in your house that have been outside and come back inside, other pest infestations seem unlikely.

I'd focus on light/heat and soil conditions. I still have some concerns about the perlite concentration and the general appearance of the soil as to whether the roots may have "breathing" issues, but I'm not sure that's the case.

I don't remember if you mentioned; are you planning to move these outside and, if so, will they go into containers or into the ground?

 

[Saphira]

Hmh maybe they are suddenly to hot?
Maybe its just a new problem?

I have the Mars Hydro TSL 2000 300W.


My hydro and temp tracker told me these







Also there was other plants (tomatoes and eggplants) in my tent.

I was growing them self but at the living room and there are a lots of other plants.


To be honest i am still unsure if i should keep them in the tent or should bring them outside. But if they come out I would have to plant them in pots.

The fabric pots can't really leak out at the bottom either, because I don't have anything to put the pots on and the water can only come out at the bottom.
Means that the pots are permanently wet underneath and maybe the soil is then also permanently wet?

 

[CaneDog]

I think if the bottom stays wet then the soil is staying too wet. When I use fabric bags they tend to dry on the bottom between waterings or at the least they dry to a point where they're only very slightly wet/damp toward the center. If the bottom is wet, water vapor should be rising to the root mass and the roots should be reaching down toward that deeper, damper soil. However, if the deeper soil is too wet, the roots rot toward the ends and won't develop properly so the root ball doesn't fill out the pot quickly/correctly. Another consideration is that if they're staying wet, that's probably raising the humidity and combined high heat and humidity can cause issues.

For me, fabric bags become easier to work with once the root ball fills out the container. Before that, they can present more challenges.