Heyo,
Newbie pepper grower.
Few days ago I posted about my sweet peppers looking shrimpy – King of Bell and Trinidad Perfume Peppers
https://www.reddit.com/r/HotPeppers/s/J1IPDwuAkt
Changes:
I limited the lights to about 8-10 hours.
I did not move them to a smaller tray as I didn't want to upset them since they were moved a couple times before.
However, I noticed that the leaves are starting to turn yellow on most of them.
I am not sure if it's because they are getting burned or some sort of nutrient deficiency?
I had them on top of solo cups so they were close to the light (picture 6/7) I'm using ViparSpectra 250w lights.
Picture 8 is the newborn. It was leggy because I took long to move it to light. But the last couple of days I noticed the yellowing leaves.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Seemed ever since I moved them to a new soil and had them up higher for light, they been fussy.
I haven't fed them any extra fertilizer.
I did top water them a couple of times to make sure the upper parts had water. I haven't really sunk them in water because the container looks fairly mosit and not dried out.
Am i killing my peppers?
Soil:
– coco coir
gaia worm casting 2-0-0
perlite
gaia fishbone meal 6-16-0
by Accomplished_Run_593
2 Comments
Don’t know really, could need some nitrogen. But the roots don’t like transparent containers, you should repot into something that doesn’t let light in.
Did you dilute the fertilizer at all? I’m new too but everyone stresses not to use hot soil and 16% phosphorus seems like a high weight to me for young plants.
It also can make leaves yellow if there’s too much of it in the soil. It could be that.