After a couple of months I feed them a little tomato grow in water. They are now about 3 feet tall. I hope that has helped a bit. Around here, we have high calcium soil, and the peppers take forever to get going unless I add magnesium. Epsom salts are cheap, and the effect is nothing short of astonishing. If your peppers are fine until the transplant, it could be that they're just not mature enough.
Three inches tall doesn't sound very mature, if you want them to get very big or be productive. It could also be a deficiency in your soil. I recommend a soil test.
They might need more magnesium, manganese, nitrogen or something. They might need less nitrogen. Knowing exactly how they die would help, like if the shoots shrivel, or if the leaves turn yellow, or if they wilt.
It could be an insect pest. It could also be that the sun is shining too brightly when you transplant them, especially if you plant them later in the season than a lot of people do. That could make them wither and die if you don't shade them.
You might try planting after the sun starts to go down, or shade them for a couple days. If your peppers are looking sad before you transplant them, I'm guessing your peppers just aren't getting much light.
You could put them under a table lined with mylar blankets and put some CFLs in there, both k and lower lower ones help against damping off better.
Or just give them an overhead light. That might be slightly easier and cheaper. I also recommend giving them some potassium sulfate approved for organic gardening, unless the stems are already super strong, which could indicate they have enough.
If they're soft and bend easily, or ironically, if they're getting bark, they could use more potassium. They'll get strong fast if you give them that. It should only take a few days. Tomato stems get strong faster with potassium sulfate. Potassium, if you don't have enough, after application, will strengthen the plants, help protect against disease and insects, help the plants grow faster, and increase fruit size, among other things. If you give them too much, they may get nitrogen deficiency, but it's a lot easier to give a pepper plant too much nitrogen than it is too much potassium, unless you're applying ashes or something, in which case, you don't want to add heaps of them.
I recommend avoiding ashes unless you're experimenting, and know how much and what kind to use. Don't listen to people who act like potassium sulfate is a lot more expensive than harmful kinds of potassium like potassium chloride. It's not that expensive, although it is really somewhat more expensive than potassium chloride. I don't recommend just using an NPK fertilizer with potassium in it.
In my experience, they don't seem to add as much potassium as is helpful, or the other nutrients overpower it somehow. Just pure potassium sulfate should work fine, unless you've got a lot of potassium in your soil and don't need it anyway.
I've been using a tablespoon or a half tablespoon per gallon of water, but a teaspoon is the recommended for deficient potted plants, according to someone who answered an Amazon question about it.
This is the kind I got. My plants seem to enjoy it. This will initially make your plants drink more water for a couple days, though, but it is supposed to help with drought tolerance. Along with Wayfaring Stranger's answer, I have also heard that peppers love Epsom salt. I haven't verified this yet, but I have given them a little before with no negative consequences. Sign up to join this community.
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Houzz TV. Houzz Research. Shop Featured Holiday Categories. Home Decor. Holiday Decor. Christmas Trees. Holiday Lighting. Gift Cards. Hot Peppers. Pepper seedlings won't grow. Peter 6b SE NY 6 years ago. Email Save Comment Featured Answer. You might want to consider "topping" the seedlings: Topping pepper seedlings. Like Save. Sort by: Oldest. Newest Oldest. Not only lighting can effect the growth but also soil temps.
Along the fence line are lots of different types and colors of lilies. In between them are bluebells. Right now it's just all greens but I'm seeing little buds down in there. Hopefully I can get some grass in there! This last pic, I still need to do some weeding outside the wood border, but right now it's just not a huge priority! Slow but sure it's getting there I had a garden for years but not the last two, due to low plant production. I believe my soil was the issue.
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How much more time is there in your grow season? I know around here, most people already have the plants they intend to have for the most part, so it would be hard to sell young plants. Keep the plant and sell the tomatoes to him Do you have a farmers market nearby that you might be able to ask the organizers to join? Farmers markets will have a good market for plant buyers. I think you might need to wait a bit before people will buy these. Indoor vegetable seedlings Q.
Pictures might be helpful. They are not hot peppers. They are Ace and Biscayne. We use a very dilute seaweed solution from day one. Plants will stunt if they are being kept too wet or too cold. Allow the soil surface to dry before more moisture is added. Roots grow looking for moisture. So our best guess is that the plants just need more heat. Especially at night. And when big enough, food.
Here are my top 3: 1: overwatering 2: insufficient lighting 3: ambient temperatures are too cold. Plants can also stop growing if moved outside without being hardened off first. To clarify, I often give a weak feeding of fish emulsion after the first set of true leaves.
It also includes when to start feeding peppers. A proper pH helps plants successfully uptake nutrients.
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