Evicted on 420

Today I evicted ten pepper seedlings and moved them into their final pots!

I started my seeds indoors in late February and its been about 7 weeks since most sprouted. I've got two each of Guajillo, Thunder Mountain, Cayenne, Sichuan Erjingtiao, and two Sugar Rush Peach seedlings that I got in a trade with someone local last week.

The SRPs are a little small and pale: I think they were (heavily) in need of more nitrogen/nutrients and also not getting enough light, but I really wanted to them and was excited to see that someone local had them so I got them. I've been fertilizing them and they are looking a little healthier than when I got them. Hopefully they'll continue to improve, otherwise they'll get replace with some more Thunder Mountain or Erjingtiao.

I got ten 7-gallon squat planters from that I got from a local shop that specializes the indoor cultivation of a certain leafy green which some folks might be partaking in the burning of today.

I filled the pots with a mix of Fox Farms Happy Frog(three 2 cu ft bags so 6 cu ft), compost bought in bulk from a local nursery(five 5-gallon buckets so about 4.2 cu ft), a bit of perlite and vermiculite, and a dash of Espoma Tomato Tone. I mixed the soil in batches in a bin, filling the pots as a went.

My batch recipe was one 5-gallon bucket Happy Frog to 2/3 a bucket compost plus 3 cups perlite, 3 cups vermiculite, and 1 cup of Tomato Tone granules.

I have not used Tomato Tone before (it's an organic 3-4-6 fertilizer plus some calcium, magnesium, and other nutrients) but thought that sounded like it should be pretty good for peppers too so I'm trying out. The TT directions say to mix 2 cups per cu ft but I only used half that much, so I plan to supplement with some occasional 3-1-2 liquid fertilizer.

Anyways I'm really excited to watch these peppers grow up!

Happy 420 folks! Don't get evicted!!!