Peppers 10/9 - Italia and Costa Rican Sweet

They’re getting there, but this is the unit with the flashing defective hood, and I don’t know if that’s affecting the plants at this point.  At least now the Italia is catching up color wise.


Costa Rican Sweet




Italia

OK I have a dozen eggs at the ready !

Well, it appears that the strobing hood did affect the health of the plant, despite what the company told me. The leaves are all drooping and look terrible.  And this pic is after I cut off some of the worst leaves.  At this point I just want it to at least last through this first harvest.  Very disappointed in the lack of effort by the company.

Definite difference w/o a properly working unit.
What if you had the unit run w/o the light in front of a window just for a few weeks until the end of the project?
Maybe you could end another project early and  transfer the reservoir to a working machine?
That project is doing SO WELL it would be a shame to have it fail now.

Sadly my sister just texted this to me today.  She’s watering my gardens while I’m gone.

Yes it got it’s full nutes last week.  She’s already gone to head back to the West Side (always horrible LA traffic).  I shouldn’t be too surprised - when I touched the peppers last week they felt a little squishy.  The plant was already in distress.  I will harvest and enjoy the almost all-ripe Costa Ricans as soon as I get back, and hope the Italia holds out long enough to ripen somewhat.  That plant has a little more life left in it, from the looks of it.

No there was full water.  I topped off Thursday night and Friday at noon, and my sister came yesterday (Sunday) so they only went one day without attention.

When you come to the forum, click on the Recent Threads at the top of the page.  Then click on the word "new" to the left of the thread and it SHOULD take you to the first unread post within that thread.  I have not tested it out, maybe I should

Right there with ya’, lol.