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the need for feed

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Mojappa

Just brought my plants in for the winter. I have 4 that i'm trying to keep fruiting if possible. i have what i've been told should be sufficient lighting for my wants, I'm just not sure on feeding them. Up til now they've been in pots/bags outdoors with a couple feedings of fertilizer spread out. I was going to mix more fresh dirt with some more fertilizer and top off the pots/bags, but am curious about other things they might need since they are inside now. I'm not going for record pepper production, just wanna keep getting ripe peppers. Is there something i should be mixing into my water that will help them along? 
 
FWIW i currently am doing 12/12 with my light. i read that 18/6 is good but i was afraid that since they didn't get full sun when they were outside that it might shock them to suddenly give them that much light. If this logic is flawed please let me know. I am just trying to figure all this out as i go, don't have a loot invested so far so if they dont make it through the winter it wont be tragic.
 
this depends on your medium (soilmix) and what fertilizer you are using.
 
If you have all the nutrients available in your mix there is no reason to add extra ferts.
if you are doing a mix without any nutrients you need to provide all nutrients using a complete nutrient solution.
then there is the in between where you don't know exactly what you need (hard for anyone to debug this)
 
There is no extra or different nutrients between indoor and outdoor growing. so if your plants are doing good outside then keep up with that fertilization.
 
it is pretty hard to shock with light from indoors. Any artificial light doesn't come close to the UV / intensity as full sun.
light shock is usually from intensity or heat not from length.
 
thanks. I'll just keep doing what i was doing then. might up my light hours, maybe 16/8, gonna need a timer for that probably.
 
 
juanitos said:
 
There is no extra or different nutrients between indoor and outdoor growing. so if your plants are doing good outside then keep up with that fertilization.
 
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This. Also keep in mind that the pots will take longer to dry out indoors during the winter than they did outdoors during the growing season. So it is much easier to accidentally overwater them, which can lead to root rot, fungus gnat infestations, and other problems that you don't want.
 
Also, I would recommend replacing the growing medium entirely and spraying the plants down with Neem or something before bringing them indoors, to help prevent bringing pests inside. Pest infestations on indoor plants can spread quickly due to the lack of natural predators to help control them.
 
BlackFatalii said:
 
This. Also keep in mind that the pots will take longer to dry out indoors during the winter than they did outdoors during the growing season. So it is much easier to accidentally overwater them, which can lead to root rot, fungus gnat infestations, and other problems that you don't want.
 
Also, I would recommend replacing the growing medium entirely and spraying the plants down with Neem or something before bringing them indoors, to help prevent bringing pests inside. Pest infestations on indoor plants can spread quickly due to the lack of natural predators to help control them.
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seeing as how i've already moved them and kept them in the pots they were in, dirt and all. Can i spray them with Neem now or is it too late for that?
 
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