TheIronHiker
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First year growing some jalapenos. What do you all feed your plants. Im all ears. Experience is the best teacher
First year growing jalapenos
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Miyagismokes
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I've got some sweet peppers I fed with some leftover Dr Earth 5-5-5 pellets. My habaneros are still too young.
TheIronHiker
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My jalapenos are all still younger. My bells are gettin biggee by the day. Planted in manure and triple mix
Roger A. Shrubber
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jalapeno's like a lot of light, i didn't feed them super heavy, just made sure they got plenty of water and light, and gave them 150 ppm of jack's 20-20-20 once a week. they produced a buttload of peppers
TheIronHiker
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Yeah they are recieving8-10hrs a day. 20-20-20 i wil keep that in mind
Roger A. Shrubber
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any balanced fertilizer would be ok, green peppers seem to like it when you drop the N by about half when they start to flower, Jalapenos went fine all the way through on balanced ferts
Miyagismokes
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Habaneros can't be that different, right?
Roger A. Shrubber
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grew them two years ago, as i recall they do ok with balanced nutes, but didn't seem to need as much food as the jalapenos and banana peppers
Beachwalker
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I've just started using these..
.. I started a thread about it in this forum call 'Jobes fertilizer spikes' to record how they do, they have a spike made for vegetables like peppers too, hope this helps, good luck!
.. I started a thread about it in this forum call 'Jobes fertilizer spikes' to record how they do, they have a spike made for vegetables like peppers too, hope this helps, good luck!
ruby fruit
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The difference between growing jalapenos and habenero is night and day.
Jalapenos providing they are watered dont need much all and pretty much will grow as gd on water and still be a gd size plant and last longer in terms of overwintering than most super hot varietys.
Miyagismokes
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Well I better get it figured out, because the local store is gonna stop carrying them, and I already missed my chance at ghost peppers...
ruby fruit
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Jalepenos will grow so much better in the ground than any size pot you give it
Miyagismokes
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I already discovered that with sweet peppers...
Unfortunately, I'd have to build a green house to put them in the ground proper, I'm trying to see if I can keep her through winter indoors in a pot and worry about fruit next year.
TheIronHiker
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My plants are finally starting to produce. Ive taken 5 off so far. At leasr 20 more ready to go soon!
dannyboy602
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I think that can be said for almost any plant. A longer root run allows a plant to access more nutrients and more moisture.
Plants belong in the ground. Don't you think?
dannyboy602
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Wonder why that is? And how did you discover the difference? Trial and error? Advice from a gardening friend? Grow books?
ruby fruit
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Your right
And when It comes to chilli I've found they definitely grow better in the ground but pots are gd to over winter in
ruby fruit
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You can do that for sure
ruby fruit
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To much nitrogen will cause flower drop in a lot of chilli variety in my exp with superhots