Does anybody have a good brand/make of pepper fertilizer for potted plants? I have 1 habanero plant, 2 jalapeno plants and 1 poblano pepper plant. I just potted them Sunday afternoon.
Is there a best fertilizer to use?
Neptune’s Harvest is the best fertilizer brand I’ve found. Fox Farm is a close second.
I recommend Jacks or Southern Ag if you want to buy in bulk. Miracle grow on the cheap. It works well even tho people don't like it. That's for liquid fertilizer..... For dry, I usually get a big bag of 10-10-10 at wallyworld and garden tone at home depot.... I also use fish emulation with the liquid.
Is the main difference between wet & dry mostly in the application?
I would say the difference is that dry is slow release, and wet is immediately available. I personally do both. I add dry in the hole when I plant and add to the top once or twice after. I use liquid once or twice a month.... It depends on what you grow in, too. In ground in good soil, you may not need much at all. In containers, the plants will deplete the soil eventually.
This depends on the size of container and how you set it up.
In most cases, yes a container will end up having dead and depleted soil. It is not impossible, however, to have a live soil especially in larger containers or raised garden boxes. Fox farm soils straight out of the bag are typically hot soils that do exactly this unless you kill it by over supplementing.
There are great channels (especially in the weed world on YouTube) about how to maintain live soils with compost teas and not overdoing the nutrients. It turns out store bought nutrients applied in large amounts are the number one reason your soil dies, because you end up killing off the bacteria and good fungal populations.
I would say nutrients killing the soil bacteria is possible but unlikely. That is a very debatable topic. I use natural techniques as much as possible. I make teas, compost, knf method, live soil methods. In the end, there is still a need for added nutrients. Especially if you want large and high yields. Dry amendments I recommended have bacteria added.
Before flowering, Alaska Fish Fertilizer's emulsion as directed. I spray around soil under the plant's canopy until it is moist and let it soak in once a week until blossoms emerge.
I have yet to try their 0-10-10 while the peppers are flowering but I presume it may help if the plants are vigorious enough to withstand a bounty.
Soil is peat moss/perlite/compost. I started with Rejuvenate 4-5-4 for vegetables in 5 gallon pots. I have top dressed once a week with a cup or so of worm and fish compost and a tablespoon of the Rejuvenate every 2 weeks. Watering with coconut water made from freeze dried coco water every other watering. Also have build a bloom 2-10-5 from BuildASoil when they start to bloom, which is rapidly approaching. First pepper grow for me. Started mid April with starter plants from Home Depot. Everything is doing well so far.
Medina liquid hasta grow
Dyna grow foliage pro was always my easy go to for a lower scale complete nutrient. Jacks is also good. For organics I would look at corn steep powder and solution grade gypsum or just amend your soil wit a few calcium sources and water corn steep weekly
Nice thing about nutes. Your plants don’t care about brands. I’ll add calcium nitrate underneath where I plant and spread on the top soil down the line for that lil extra bump. If you live where it is legal to grow Cannabis. Those grow stores have more than enough goods. Find the guy that actually grows not the “dude” that just works there.