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Two-week-old seedlings!

This is my first experience growing peppers from seed! Planted on 2/26, most seeds had sprouted by 3/4.

I've got Thai hots and Guajillo (Mirasol? I've read Guajillo are the dried peppers and Mirasol the fresh, but I've also read folks saying that that's not correct?) that I had saved last year, and Sichuan Erjitiao/Facing Heaven and Guizhou Dafang/Thunder Mountain from seeds that I bought on Etsy.

First to sprout was one of the Sichuan seeds and I didn't have my lights set up correctly so it got leggy. The Guizhou were slow to sprout but caught up and quickly became some of the biggest

The current lighting setup is two 50watt 5000k led shop lights at about 7" above the seed tray. Currently on a timer for a 15 hour cycle. I've adjusted the lights higher and lower but the the seedlings seem pretty happy at the moment. Measuring with the "PPFD Meter" phone app I get around 380PPFD 20DLI.

About 5 days ago I applied the first fertilizer, used Miracle Gro liquid 12-4-8 at 1/2 tsp/gal

I've currently got 66 sprouts, all but a few of which seem to be pretty healthy. I don't have room for 66 pepper plants, so many will be gifted to friends/family/coworkers/neighbors etc.

by redpandaflying93

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  1. MIKRO_PIPS

    So jealous of your uniform sprouting ! Looks great

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