Hey great video, i have grown many peppers indoors and here to give you some tips. You can put seeds directly in hydroton? I've never used it. You started using Maxigro at 2 tsp per gallon? If your leaves were dark green then it was too much. You switched to flora micro? Where are the other 2 bottles? I think you need to mix 3 together. Next time use Maxibloom, its the only thing i use. Each pepper flower has all parts needed to grow fruit, just gently shake them. I think what killed them was the roots needing more air and your nutrient mix being wrong. Good job keeping 2 plants alive in a small jar. That is a challenge
My best guesses as to why the plant health problems appeared: 1)Not giving the nutes a fresh refill as often as you should have. Pepper plant roots tend to take what they need and leave everything else behind. So if you see something like the nutrient solution not being uniformly clear with some white floaty things floating around, it might be time to flush everything out 2) not enough air going to the roots. Maybe the water level was too high for decent air intake from the roots 3) the root ball got too dense that they started choking eachother or denying water and air to eachother. I think this was the case and the best way to combat this is to prune the roots and then prune the plant as well to accommodate for the lack of intake it'll be getting. After pruning the roots give them a nice rinse bc it's kind of like cutting hair in the sense that there will also be lots of debris left in the root ball that'll drop into the water supply
3 years too late, but the droop and eventual death was from root rot. It was surprising you didn’t encounter it earlier, and you did a great job overall.
In my personal experience with growing a jalapeno in soil at least is that those small bumps are roots trying to start from the side I usually put a mix of ash and mulch within it and so far it seems to work
sorry one more thing if there was any web accompanied by little moving specs it could be spider mites. Which can be controlled with a neem oil solution.
No jalapeno microgreens. 😂 Two plants are probably fighting for nutrients from the reservoir. Peppers and tomatoes are self pollinating,all you need to do is tap the flowers or shake the plant a bit to make the flowers drop the pollen. Unless you want to cross pollinate then you would hand pollinate from a different pepper plant. Did you fill the container to the top? If so you may have been drowning the roots. PH is critical with fruiting plants like peppers and tomatoes so they can take up the nutrients properly. Ph should be 5.8 to 6.0 for hydroponics. At least you were able to get some peppers. Great job, I did the kratky radish grow with mixed results, they are still growing if you want to check that out! Will probably try it again a bit differently. 🌱
yup eating a night shade plant was def a mistake LOL I had a lot of fun shaking the plant later for pollination. I definitely over-filled the container, which prob caused the drooping. I'll check your kratky radishes out now!
Kratky can be tricky especially for crops that take the full season to grow. From the video it looks like the demise was due to rootrot, wilting happens when roots cease to function :) If you plan to grow another pepper i`d recommend a basic flood and drain bucket (no pump required) which i know you have the skills to make from your fogponic adventures. The longest i`ve had a pepper in the same bucket of hydroton is 5 years. the trunk of the plant was like an old oak tree. Being in a bucket you can place it outside in the summer so its super productive. When it gets cold outside you simply cut it right back and bring it in for the winter.
Can you help point me in the right direction; what kind of flood and drain bucket doesn't use a pump? Unless you're talking about manually flooding and draining it multiple times a day . . . which seems too tedious and easy to make a catastrophic mistake that kills the plant.
@@brandonmakridis1565 Hi Brandon I only flood twice a day, morning and late afternoon. The trick is to locate the drain (15mm john guest tank connector) a couple of inches above the bottom of the bucket which creates a reserve for the plant to draw on.
@@brandonmakridis1565 Drain into a tray/tub below the container. Use a bucket or cup to water. If you use a coco/perlite mix in the bucket, once everey 1-2 days is enough, depending on how big container and plant are, and air temps. Multiple times per day are totally unnecessary. For only a few plants, it is actaully easier that setting up return lines and a pump. Flood and drain in individual containers might also be called dutch bucketsIt works better than kratky for me, mostly because I fail to watch water level in kratky enough. Outdoors, I just water enough daily, or every couple days and let excess run off to ground. In cooler temps, I can go 4-5 days, and if you let excess drain to ground, if it rains, it flushes the media for you. After a few times, you learn how much to water to avoid most of the 'waste' . Another method for small spaces is simple containers sitting in a shallow tray of nutrient solution, with a media in the containers that wicks up enough moisture. Just refill the tray when it gets low. Something like a washing machine tray with sides 1-2 inches tall works to hold several plants. You may be able to go multiple days, maybe even a week using the bottom watering, and it is so easy to see the water level.
i dont know if anyone said it jet but peppers polinate them self the stick of the flower (stigma) is the part wich needs to be polinated and the stuff surounding it has the pollen in it. so every flower is normaly male and female at the same time
oh really? only some of the flowers had pollen while others didn't, and I'm pretty sure that the non-pollen ones were the ones that ended up as peppers, but maybe I'm remembering wrong about the second thing. interesting, I'll have to look into this some more. thanks for commenting!
