Been checking some timelapse videos, and many of them grow their peppers to flowering stage very fast. Usually 2-3 months with super tall bushy plants. I even saw a video that claims to have groen a habanero from seed to flowering in 30 days. Is this possible?
In the attached video, the carolina reaper started flowering after 74 days.
It takes my habanero plants about 5-6 months to flower. So I would love to know if there are any tricks to make them grow faster.
I grow indoors, using full spectrum lights, 14 hours automated, small fan to move the air, and water every 3-6 days. I have a problem with overwatering, and with overcaring usually. I have different type of fertilizers for different stages of growth. Overall, i would say they have good conditions, but still, my plants are not mature after 3 months.
Does the winter season have any thing to do with the growth speed?
Any advice is appreciated!
by white-lobsterz
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I grow indoors too, and built a little 1 plant enclosure this winter. Fully automated it. The project is all about efficiency and pushing the limits of what (i am capable of) is currently possible indoors in a small confined space. I started monitoring the CO2, and added a gas cylinder to adjust the concentration in the enclosure. Currently Im still collecting data, but at 700 PPM it already seems to be growing seriously faster. I highly suggest you look into the subject, there are excellent publications about rising CO2 PPM and plant production and growth speed.
In the video, they used something else.
I use this on all my plants & it works really well.
https://www.espoma.com/product/garden-tone/#toggle-id-2
They have various tones for other applications.
What size pots are you growing in? Most of these videos are in very small containers, which leads to fruiting a lot faster. I have a buena mulata in a beer can under suboptimal lighting, and I probably underfeed it, and I still got my first pepper about 60 days after it sprouted.
That video is mesmerizing.
https://preview.redd.it/p1a003f77vee1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ead1850ee675a062f8b60d1abf81838967920ca
How to make plants grow faster? Lots of light and fertilizer. Maybe smaller pots will have them fruiting faster too. My light is 100 watts from mars hydro. I was having problems watering cheap soil so i switched to pure coco coir. Works great. I use a complete hydroponic fertilizer, Maxibloom. I put strings inside the red cups that hang down into the nutrient water containers (wick watering). Its like kratky. The 2 smaller plants i started later and are slow growing aji charapita.