I’ve had a few pepper volunteers come up in my seed starts. They’re happy little accidents, at least for the time being. Hopefully they wind up producing. Past results have been mixed, but I have the space so I separated them into their own containers.

I have no idea why, but my pepper leaves always turn black under my grow lights. They flip to green once they’re outdoors.

  • Track_ShovelEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The leaves look yellowish in the photo you’re showing. That’s classic N deficiency.

    • IMALlama@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Thanks for the follow up. You and @SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world poked me into taking a photo of one of the volunteers taken outdoors:

      The lower leaf is a touch yellow, but the plant seems fairly green. I am starting to mix a little miracle grow into their water so we’ll see if that helps while they’re under the grow light.

      • Track_ShovelEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Oh. Ok those look way better. Just lighting I guess. I wouldn’t worry about nutrients then.