It’s a air flow issue is why your brown leaves are showing up it’s common in peppers but not all varieties. And most peppers are self pollinators. If you put a fan on them it will also pollinate your flowers
The biggest thing you can do is check the ph balance of your water and adjust it when it’s off that’s the most crucial thing in hydroponics. Also make sure the water container is not getting light into it or it will grow algae
Everything you said at the video end of the video is correct. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing 😁 A++ for the effort Growing plants is a hundred percent of learning experience. Yeah it takes years
When you refill the container, do not fill it up as high as you did initially. You are drowning the smaller roots at the top which need oxygen. Fill the container half way or a 3rd of the way the roots can still breath.
So this is 10.mths old but i usually do either the recommended amount or half the recommended amount of nutes for dwc . Also a tiny bit of h202 or hydrogen peroxide helps a lot with the green roots, thats more than likely algae.. 😄 but also black chalkboard paint helps a lot with light , maybe black first then let it dry and thenn paint it white to reflect light ig. Just black should help with algae itself tho so yeah cheers
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I believe what happened was root rot. You can tell by the color of the roots and the plant starts to show sighs similar to the plant not getting enough water but it’s actually getting to much . I bet you kept the water level to high roots also need air.
To me it looks like the water level is too high. For Kraky as the plant matures the water level drops lower. Unless you are using a double cup. which these plants would have out grown by now. Brown roots indicate the roots were dying. Did you let the water level drop some?
Oh wow, I though I was the only one who has been filling the house with plants every where LOL🤣. Ever check the efficacy of the grow lights? I feel that that could be optimized more. also just got to say this, don't bring pepper plant from outdoors in - because the aphids will follow it in......🌱
Great! Makes me want to start growing jalapenos myself or something similar. Those leaves and flowers are so nice looking. Cherry tomatoes are still the only fruiting veg I've grown. I do get the acne all the time on my plants, don't think it's a bad thing. I have also been cursed by the pepper hands before and I was stupid enough to also take a long bath afterwards which made the pepper oils go even deeper into my skin. Kept me up all night lol
ooh I want to do tomatoes soon! acne def scared me but after reading some of the other comments it seems to be a good sign. pepper oils really are the worst >:(
However the best way to learn is through trial and error every grow only gets better, also the acne on the plants are new roots trying to grow out of the plant
I think the roots had not enough airation, a common problem with the kratky method. Staying with kratky you could keep a lower water level later in the grow allowing a larger portion of the rootball to breath. Considering nutrient concentration it is better to have too little nutrients in the water than too much, so you can slowly readjust the levels. Too much nutrients can cause abnormal growth with deformed flowers, leafs etc. Also, like you said, seperating the plants early on into different jugs should help. But very nice, considering you do this in your closet 😁
@@radnatalie another thing I just thought of, your plants might have experienced nutrient lockout (explanation: originhydroponics.com/nutrient-lockout/ ). What you can do if you suspect this to be the case is, take the plant out of the nutrient water, wash the roots with clean tap/rain water, then change the nutrient water and reduce the nutrient level in the new batch. I had similar problems when first growing tomatoes in an ebb and flow system.
An EC meter would help with knowing the concentration of your solutions both before you change and what it had been sitting in already. Know the difference between ppm and millisiemens first! Ppm conversion can change between regions too.
The reason your plant went bad is likely the ph balance and the. If you added a bubbling air stone to your water reservoir the roots would get way more oxygen and not turn brown
The plant died because of lack of air in the bottle. You’re not supposed to full the bottle with water and solution. You can search “root rot” for more information. ☺️ nice and entertaining video btw 🤗
Great video. It could have been the concentration. I'm sure you've studied the Kratky method. If I refill a container during a grow, I try not to go more than 50 percent to leave space for the air roots to get oxygen. Submerging the air roots will definitely kill the plant.
