This is Part 1 of my Organic Vs Non-Organic Container Bell Pepper Grow. And something interesting is occurring with one of the plants due to extreme heat stress. Check it out.
For the organic grow: the peppers will be growth in Fox Farms Strawberry Fields potting soil, worm castings and microryzae. Weekly feeding of compost tea and top dressings.
For the non-organic grow, the peppers will be grown in Miracle Gro potting soil, 10-10-10. Weekly feeding of Jack’s bloom booster 10-30-20 diluted to 1 tbsp per gallon.
The measure of success given the extreme heat this year will be to see if production can be matched between organic and non-organic.
Please stop back for part 2 later into the summer!
3 Comments
Great experiment! Unexpected results.
Very interesting , will look forward to the update .
A little food for thought. I grow my peppers in my greenhouse using a dutch bucket hydroponic system in MA. I control temps with a solar fan and automatic vents, but it gets freak'n hot in there. It is regularly over 100 degrees f. I don't experience signs of heat stress whatsoever with my peppers, tomatoes or cucumbers. The number of bell peppers I get over the summer is absurd. I can't even get 1/4 the production outside organically. After trying again this year, I am only growing them in a greenhouse in the future. It's just not worth the space in the garden for what I get from healthy organically grown peppers outdoors. My pepper plants get to be about 6 feet high+ over the summer and never stop producing from mid July till when I shut down for the winter. My Tomato vines are well over 20 feet by the end of the season most years, unless fungus happens to gets them like last year. I don't think it's the heat, but more related to water availability to the plant or something other than just heat. I just have too good of results in abnormally hot growing conditions for that to be the case.