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fertilizer What's the best fertilizer for peppers

All of the above are good to excellent, as long as you don't use them in excess. all plant no fruit. I like the fish emulsion; mix it weak and use every watering steady diet not gorge and starve once a week or so.

If you want production there is 2 very important steps, common knowledge to some, denuding and soil prep.

Denuding allows the energy to be put in plant growth at first and not to a few early stragglers. every time you pick a bud the branch splits 1,2,4,8,16

I denude my plants for 4 to 6 weeks (climate allowing) and then watch em go, as a general rule 6 to 12 fold maybe more.

Of coarse the easer the root go down the faster the plant grows, so make it deep and fluffy; leaves are an excellent source of humus, use a lot of um, they decay very quickly, till them in in fall and again in spring and watch out.

I use compost that was allowed to heat to a temp that kill the weed seed, you can see me using it here.link and the way that i use it there is no weeding! gota love that.

Sounds like you got a handle on it

Cheers, SC

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i use process chicken manure. anything else i have problem of fertilizer burns. fish emulation is also good.
 
All of the above are good to excellent, as long as you don't use them in excess. all plant no fruit. I like the fish emulsion; mix it weak and use every watering steady diet not gorge and starve once a week or so.

If you want production there is 2 very important steps, common knowledge to some, denuding and soil prep.

Denuding allows the energy to be put in plant growth at first and not to a few early stragglers. every time you pick a bud the branch splits 1,2,4,8,16

I denude my plants for 4 to 6 weeks (climate allowing) and then watch em go, as a general rule 6 to 12 fold maybe more.

Of coarse the easer the root go down the faster the plant grows, so make it deep and fluffy; leaves are an excellent source of humus, use a lot of um, they decay very quickly, till them in in fall and again in spring and watch out.

I use compost that was allowed to heat to a temp that kill the weed seed, you can see me using it here.link and the way that i use it there is no weeding! gota love that.

Sounds like you got a handle on it

Cheers, SC

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By denuding do you mean pinching the growing tip? When is a good time to start doing this? I didnt think that peppers responded well to topping. But it looks like it worked for you.
 
I never use the same fertilizer. Feel free to correct my logic here, but i find that gardens get used to the same one. I have a few different ones that I alternate with every few weeks.

Triple Boost
Yates Seaweed
Aquasol and a bit of sulfate of potash
Miracle Grow Tomato Boost

And a few handfuls of dynamic lifter pelets every now and then scattered over the bed.

Hardly any yellow leaves - all a nice deep green colour.


Your plants might be nice and big and gree, but with all that stuff in there oyu might not get much fruit. Remember peppers dont like nitrogen only in very small amounts. too much nitrogen and youl have a huge beutiful green bush with hardly and fruits on it. My advice would be to use nothing but an organic fertilizer such as fish emulsion or an organic miracle grow. the tomato fertilizer works well though as tomatoas are also nightshades. epsom salts provide a lot of the micros peppers need though. In fact you could not fertilize your peppersone bit and still have a bountiful harvest. the first year i ever grew them i just stuck them in the ground and they did fine, so the choice is yours but the benefits of a good fertilizer are defientely clear. Happy Growin!
 
This reminds me of the old debate (Whats the best oil for a Harley)


I thought that old debate was put to bed shortly after it started?

Q: Hey what's the best oil for a Harley?
A: Doesn't matter. It all leaks out so fast that it won't make a difference what you use!

:lol: just teasin.

Back on topic, I don't use much for chemical fertilizer anymore. I tried the tomato ferts the first year I grew plants, but by the time it came to harvest them, they all tasted like chemicals. The past few years I've been giving the seedlings two doses of a chemical root stimulator (10-52-10) to give them a good foundation. Then after they've been potted up out of the seedling cups, I switch over fish emulsion and another mixture of bat/rabbit shit/seaweed/whatever else is in the organic liquid fert I got. I also mix in 30ish-% worm castings with my soil so they get a good healthy shot of calcium and other nutes.
 
TomatoTone has everything peppers need to grow. If you look at the ingredients list on it, it contains pretty much everything that people talk about on these boards for pepper feeding - kind of an all-in-1 solution.

I use only TomatoTone and Neptune's Harvest fish+seaweed. The latter is great on other vegetables and greens, too.

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I got to speak to a fertilizer specialist today. Looks like I got it wrong. Chemical fertilizers like aquasol and miracle grow will eventually kill the micro organisms in the soil that are required for breaking down and releasing nutrients from the bio matter in the soil.

The seaweed and triple boost is good. But add gogo juice. It contains micro organisms and nutes to get things going again organically.


http://www.neutrog.com.au/gogo-juice-2/
 
A good friend of mine looked through the ingredients in Chilli Focus and said there were enzimes and organisms in it to help promote nutrient take up of the plant. Will post a pic of the ingredient list if its of any use for you guys?
 
Composts and manures should have loads of free beneficial microbes. Bokashi composting, or compost tea are other ways to introduce loads of beneficials cheaply
 
Composts and manures should have loads of free beneficial microbes. Bokashi composting, or compost tea are other ways to introduce loads of beneficials cheaply

COMPLETELY agree. I would add to this worm castings, maybe some bat guano, and TEAS. IMO a good compost mix and a good tea mix is all you need for a great soil grow.
 
I recall reading that the growers of the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion's at New Mexico State University Chile Pepper Institute that tested over 2 million scoville units said they used worm farm runoff, I would expect this would be worm castings.

Myself ? I am looking into rabbit fertilizer- in fact, I'm looking into getting some rabbits for this purpose !

"Here Bugs, have a third serving of your favorite leafy greens, I know, I know it's only breakfast".
 
100% Tea hear and my plants are beauties.
GLOG

Also, Teas double as a pesticide, fungicide, and myco booster. Total cost of fertilizers for this entire year will be ~15$ for a pale of worms.
Note I had the equipment already, but that should last a few years.

As for taste, it will be hard to beat the Brix of any veggie grown organically.
 
Generial Hydroponics-MaxiBloom 5-15-14

It has high levels of Ca,Mg,S.

It costs 8 cents to mix full strength per one gal of water. So it costs about 8 cents a tsp and is the only fertilizer you need for chillie production.

I have been using it half stength so 1/2 tsp per gal to fertilize this thai that is in a container no bigger then a pint. The plant has over 150 pods!!. :P


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