Biggest container you can fit in your closet is best. Once water level gets to around half full, try to keep it there. Add a little more nutrient solution to bring back to level at a time, rather than letting water level drop low and adding back in a lot. In a small container, that may mean daily. You saw how well it grew in the beginning, there is no reason it can't go on like that for a long time- nearly two years for a jalapeno. Every 3-4 refills, empty jar a fill back up to half full. Hard to do with big plant, but you can prune plant, or add a drain to the bottom or siphon out old solution if you can't empty with plant in place. Peppers are one of the best plants to grow using kratky method in my opinion. If you grow the right variety, you could have plant growing for up to 15 years!!!! And I thought plants that produced fruit were female but you keep referring to plant as 'he'
it gets better. BUT do airstone or only 50% water lvl...also refill it with frash water when its 20% water lvl. its better to have just a bit less nutriens when to much. i think the roots had minarials o n it and thay couldnt take any nutriens anymore...in this case you need to clean the root and put it in frash water and pray xD. but just take a airstone for fish and put it in the jar. but the rest was good. small mistakes make have a big impact
Airstones can disrupt root development too so be careful how aggressive the bubbles are. Finer is better at helping dissolution and it's easier to dissolve in cooler water than in warm.
thats not true. the airstone helps the plant to make a different kind of air roots. So you can fill it full (80%). yes if you start with airstones after you startet with growing it is bad for the plant but not when you do it from the beginning. and the hard big bubbels are good becouse its like aeropinics. and pls dont buy from amazon 😅. most of the time its 10 Times more expensive then eBay or aliexpress.
@@akimtu9523 I would love a little more explanation from you about your comment towards mine. I've provided my current understanding I hope to hear your view. Can you point me towards info on this other type of air roots? Why is it bad to add air after starting a grow? Vs adding it from the start? Air should be added to keep oxygen available for the roots, especially during respiration, and to fend off anaerobic bacteria from colonizing creating those awful smells and root rot. How are hard big bubbles beating on roots similar to aeroponics? Aeroponics in my understanding was misting the roots and keeping humidity high while not disturbing the roots to aid in air root development to also increase root surface area. Air roots are very fragile in all my experiences and everyone I've seen on RUclips.
Great video, RIP pepper eating footage. Where did you first learn about how to grow hydroponic plants? I've been interested myself but it always felt difficult to get into. Looking forward to next vid! 🌱
thank u sm! I might make a video on this soon actually. I started w vertical farm tours - bowery & square roots had some cool vids done about them - then binged all of jeb gardeners stuff, plus a lot of reddit browsing. good luck starting!
Nice video. That's how you learn stuff. Nobody get's it right on the first time trying out new stuff. Next time maybe ask for help on reddit or even here. For the future: If you see something is wrong even after adding nutrients, let the plant sit in plain old water for a day or two and if the drooping stops then you need to re-calculate your ratios or even make a fresh batch
Thanks for the Content. You made a minor mistake in the beginning, by putting them into a transparent container causing algae growth. Even if the algea is not visible yet, it is probably evolving already. This might have caused the browning of your roots. Greets from Berlin and keep it up 🤙
You don’t have to do anything to pollinate just moving it makes the pollen dust off just wait jalapeños are the easiest plant to grow almost in gardening
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Drooping lol pepper plants like dry not hydroponics yes they grow but they do not like it to many bites use less way less it’s much more productive and safer for consumption use fresh water for at least 7-14 days before consuming it’s easy to harvest before it’s safe
looked like root rot to me. Try a lower water level, easier obtained in a bigger reservoir. Also aeration can help with preventing root rot, Pythium wont do as well in a oxygen rich environment. Well done anyways, hydroponics is a constant learning progress.
I am suffering together with that plant. It is a miracle that plant it even survived this treatment. Please, before trying "things" with plants, do your research. Starting with the importance of oxygen for roots.
If your hands were "stained with pepper juice" for a week then you need to learn to wash your hands ✋. Also its called capsaicin which is an oil produced by the peppers 🌶 haha. Jk youre adorable
Yo I found this on reddit and it helped me procrastinate for 11 more minutes. I don't regret it. Thanks
yo I got u ❤️
Same
I've been there haha! When I lived in an apartment I used a whole walk in closet for my pepper grow! glad to see i'm not alone!
I love the old school Brandon Roger's sound "boom, a child" 😂
Hey great video, i have grown many peppers indoors and here to give you some tips.
You can put seeds directly in hydroton? I've never used it. You started using Maxigro at 2 tsp per gallon? If your leaves were dark green then it was too much. You switched to flora micro? Where are the other 2 bottles? I think you need to mix 3 together. Next time use Maxibloom, its the only thing i use.
