This is my first attempt at growing hot peppers. Pictured here are Carolina reapers, Trinidad scorpions, ufos, and moritas. (With one jalapeño)
My success rate has been abysmal. Out of 100ish seeds, about half didn’t even germinate. Of the ones that did germinate, about half of those didn’t survive being transplanted. I’ve learned so many lessons from my failures though and I am confident that my next batch will be much more successful.
I started in January with small cells using a miracle grow seed starting mix. I transplanted from there into these cups of happy frog amended with worm castings. The soil compacted quite a bit on some of these and I’ve had to add more. All I had was ocean Forrest so some of them have that on top while others don’t.
I let the soil do its thing for several weeks and have recently started fertilizing with the fox farms trio and cal-mag after I noticed a lot of yellowing and all around sadness. I was bottom watering but recently switched back to top watering and noticed a massive improvement. Not sure why that would be.
The last picture is a Morita and it’s looking kind of sad and I’m not sure how to fix it.
These will be transplanted into a final home of 5 gallon pots. They will be kept in an indoor greenhouse and never outside. When do I transplant them into the large pots?
Any overall advice?
by Juikuen
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You should be giving the advice here, way to go. These look beautiful. Seems like you did your homework.
No expert but at least give them time in their new cup/pots before replanting them and risk stress.
Hope someone can further assist. Good luck!
They look great, mate! I transferred my reapers at this stage…. And the same as you, I am trying to keep what I can indoors only. Best of luck! Happy growing! 🌱
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What in everyone’s opinion is the best soil to transplant seedlings into when up potting?
Those look amazing! Well done.
Your plants look great!
Your last pic of the sad Morita looks to me like it’s getting a bit too much light. If you’re not moving your plants around, you might want to try putting it a bit more on the outer edge of your grow light. Or raising the lights could make your plants taller and less compact.
For up potting, the benefit using clear cups is you can see when your roots need more room, so I’d let them go until you see signs of them getting close to root binding.
Just my 2¢, I’m no expert, but I’ve seen plenty of people at least pretending to be on youtube 🙃
the last photo looks like its got powdery mildew on the leaves, if it is the others will too. I would invest in a fan to help circulate air around them to avoid stagnant air and PM