If they have only just started flowering then I'd suggest wait a while and see if they perform better. Mine often take a couple of weeks to start flowering properly.
16 hrs light a day is ok but quite a lot, you could trim that back to 14 hours and see if it makes a difference. Your plants will be quite happy with 14 hours a day, and so will your Basil. Your chili fertilizer is designed to make the plant produce more flowers, so that's good. But you would be fertilizing too much if you have added fert balls to the compost already. Did you add the balls, or were they in the compost when you bought it?
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
If you are having such difficulty in growing this particular plant, perhaps give it a miss and concentrate on your othe types ? Wasting power on something which is not going to produce seems a bit pointless. Enjoy your other Chillies
If they have only just started flowering then I'd suggest wait a while and see if they perform better. Mine often take a couple of weeks to start flowering properly.
16 hrs light a day is ok but quite a lot, you could trim that back to 14 hours and see if it makes a difference. Your plants will be quite happy with 14 hours a day, and so will your Basil. Your chili fertilizer is designed to make the plant produce more flowers, so that's good. But you would be fertilizing too much if you have added fert balls to the compost already. Did you add the balls, or were they in the compost when you bought it?
ok il change the timer to 14 hours, thanks.
the balls i added together into the dirt by myself, it was recommendation from the flower store but they are closed for the winter now or i would have gone and asked them about this.
If you are having such difficulty in growing this particular plant, perhaps give it a miss and concentrate on your othe types ? Wasting power on something which is not going to produce seems a bit pointless. Enjoy your other Chillies
its difficult because im new to growing anything at all, i started with basil 2 years ago like you can see with my first post on this forum thats when i started to grow anything at all, then i enjoyed the hobby and gotten quite addicted and have expanded to 38 basil plants and 8 bird eye chili plants, 1 tapas chili and now i want to try carolina reaper plant.
The plan is to cross polinate the 2 other chili plants with the carolina reaper chili create my own chili flavour, so i do really want to learn more about this and be successful in growing the carolina reaper plant even if it cost me more money then buying it in the store.
Yes ive read and watched how to cross polinate and according to them it will take years, and il gladly waste years of my life because i enjoy it. So its not wasting time, i have plenty of time rest of my life and im enjoying it. But if i dont have anyone to ask then i wont learn, i can learn by failing but id rather ask for tips and learn that way then learn by failing.
The slow release fertilizer balls will last for a period of time. Most last for about 3 or 6 months and then they're finished. You could probably find out on Google.
It says on the pack - NPK 15 3 13 N=nitrogen - for leaves P=Phosphorus - for roots K=Potassium - for flowers and fruit
So your fertilizer is a houseplant fertilizer. It's ok for your plants but not ideal, so once the balls have run out, switch to your chili fertilizer.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
The slow release fertilizer balls will last for a period of time. Most last for about 3 or 6 months and then they're finished. You could probably find out on Google.
It says on the pack - NPK 15 3 13 N=nitrogen - for leaves P=Phosphorus - for roots K=Potassium - for flowers and fruit
So your fertilizer is a houseplant fertilizer. It's ok for your plants but not ideal, so once the balls have run out, switch to your chili fertilizer.
ah i see, didn't know that. them in the flowerstore said them balls was plenty enough for chilis, but i guess they don't know them self 100% since growing chilis aint very popular as i've understood in Norway since our climate. But its been about 3.5 month since i started with the carolina reaper, so maybe a little dash of fertilizer is the issue then. il give it some time and see, if the flowers doesn't develop i'l give it some liquid fertilizer.
The thing is with the slow release fertiliser balls is that they don't totally dissolve ... they can remain in the soil as empty shells as the liquid inside them has seeped through the porous casing into the soil ... so they may be empty now.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The thing is with the slow release fertiliser balls is that they don't totally dissolve ... they can remain in the soil as empty shells as the liquid inside them has seeped through the porous casing into the soil ... so they may be empty now.
ok, thanks. i guess il give them some fertilizer then when the lamp turns off in 2 hours.
You could try giving them (or all your plants) a little seaweed extract for plants every couple of weeks. It contains all the micro-nutrients and minerals that plants need and are often missing from general fertilizers. I use it on all of the plants in my garden and my houseplants. It's not a complete fertilizer, so use your chili fertilizer as well - but not at the same time. In the UK we can buy liquid tomato fertilizer that has seaweed extract added already (it's called Tomorite) and that would be ideal for your chilis. It's what I use. There maybe something similar in Norway - even though fields of tomatoes are rare in Norway
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
You could try giving them (or all your plants) a little seaweed extract for plants every couple of weeks. It contains all the micro-nutrients and minerals that plants need and are often missing from general fertilizers. I use it on all of the plants in my garden and my houseplants. It's not a complete fertilizer, so use your chili fertilizer as well - but not at the same time. In the UK we can buy liquid tomato fertilizer that has seaweed extract added already (it's called Tomorite) and that would be ideal for your chilis. It's what I use. There maybe something similar in Norway - even though fields of tomatoes are rare in Norway
They probably dont have it in a normal store either way and they have closed now for the season, just like the chili fertilizer i bough online, so i can probably find Tomorite aswell, just wont be getting it today since il have to order it online.
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16 hrs light a day is ok but quite a lot, you could trim that back to 14 hours and see if it makes a difference. Your plants will be quite happy with 14 hours a day, and so will your Basil.
Your chili fertilizer is designed to make the plant produce more flowers, so that's good. But you would be fertilizing too much if you have added fert balls to the compost already.
Did you add the balls, or were they in the compost when you bought it?
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Wasting power on something which is not going to produce seems a bit pointless.
Enjoy your other Chillies
the balls i added together into the dirt by myself, it was recommendation from the flower store but they are closed for the winter now or i would have gone and asked them about this.
The plan is to cross polinate the 2 other chili plants with the carolina reaper chili create my own chili flavour, so i do really want to learn more about this and be successful in growing the carolina reaper plant even if it cost me more money then buying it in the store.
Yes ive read and watched how to cross polinate and according to them it will take years, and il gladly waste years of my life because i enjoy it. So its not wasting time, i have plenty of time rest of my life and im enjoying it. But if i dont have anyone to ask then i wont learn, i can learn by failing but id rather ask for tips and learn that way then learn by failing.
Most last for about 3 or 6 months and then they're finished. You could probably find out on Google.
It says on the pack -
NPK
15 3 13
N=nitrogen - for leaves
P=Phosphorus - for roots
K=Potassium - for flowers and fruit
So your fertilizer is a houseplant fertilizer. It's ok for your plants but not ideal, so once the balls have run out, switch to your chili fertilizer.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Feed it according to the instructions.
You could try giving them (or all your plants) a little seaweed extract for plants every couple of weeks. It contains all the micro-nutrients and minerals that plants need and are often missing from general fertilizers.
I use it on all of the plants in my garden and my houseplants.
It's not a complete fertilizer, so use your chili fertilizer as well - but not at the same time.
In the UK we can buy liquid tomato fertilizer that has seaweed extract added already (it's called Tomorite) and that would be ideal for your chilis. It's what I use.
There maybe something similar in Norway - even though fields of tomatoes are rare in Norway
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.