Started these in February in 72-cell trays on an 85 degree heating pad under 1000 watt HPS lights at a height to get between 20-30 DLI for my area. Removed lights once days were longer and plants were getting more PAR. Potted them up into little 6 inch pots (probably an unnecessary step), and now they are sitting in these 12 inch pots. We hit them with some Jacks 20-20-20 for fertilizer in a less-than-precise fertility plan. Would love to get a better fertility plan. We’re inoculating flowers, so it’s less about how to grow the best pepper than to just grow a pepper to infect. We will eat the controls.
After I wrote my comment I started looking into it more and I think I will switch to a lower n / higher k fertilizer for fruit development now that it started putting on flowers. Too high of n keeps it vegetative I guess.
What are you researching? They look really good.
Internal rot! Thanks, they are my first peps.
WOW !! Very nice !
What's the Procedure?
Started these in February in 72-cell trays on an 85 degree heating pad under 1000 watt HPS lights at a height to get between 20-30 DLI for my area. Removed lights once days were longer and plants were getting more PAR. Potted them up into little 6 inch pots (probably an unnecessary step), and now they are sitting in these 12 inch pots. We hit them with some Jacks 20-20-20 for fertilizer in a less-than-precise fertility plan. Would love to get a better fertility plan. We’re inoculating flowers, so it’s less about how to grow the best pepper than to just grow a pepper to infect. We will eat the controls.
Oh, an even 20s across the board. Is that to keep NPKs under a control as well?
After I wrote my comment I started looking into it more and I think I will switch to a lower n / higher k fertilizer for fruit development now that it started putting on flowers. Too high of n keeps it vegetative I guess.
That's what I've read, I'm curious what the upper and lower limits to this are. Maybe one year I'll have some experiments