Lighting Schedules: Pepper, Basil Cilantro

Hello all. I'm about to grow a few plants in my retired grow cab for the winter, and I'm finding it much harder to find lighting information on these plants than good ol' mary jane! So do any of you have info regarding what lighting spectrum (red vs. blue) I should use for any of the following plants (and also if I should change the lighting later on in the growth period).

The plants are:
Basil
Cilantro
Pepper (Habanero)
Pepper (Bhut Jolokia)

Thanks for the help!

No man i dont i grow under da good ole sun but ill tell you what basil grows like a weed and habernaro peppers are hot az fuk dazz all godd luck-one love

cyborgasm said:

Hello all. I'm about to grow a few plants in my retired grow cab for the winter, and I'm finding it much harder to find lighting information on these plants than good ol' mary jane! So do any of you have info regarding what lighting spectrum (red vs. blue) I should use for any of the following plants (and also if I should change the lighting later on in the growth period).

The plants are:
Basil
Cilantro
Pepper (Habanero)
Pepper (Bhut Jolokia)

Thanks for the help!

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ask the hydro store or visit a neighbour or greenhouse. Im pretty sure 18/6 is your standard veg time and 12/2 is your standard harvest time. as for lights - im assuming its the same for cannabis.

hope this is some help

The essentials to so many equatorial cuisines..i love it all. So much in fact that I have basil, cilantro, Datyl peppers & Thai Peppers growing in an old CFL cab of my own. I just run 18/6 nonstop with spectrum range of 4000K - 6500K. The only trick is staggering the planting time of your cilantro because it goes to seed so fast.

Also, I recommend hempy buckets or hydro for peppers for faster growth and larger peppers.

Good luck and have fun!

Hey I dont know if its appropriate to jump in your conversation as im all new here but I too am takin the winter off and growing some tomatoes and jalopenos. I have lots of experience in non thc containing plants *insert eye roll here* lol mainly in hydro so i can try and answer most of your questions if you like!!

Wish i could help ya, i wanna grow some of these..

Peppers are not photosensitive, just give them 16 hours a day and they'll be happy. Use MH lights, not HPS. The CMH lights would work well too. Years ago I grew 5 fatali plants indoors under 1k MH, I ended up with more peppers than I knew what to do with. They were amazingly hot too.

Some pepper plants are HIGHLY susceptible to the Borg, so keep an eye out for it.

Feroce said:

Peppers are not photosensitive, just give them 16 hours a day and they'll be happy. Use MH lights, not HPS. The CMH lights would work well too. Years ago I grew 5 fatali plants indoors under 1k MH, I ended up with more peppers than I knew what to do with. They were amazingly hot too.

Some pepper plants are HIGHLY susceptible to the Borg, so keep an eye out for it.

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what is Borg?

Spider mites.

very interesting thread . next year i will enjoy planting good ole veggies.

so do to the "borg", i should keep the hot stuff separate from the mellow stuff, right? or does anyone else have herbs and peppers growing with their meds?

Awesome, thanks for all the advice everyone!

I'm growing jalapenos peppers and basil. Its actually hard to find a lot of information on them. Luckily, they are so easy to grow there isn't a lot you need to know. I bought my basil in the super market, it was one of those living basil plants that was grown hydroponically. I tossed it in Miracle Grow soil the day I got it and it's doing great in my kitchen 4' away from the window. I just water it and tear off a few leafs whenever I'm cooking.

The pepper is even easier. I started it in September and it's been growing peppers every day none stop ever since. At first they're green but if you leave them alone they start to turn red, then eventually brown. Red are hot as fuck (imo). I have them growing next to my weed. They provide good shading to my seedlings. You can grow them next to almost anything.

Basically you throw them in dirt, water them, and let them be. Not much to it and they produce fruit year around as far as I can tell. I try not to harvest them all at once. Just as I need them. Just read up on blanching and canning before you consume.

I am telling you to be be careful with the bhut jolokia, they are hotter than hell and will burn your insides for day.

also, watch out for aphitds (spelling), i get them alot in my pepper garden and hurt my plants bad, but had read to just use 1tbps of dishsoap and water and it should smuther them.

Hey I'm glad to see some other people growing sweet delicious herbs using hydroponics. First an for most, basil is fairly easy to grow. Myself, could not find any pertinent information online. So it was trial and error for sometime until I found what works and what does not. To start I started with 7 cuttings off one basil plant. Rooted in rockwool then transfered into 6in cubes and put into my botanicare ebb n flow 4x4 table. I use GH floraseries 3 part nutrients with a average ppm of 900. I found out pH around 6.3 to 6.8 works best opposed to 5.5-6.0 for mary-j.

All I use is two 24w 6500k T8 floras on a 18/6 light schedule. I have to pick leafs and throw out because I have to many. Now everyone in my family has fresh basil. I am in the midst of cloning parsley but I dont know if it is gong to work. I dropped to cuttings right into the hydroton in my ebb n flow table. No roots yet but they certainly are not dieing. Its been rought 1.5-2 week sense I cut them so who knows.

Either way good luck with your basil man, the shit is good. I love how it makes me hands smell after handling it, just like I like how weed makes me feel after I smoke it. . Best of luck

so while waiting for my seeds...im gonna try growing some basil. it seems like the 18/6 is good, but what about temps and humidity?
like can i turn off my fans in the dark period?