Why does the chili plant look better when growing outside of a tent

sinderyt151R93x17HK

Im not quite sure where this thread would fit in, but since its generally about chili i guess il ask here.

What am i doing wrong, why does the chili plant that are growing in a normal household room growing better and looking better then the chili plant growing in a grow tent with heater that keeps the chili heat to 28-32C at all time and artifical wind inside it to make it stronger as in the wild.

The first picture is the chili growing without any tent,heat,wind and i feel it grows alot more chilies then the one in the tent. So what am i doing wrong? i though bird eye chilies wanted it very warm? is it the wind? is it just how plants are? im confused, as i though the tent would make it grow better.

i have a log when i water the plant, how much and how much yield each plant give i write down. and so far the chili without tent is growing better i feel.


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bertrand-mabel

Not sure but the ones in the "tent" look very dry.

Again not sure why you need to grow them this way as your other plants look very healthy.

Are they producing flowers and being pollinated?

Do you need to self pollinate them?

Pete.8

Many plants need to feel a difference in temperature between day and night or their hormones become unbalanced.
Try letting it cool down at night to around 20c

Nollie

The ones in the poly tunnel do look rather dry and desiccated, all that heat and subsequently hot artificial wind might be a problem, especially if you are not ventilating the tent during the day. The latter is probably better than the wind machine. I also think it’s too hot at night. Try misting the plants with water to create a little more humidity and lowering the nighttime temps to around 23º.C.

sinderyt151R93x17HK

Pete.8 said:

Many plants need to feel a difference in temperature between day and night or their hormones become unbalanced.
Try letting it cool down at night to around 20c

Ok, so i should connect the heater to example the timers i use for the lights so when the lights goes of the heat turns of which will leave it with the heat it has produced over the night?

sinderyt151R93x17HK

bertrand-mabel said:

Not sure but the ones in the "tent" look very dry.

Again not sure why you need to grow them this way as your other plants look very healthy.

Are they producing flowers and being pollinated?

Do you need to self pollinate them?

Yes i self pollinate them pretty much everyday or atleast when i see new white flowers popping up.

The humidity goes up and down from 50-70% i try to keep it down, but its hard in my country since its norway, and now its rain season and soon snow so its cold and rainy, the ventiliation to the grow room i use goes directly to the outside, so i was thinking to maybe buying this machine that sucks the humidity outoff the air and make it drier, should that help?

sinderyt151R93x17HK

Nollie said:

The ones in the poly tunnel do look rather dry and desiccated, all that heat and subsequently hot artificial wind might be a problem, especially if you are not ventilating the tent during the day. The latter is probably better than the wind machine. I also think it’s too hot at night. Try misting the plants with water to create a little more humidity and lowering the nighttime temps to around 23º.C.

i have a ventiliate that goes directly to the outside, but its not a industrial ventilation just a normal house vent. So the fans i use is not gonna help at all then? just remove them?

The plants i have in the tents used to be my 3 best chili plants in the start before using a tent, but now the ones without a tent is doing better. the first one growed big and bushy, yielded alot of chilies of it during summer when temps outside was like 25-30c 

Pete.8

sinderyt151R93x17HK said:

Pete.8 said:

Many plants need to feel a difference in temperature between day and night or their hormones become unbalanced.
Try letting it cool down at night to around 20c

Ok, so i should connect the heater to example the timers i use for the lights so when the lights goes of the heat turns of which will leave it with the heat it has produced over the night?

Yes that makes sense - when the sun goes down it gets cooler.
So long as temps don't fall too much below 20c I think they'll be happier

sinderyt151R93x17HK

bertrand-mabel said:

Not sure but the ones in the "tent" look very dry.

Again not sure why you need to grow them this way as your other plants look very healthy.

The reason for tent is that i fear the temprature in winter will make it to cold even tho this is inside, The room its in have no proper heating so it will get very cold there without a heater and heating the entire room up would cost alot more money then just heating the tent up, so i was thinking il put my best chili plants in the tent so they could grow normally during winter and when summer comes in end of june il take them out when weather is stable.

Dovefromabove

You’re in Norway and you have no heating in your home!? 

 Or is this room not in your home? Can you move the chillies into a room in the house with better light and heating?  I think they’re really going to struggle in their current conditions. 😢 

sinderyt151R93x17HK

Dovefromabove said:

You’re in Norway and you have no heating in your home!? 

 Or is this room not in your home? Can you move the chillies into a room in the house with better light and heating?  I think they’re really going to struggle in their current conditions. 😢 

the room i use is a storage room, so it doesnt have a proper isolation, its all cement walls and cement floor. so unless i have a heater inside the room the ventiliation to the outside will make it very cold fast. The storage room is part of my home. but its not a room you can use for anything special other then example a storage, using it as a bedroom would be illegal. 

but im working on improvements now outoff whats been said in the thread above, the heater is now connected to the timers and try to make it better for them, if it still doesnt help i guess il just have to get rid of the tent or put my basil plants inside the tent instead.