Last year was my first year attempting to grow peppers and suffice it to say, I failed. Badly. My only plant that is still going is a White Hot Lime that is actually flowering now from the grow light I got.
This year, with the heat mat, tent and light, I’m feeling like it’ll be successful
Still learning some things. Watering seems to be something I need to be better at. Looking back I should not have started tomatoes and jalapenos in the same seed trays as chinense. They got a little leggy and I’ll probably need to start over on the tomatoes.
Seeds I planted for this year:
Jalapeno
Purple jalapeno
MOA Scotch Bonnet
Maldivian Lemon
Borg 9 purple red
Nazgûl cherry pie
Leviathan
Scotch brains
Caramel Primotalii
7 pot Primo
7 pot Brain strain
Thai Dragon
Aji Cochabamba
Apocalypse
by xanadu_2112
2 Comments
As soon as they germinate and emerge take off the dome and take them off the heat mat. Have them very close to the light and use an oscillating fan.
If you can use 9 pack seedling trays so you can keep each type on its own.
My tomatoes shot up quick and it would have been difficult if they were in the same tray as my Chocolate Habaneros.
Overall looking great. And you are right, you don’t wanna mix chinense (very slow) all other peppers (somewhat slow) and tomatoes (quite fast). Might be even a bit too early for tomatoes depending on your region. I start mine around 10 weeks before my last frost date.
I noticed some peppers in the back row appear to curl their leaves up which is a sign of stress. This might be an indicator for too intense lighting (can also be watering related). At this stage nothing to really worry about, but always keep an eye on plants that start to behave differently than expected.