I just picked this guy up from a local garden store. How is it bigger than my jalapeño in this pot?
by Majestic_Meeting8584
16 Comments
Undeadtech
I bet it’s root bound as well from the greenhouse
goosey814
Yes its in good shape to transplant into a gallon or two size pot now. I try to explain to people that pepper do better in smaller pots. They like to be next to root bound so they can shoot towards the sky!
Mr_Bluebird_VA
They fertilize REALLY heavy to get it that big.
Totalidiotfuq
fertilizer and water, multiple times a day. that’s how
Benguy83
Hard to compare growth rate without knowing when seeds were popped (assuming it isn’t a clone). Environment and genetics factor in heavily, plus commercial growers have got a system dialled in for this and in many cases it outperforms diy setups. Comparison is the thief of joy and fwiw, I think yours looks great!! Keep up the good work 👍
eatingscaresme
Fertilizer, fertilizer, fertilizer. I have friends who’s parents own a greenhouse and its the fertilizer. I use a miracle grow 20-20-20 water soluable at their recommendation, every 2 weeks or so since my plants were babies in March and they are just as big, if not bigger, than some I’ve seen commercially grown.
I learned last year though that once they start producing they need less nitrogen. If you start getting some really bushy plants and flowers dropping you’ve gone too far with the nitrogen.
toolsavvy
Fertilizer.
Also, those stones are not a good idea. I know you said in another post that they are to keep your dog from digging in the pots, but those stones are causing the soil to remain warm all the time since stone retains heat. The soil in pots already get really warm due to the pot being exposed to the sun all day (unlike in-ground garden soil where only the top of the soil is exposed to sun).
The only time I would say the stones may be a good idea is if your nights are still consistently under 55F, so the stones would help keep soil warmer assuming they are getting good sun during the day. So if that’s the case, disregard the above lol.
Washedurhairlately
If you add a full nutrient fertilizer at 50 ppm calculated for nitrogen with every watering, you can easily grow one in a Solo cup through fruiting. While waiting on bulk potting materials to arrive, I have plants that are approaching 2 ft tall in Solo cups and I have already begun using some for experimenting with crosses as they are flowering prolifically and I’m not concerned about the small container size for those experiments.
Mediocre_Anteater_56
Fertilizer, possibly a soluble fertilizer like what would be used in hydroponics. That stuff is like plant steroids. Also greenhouse. The nursery likely has their peppers in trays which keeps them fairly close together which will induce a bit of stretching. Yours look a tad more compact. They also could have started them earlier than you did
micheallujanthe2nd
Yes they use fertilizer byt most importantly they are in greenhouses and can be started earlier. I want a green house so bad, ive been trying to convince my dad to build one lol.
DinoTater
Yours look fine! Some take time!
Maybe you answered this already, but what’s up with the rocks on the soil?
ResponsibleSnowflake
VPD
BenicioDelWhoro
Yours look fine but as others have said, feed them. I’m currently experimenting with my organic seaweed feed to see how much is too much. The label recommends 25ml per 10l of water, I’m currently up to 60ml and the plants are lapping it up. That plant you’ve just bought should be used as an example answer for the perennial ‘should i pot it up’ question, when they are clearly that much bigger than the pot the answer is YES!!
Old-Version-9241
I did 72 in my living room on Amazon grow lights and wire shelves. Started the beginning of February fed every couple of weeks using cricket manure and grown very close together. All of them grew that size before planting out in similar size pots. They’re taking off and producing fruit. I’m in zone 5b
0-Sminky
Ones pot bound so focusing on plant growth, one isn’t and focusing on root growth. In the end the one in the larger pot will do better.
Lonely_Space_241
Transplant into a 5-7 galon pot for its final resting place, that is the sweet spot for peppers in my experience.
16 Comments
I bet it’s root bound as well from the greenhouse
Yes its in good shape to transplant into a gallon or two size pot now. I try to explain to people that pepper do better in smaller pots. They like to be next to root bound so they can shoot towards the sky!
They fertilize REALLY heavy to get it that big.
fertilizer and water, multiple times a day. that’s how
Hard to compare growth rate without knowing when seeds were popped (assuming it isn’t a clone). Environment and genetics factor in heavily, plus commercial growers have got a system dialled in for this and in many cases it outperforms diy setups. Comparison is the thief of joy and fwiw, I think yours looks great!! Keep up the good work 👍
Fertilizer, fertilizer, fertilizer. I have friends who’s parents own a greenhouse and its the fertilizer. I use a miracle grow 20-20-20 water soluable at their recommendation, every 2 weeks or so since my plants were babies in March and they are just as big, if not bigger, than some I’ve seen commercially grown.
I learned last year though that once they start producing they need less nitrogen. If you start getting some really bushy plants and flowers dropping you’ve gone too far with the nitrogen.
Fertilizer.
Also, those stones are not a good idea. I know you said in another post that they are to keep your dog from digging in the pots, but those stones are causing the soil to remain warm all the time since stone retains heat. The soil in pots already get really warm due to the pot being exposed to the sun all day (unlike in-ground garden soil where only the top of the soil is exposed to sun).
The only time I would say the stones may be a good idea is if your nights are still consistently under 55F, so the stones would help keep soil warmer assuming they are getting good sun during the day. So if that’s the case, disregard the above lol.
If you add a full nutrient fertilizer at 50 ppm calculated for nitrogen with every watering, you can easily grow one in a Solo cup through fruiting. While waiting on bulk potting materials to arrive, I have plants that are approaching 2 ft tall in Solo cups and I have already begun using some for experimenting with crosses as they are flowering prolifically and I’m not concerned about the small container size for those experiments.
Fertilizer, possibly a soluble fertilizer like what would be used in hydroponics. That stuff is like plant steroids.
Also greenhouse.
The nursery likely has their peppers in trays which keeps them fairly close together which will induce a bit of stretching. Yours look a tad more compact.
They also could have started them earlier than you did
Yes they use fertilizer byt most importantly they are in greenhouses and can be started earlier. I want a green house so bad, ive been trying to convince my dad to build one lol.
Yours look fine! Some take time!
Maybe you answered this already, but what’s up with the rocks on the soil?
VPD
Yours look fine but as others have said, feed them. I’m currently experimenting with my organic seaweed feed to see how much is too much. The label recommends 25ml per 10l of water, I’m currently up to 60ml and the plants are lapping it up. That plant you’ve just bought should be used as an example answer for the perennial ‘should i pot it up’ question, when they are clearly that much bigger than the pot the answer is YES!!
I did 72 in my living room on Amazon grow lights and wire shelves. Started the beginning of February fed every couple of weeks using cricket manure and grown very close together. All of them grew that size before planting out in similar size pots. They’re taking off and producing fruit. I’m in zone 5b
Ones pot bound so focusing on plant growth, one isn’t and focusing on root growth. In the end the one in the larger pot will do better.
Transplant into a 5-7 galon pot for its final resting place, that is the sweet spot for peppers in my experience.