Each pepper flower has all parts needed to grow fruit, just gently shake them. I think what killed them was the roots needing more air and your nutrient mix being wrong. Good job keeping 2 plants alive in a small jar. That is a challenge
My best guesses as to why the plant health problems appeared:
1)Not giving the nutes a fresh refill as often as you should have. Pepper plant roots tend to take what they need and leave everything else behind. So if you see something like the nutrient solution not being uniformly clear with some white floaty things floating around, it might be time to flush everything out
2) not enough air going to the roots. Maybe the water level was too high for decent air intake from the roots
3) the root ball got too dense that they started choking eachother or denying water and air to eachother. I think this was the case and the best way to combat this is to prune the roots and then prune the plant as well to accommodate for the lack of intake it'll be getting. After pruning the roots give them a nice rinse bc it's kind of like cutting hair in the sense that there will also be lots of debris left in the root ball that'll drop into the water supply
3 years too late, but the droop and eventual death was from root rot. It was surprising you didn’t encounter it earlier, and you did a great job overall.
Not enough air water gap
@@slicktmi No.
@@Des420 please elaborate.
@@slicktmi No.
@Des420 yes.
In my personal experience with growing a jalapeno in soil at least is that those small bumps are roots trying to start from the side I usually put a mix of ash and mulch within it and so far it seems to work
What is the nutrients you're using they seem to have a great green color.😊
sorry one more thing if there was any web accompanied by little moving specs it could be spider mites. Which can be controlled with a neem oil solution.
I lost it at "BOOM! A child"
No jalapeno microgreens. 😂 Two plants are probably fighting for nutrients from the reservoir. Peppers and tomatoes are self pollinating,all you need to do is tap the flowers or shake the plant a bit to make the flowers drop the pollen. Unless you want to cross pollinate then you would hand pollinate from a different pepper plant. Did you fill the container to the top? If so you may have been drowning the roots. PH is critical with fruiting plants like peppers and tomatoes so they can take up the nutrients properly. Ph should be 5.8 to 6.0 for hydroponics. At least you were able to get some peppers. Great job, I did the kratky radish grow with mixed results, they are still growing if you want to check that out! Will probably try it again a bit differently. 🌱
yup eating a night shade plant was def a mistake LOL I had a lot of fun shaking the plant later for pollination. I definitely over-filled the container, which prob caused the drooping. I'll check your kratky radishes out now!
@@radnatalie I don't know if you've ever grown kohlrabi, but it grows very easily using the kratky method. I have a video on that too. 😁
What did you use as a seed starter?
Kratky can be tricky especially for crops that take the full season to grow. From the video it looks like the demise was due to rootrot, wilting happens when roots cease to function :)
If you plan to grow another pepper i`d recommend a basic flood and drain bucket (no pump required) which i know you have the skills to make from your fogponic adventures. The longest i`ve had a pepper in the same bucket of hydroton is 5 years. the trunk of the plant was like an old oak tree. Being in a bucket you can place it outside in the summer so its super productive. When it gets cold outside you simply cut it right back and bring it in for the winter.
Can you help point me in the right direction; what kind of flood and drain bucket doesn't use a pump? Unless you're talking about manually flooding and draining it multiple times a day . . . which seems too tedious and easy to make a catastrophic mistake that kills the plant.
@@brandonmakridis1565
Hi Brandon
I only flood twice a day, morning and late afternoon. The trick is to locate the drain (15mm john guest tank connector) a couple of inches above the bottom of the bucket which creates a reserve for the plant to draw on.
@@brandonmakridis1565 Drain into a tray/tub below the container. Use a bucket or cup to water. If you use a coco/perlite mix in the bucket, once everey 1-2 days is enough, depending on how big container and plant are, and air temps. Multiple times per day are totally unnecessary. For only a few plants, it is actaully easier that setting up return lines and a pump. Flood and drain in individual containers might also be called dutch bucketsIt works better than kratky for me, mostly because I fail to watch water level in kratky enough. Outdoors, I just water enough daily, or every couple days and let excess run off to ground. In cooler temps, I can go 4-5 days, and if you let excess drain to ground, if it rains, it flushes the media for you. After a few times, you learn how much to water to avoid most of the 'waste' . Another method for small spaces is simple containers sitting in a shallow tray of nutrient solution, with a media in the containers that wicks up enough moisture. Just refill the tray when it gets low. Something like a washing machine tray with sides 1-2 inches tall works to hold several plants. You may be able to go multiple days, maybe even a week using the bottom watering, and it is so easy to see the water level.
