HOT Tips for Growing Chili Peppers at Home 🌶

[@alexandraathay]

Ben, you absolutely made my day with the "give it away, give it away, give it away now" Red Hot Chilli Peppers reference 😁

[@peggyruggles3754]

Me too!! Lol

[@jamieboyd6941]

Yes!! 🤣

[@slugslaughterer6676]

thats why am in the comments rn! 😂

[@lindachambers9752]

Brilliant video!! I"m going to give it a go give it a go now 🙂 Never planted chillies before, but I"m going to give it a go this year.

[@GrowVeg]

Haha - glad you appreciated that! :-)

[@ryantablet7153]

This is the best gardening channel on you tube so much info, and I go back time and again to old videos as refreshers.Thank you!

[@GrowVeg]

Cheers Ryan!

[@Iosis4818]

We ´ ve got Red Scorpion,already outside, ours is 3 years old,planted from seed and overwinter in the office. I got great tip from a friend of mine.Try using wider conteiners rather than taller, their roots don ´t go that deep,but to sides 😊

[@TriniMonstera]

I live in the country that is home to the Moruga scorpion pepper, I cannot eat it, too hot. Right now I am growing finger chillies. I love the small bird peppers the most.

[@Iosis4818]

@@TriniMonstera I don ´ t eat spicy generally. I ´ ll grow it sure,but won ´ t eat it 😁

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks for the tip. :-)

[@roryscarlett3952]

The tip about peppers not being too wet is great. Thanks

[@storbert1328]

My husband will eat hot chillies on just about anything, so we grow a handful of varieties each year. Last year, we tried a Carolina Reaper, and after weeks of waiting for it to set fruit, it finally put out one solitary, extremely EVIL looking pepper. It *looked* hot. Knowing that the plant had put all of its strength into that one diabolical little fruit frightened us from trying to eat it, so we'll never know just how hot it really was.

[@GrowVeg]

Oh wow - that's quite something to be intimidated by its looks - you may have escaped a searing burn!

[@motog4-75]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👉😡😂

[@voiletwhitehorse]

Lol I grew scotch bonnets ,just to sit there and look at them,didn't have the guts tbh

[@Sunshineattacks3]

@@voiletwhitehorseI LOVE scotch bonnets!! Cook them in curry you’ll like it!

[@JOlivo94]

Ben, you do an absolutely fantastic job on these videos and tips. These truly mean a lot to me. On behalf of all gardeners, thank you! Happy growing!

[@GrowVeg]

You are very welcome Jordan. Thank you so much for watching.

[@farmerboy2194]

I've just finished my season down here in Australia and here a few tips I had for my success. 1 don't plant your chilli's till the soil is warm. If the days are nice but the nights are cold in spring wait a bit cause peppers hate cold soil and they will go dormant and then you be delays for weeks or months. 2 once you get a few flowers and the bush is a little small pick them off make the bush bulk up so you can get a bigger halvest from you plant. 3 aphids are your worse enemies so get on top and try and stop ants as they attract the aphids 4 hotter peppers take longer to grow and ripen so remember that 5 enjoy the ride and the fruit. I was lucky and my jigsaw and death spiral produced a heap of good fruit. Potassium is great to get the flowers growing. Have fun guys with the chilli's

[@YesiPleb]

Ah, with point #1, the secret is to germinate the seeds about a month early, sometimes longer depending if the chili pepper is a superhot as they can take a month to germinate. That way when the weather warms up you've already got a plant or two you can harden off outside and then keep outside. We're unlucky here in the UK as our chili growing season is so short due to the country having exceptionally crap summers.

[@GrowVeg]

Great tips, thank you! And yes Zeb - exceptionally crap summers are often the way!

[@farmerboy2194]

@@YesiPleb absolutely for you guys definitely get everything ready then when the soil is warm bang them in. Good luck with the seasons

[@rodolfopereira2142]

9:50 the best part of the video, thanks! Great work!

[@GrowVeg]

Cheers! :-)

[@AllBikesGreatAndSmall]

We're growing Jalapeños, Tabasco, and Sweet peppers. They're doing well but I'm going to get some bigger pots after watching this!.

[@eddie_saunders]

That was the oddest pronunciation of Carolina I've ever heard. 🤣🤣 I generally overplant my peppers, at least 32 plants in an 8 x 4 raised bed, I mix seedlings from super hot and mild varieties and save those seeds, with our longer growing season in North Carolina, my plants easily get over 6ft tall, and will quite often be producing fruit between late March and November. If you want a fun exceedingly prolific pepper, try the Pineapple Aji, it has a sweet pineapple flavour to start with, then a little heat rolls in (~25000 Scoville) and goes great in sweet and spicy pineapple based salsa.

