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HotPeppersFlyFishing

HotPeppersFlyFishing

Ok got my seeds today.was happy with the transaction etc etc.Ok heres my question. They came with a growing tips and recommendation sheet and they say use Miracle Gro Seed Starting Material then when I transplant them use potting soil made for transplants and a slow release fertilizer mixed in. Then when I get them outside use RootBlast Tomato Alive or Vegetable Alive organic fertilizers. Follow these?? Dont follow? use some? dont use some? any help would be great
Tom
sorry I keep buggin the chit outta you all :lol:
 
I'd avoid the Miracle Gro Seed Starting Material and use a seed starting mix with little or no nutrients. The other fertilizers are good but use half strength of what they recommend.
 
I mirror with everyone else the biggest problem I had was planting them to deep and trying to find a warm spot to put them. I found thru the folks here top of cable box, it worked GREAT!!!! Grab that seed and let it fly in the dirt.
 
babies don't like fertilizer, their mommies packed them a lunch. where did you get your seeds that would give those instructions? i don't mind the slow release fertilizer in my potting mix when they're in their grown up pots, as long as the nitrogen is pretty low. it takes some control away but it also makes it easier for me if i have to leave for a couple weeks... mom's not good with the 'complicated' instructions, but she can handle watering.
 
Yep Fertilizer would just confuse them at this point.
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I've honestly never had any problems with any miracle gro soil, seed starting or not. I guess its really a matter of preference and price, whatever you prefer.
 
My point exactly.
Forget peat, coir, perlite, vermiculite, or anything with lite in the name.
The only fertz are the ones I add in with the water or a very little osmocote so far.
 
ABurningMouth said:
My point exactly.
Forget peat, coir, perlite, vermiculite, or anything with lite in the name.
The only fertz are the ones I add in with the water or a very little osmocote so far.
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That was 2 separate ideas/paragraphs, sorry for the confusion. My lines got switched around.
I know of course- those commercial soil constituents aren't things people add to make it more fertile. Just to make it wash away when it's watered, and to look, smell, and saturate, bad. I'm just saying that people should use 100% granular baked clay, that stays put and stays aerated, then add their own chemicals as needed.
 
HotPeppersFlyFishing said:
ARGHHHHHHHHHH!! Too Technical now Nitrogen Fertilizers soil types!! Cant I just get a pot a pile of dirt throw in seed water and just wait????? :lol:
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If you can find one, go for it!
 
Naked plants

No miraclegross here.
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Clockwise from left: Naga Morich and grapefruit, 2 flowering CAP1546, a younger CAP1546 with black lava chunks, a purple tiger cutting in the habanero gold bullet/jelly bean cup, and 2 locatos (c. pubescens) up front.
P.S. All my pics are under 200k. :!:
 
For shame, ABM! Have we taught you nothing? Never have two plants in the same container!

What's with the big grey thing in the picuter in the upper right?
 
imaguitargod said:
For shame, ABM! Have we taught you nothing? Never have two plants in the same container!

What's with the big grey thing in the picuter in the upper right?
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How about 9-15 seedlings in one then?
The big thing is my really strange looking reflector.
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from left: Black Hungarian, then Czech Black.
 
Still, you have more plants that a container can handle and their roots are going to fight each other and make the plants unhappy after a while.
 
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