i dont know if anyone said it jet but peppers polinate them self the stick of the flower (stigma) is the part wich needs to be polinated and the stuff surounding it has the pollen in it. so every flower is normaly male and female at the same time
oh really? only some of the flowers had pollen while others didn't, and I'm pretty sure that the non-pollen ones were the ones that ended up as peppers, but maybe I'm remembering wrong about the second thing. interesting, I'll have to look into this some more. thanks for commenting!
solid vid, non-annoying self-promotion in jeb’s comments
good job
When will you post again 😭😭😭
It’s a air flow issue is why your brown leaves are showing up it’s common in peppers but not all varieties. And most peppers are self pollinators. If you put a fan on them it will also pollinate your flowers
The biggest thing you can do is check the ph balance of your water and adjust it when it’s off that’s the most crucial thing in hydroponics. Also make sure the water container is not getting light into it or it will grow algae
Great video😎 I am one month into my jalapeno and cucumber tent grow and your video was a great demonstration of how to pollinate 😊
Everything you said at the video end of the video is correct. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing 😁
A++ for the effort
Growing plants is a hundred percent of learning experience. Yeah it takes years
Can I say I just wanted to try this and this video is amazing and informative keep posting !!!
It is probably something to do with root rot
Your RUclips is so underrated. U deserve more subscribers
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When you refill the container, do not fill it up as high as you did initially. You are drowning the smaller roots at the top which need oxygen. Fill the container half way or a 3rd of the way the roots can still breath.
So this is 10.mths old but i usually do either the recommended amount or half the recommended amount of nutes for dwc . Also a tiny bit of h202 or hydrogen peroxide helps a lot with the green roots, thats more than likely algae.. 😄 but also black chalkboard paint helps a lot with light , maybe black first then let it dry and thenn paint it white to reflect light ig. Just black should help with algae itself tho so yeah cheers
Coukd you do a tutorial I’ve needed a step tutorial cause idk how to take care of the Algae what light to use when to move or how to cut idkkk or any recommended videos 😭😭
literally editing a how to start hydroponics video rn we're on the same wavelength
@@radnatalie ahhhh love u so much ty also love ur personality you seem so fun 😭😭!!
looking forward to trying this
for future reference all sweet peppers and chili peppers are self pollinating so they all have both male and female parts.
I believe what happened was root rot. You can tell by the color of the roots and the plant starts to show sighs similar to the plant not getting enough water but it’s actually getting to much . I bet you kept the water level to high roots also need air.
What kind of grow light are you using?
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Brian
It’s called root development on the base of the plant the spots are from to much water and nutrients
To me it looks like the water level is too high. For Kraky as the plant matures the water level drops lower. Unless you are using a double cup. which these plants would have out grown by now. Brown roots indicate the roots were dying.
Did you let the water level drop some?
You are absolutely amazing keep it up!
Oh wow, I though I was the only one who has been filling the house with plants every where LOL🤣. Ever check the efficacy of the grow lights? I feel that that could be optimized more. also just got to say this, don't bring pepper plant from outdoors in - because the aphids will follow it in......🌱
Great! Makes me want to start growing jalapenos myself or something similar. Those leaves and flowers are so nice looking. Cherry tomatoes are still the only fruiting veg I've grown. I do get the acne all the time on my plants, don't think it's a bad thing. I have also been cursed by the pepper hands before and I was stupid enough to also take a long bath afterwards which made the pepper oils go even deeper into my skin. Kept me up all night lol
ooh I want to do tomatoes soon! acne def scared me but after reading some of the other comments it seems to be a good sign. pepper oils really are the worst >:(
This video is hilarious 🤣😂
However the best way to learn is through trial and error every grow only gets better, also the acne on the plants are new roots trying to grow out of the plant
Did you use plant the seeds straight into the clay pebbles?? or did you uss rockwool?
Your jalapeno drowned? Keep more air in the jar or use an aquarium air pump.
Drooping was caused by too much water leave a gap for the air roots when refilling otherwise you could use an airpump/airstones
You have to prune the flowers off early to encourage growth
Better to prune the roots as you refill the reservoir.
Here from Jeb, was not disappointed. Cute cat
thank you! happy to hear that :)
How beautiful 👍
Great video! 🌱
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I think the roots had not enough airation, a common problem with the kratky method. Staying with kratky you could keep a lower water level later in the grow allowing a larger portion of the rootball to breath.
