I'm not Josh of course, but setting a weekly fertilizing to a schedule is not the best for plants, although convenient for you. Best to do it based on the number of waterings, or even better do a weak fertilizing with every watering. A 1/4 to 1/3 dose with every watering will usually supply enough, and is better for the plants then the feast-famine-famine cycle that many people use.

The problem with watering on a single day, is that your fertilizer needs may vary from week to week, and you may find you overfertilize one week, and under fertilize another. If you tie it to watering (which should also be based on need, not a schedule), then you won't have this feast/famine cycle happening.

Hey, guys!

I fertilize 1/4 strength for my seedlings, and I begin to increase the dose when my seedlings
start spending time outdoors in their 4-inch containers. I don't increase to the full strength dose
until I have the peppers in their final 5-gallon containers.

Last Summer, I could tell that my plants were running low on nutrients because one or two leaves
would turn yellow before the next fertilization. This Summer, I may adjust my strategy - either
a stronger dose, or a shorter interval, I'm not sure which.

Josh

Where have you been Josh. How about a pepper update.

Hey, Jaime!
I had some trouble logging on to GardenWeb over the past couple months,
and that discouraged me....so I haven't been very active, due to the irritation and hassle
of trying to open a page and then post, only to have the page freeze or the post disappear.
Seems a bit better now, but the Hot Pepper and Citrus Forum are still very slow to load.

I think an update is in order :-)

Josh

Hmmmm. I have not had any trouble. It has always been slow but never freezes. That stinks.

I always look forward to following your grow! You have my email I demand pics! LOL

I haven't had any trouble logging in or with the forum being slow. Well, every once in a while it hangs trying to load some ad or analytic junk, but, for the most part I don't have any trouble. I wonder if it's a cache/cookie thing? BTW, I am on firefox and have ad block plus installed.

tsheets,

I too use FireFox but haven't had any issues lately. Of course our plug ins are probably very different.

I run a pretty stripped down version with just Read it Later and NoScript. I highly recommend NoScript, it stops crap like the analytic stuff from executing to begin with. When you want to sign in to GW, just temporarily allow GardenWeb and nothing else in the NoScript pull down.

I regularly sanitize my system of cookies with another non-browser app.

FWIW

For some reason, it's just GardenWeb that affects my computer.
And the Hot Pepper Forum in particular is plagued by slow-loading and freezing pages.
Last night, in fact, I nearly lost a response post to my grow-thread....but I waited it out,
and finally the page "woke up" and allowed me to scroll down and hit 'submit' before freezing.

Folks began complaining of log-in issues a couple months ago, and I told them that it
probably had to do with an advertising set-up that GardenWeb had added - I also mentioned
that GardenWeb would become glitchy, and then suddenly the techs would put up the red notification
that "garden gnomes" or whatever dumbness had been foiling the system and they were working on it.
Sure enough, it all came to pass....just as I've seen it happen at least five times before. The
only difference this last time was that it actually affected me :-)

I, too, keep my cookie cache cleared.

Josh

I haven't run into any issues, either on Chrome browser or Android tablet browser on any forum.

You guys are lucky :-)

Josh

I'm having a hard time finding Foliage Pro. Any suggestions.

I have had zero issues as well.
Bruce

Lorabell - I just ordered off Amazon. It wasn't Amazon proper, it was one of those 'fulfilled by amazon' merchants. And if I know myself, it was one that qualified for super saver shipping. :-)

hmmmm, I thought i posted a response to lorabell already...it got nuked.

Try Ebay. Do a search for "Dyna gro foliage pro". You will get dozens of results. It comes in half pint up to gallon containers. Look for for a quart to cost about $23 with free shipping. Look for a gallon to run you about $50 to $60 with free shipping and look for a half pint to run you about $9 with free shipping. I got mine on ebay but the guy I purchased from only has a gallon on sale now. You use only 1 tsp per gallon of water at full strength so it goes a long way. Just make sure you look for free shipping or a combined shipping and purchase price that is close to what I quoted above. Also, make sure they have a high seller rating.

Bruce

Thanks for the help! The people at the grow centers were looking at me with blank stares when I asked for that product. Go figure, just order on line! Didn't think of that! And Yes, I'm about 20 years minimum behind in technology!