Carolina reapers dropping flowers

[twilliard]

Hey all you hot pepper growers!
I have an issue with my reapers.
They are dropping flowers!
Can anyone suggest why my prized plants are doing this?
I grow 11 of some of the countries hottest peppers but this one I am stumped :(
All others are producing but not my reapers.
Help!!
The season is getting late here
Thank you all!

 

[Acameron2]

My cousin is a big pepper grower. I'll ask him after I get off work. He has reapers, scorpions,jigsaw all doing great.

 

[twilliard]

My cousin is a big pepper grower. I'll ask him after I get off work. He has reapers, scorpions,jigsaw all doing great.

Thanks I appreciate that!

 

[Acameron2]

He says his does it when they have a nutrient deficiency. He said he has had better yield when he switched soil to fox farm ocean forest. My cousin and I always have pretty interesting convos of his nutrients of soil to my nutrient of saltwater lol. We was wondering if skimmate would be any count of feeding it to his pepper plants.

 

[twilliard]

Oh lord no not another nutrient deficiency issue!
I live in Washington and is there any recommendations to help this?
I have been working with these since march from seed.
Thank you for the input!

 

[Acameron2]

What do you feed yours?

 

[Tom Blevins]

to much water

 

[Tom Blevins]

Bone meal works great for mine.

 

[Acameron2]

I've watched my cousin flood his plants but they also drain really fast too. But we are in North Carolina with some mean humidity so I can see why he waters like he does lol.

 

[Tom Blevins]

I had the flower pedal issue a couple years ago so I called my Ebay source for my plants
and the guy said to cut back on the water which I did to a point every evening the plant
looks like it's on it's way out but by night fall perks right back up and this year I have
picked roughly 25 peppers so far rough guess.

 

[twilliard]

I just got done talking to our local hydro business and said lower the nitrates while blooming.
I have been feeding 24-8-16
Watering every other day

 

[Tom Blevins]

3-15-0 on my bone meal

 

[twilliard]

He says his does it when they have a nutrient deficiency. He said he has had better yield when he switched soil to fox farm ocean forest. My cousin and I always have pretty interesting convos of his nutrients of soil to my nutrient of saltwater lol. We was wondering if skimmate would be any count of feeding it to his pepper plants.

Funny you say that!
I actually use my skimmer garbage to feed my indoor plants and they grow like crazy!

 

[twilliard]

3-15-0 on my bone meal

So its true??
Lower the nitrates during blooming?

 

[Tom Blevins]

I don't know if lowing the nitrates will help or not sorry.

 

[Acameron2]

Scorpions from yesterday's picking

 

[kschweer]

Scorpions from yesterday's picking

Wow just looking at that picture makes my mouth burn! Haha

 

[Acameron2]

Haha I know right! My cousin dehydrates them and makes a mean seasoning mostly.

 

[ReefMadScientist]

Ooh I love eating peppers. Here is a tip, use RO water to water your peppers. I used the run off of my RODI system to my plants and I swear its like steroids.

 

[Acameron2]

That's what I'm trying to talk my cousin into. I said just add to RO water whatever he wants to feed too. And trying to get him to try my skimmate also lol