RootLoops Closet Garden

epsilon · April 24, 2014

I swear I'm having memory lapses from all those nice solid blows to the head.

I could have sworn that I mentioned that you could start introducing some bloom/fruit ferts into your veg mixture. The reason for this is, while I have never heard of veg growth ferts causing flower drop I do know that you see them few and far between. you can run both and the plants will go nuts, in the case of your toms and peppers this'll cause some nice flower/fruit setting while still providing the requirements to add new vegetative growth, plus it should get them to broaden the overall transport network, on the other hand you'll have to start pinching back the herbs and stuff because they'll want to start throwing seeds as well, but normally I think herbs and fruiting plants are run in separate tubs for that very reason.

The other possibility you run into is that your current light setup is inadequate for flowering so there's not enough going on in the energy department actually get the plant to want to produce offspring. It may be that you might need a second set of lights to achieve good flower production. from the pics it almost looks like there's a bit too much blue in your spectrum, which aides in vegetative growth but has little to no impact on flower production. If you're running a fluorescent tube system and hopefully have about 4 tubes you need get half of them in the 5.5k range, that has worked for me in the past.

Aside from that every thing looks fantastic and I'm starting to get jealous over your cilantro. I've restarted several times and none have yet appeared to have germinated.

April 24, 2014	#16
epsilon Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Desert CA Posts: 400	I swear I'm having memory lapses from all those nice solid blows to the head. I could have sworn that I mentioned that you could start introducing some bloom/fruit ferts into your veg mixture. The reason for this is, while I have never heard of veg growth ferts causing flower drop I do know that you see them few and far between. you can run both and the plants will go nuts, in the case of your toms and peppers this'll cause some nice flower/fruit setting while still providing the requirements to add new vegetative growth, plus it should get them to broaden the overall transport network, on the other hand you'll have to start pinching back the herbs and stuff because they'll want to start throwing seeds as well, but normally I think herbs and fruiting plants are run in separate tubs for that very reason. The other possibility you run into is that your current light setup is inadequate for flowering so there's not enough going on in the energy department actually get the plant to want to produce offspring. It may be that you might need a second set of lights to achieve good flower production. from the pics it almost looks like there's a bit too much blue in your spectrum, which aides in vegetative growth but has little to no impact on flower production. If you're running a fluorescent tube system and hopefully have about 4 tubes you need get half of them in the 5.5k range, that has worked for me in the past. Aside from that every thing looks fantastic and I'm starting to get jealous over your cilantro. I've restarted several times and none have yet appeared to have germinated.