Hello, I started seeing some issues with my pepper plant. It is a carolina reaper chocolate variant. I started it growing from seed from 23.12.2025.
For watering habit, I test the soil with my finger then if it feels dry I wait one more day to make sure it is dry. I keep it in my kitchen under a cheap led.
The soil I used says that it contains 10 N : 1 P2O5 : 3 K2O with 5.0 – 7.0 pH.
About two weeks ago I transplanted it from a seedling tray to the pot that can be seen in the pictures. When transplanting I used aprox. 75% the soil described above and 25% perlite. It was never treated with fertilizer but I do own one that is 9 N : 4 P2O5 : 5 K2O.
To be honest I am not sure what it wants. What should I do? And also I want to make sure that the stuff that I use are good for the plant.
by Solobob01
10 Comments
Be patient, that’s all
To much water or watering stress will bubble up the leaves.
Should be fine tho they are not drowning otherwise they would turn yellow as well
Switch to bottom feeding and watering. Easy to do and lets the plant consume water/nutrients at its own pace and won’t push your planter past capacity. Water stress is what occurs when soil is allowed to dry out; it’s finding that sweet spot between over and under watering (soil field capacity) that’s the difference. Once they’re in grow bags, this gets a bit harder to do, so a consistent watering schedule or system like drip irrigation becomes important as you’re nearly forced into top down watering at that point. I found a solution for this by buying a huge storage container (a plastic kiddie pool will work too) and bottom watering and feeding them in there a couple times a month to keep the soil from bricking up in the bags.
Looks fine to me they are fussy plants my peppers also sulk after transplant, hell when I potted up my peppers I had a few left over, so I put them where I grow my early cabbage in a out house where the temperature was 12 degrees after I left them for a couple of hours they looked so Droopy you would of thought they been through a hard freeze, I put them back in the kitchen and like Jesus they came back from the dead
Looks just fine.
Maybe just a tad bit more fertilizer than it needed which is why I believe the leaves end up bubbling like that. Looks pretty healthy though.
Looks fine – add some fert and keep up your current watering schedule and they should take off by transplant
More light. Large leaves on a smaller plant indicates it could use more photosynthesis, and is making their leaves large to overcompensate.
It looks fine to me
Breathe, they look fine. Welcome to patience, it only burns when you think about it too much. Now I’m thinking about my seedlings 😭