The discrepancy between my two soil peppers, and my hydro pepper is absurd.

So for a timeline, I have no idea how old these are. At least two months. I was planting all winter and it was my first season so I didn’t keep track of hardly anything. Lesson learned.

The soil peppers are Poblano (pic 2) and Big Jim Chili (pic 3). One thing I do know is that I planted these two at least 6 weeks before I started doing the paper towel technique to germinate some pepper seeds. Cayenne was the only one that worked, and only 1 of 25 total survived past transplantation. The last picture is of my Cayenne baby that survived my wildly unsuccessful attempt at a common “hack”

For the soil plants, I water once every week or two (when dry) and I drown those hoes. They’re in a mixture of soil, perlite, moss, and EWC. The Cayenne pepper I just use MaxiGro and some beneficial mycorrhizae product. I suck at taking care of it, after I change the nutes I forget about it for two weeks. I set it to pH 5.6-5.8, EC of 2500, and the rez is on my basement floor in Mn, in a 74° greenhouse. The greenhouse is kept at 67% humidity.