The house got a bit warm as I was baking, but not so hot that the tent suffered. Windows are back open and I have a fan going in the room outside the tent to keep air around the tent from feeling still and stuffy. The outside of the tent should also be kept nice. It helps the temperature stay lower especially now that temps have dropped at night. I lowered the lights to 12" from the canopy and once I get something to do it properly I’ll be training the branches out a bit. Looking at these pics she could make full use of a branching out. If she has another stretch in her the training should help fill out the tent more. With the other plants by the end of flower the canopy should be filled out. I’ll be overwintering my peppers outside once they’re harvested, so after they’re in the tent the canopy will be filled out no matter what I do they’re making a lot of peppers and before the rain today I gave them a feeding of big bloom and tiger bloom as pods are still falling off despite some nice color to the leaves. The peppers look a little pale too, so they need a little more phosphorus than the soil has alone:man_shrugging:t3: the reaper pepper is just making as many as she can. Some of them are not properly positioned and early on they fell off from prying themselves off growing the pepper into the stem below:man_facepalming:
I topped the Tulsi as it was just growing too stick like and I wanted to promote bushing out. She made a pretty good growth so far.
I fimmed one, topped another, and pinched the last Rosie Basil earlier. They all are growing out new stems all over.
The lemon balm is doing much better after the transplant and after naturally training itself down compared to the little one in the small pot there. If the Basil outside wasn’t taking it’s time to finish it’s seeds I’d have a new pot for it already
The mint I trimmed back as it was going into flower and I found out it’s a male:man_shrugging:t3: the cilantro is doing better, but it has a definite deficiency the lavender is just doing great IMO, but IDK lavender growth rates:man_shrugging:t3:
The peppers are doing great despite some centipedes in the soil:man_shrugging:t3: the ghost pepper was the only one to have them crawl out today. very little peppers overall TBH
IDK if it has something in it’s roots or something, but the reaper pepper had no pest issues in the soil at all. The occasional digging in the surface making golf ball sized holes at worst. The ghost pepper gets deep root killing holes only. The reaper is smaller by comparison, but that’s worked out as it’s not trapped in hell RN
The Basil is halfway through Browning the pods. So close to harvest it feels like it’s taking forever to finish them:man_shrugging:t3: the seed size they are making is well worth the wait though. The seed it came from was small and I could barely hold one without accidentally dropping it without knowing. The seeds on this are the size of a auto seed from the crystal candy S2 pack from @ReikoX actually. If anyone has tips on basil harvest when you’re growing for seed I’m all ears. She started growing new leaves on a older lower branch that never flowered before and I’ll probably have to prune it off to get her back on finishing making seed. Idk what I should do really though.