Battle of the Brands - 10/9/18

[Shawn]

Yes, Peppers are not fast.  This is more of a long term project.

[Rialle]

Gave this an r&r. Added Nutes and mooch.



They have a lot of these hiding among the leaves.



A question: should I pinch off first flowers or leave them?

[Shawn]

I have never pinched off on Sweet Heats.  I am unsure if mike does.

[mike]

No, there's no need.I have never had a bad grow with these. I think they are the prettiest color, too.

[Rialle]

Ok. So. Lots of buds refusing to open. Maybe I’ll try the flora series.

[Shawn]

Dec 2, 2018 21:12:17 GMT -5 Rialle said:

Ok. So. Lots of buds refusing to open. Maybe I’ll try the flora series.

Burpee buds opened slower then Park I found.  Also shake the plant gently if need be.  I have never had a problem using the AG nutes and all my Sweet Heat plants.

[Rialle]

Finakly flowers.

These gave me an open flower per plant yesterday.

[Shawn]

They are all looking great and soon there will be peppers!

[Rialle]

Park had a ton of flowers today. The other two still had just one but Park has been a teensy but ahead the whole time.

Park is also the first to give me a present.

[Rialle]

Gave this an r&r, added Nutes and Mooch. Park has the most flowers and little baby peppers growing. Burpee and Reimer are tied at two apiece.

[Rialle]

They look similar but Park is still leading the way.

And next to it I have some seeds starting.

A friend got me some strawberry seeds. Testing this out. I have a bowl to move them to if they take off.

Also put in 6 star fruit seeds. If one of them takes off, hoping to pot it as a house plant. Should be interesting.



For the sake of convenience I’ll report on its progress in this thread.

I’m slowly getting this room how I want it. Set up will be changing a bit soon but this is how I have it so far. Found some nice bookshelves on amazon and no hardware assembly required. Just snapped in the shelves I wanted etc.

[Shawn]

Ahhh, to have a room just for AG's.  My next house.

[Rialle]

Eventually they will have to move, when we have kids, but for now they get to live in the spare bedroom.

[Rialle]

Park still in the lead.



Cleaned these up a lot. Can really see the peppers coming in. Can’t wait for them to turn red.

Great project and worth the wait

[Rialle]

Side update.

Several strawberry seeds germinated nicely. Got them all situated in the bowl of my new Bounty and, well, the light hood is apparently not working.

Emailed AG. But I don’t expect them to survive.

[Shawn]

They are looking nice.  You will love the color and the taste!

[MaryL]

That’s a great bookcase, I really like your setup👍