My pepper plants would also dry out so quickly in the greenhouse it was impossible to keep up with the watering. I built these self watering totes that are all hooked up to a 250 gallon stock tank that gets filled by my sump pump and now they are constantly wet and thriving!
I have not put any nutrient into the reservoirs since the soil has some and that seems to be fine for them. However one did have a cucumber at one point that died from obvious not enough food. It seems like it’s very easy to over fertilize pepper vs other plants like cucurbits.
I have never grown such luscious pepper plants and this was just a crazy experiment that kept me busy over the winter. 🤗
by -Astrobadger
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Wow. I love this. You should post a tutorial!
I’m doing something similar within totes, but I’ve debated the grow bag method like this. Are you using a wicking paracord to draw moisture into the growbag or just forcing the roots to drive down into the totes for water?
and you do it with success, very vigorous and lush plants !