Considering nutrient concentration it is better to have too little nutrients in the water than too much, so you can slowly readjust the levels. Too much nutrients can cause abnormal growth with deformed flowers, leafs etc.
Also, like you said, seperating the plants early on into different jugs should help.
But very nice, considering you do this in your closet 😁
thank you! yeah, I was definitely heavy[handed with the actual pouring of the nutrients. I'm keeping a "less in more" mindset for the future :)
@@radnatalie another thing I just thought of, your plants might have experienced nutrient lockout (explanation: originhydroponics.com/nutrient-lockout/ ).
What you can do if you suspect this to be the case is, take the plant out of the nutrient water, wash the roots with clean tap/rain water, then change the nutrient water and reduce the nutrient level in the new batch.
I had similar problems when first growing tomatoes in an ebb and flow system.
fROM WHAT YOUR LEAFS LOOK LIKE IS IT NEEDS IRON, THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME WITH KRATKE TOMATOS.
An EC meter would help with knowing the concentration of your solutions both before you change and what it had been sitting in already. Know the difference between ppm and millisiemens first! Ppm conversion can change between regions too.
just ordered one, so it should be coming in soon. I'll look into ppm millisiemens conversions before I calibrate it. thanks for commenting!
Thanks for your enthusiastic videos! Found you after watching Jeb's jalapeño video!
Fish tank air pump, the plant needs oxygen. Do not refill to top of net cup, the top roots take up air. If you over water you cause root rot.
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The reason your plant went bad is likely the ph balance and the. If you added a bubbling air stone to your water reservoir the roots would get way more oxygen and not turn brown
The plant died because of lack of air in the bottle. You’re not supposed to full the bottle with water and solution. You can search “root rot” for more information. ☺️ nice and entertaining video btw 🤗
Great video. It could have been the concentration. I'm sure you've studied the Kratky method. If I refill a container during a grow, I try not to go more than 50 percent to leave space for the air roots to get oxygen. Submerging the air roots will definitely kill the plant.
thank you! I definitely go heavy handed on the actual pouring of the nutrients sometimes, I'll watch for that.
Biggest container you can fit in your closet is best. Once water level gets to around half full, try to keep it there. Add a little more nutrient solution to bring back to level at a time, rather than letting water level drop low and adding back in a lot. In a small container, that may mean daily. You saw how well it grew in the beginning, there is no reason it can't go on like that for a long time- nearly two years for a jalapeno. Every 3-4 refills, empty jar a fill back up to half full. Hard to do with big plant, but you can prune plant, or add a drain to the bottom or siphon out old solution if you can't empty with plant in place. Peppers are one of the best plants to grow using kratky method in my opinion. If you grow the right variety, you could have plant growing for up to 15 years!!!! And I thought plants that produced fruit were female but you keep referring to plant as 'he'
Keep crushing it #2023
peppers are in the nightshade family
it gets better. BUT do airstone or only 50% water lvl...also refill it with frash water when its 20% water lvl. its better to have just a bit less nutriens when to much. i think the roots had minarials o n it and thay couldnt take any nutriens anymore...in this case you need to clean the root and put it in frash water and pray xD. but just take a airstone for fish and put it in the jar. but the rest was good. small mistakes make have a big impact
LOL I know all about praying for my pants to survive. put an airstone in the amazon cart, now just waiting for it :)
Airstones can disrupt root development too so be careful how aggressive the bubbles are. Finer is better at helping dissolution and it's easier to dissolve in cooler water than in warm.
thats not true. the airstone helps the plant to make a different kind of air roots. So you can fill it full (80%). yes if you start with airstones after you startet with growing it is bad for the plant but not when you do it from the beginning. and the hard big bubbels are good becouse its like aeropinics. and pls dont buy from amazon 😅. most of the time its 10 Times more expensive then eBay or aliexpress.
@@akimtu9523 what's not true?
@@akimtu9523 I would love a little more explanation from you about your comment towards mine. I've provided my current understanding I hope to hear your view.
Can you point me towards info on this other type of air roots?
Why is it bad to add air after starting a grow? Vs adding it from the start?
Air should be added to keep oxygen available for the roots, especially during respiration, and to fend off anaerobic bacteria from colonizing creating those awful smells and root rot.
How are hard big bubbles beating on roots similar to aeroponics?
