Grow log by Shawn · Original thread
What you can learnA strong mixed-result pepper diary documenting mystery phenotypes, spacing, airflow, reservoir discolouration, emergency maintenance, staged plant loss, and taste comparison.
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Nice Orange Color
They look beautiful. Maybe try stuffed mini peppers?
Yum!
These are TOO small to stuff. I should be able to pick a few tomorrow. I will post a picture of the,.
K, I'll look for that picture! They do sound yummy!
I unplugged and stopped the pump on this one. I am also keeping lights off. This is terminated.Tomorrow I will remove and clean this side so I can replant new crops on Sunday.Stay Tuned
Looking forward to the new mystery crop.
That pepper plant does look great. Beautiful even. Keeping good thoughts!
Fingers crossed for the remaining plant.
The yellow water is a mystery to me. Hope someone else can explain it! I hate it when a pepper is just okay. That happened with my last pepper grow
I do not think any of my peppers are going to make it. Why? Well maybe too much nutes or mooch. With a combination of temp fluctuations. We have had the door open and while there is no direct breeze the temps have been hot or cold in my house (for several reasons)... I will know more tomorrow. The worst thing is that I need to start fresh with all new peppers. That is not a bad thing because I love starting new.
20ml nutes and mooch
One of the three plants (the one will red peppers) has wilting leaves. THe others in the same bowl are fine. Any idea what is wrong? (mike) The water is fine, nutes were the same as was mooch. Water change is due next feeding so it is not over saturated.
Oh dear! Keeping fingers & paws crossed for your pepper plant!
I had 4 red peppers on the dying plant. So I removed those and cut all the stems with no peppers and all the leaves off hoping to get those last peppers ripened. The other two plants are doing well. These are Petite for sure. Like the picture you can hold several in your hands I will get a picture
They all look so healthy! Yes, the top one is definitely a different variety. Not only is the fruit growing down, but the leaves are different. It will be interesting to see the differences in color and taste of the peppers.
It looks GREAT!
Added 20ml nutes and mooch
So I did a little digging into the plant leaves and found that some are growing downward and on another plant upward. So at least I think I have two different varieties. I need to look into the third a little more.
Makes me wish I had a Farm!
Yay!!! It looks like it will produce lots of peppers, too!
My three plants are doing really well. I spaced them out some more using one space from the other side of the Farm (with the removal of a plant from there). They have more air circulation and room to grow now.
I swear since the last pictures these had a growth spurt, that or I never realized the lights needed to be raised. They are all full of buds. I need to get in there and check more to see if there are peppers on any yet. I did go in and remove some more large leaves as it is very dense. While I know you can plant three pepper plants I think if I select plants that are taller then 20" I will only plant two. Just for the air flow itself. I will get some pictures later in the day.
Tons of buds and flowers about to open on all. Fed Mooch this morning
The peppers are looking good!
20 ml of nutes added. I did not add mooch yet as I need to more the herbs somewhere.
Shawn, since I use RO water I add CaliMagic to all of my gardens at the 5ml per gallon recommended rate at initial filling and about 1/3 that rate for replacement water. My herbs and greens seem to love it. I doubt that your herbs would mind being lightly Mooched (it is the same as CaliMagic isn’t it).
I have discovered that Cal-Mag prevents tipburn in lettuce, too That was a huge problem for my Kratky lettuce before I started using it. I also add a small amount to herbs. It seems to make them stronger and healthier.
I have some mini red peppers I'm thinking about planting soon. This is exciting to see. Hope you get a bunch of different colors!
They look fantastic, Shawn! That's my kind of pepper!
So cute! So colorful ! And I imagine so crispy and juicy as well!
I see life in all three. Now I just watch that they germinate and go above the label. After that I have to hope I get three different varieties.
Two of the three are above the label. One of the pods has two seedlings with one of them having the casing attached. I put a few drops of water on it. The third has not come out of the pod yet.
All three pods are now up above the label!
Yay! Now the fun part begins!
I added just 10ml of nutes to the bowl. Pepper leaves are looking a tad yellow. I probably should add the entire amount but was unsure. If that does not help I will add some more.