I hooked up the four new habanero plants to water a few days ago and they are growing really fast and developing a nice color - really happy with with how they're going. Getting a lot of tomato flowers fruiting!
As a side note, people say you should completely submerge rockwool 4x4/6x6 in water and let them dry out a bit before putting a seedling in, but that's a bad idea from my experience, for starters Grodan changed their binder ages ago so the PH problem that was supposed to address is not actually an issue anymore. It takes like 2 weeks for a hugo to properly dry out indoors. What I've been doing is take it out of the box bone dry, pour in 500ml-1L of reservoir water in and around the hole then shove in the starter block with seedling. They don't need very much for the first 2-3 weeks anyway.
Also, the white covers you see on them are totally worth it, I've tried a few different things so far including those hard plastic watering tops. But just spend the 20$ and get a stack of these white sheet things, the block the light perfectly, fit nicely on the blocks, have a small opening. Though, next time I would buy stainless steel stables though, I doubt its going to be a significant issue but the ones I have will rust a bit eventually.
Water Change:
* Drained 95% of the water
* Added 7ml of 8% chlorine bleach
* Added water until ~75L total in reservoir
* Added 180ml of Green Planet DF Part1 and mixed
* Added 120ml of Green Planet DF Part2 and mixed
* Added 60ml of Green Planet ProCal and mixed
* Added 14ml of Standard Hydroponics PH Down
Status:
Measured PH: 5.79 (Hanna HI981420)
Measured EC: 2.21 (Hanna HI981420)
Growmie i also grow hot peppers from jamaica . . the jamaican scotch bonnet. Related to habanero. But way hotter. And make my own pepper sauce and. Dried pepper flaked. Great job on ur choice of pepper. Awesome
This is so awesome!! We usually keep a serrano pepper bush in our flower tent (with our bud) all winter and harvest handfuls of them every 2 weeks or so...I love seeing this stuff! Keep up the great work!! π½π±π‘