Aeroponics in my understanding was misting the roots and keeping humidity high while not disturbing the roots to aid in air root development to also increase root surface area. Air roots are very fragile in all my experiences and everyone I've seen on RUclips.
Great video, RIP pepper eating footage. Where did you first learn about how to grow hydroponic plants? I've been interested myself but it always felt difficult to get into. Looking forward to next vid! 🌱
thank u sm! I might make a video on this soon actually. I started w vertical farm tours - bowery & square roots had some cool vids done about them - then binged all of jeb gardeners stuff, plus a lot of reddit browsing. good luck starting!
Nice video. That's how you learn stuff. Nobody get's it right on the first time trying out new stuff. Next time maybe ask for help on reddit or even here. For the future: If you see something is wrong even after adding nutrients, let the plant sit in plain old water for a day or two and if the drooping stops then you need to re-calculate your ratios or even make a fresh batch
yoooo poggers someoone else who actually likes growing peppers
bell peppers are prob next!!! so yummy and the plants are so pretty :)
@@radnatalie i grow superhots in a setup kinda like yours
Your the shit keep growin
Thanks for the Content.
You made a minor mistake in the beginning, by putting them into a transparent container causing algae growth. Even if the algea is not visible yet, it is probably evolving already. This might have caused the browning of your roots.
Greets from Berlin and keep it up 🤙
thank you so much! didn't know it mattered that much early on. I'll try covering the jars even during the germ stage.
You don’t have to do anything to pollinate just moving it makes the pollen dust off just wait jalapeños are the easiest plant to grow almost in gardening
Nice video! You seem to have a german accent
thank you! I’m actually from the US
The plant can't breath. It needs air in the water.
Just found your channel- realized I watch- listened, rather- to one of your other videos and I wanted to give you a couple of tips that no one else- IS going to "inform" you OF!
1]
"Khang Star" is another RUclipsr who does a TON of "grafting" stuff but he uses "hydroponics" for a growing method. He does a LOT with explaining the "WHY'S" & the "HOW'S" of why to do things and why NOT to do certain things!
Idk if you "pruned" either of these- but NEXT time your grow a pepper plant- ANY type/kind, you should really watch a few of his videos and you'll get WAAAY more info than most [so-called] "gardeners" will TELL you!
2]
When trying to figure out "how" to plant specific plants- a HUGE "tip" that goes a LOOOOONG way, is to research the "TYPE" of plant you want to grow- BEFORE you attempt to grow it...
THIS WAY, not only can YOU learn about the mistakes that others have already made- (so YOU don't HAVE to make the same mistakes before you learn the lesson-) but ALSO, so that YOU can get a better understanding of "WHY" specific plants grow the way that they do.
For a couple of examples to start with...
Herbs: have very shallow root systems and can be grown in literally- ANY type of "container" or "jug"- (I know bc I've tried- I've tried SOOO much crap that "other" "people" SAY- "you CANT do thaaaaat!"
.....ugh, IF I had listened to them- I wouldn't have the herb garden, that I have NOW- sooo... yeah!
(I'm sorry I don't have videos of any of this but I ALSO don't have anyone paying MY "bills" or "doing a job" for ME- for FREE!
Sooo, I'm NOT going to do 'THEIR' "JOB"- FOR them! ("AI research" for their "system") [No way, José. "They" have got the WRONG one for THAT "job"!!]
Ultimately, by using "google"- (FYI: whether you "like" what "Google" IS doing- or NOT- "Google" IS, STILL doing "it"! Your "opinion" is 510% IRRELEVANT- to the #FactsOfGoogle
Anyways, by using "Google"- you're simply "feeding", "condoning" & "enabling" a bull-sheit, hypocritical, sociopathic [so-called] "platform".
(FYI: if YOU go and REALLY, READ "Googles"- "New Terms & Policy"- as of January 1st, 2021- YOU will "see" [read] for YOUR SELF, that... [and I quote]
- ANYONE & EVERYONE, with a "Registered EIN #" CAN & DOES, NOW have "real-time" ACCESS- to:
- EVERYTHING you click on...
- EVERYTHING you "view"...
- EVERYTHING you "search for" on "Google" (justified with "marketing tactics- to "see" WHO is buying WHAT! Other "countried" CAN, ALSO "see" THIS..
