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I'm soon going to run out of my favorite nutrients, and Amazon doesn't carry it anymore. The Botanicare website only has the Safety Data Sheets, and seem to be pushing their Pure Blend line of nutrients, which are 50% more expensive than CNS17 at the same concentration (15ml/gal). So, I'm...

Hi guys, I'm preparing to move my peppers into larger pots, and I'm in the process of preparing my soil. I've found several posts here where it's stated that a 7/2/1 parts peat/coco, perlite and worm castings would do great when fed with CNS-17. I did that last year with coco and had great...

Happy New Year! I've been debating whether I should start a Glog this year or not given that I most likely won't have time to update it as frequently as previous years. I decided to still go for it in case somebody wants to know how a particular variety is doing, and also to document my...

I've been looking around for some reusable seed starting trays. Some of the sturdy ones you find online are made of hard plastic, which is not easy to "pinch" when you need to pull the seedlings out to pot them up. Then I realized that silicone might be a good material for this application. A...

"When in doubt throw it out", or so they say.   Well, I have what I'm pretty sure is some mold growing here. Other than this, everything seems fine, and the ferment passes the sniff test with flying colors.   This ferment has been going on for a little over 2 weeks. I use glass weights to keep...

Happy New Year!   With the new year comes a new Glog, hoping that 2021 is much better than 2020 (low bar, I know). I'm already pumped to get things going.   Here's what I'll be growing this year   5 Gal Kratkys   Fatalii - Always wanted to grow these. I've had germination issues in the past...

MasterBlend is a great nutrient for peppers. However, one of the drawbacks for me is that it is a pain to measure the individual components when mixing small amounts of nutrients - this process is time consuming and error prone.   Peter Stanley has a video where he pre-mixes the ingredients, but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVdzqBAVfJk   Has anybody done this? The video states that when growing indoors, you should trim off the leaves that are not getting light in order to create a more efficient canopy that absorbs as much light as possible, resulting in better yields. This seems...

OK,   Last grow was decimated by broad mites. It's been 3 weeks since I got rid of all the plants, so that should have been long enough to kill any remaining stragglers that might have fallen off the plants in the grow room. Now, since I'm WAY behind in 2020, I'm starting plants that are good...

Man, it's been a challenging grow...   Here's a Trinidad Scorpion I have growing indoors in a 5 gal DWC. Due to some still unidentified reason (blaming it on not replacing nutrients for a month and a half), it stopped growing and shed all its new leaves at the time. New growth started coming in...

Let's face it, no grow goes 100% smoothly.   Show pics of those plants you're not very proud of, what method you are using to grow them, what happened and what you are doing to correct the issue.   I'll go first -   Chiltepin Method: Indoor Kratky Problem: Too much water when refilling nutrient...

Hi guys,   Hope you can help me find a solution to this one that has been puzzling me this week. I've noticed my chiltepin started dropping some leaves late last week with the problem getting worse through this week. The weird thing is, the leaf drop is only happening on one side of the plant...

Hopefully somebody can help me answer this.   I've been researching PH meters for sauce making (and to be used for my hydro plants). Throughout the site, I've found people getting the cheapo $13 ph meters from Amazon, and some others getting $40-$50 units. It was also mentioned that the probes...

Well, I've been trying to post into my glog this morning and I can't.   I've tried several times, and it seems I have to re-upload the pictures as well, which are being counted against my limit. Is there a way to figure out what's going on?   Thanks!

Hi, I have a couple Sun Blaze T5 HO 24 fixtures that I got several years ago for indoor growing. These fixtures have worked well, but I've had to replace a couple bulbs every season. With LED being more available, I'm looking for options to replace the T5 bulbs with LEDs as they die out. One...

Well here it is - after a two year hiatus, I decided to get myself a new grow light (HLG 100), grow peppers again and join this community. I decided to it simple this year and grow fewer varieties from seeds I already have. These were packaged in 2014 or earlier so it will serve as a viability...

Hi all!    Excited to join this community... A little bit about myself:   I live in the great PNW. I started growing peppers about 10 years ago, and after a couple of years of trying to grow outside with not much success (seeing that bright orb in the sky is reason enough to call in sick at work...