Sunday, November 21, 2010

Go!

It's been just 8 days since most of the plants were transferred in to the larger pots, and they are all doing well.

The 'Big Red' is going nuts. I'd estimate somewhere between 1 1/2 and 2 inches?


This Choc Habanero has also put on some height and also a lot of foliage.





All the plants have coped just fine, and this pot mix suits them perfectly.




The last of the smaller plants will be repotted hopefully this weekend.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Shove...

Got to shove the plants into their new home today.
Another day of warm weather and no rain thank christ..
A compressed block of coir, a couple of bags of Perlite, 8lt pots, 300mm trays and a wheelbarrow...


Soaked the coir for 10 mins, broke it up, added more water til the lot was wet. Tilled it with my hands until it was all wet and loose.


Half filled each pot then mixed in a heap of Perlite



Here's the Naga (which I knew had root probs) and kicked my arse into gear...




After they were all potted, a weak mix of Growth Technologies 'Foliage Focus' that filled the trays and now (8 hours later), no evidence of shock.




An outdoor hydro setup!

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Yesterday my life was filled with rain......

...well, not at all actually. We've only had intermittent showers each day, mostly fine and the temps are up to 26-27C each day. Perfect weather really.

 Long time since last update - not a great deal has changed other than some nice steady growth. Got some wee caterpillars appearing, so will look at some preventative treatment sharpish.

A couple of pics to illustrate how they are going;
  

That Big Red has me stuffed. In some ways it's looking a little leggy, a little unstable yet it just powers on... Bear in mind it was one of the last seeds that were put down to germinate, and some of the other varieties are 6 weeks or so older!
 It looks a little limp as it has had a full days sun and I'd just removed it into the shade. Can't wait to see what this bugger does.

Well, tomorrow is the day... I'm getting the coconut peat (coir), perlite, and some 10lt pots and transplanting all the plants. Fair to say that I'm shitting myself. Mostly at the cost, but partly due to worrying whether this is the right way to go. I have had good advice, so I don't doubt that, just...it's natural I'm sure.
For anyone that reads this, I'll do some detailed posts on the process and the leadout...