"Severe need for bonemeal, needed by pepper plants. Leaves should be flat between the veins. When these plants were fertilized, within a week, they grew another foot and the leaves flattened out."
People attribute plant growth to all kinds of things, including playing music for them and talking to them.
As far as Eco seeds goes, apparently they are a reputable company to order seeds from, but if you read that site a lot of the growing information is a little whacky and off the wall. I would not by any means consider them a reputable authority on horticulture. Some examples from their pepper growing guide...
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER ever use peat pots, peat pellets, or potting soil that is mostly peat.
Everyone always asks "Why??" ---We don't know---It may be that the peat is too acidic, or that there is something in peat that inhibits pepper seed germination.
NEVER EVER EVER germinate seeds in peat based potting mixes? How many people here germinate hundreds of seeds at 85%+ germinate rates every single year in Pro-Mix? I've germinated seeds in at least 4 or 5 different peat based potting mixes and never had any problems with any of them.
HOT PEPPERS always take a lot longer, a minimum of 15 days
A "minimum?" Maybe an
average of 15 days, but definitely not minimum.
--Habaneros always take a minimum of 18-25 days.
--Bhut Jolokia, take a minimum of 20-30 days.
I've had habaneros and bhut jolokias pop in 6 days. This year I had quite a few chocolate bhut jolokias up in 6-7 days.
FERTILIZERS: Watering pepper seeds with a fertilizer solution, helps speed seed germination, by breaking a natural dormancy that is naturally in some pepper seeds.
All the the energy needed to germinate is in the cotyledons. Fertilizer has no effect on germinating times or breaking dormancy. They recommend germinating in MG Orchid Mix or Miracle Grow organic, both of which already contain quite a bit of fertilizer (and the latter of which is an awful potting mix), and then adding 1 tablespoon/gallon of Miracle Grow fertilizer on top of that, before the seeds are even sprouted. At best all that fertilizer will not help, and is likely to cause problems.
YOUR PLANT MAKES FLOWERS BUT NO FRUIT?Most hot peppers and some sweet peppers require insect pollination to form fruit
Pepper plants are self fertile, they do NOT require insects for pollination.
This is the same company that claims that the tepin is the hottest pepper in the world.
"The benefits to the plants will not be immediate, but the nutrients from slow-release
organicfertilizers like bonemeal are released little by little over time and are constantly available for your fast-growing vegetable plants.
[background=rgb(255, 255, 255)]Read more:
Can Bonemeal Be Used As a Vegetable Fertilizer? | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/...l#ixzz1vNGxYfao"[/background]
The same article, the sentence before that says: "The nutrients present in bonemeal are insoluble in water. They must be converted into a form that plants can use by the microorganisms in the soil. This takes time."
[background=rgb(255, 255, 255)]So, based on the fact that bonemeal (unless it is a liquid version) is a slow release fertilizer, how does the plant turn around in a week after being fed by a slow release fert?[/background]
The plant looked fine to begin with, and it seems to be something that plants grow out of anyway (see habaneroheat81's post). I get chinenses with bumpy leaves from time to time and it never hurts growth or production or really causes in any problems. It generally goes away on it's own if I don't give the plant anything for a while, which is what makes me thinks it's excess nitrogen combined with genetics. It happens a lot less frequently now vs. in the past when I was an OCD newbie thinking I had to constantly give plants this and that.to get them to grow well.
