another question?/Indoor grow update 17-07-2009 Update!!

[lee]

Hi

Installed some heating for my chilli's to maintain good temperature during the night. Nighttime temperatures are dropping dramaticly over here so I think it was a good decision to get some external heating.
It's a 60W bulb that produces only heat and no light,



Think I have to repot again very soon. Root growth is beyond what I've seen so far . The plants are about 20 cm, was 7-10 before i repotted them

Look at the flowerbuds!! Hope to see some flowers very soon



Other side





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[lee]

My 8th week growing with CFL nearly completed. Below some pic.





Adjoema Red (Aji Oema, or something)



Dorset  Naga



Bhut Jolokia



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[lee]

Flowerbud ready to pop out.






gr

[lee]

first flower on a aji oema



Dorset Naga







Red Savina (top view)



Reg

[lee]

Repotted 4 of my plants to 7,5 liter containers. Roots are developing very fast as shown on pic below



Sitting in the sun for a while



Back to the CFL





About 3 weeks ago since last repot.





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[NaokiSoma]

Repotted 4 of my plants to 7,5 liter containers. Roots are developing very fast as shown on pic below

Next time it might be wise to repot even earlier. It must have been difficult to release roots from that mess. Did you repot is as a whole or did you try to spread the root ball without breaking any roots?

[lee]

It was pretty easy to remove the rootball from the container. I did not try to spread the rootball because i did not want te damage the roots.
Is there any (dis)advantage?

[NaokiSoma]

It was pretty easy to remove the rootball from the container. I did not try to spread the rootball because i did not want te damage the roots.
Is there any (dis)advantage?

If you manage to spread the roots, the plant will continue growing faster. But I agree that in that kind of situation it might be difficult to do that without damaging the roots.

[lee]

My repotted plants continue to grow fast. They realy like it in there new container.



The largest plants are about 30 cm. Pic below shows an Aji oema Red (adjoema). The reflector hangs about 60 cm from the bottom.




Red Savina.



Some flowers on an Aji oema. Havent changed my bulbs for red light bulbs (flower) yet. I think they need some more growing.





lee

[lee]

My plants are still growing on



hasn't come to fruitset yet



The yellow stains on some of the leaves seem to be caused by using warm(25 degrees C) tap water. I gave it to them about two weeks ago. (Why?, never mind just dumb). Warm tapwater can contain a lot of various metals due to disolving of the inner side of the water line, wich is mainly copper (lead in old houses) around here , and of course chlorine. Now I am using cold tapwater that i heat up under the lights. I hope that most bad stuf, wich is no good for my plant will evaporate . Untill now stains are not spreading anymore and new foliage is green.




lee

[lee]

Took the plants outside for some pics

Aji Oema Red



Dorset Naga



Red Savina Habanero.


Dutch Habanaro F3



DHF3 Leaf



Bhut/Bih Jolokia



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[lee]

Finally yesterday repotted all my plants to 7,5 liter containers. Removed 1 Naga to give some extra space to the Red Savina.



Gave them some Chili Focus this morning.



De bhut is flowering too. New flowerbuds on the Savina are showing themselves at plant canopy.

Bhut jolokia



Red Savina



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[lee]

Hi,

I finaly switch my CFL grow tubes. I replaced the growtubes(white 4000K) for flowertubes (red 2100K). Below some pics

Last shot under growlight



Empty house



Here the new ones



CFL red light district.



There they are



with flash on








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[lee]

Removed 1 bhut to have some extra space



Bhut

[Mads]

Cool stuff Lee!
I like that cabinet you've made there but it makes me realise I've got way too little light (only a 36W fluorescent).
Beautiful plants too! Really nice to see them evolve. Good thing you've kept posting even though not too many people have been replying, heh.

[lee]

@Mads thx, would love to see some more people replying who have simular experiences.

My Red Savina is flowering again and many flowers are showing themselves. There are so many buds that i cant even count them. I hand  polinated the opened flowers to be sure that i got it all right. Daytime temps are 26-27C, nighttime temps are 18-19C. Well keep my fingers crossed

[lee]

Heey,

This morning I was hand polinating some flowers on my Red Savina. I picked up some pollen that fell on a leaf



I used a q-tip to transport pollen from one flower to another. There was plenty of it so must be a good thing



Picture below says it all. After checking to whole plant on flowers i noticed something familiar



My first homegrown CFL chili peppers   . He still small. But Mother artificial nature, did her work!! Was very happy too see it of course.



I had to remove 1 more plant because it was getting very crowdy in my box. My Bhut Jolokia's are about to flower, and with the positive "news" i got, I hope to give them a better chance to set fruits.

[lee]

Must be my lucky day. Again found 2 more little Red Savina's.

Nr2



Nr3



First I found 2 days ago. Growing good

[lee]

Fruits are setting realy good. Today i saw another little Red Savina chilli. The Bhut Jolokia's are flowering too and hope they will produce some fruits soon.

[lee]