A Good Old Fashioned RedHotChiliPepper Grow Off

Subbed in and caught up. How did i miss this page for 3 months ? Maybe i thought Newty was quoting a Red Hot Chili Peppers song? You guys would have had me all fired up in the garden. Haven't done a garden out back since Prince died and it rained every day for 6 weeks and couldn't get in there and weed everything got choked to death except the tomatillos they grow well evidently regardless. Tilled up 1/8th of the old garden last week for a few heirloom tomato babies a customer brought me at work. Be adding a few pepper plants soon :)
 
The weather has been a bit wonky here lately so today is the first time the peppers and their other veggie buddies have been outdoors. It's sunny and about 16C here with light winds so they will spend a couple hours out and hopefully a couple tomorrow too. There is also 3 auto seedlings amongst the crop, about 3 days old. Gotta make them tough!
Also planted maybe 60 percent of the big veggie garden the day before yesterday. Will throw up some pix there when things start happening..
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Nice stuff fellas!

Welcome @Kismet :)
Kismet said:
Subbed in and caught up. How did i miss this page for 3 months ? Maybe i thought Newty was quoting a Red Hot Chili Peppers song? You guys would have had me all fired up in the garden. Haven't done a garden out back since Prince died and it rained every day for 6 weeks and couldn't get in there and weed everything got choked to death except the tomatillos they grow well evidently regardless. Tilled up 1/8th of the old garden last week for a few heirloom tomato babies a customer brought me at work. Be adding a few pepper plants soon :)
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Let’s see some pics! I better get an update also
 
A little update on the sick plant now that I am armed with a functioning ph meter. She's definitely toast so I just dug up a bit of her soil and did a slurry test.. Using my tap water which is 7.6 the slurry test read 5.7 . Mixed a sample batch of the biothrive like I had fed her and it was 6.2 which would give even lower in the soil .. So I guess I will have to chalk it up to wayyy to low ph. I am finding my broccoli suffering currently in the same mix so I'm going to hit it with some 8.5 or so next time and see what happens. The new girls will be watched closely and will be getting watered with 8+ also.
 
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Most veggies are in the 6.5 range
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Yes seems to be that way doesn't it. I have blueberry bushes and they like down around 5 but everything else seems to do well at mid 6's. Luckily the peppers and tomatoes and everything else seems to be doing fine. I think the big problem was a super low ph drink or two with nutes that really threw her off, but the veggies have had no nutes so doing ok..
 
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