Day 101
UPDATE#7
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Update #7
I will be ending this once the pepper turns red or falls off the plant, whichever happens first.
GrowLog
SuccessfulBob's Pickling Pepper in a Kratky Flower Vase
Grow log by ERR0R1755 · Original thread
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View recapCrop🌶️Pepper
VarietyBob's Pickling Pepper
MethodKratky hydroponics
Equipmentflower vase, net cup
Plants1
AudienceExperimental
What you can learnA small-container Kratky pepper trial showing long-term refill demand, resilience under neglect, and the limited yield of a minimally managed plant.
Actions:1 Transplant1 Nutrients
Useful practices
- repurposing a flower vase as a Kratky container
- placing the plant off-centre in the net cup to observe root growth
- refilling the vase to approximately half full
- allowing the single pepper to ripen fully on the plant
Problems encountered
- the plant was repeatedly neglected
- the vase required more than a dozen refills
- the plant was barely alive when the pepper finally ripened
*The days were calculated automatically and approximately.
Conversation
L
You haven't refilled the vase at all? If you were to refill it, what would the nutrient level be? Halfway? One-Third? One-Quarter?
E
I think I have refilled it more than a dozen times by now, always to the half-way point. If you grow a full-size pepper plant, from what I've heard it will use between 10 to 20 gallons of nutrient solution (depending on your environment and the variety you grow).
E
The pepper did turn red on the plant, although it was barely alive. I'll consider this a success since I got one pepper, but I would need to keep a better eye on it in the future if I did this again.
Day 80
UPDATE#6
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Update #6
It's been a while, but this plant is still alive (though neglected):
Day 31
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Flowers are starting to come in, even with how short the plant is:
Day 25
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Day 20
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Day 11
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Day 1
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Actions taken
TransplantMoved a Bob's Pickling Pepper seedling into a flower-vase Kratky container.
NutrientsFilled the vase with AeroGarden nutrient solution mixed at six millilitres per gallon.
I moved a seedling into a flower vase today - the seeds came from the last time I grew this pepper. I filled the vase with nutrient solution (6ml AG per gallon) but I have no idea how much this vase holds.I also decided to put the plant off to the side of the net cup rather than the middle - I am curious to see how that affects the root growth.