I usually start my seedlings outdoors directly but I wanted to get a nice jump this year, so I bought some grow lights and started my peppers the first of March. I have 12 pepper plants and they seem to be doing really well except for a couple issues. Some of the plants have some leaves that are slightly cupped both upward or downward. Some of the plants have leaves that appear slightly wrinkled, especially new growth. The biggest issue that I'm concerned about is that two plants now appear droopy, watering does nothing. The soil is a seed start mix, I water when the plants tell me to which is around 2 times a week. I fertilize with a diluted miracle grow liquid once a week. I run a fan on them a couple hours a day. I keep them very close to my T5s, 3 or 4 inches maybe. I'm wondering if these pots are just too small? Maybe too much fert? I really need to keep them inside for two more weeks before I can set them out, I would hate to pot them up just for a couple weeks.
Any thoughts? The plant in the middle is one of the droopers and the large leaves are cupped downwards. The plant on the left is one of the wrinkled fellows and some of the leaves are cupped upwards. Plant on the right was bought by the gf at a spring plant sale last week, it was much taller, lighter colored, and had fewer leaves than my plants. Had none of the issues mine have though. All the plants were started at the same time, watered at the same time, given the same diluted fert, strange that they all have different issues or no issues at all.
Any thoughts? The plant in the middle is one of the droopers and the large leaves are cupped downwards. The plant on the left is one of the wrinkled fellows and some of the leaves are cupped upwards. Plant on the right was bought by the gf at a spring plant sale last week, it was much taller, lighter colored, and had fewer leaves than my plants. Had none of the issues mine have though. All the plants were started at the same time, watered at the same time, given the same diluted fert, strange that they all have different issues or no issues at all.