[organicgreen0]

Everyone's peppers are looking great!

I have scoured the internet for detailed nutrient requirements for peppers but have not found much other than high N and P. So i've decided to use similar methods as cannabis.

My soil mix is OBBT proportions because once the seedlings are big enough to transplant they are going into OBBTs.

~50% Happy Frog
~25% Coco coir (rinsed 3 times and treated with Calmg+ and lemon juice in the 3rd rinse)
~12.5% Perlite
~12.5% Vermiculite

For nutes i pre-mixed in (per 5 gallons soil)
1 cup blood meal
1 cup high P bat guano
2 cup biotone starter plus
1 tbs epson salt
2 tbs lime

I have been watering with carbon filtered tap water with the PH taken down with some lemon juice, i have slightly alkaline tap water (8ish). Then about every 4th water ill add some calmg+ and liquid kelp following the label for amounts. The last time i did that they really seemed to have a growth spurt. They also are very sensitive to over watering. I will wait till they are so dry looking that i am scared to wait another day, then wait that extra day to water and they really like it.

Right now I have the seedlings under two 26w 6500K PL-c bulbs. I was planning on putting them under 4 26w 2700k PL-c when i transplant them into the OBBT buckets but i recently read that peppers preferred the blue end of the spectrum. I don't know how true this is so i might experiment a little.


Any thoughts on light requirements?

[guest2012y]

Nice thread! I picked up some run-of-the mill Habanero and Jalapeno starts today.
Good stuff!

[BoomBoom]

Originally Posted by Capt.Cheeze1

Nice thread! I picked up some run-of-the mill Habanero and Jalapeno starts today.
Good stuff!

Have you done before or did we inspire you?!

[mriko]

Forget Bhut Jolokia, now the strongest chilli pepper in the world is from...Grantham in UK ! it's called the Infinity and was measured at 1,067,286 (Bhut J is 1,041,427).

Irie !

[guest2012y]

Originally Posted by BoomBoom

Have you done before or did we inspire you?!

Hi,my name is CC1 and I have a problem with hot peppers.

I use them on almost everything,and it is anything I can get. Mostly what's available for the quick fix.
Once in a while at the Farmers Market I'll find a cool variety.

The little red Thai peppers are handy....they work well for me because I can just pluck a few when you need to without cutting a larger pepper.
Not putting a lot of time in the garden this year as far as peppers go....BIZZY doing herb stuff.

[Moonshine*]

Much praise for growing those super hot types!!!

I dabble in growing a few peppers every year.

No crazy hot ones like the nagas or bhut.

This year in the garden:

Caribbean Red
Cherry Bomb
Kung Pao
Red Cayenne
Sandia
Santa Fe Grande
Gypsy
Purple Beauty

[Herbal extasy]

Naga morich (Bhut J?) is powerful, but the taste is too floral. Too overpowering. Aji Cristal is one of my favourite. Good taste and medium to strong potency. All around chili. Lemon drop is other good, not as hot as Aji, but perhaps better taste.

[AOS]

Yeah! Peppers are awesome. I cant wait until I get a proper green house.

[TeamZissou]

great plants guys

[Alex-F]

We're doing our first run of chilis this year aswell. Here's what's on balkony:


Bhut Jolokia
Cajamarca
Conquistadore
Yellow Cherry
Hot Lemon
Peter Pepper
Round of Hungary
Serrano

Some of them got a sun burn last weekend as it was the first "real" sunny day we had so far. They'll recover though.