Looking good! I see some mild signs of potassium and calcium deficiency. It could be magnesium instead of potassium because the fruits look good (hard to tell from where I'm sitting). A little epsom salt in the system won't hurt none and you'll get bigger fruit. The plants look stringy (cause of light, no biggie, work with what you got), but otherwise it looks like you're having a lot of fun (I see where you did some pruning, haha).
Looking good! I see some mild signs of potassium and calcium deficiency. It could be magnesium instead of potassium because the fruits look good (hard to tell from where I'm sitting). A little epsom salt in the system won't hurt none and you'll get bigger fruit. The plants look stringy (cause of light, no biggie, work with what you got), but otherwise it looks like you're having a lot of fun (I see where you did some pruning, haha).
i think it might be potassium or magnesium, i was adding calcium hydroxide because my ph was dropping so fast, but recently i poured in a bunch of oyster shell grit to keep it buffered rather than constantly adding. do you think magnesium is getting locked out? i got a huge wave of habaneros the first time around, then in the next batch i noticed the peppers were really dwarfed, this new set that is currently growing in looks normal though.
i shouldve spaced the plants out better, eventually things turned into a stretch fest for who can get to the light fastest. i still havent seen any trinidads or other peppers form, just one of the habaneros that outgrew everything else and is producing nicely.
any ideas on how to keep the ph more stable and possibly supplement potassium? i noticed the water is getting murky again and my ph is still low and dropping although there is more grit still in the system.
so i had a terrible situation with aphids that ended up with me trashing all my pepper plants. i lost 3 fish do to a spike from no plants. since then i replanted with a bunch of lettuce and a tomato plant that is now sharing half the growbed with the lettuce. i planted everything on march 6th from seed except the tomato which i bought at 6 inches tall to try and save the fish. took some cool pictures but my hard drive failed on me so i just have a current picture. going to snap more tomorrow during the day when the lighting is right.
Hey I love that you were able to make this out of a cheep FT and it is aesthetically pleasing. I am thinking of replicating your design. Keeping in mind that I am an AP noob, is there anything that you would have done differently?
Can the 30gal support a larger GB? Maybe double the size? Also does the level of the water in the FT fluctuate a lot? Is that why some people use sump tanks? to keep the level consistent?