I hear alot of people on the forum talking about foliar feeding. How often should it be done and is it a replacement for fertilising?
Foliar feeding is great in getting much needed nutrients directly to a plant. I'd be using a combination of both, foliar feeding and soil drenching, as an overall fertiliser program for your plants.
Herre is my purple bhut seedlings,yours look fine. Purple varieties do look different.Kruizin check if there are mites under those leaves. Hard to see them. looks like there could be possible leaf deformity?
I mix up the foliar feed with neem - feed the plants & kill the bugs in one go. About every 3 - 4 weeks keeps them happy
Really?looking good pablo. Don't let them dry out too much at this stage - they'll be doing a lot of root growing & should be kept damp for that (also why they appear to stop growing in stages)I only start to let them dry out once they start putting out little flower nodes.
You've got some worthy varieties in that 3rd set
Really?
I was told overwatering was the most common way to kill them, and damping off etc. When the first lot went yellow I thought I was over watering them so kept them pretty dry and thought I was doing the right thing.
I have lost a few of the early seedlings, but I didn't know if it was from lack of water, or over watering or damping off.
Latest seedlings though have some vermiculite in it to keep the moisture better for them, as I deliberately used a coarser potting mix to try something different as well.
Apparently overwatering and underwatering symptons are very similar.Really?
I was told overwatering was the most common way to kill them, and damping off etc. When the first lot went yellow I thought I was over watering them so kept them pretty dry and thought I was doing the right thing.
I have lost a few of the early seedlings, but I didn't know if it was from lack of water, or over watering or damping off.
Latest seedlings though have some vermiculite in it to keep the moisture better for them, as I deliberately used a coarser potting mix to try something different as well.
My bought NOTs, (not 7 pot, not naga, not scorpians - just habaneros) over the summer had huge leaves too.I'm yet to discover the trick to getting those big fat healthy leaves that everyone seems to get on their chinenses.
Kruzin those plants look like they've been in a punchup! If its not an bug or disease they are probably neglected seedlings, started late last season and left alone somewhere to overwinter. I think if you keep them warm and treat them right they should bouce back.
Candice do you always get that much algae on your jiffy pellets! I hope it doesn't cause any problems.
MiLK_MaN good luck with your grow. I remember you got a good forest going last season. The plants under the leds look healthy. I'm yet to discover the trick to getting those big fat healthy leaves that everyone seems to get on their chinenses.
Yeah its a balancing act between the amount of watering & the drainablity of the soil
what only 23cm? maybe 2.3 m??Neils TS plants get up to 230mm long! Pretty darned big!!