I picked up these seeds to give growing peppers a shot:
- Mini Meanie
- Piri Piri
- Aji Lemon
- Scotch Bonnet
All but the Scotch Bonnets were sown 15 Feb in a heated propagator, and I’ve recently potted up to 3” pots (some today) after seeing true leaves. I buried the stems a little as they had been reaching for light. I used some seaweed fertilizer via the bottom watering around 5 days ago.
I took them off the heated mat after germination and recently stuck a small fan and some foil wrap around them to move air and disperse light.
My questions are:
1) These little guys seem to be taking their sweet time growing and I’m wondering if there’s an issue with their environment? Or am I just being a little too impatient?
2) Are my lights just useless? I picked up these things from Amazon (budget, I know) and I’m concerned they aren’t getting enough PPFD/DLI. I’m waiting on a Lux Meter as I noted Chilli Chump suggests Lux can be used to measure, but I used an app to try read PPFD/DLI and this was measuring about 250/10 respectively when on full spectrum and full power around 1-2” from the light.
Link to lights: https://amzn.eu/d/9PuLK0h
by Professional_Run_973
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Have you given them any fertilizer? Some seed starting mixes have little to no nutrients and after the first true leaves it should be OK to fertilize at like 10-25% dilution. I guess with the up potting you should have nutrients around in that soil…
What’s your watering routine like? I was overwatering and started to get first leaves that were a bit too yellow. I dropped to bottom watering only, once per day, for 10 minutes before dumping the tray out. Everything I was growing seemed to bounce back quickly after that.
I started 3 weeks ago and mine are further along. Someone who is better experienced might know better than me. It’s my first year too.i won’t rule out the light, but those looked OK. I can’t tell how bright they look, but at 100% mine are pretty dang bright. Yours are very close. Mine are about 12 inches away.