First pepper of the year
14.5 years ago peppers
It has been slow to warm up this year but finally getting some warm enough nights to bring my peppers outside for a little while. Though they were flowering in the grow box I was surprised to see a sweet yellow pepper already growing. This is definitely a record for me by at least a good month.
Tags: pepper
14.5 years ago
Nice looking pepper! Ours haven’t even flowered yet.
14.5 years ago
I switch my indoor lights to flower before my garden goes outside. It’s a trick to get produce really early. It looks like you used that method successfully!
14.5 years ago
I only use CFLs which should be pretty blue, I have tried this in the past but normally pulled them out when it was probably too cold and the blossoms just dropped. Though the plants could use a a little more vegetative growth hopefully the plants can sustain the fruit…
14.5 years ago
I agree with Red Icculus, it seems like you did a great job in executing the method successfully by making those pepper plants bear fruit sooner than expected. And by the progress that your pepper plants are showing, I think it won’t be long enough until you could see more pepper fruits to sprout. Please keep us posted on that. Thanks for sharing this wonderful endeavor to your readers 🙂
14.5 years ago
It’s funny, I think people overestimate spectrum for flowering. I used a metal halide in my hydro tent for a couple years for flowering. Plants yielded great. The only difference that I noticed was that plants stretched more under high pressure sodium without a huge gain in yield.
14.5 years ago
Hydro Gardening, I will be sure to keep everyone updated.
Red, I am also curious how much the spectrum really effects it. My experience is hours of light and temperature can affect flowering much more.