Update pics

[sdw79]

Here is recent pics of a few of my plants. How do they look? Any suggestions? This is my first year starting from seed.
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg291/sdw79/100_0379.jpg
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg291/sdw79/100_0382.jpg
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg291/sdw79/100_0383.jpg

[sdw79]

Whoops the year is wrong on my camera

[Omri]

Do you use any fertilizer at all?

[sdw79]

No, I wanted to fertilize them last week, but was on vacation so this weekend I am going to use fish emulsion.

[sdw79]

The person looking after my plants while I was gone did not raise the lights so a few plants got a little burned. But they should come out of it, I hope.

[Omri]

BTW, what's with the purple light? are you using UV?

[sdw79]

No just fluro

[Omri]

Light temp?

[sdw79]

It is weird I bought 2 24" fluro grow lights for my tomatoes, and a few weeks later I bought 2 more of the same lights for my peppers. The weird thing is they give off a totally different color of light.

[sdw79]

7800K, 2 lights give a bluish color light, while the other 2 give a redish color, but are supposed to be the same bulbs

[Omri]

The reason I ask is your plants don't look so good. it might be because they need a little feeding, but the light is just weird and maybe the cause.

[sdw79]

I hve two ott lights in the basement mabye I should move them down there and give them a good feeding.

[Omri]

Sorry about the endless questions, but it's just really weird. 7800K should not look anything like that. are those T4?

[sdw79]

I don't know enough about lights to know if they are t4, they are the 24" fluro grow lights from lights of america that you get at wall mart. They should give off more of a blue light shouldn't, like the first set I have shouldn't they? Don't worry about the endless questions, I appreciate the feedback.

[sdw79]

My tomatoes did excellent with the first 2 lights I bought with the blueish tint, so I decided to get two more for my peppers and they are totally different spectrum.

[Omri]

I'm not some kind of lights expert, but the only purple lamps I've seen are with very high temp, massive amount of red and blue and almost no green at all.
I guess their good for something (used a lot in fish tanks), but don't think I've seen any good results with land plants and purple light.

[rainbowberry]

Is it just me or do the ones in the first picture look better than the others?

[Omri]

Is it just me or do the ones in the first picture look better than the others?
Well they do seem healthy from a far, so that might be it.
In shape they're ok, but there's yellowing and wilting.

[sdw79]

I think they were pretty neglected when I was on vacation.

[AlabamaJack]

they look pretty dang good to me....edges of the leaves look a little rusty but they should grow out of that....

[rainbowberry]

It was just the last pic I thought that didn't look so healthy. Honestly it wasn't that omri and I were so bored yesterday morning that we thought we'd tell everyone their plants looked crap ;) The top ones look healthier than a lot of mine. I'm relying on the UK sunshine and he hasn't come out to play today :(

[AlabamaJack]

I know RB...my monitor sucks and I can't see the colors on the last photo...

[Omri]

I'm sorry to tell you, but that definitely looks like a start of something bad... they don't look healthy.

[ddrsheden]

Just was wondering....how old are those plants?

[sdw79]

They are starting to look a lot healthier, I will post some pics soon.

[elequin]

Actually, I thought they looked pretty healthy. I was thinking they were just poor photographs. Fluorescent lights can do weird things to digital cameras.

Could be wrong though - right now I think anything could look healthier than the seedlings I have. I won't post pics, but suffice to say I haven't been able to control a fungal gnat problem, even with letting them dry out until they wilt and also using pyrithium spray.

Anyway, like I said, I thought they looked healthy. How old are they, though?

[sdw79]

I planted them on Jan. 25th

[Omri]

They are starting to look a lot healthier, I will post some pics soon.
Great, I'm happy for you! :)

[sdw79]

They are looking pretty good.
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg291/sdw79/100_0445.jpg
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg291/sdw79/100_0443.jpg

[sdw79]

It is hard to get a good pic with my camera, it sucks

[Pepper Ridge Farm]

Nothing wrong with those plants, they look very healthy. Nice job! What type of peppers do you have?

[Omri]

They do look better! actually more than just "better". how are the lower leaves?

[sdw79]

Nothing wrong with those plants, they look very healthy. Nice job! What type of peppers do you have?

I believe these were my nagas, but also have many other varieties.

[sdw79]

They do look better! actually more than just "better". how are the lower leaves?
They seem to be fine.
I still have a few plants that got badly burned from touching light when I was on vacation, but they seem to be coming out of it as well.

[gotpeppers]

They look good.