hydroponic jalapeño peppers IN MY CLOSET?!

kratky hydroponic jalapeño pepper grow using glass jars and hydroton! remember to subscribe & tap that notifcations bell for more hydroponic grows ;)

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this hydroponic jalapeño pepper plant was ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. those flowers were so pretty!! there are literally like 8 separate clips of me tearing up looking at it (which I've omitted for everyone's sake). I feel like I finally have the basic kratky hydroponic setup on lock -- nice to have a successful grow! of course, it wouldn't be a true natradalie hydroponics adventure without any problems LOL. we had some mysterious drooping, harmless? spots on the leaves, and ridges at the bases of the stems -- but besides that we were ballin!

thanks for joining me on my vertical farming journey! one day, I'll be the elon musk of controlled environment agriculture, but for now, I'll keep killing plants in my closet until I've got hydroponics figured out. please comment your thoughts & advice! when you guys help out, we all grow better together :)

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[Tyler-jqol]

Yo I found this on reddit and it helped me procrastinate for 11 more minutes. I don't regret it. Thanks

[WhitepepperFarmshomestead]

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!

[rwtfallenjf]

I love the old school Brandon Roger's sound "boom, a child" 😂

[spicymcspice]

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

[priscillaoliva]

I lost it at "BOOM! A child"

[Rohtie]

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

[atomizer]

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.

[fatboy]

Can I say I just wanted to try this and this video is amazing and informative keep posting !!!

[cheddacheese]

Great video😎 I am one month into my jalapeno and cucumber tent grow and your video was a great demonstration of how to pollinate 😊

[georgemckenzie]

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

[RedBu]

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

[itsfishnow]

solid vid, non-annoying self-promotion in jeb’s comments
good job

[valeriavagapova]

Here from Jeb, was not disappointed. Cute cat

[GrowSomethinwithJeff]

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. 🌱

[lincolnheppler]

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.

[himom]

Your YouTube is so underrated. U deserve more subscribers

[Des]

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.

[peaceseeker]

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

[leongries]

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

[lifebehindtheselens]

You are absolutely amazing keep it up!