- EVERYONE, with a "registered EIN #":
- does NOT "NEED A WARRANT" to "view" YOUR "online activity"
- does NOT "NEED a police investigation" in order to "view", what YOU ARE "viewing", "searching FOR"- (even if its a typo/auto-correct- its ALL, being "saved"/"monitored", btw)
- does not "NEED" YOUR "permission" to "view" ANY THING YOU DO- through using the "Google" platform!
Sooo... if you're wondering,
"Why the hell is something I looked up on "Google", showing up as "AD's" on websites I visit?....
..I'm sorry to tell you- but THERE'S👆 the "WHY?" and the "HOW does 'it' KNOW..?"
Every time you "research" something on "google"- take note:
There is ALWAYS, SOMEONE- trying to SELL YOU some thing!
"Google" is an "advertisers" platform- which, is what a lot of "people" ARE "figuring out" in between learning the lessons of "marketing"!
Through "googling" the "species" of plant and using the "species" of plant to learn "HOW" the plant grows-
I PINKY PROMISE YOU, that you'll figure out what you need to know.
Regardless, I think you're doing FAN-friggin'-TASTIC, btw!
Bro why are you putting more effort into your youtube comment than most put into their school essays
@@ThahnG413 "Bro", if THAT'S👆 your "idea" of "more work", than an "institutionalized school", *Essay*- then I can see "how", "others"- believe that "humanity" is "doomed"!
You, 'Bro' have some "thinking" to do!
(My bad, #TikTok got you "stuck" with a #7SecondGoldfishBrain )
May want to go try "troll-ing" someone else's comments- as I see, NOTHING that "pertains" to YOU!
@@99thmonkeyresonance66 are you on drugs? Also I don't use tiktok but ok
@@ThahnG413 Nope. No need for "drugs"-
..I don't have a "need"- to "escape", the "#greedy", "#materialistic", "#egotistical", "de-lusion"- that YOU call, "reality"!
In love, light, peace & unity-
Good luck with your, "life" "goals" & "endeavors"!
May YOU, [and "others", as well] ..one day & some day- SOON, "see"- ALL that IS, "BE-ing" DONE "TO" YOU..
..under the "cloak" of [the, "DE-lusional", "contagious"- SO-CALLED, "beliefs" of- "well, 'THEIR' doing 'it', so I 'HAVE TO", TOO- so I can 'fit in'.." type of #idiology]
.."#Govs" & "#Pharmas", "narrative" of:
(SO-CALLED, "#TransparencyLie2021")
.. that "things", ARE "being done"- "for" you, but RATHER- [quite frankly] .."things", are- #FACTually , "BE-ing done"- "TO" YOU!
Good luck & take care 💜 💛
@@99thmonkeyresonance66 so if you aren't taking drugs then it's safe to assume you are off your prescribed medication?
I love you
No need to pollenate they will self pollenate with the help of a small fan. Watch chillichump for more info. Nice job.
thanks for commenting. I'll check chillichump out!
I'm inspired. I've only grown outside but am going to build a hydroponic system in the spare room.
this is awesome!!! lmk how it goes :D
females have longer rods?
makes it easier to catch pollen :)
Next time prune those random branches
Root boundary 😢
Drooping lol pepper plants like dry not hydroponics yes they grow but they do not like it to many bites use less way less it’s much more productive and safer for consumption use fresh water for at least 7-14 days before consuming it’s easy to harvest before it’s safe
looked like root rot to me. Try a lower water level, easier obtained in a bigger reservoir. Also aeration can help with preventing root rot, Pythium wont do as well in a oxygen rich environment. Well done anyways, hydroponics is a constant learning progress.
its really hard to grow long season crops in kratky... you can switch to dwc to allow for easier long term growth.
Natalie, I know why your plants are dying... The purpose of a closet is to store clothes!
Hahahaaha😅
loved the video! dont eat pepper leaves though haha, they contain solanine which is a poisonous alkaloid (:
oh yes, and flowers are self pollinating (:
After baba yaga gives up on the vegeterian diet, she tries to grow peppers to spice up the taste of the children she eats.
Understandable
looks like bacterial leaf spot to me
I am suffering together with that plant. It is a miracle that plant it even survived this treatment. Please, before trying "things" with plants, do your research. Starting with the importance of oxygen for roots.
If your hands were "stained with pepper juice" for a week then you need to learn to wash your hands ✋. Also its called capsaicin which is an oil produced by the peppers 🌶 haha. Jk youre adorable
I kinda like the burning.
Same af
Do you have snap id?
Why don't you just use soil...? Why do you think nobody grows vegetables in a jar of water? lol
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