Trent's 2015 Grow Log (potting soil probs solved!)

PaulG · Mar 20, 2015

Nice artwork, Trent!

How's the CGN22091 doing? Sometimes when I get one that looks a
little weird I spray some cal=mag on it and it perks up.
Not always, but sometimes.

TrentL · Mar 20, 2015

PaulG said:
Nice artwork, Trent!

How's the CGN22091 doing? Sometimes when I get one that looks a
little weird I spray some cal=mag on it and it perks up.
Not always, but sometimes.

Thanks!

That CGN22091 has started greening up a bit. The tips of those first true leaves are still white, but the bodies have filled in green as it's grown. New leaves are coming in green, too.

Don't know why it freaked out like that when all of the others didn't.

It was definitely 100% starved of something; could have been nute locked from something in the starter peat, or maybe got a super dose of something from the potting soil when it was transplanted. (I can't remember now, if it started turning white before or after transplant.. I *think* it was immediately after)

PaulG · Mar 20, 2015

Good to hear it's coming around. Sometimes I guess they
just sort of catch a cold and have to get over it!

TrentL · Mar 20, 2015

Some pics, it's been a week. Trying to pick the same plants mostly, to track their growth.

7-pod Chaguanas.

7-pod Jonah

Bahamian Goat

CGN19198

CGN20812

CGN22091 (it's on the mend still)

Pimenta de Neyde

Star of Turkey

White Habanero

And a group shot;

tctenten · Mar 20, 2015

Plants look nice and healthy Trent.

TrentL · Mar 20, 2015

Yeah they're turning out pretty good.

Got 110 healthy pepper plants right now.

Thinking about putting another 20 or so annuums in the dirt tomorrow. They grow fast enough.. got time.

East Texas Heat · Mar 20, 2015

Nice sea of green you have growing there, best of luck this season

jcw10tc · Mar 20, 2015

TrentL said:
Yeah they're turning out pretty good.

Got 110 healthy pepper plants right now.

Thinking about putting another 20 or so annuums in the dirt tomorrow. They grow fast enough.. got time.

Only 110 this year. You need to double that. If mine all go well with no more losses going to have probably 100 spares to find homes for. I tried not to start too many extras, but ended up doing so anyway.

PaulG · Mar 21, 2015

The little 22091def looks better, Trent.

All the plants look great. Can see you've
taken good care of them!

D3monic · Mar 21, 2015

Looking good, Bolsa de dulce is one my largest plants atm. Now that I fixed the PH issue it's exploding... mostly up.

I had 4 white 7 pots pop out the dirt white/yellow as can be. They never did improve or grow more than the first true leaves. I had one out of all them that was green and actually grew so I just tossed the rest yesterday.

You're welcome to come shoot some of my rabbits. Fencing , dogs and my bb gun arent doing the trick. Mostly because the bbgun doesn't shoot the same direction twice.

Trident chilli · Mar 21, 2015

Fantastic photography really healthy plants I wish you all the best for this season

TrentL · Mar 22, 2015

East Texas Heat said:
Nice sea of green you have growing there, best of luck this season

Thanks! So far, so good. But still a lot can happen between now and harvest.

jcw10tc said:
Only 110 this year. You need to double that. If mine all go well with no more losses going to have probably 100 spares to find homes for. I tried not to start too many extras, but ended up doing so anyway.

Yeah I'm saving room for some watermelons and sweet corn this year.

PaulG said:
The little 22091def looks better, Trent.

All the plants look great. Can see you've
taken good care of them!

Well, I took care of them when transplanting, and I give them a couple tablespoons of water each week.

Other than that I just kind of leave them alone so they can do their thing!

D3monic said:
Looking good, Bolsa de dulce is one my largest plants atm. Now that I fixed the PH issue it's exploding... mostly up.

I had 4 white 7 pots pop out the dirt white/yellow as can be. They never did improve or grow more than the first true leaves. I had one out of all them that was green and actually grew so I just tossed the rest yesterday.

You're welcome to come shoot some of my rabbits. Fencing , dogs and my bb gun arent doing the trick. Mostly because the bbgun doesn't shoot the same direction twice.

That CGN 19198 is my tallest, by far. It's over 2x as high as any other pepper. Going to need to stake the damn thing soon.

(Need to get the reciprocating fan on them for a few hours each day, too!)

Trident chilli said:
Fantastic photography really healthy plants I wish you all the best for this season

Thanks!

Today's painting. This is my third painting (ever)

TrentL · Mar 22, 2015

Happy little treeeeeees....

PaulG · Mar 22, 2015

Trent, you def have some latent talent, brother.

No wonder your peppers look so good!

You're painting them :shh:

Your secret is safe with me :silenced:

TrentL · Mar 27, 2015

Well, one week watering intervals are a bit too long.

I had one pepper plant die, a miniscule Amish Bush.

The roots weren't deep enough for the plant to survive the soil drying that much.

All of the other plants are doing fine. Will do some more pics tomorrow.

Runescape · Mar 27, 2015

TrentL said:
Happy little treeeeeees....

Happy little clouds.*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLO7tCdBVrA

cypresshill1973 · Mar 27, 2015

Nice Trent!

TrentL · Mar 28, 2015

Well it's definitive.

That saturated bag of potting soil "cooked" the slow release fertilizers. I've got nute problems on my first two trays.

The trays on the far left were planted *first* and are 2 weeks older than the big bushy plants on the right.

The later transplants look perfect.

The earlier two trays of transplants... not so much.

They're stunted a little but I think they'll pull through OK.

^ that little dude is still 2x as tall as everything else.

D3monic · Mar 28, 2015

I'mmmm melllllltinggggg

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They should still pull through I think. If they have made it this far. Short of transplanting not sure what you could do about it.

TrentL · Mar 28, 2015

Well, I don't think it's fertilizer BURN.. I think that the slow release fertilizer was fully released (dissolved) on that old soil, and then washed out on my first couple of waterings. That would explain why the plants initially showed signs of nitrogen burn (one showed SEVERE nitrogen burn), but then they cleared up, then went the opposite direction and went pale and twisted!

The symptoms of a stunted pale plant with twisted gnarly leaves that curl up along the fringes point to potassium, phosphorous, and nitrogen deficiencies.

I'm going to test the soil from one of the pots, with my kit tomorrow, then figure out if I need to fertilize. I'm going to have to repot two plants to get enough soil for the test - I don't want to use what's left in that bag, as it'd give me a false reading, I need to see what is actually IN the pots as they sit (having been watered for 3 weeks... it could be drastically different)

If the soil shows deficient in all of the NPK tests, the fix is quick and easy - fertilize the little shits!

I'll also get to see what the roots look like. I'd suspect strong root development if they had high NPK initially; if so, they should perk up real fast.