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks for the recommendations Eddie. I'll be sure to pronounce Carolina properly next time! :-)

[@louiseme]

I love Ben's videos , and I always learn something new each time . ( growing Scotch Bonnets from seeds , they're doing well ! )

[@michielvoetberg4634]

I am growing 2 Jalapeno plants this year. I started those very early, so they already have large green peppers. I also have 4 plants of an unknown yellow pepper. It is simply grown from store bought peppers I really liked the fruity taste of

[@emsgardenjourney]

Great video and channel! This year I tried growing chillies. In one night something ate all my seedlings. Not defeated, I bought some scotch bonnets and Jalapenos. Fingers crossed they survive as larger plants 🙂

[@GrowVeg]

Hope they make it Emma - fingers crossed for you.

[@gagglesc5631]

We're growing Jalapeno chillies for the first time this year. They're doing well so far, and have been grown from seed. Looking forward to seeing how well they do, as growing bell peppers here in South Wales, UK has not been my strong point. Thanks for the information Ben, love, love, love following your videos! 😊

[@nunyabusiness2276]

If you can make it down to Devon, South Devon Chilli Farm is great!

[@angelaguilar9222]

If you want mild peppers harves a day after water if you want spicy cut back on water before harvest. Jalapeños are great green and red well depending on the variety.

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks for the kind words Gaggles. Looking forward to seeing how the chillies do - slow start but they seem to be beginning to pick up speed now.

[@deborahisaacs8999]

A tip for storing surplus chillies: freeze them. It is more straightforward (and I find more successful) than drying them - you don't have to do lots at one time. You just them to a recycled takeaway box with a lid in the freezer when they are ripe, a few at a time if you like. They last for ages. You can take them out one at a time when you need them and they unfreeze in seconds. A query about Scotch Bonnets. Last year I grew some for the first time, and they produced the mildest chillies I have ever eaten. It wasn't just my homegrown chillies, last autumn we found it difficult to buy spicy chillies and the scotch bonnets on offer were very mild and frankly tasteless. This lasted three or four months. Has anyone else had this problem with scotch bonnets or any other chilli? Was there something I might have done in their cultivation?

[@angelaguilar9222]

You can pickle them too in Mexico we pickle them with carrots and onions you can add other stuff too. They taste amazing try it out.

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks for the preserving tips. Re the Scotch bonnets, I've not come across this before. As always, keeping plants on the drier side as they ripen should help to develop that heat.

[@paulmcloughlin114]

I grew 4 plants and they were hot and fruity. I also pruned them back to a twig, put them in a cold cupboard for a few weeks, then got them out again and they're already producing flowers. They got hit by frips but I washed them with a little agricultural soapy water and they've been grand since. So it can be done on a window ledge indoors, but need a little tnc!

[@mtbrider9911]

Great video, this year I'm growing carolina reaper, magura scorpion, Joe's longs, tabasco, peri peri, orange and white habaneros.

[@GrowVeg]

Some tasty-spicy ones there!

[@frankburns8871]

I grew ghost peppers last year and Oh. My. GAWD! I can't even describe how hot they were. Just a tiny little piece and it felt like it was burning a hole in my tongue. Don't even handle them barehanded cause if you forget and later touch anywhere near your eyes (or other sensitive areas) you're in for a world of hurt. Made great hot sauce and pepper flakes though!

[@andreahorsch286]

Lol, ditto. One plant made like 300 peppers. It was a beast.

[@frankburns8871]

@@andreahorsch286 Yeah, forgot to mention that. Incredibly prolific. I kind of assumed the hotter the pepper, the less prolific, but if anything it seems to be the opposite. I have a heck of a time getting any sort of results from by Bells, but never-ending abundance from Habs, Ghosts, and Jalapenos.

[@andrewreaney]

I would like to see you try to grow some chilies outdoors. Varieties recommended for cooler regions are Hungarian Yellow Wax, Aci Sivri and Rocoto. (I can't do it myself at the moment but hope to be able to soon and an expert gardener like yourself is much less likely to mess it up than I am.)

[@GrowVeg]

Wise words Frank! Andrew - thanks for the idea. My summers just aren't warm enough to grow reliably outdoors, but I may try locating one onto the patio to see how it does.

[@beentheredonethat6584]

I was able to add heat to the soil by planting a pepper in a 2'x2' square surrounded by 2'x2' concrete pavers. This plant grew twice as tall and produced far more than my others even though it received only late afternoon sunshine. This was a good experiment that worked!

[@angelaguilar9222]

Yes it's more about the soil temperature for pepper if the days are hot but night are cold they won't grow as fast

[@GrowVeg]

Great idea!

[@dahutful]

If I may, it’s pronounced “Cār-o- lyna.” I live where they originated, and it grates on my nerves every time you say “Caroleena.” LOL Thanks for your understanding. I’m growing habañeros this year, along with bhut jolokia (ghost peppers). Great video, Ben!

[@RudeRedDog]

I am glad you posted this, as I was thinking of doing the same, but you being from there supercedes my claim. 😊 👍

[@GrowVeg]

I immediately realised I had been saying it wrong once the video went out. I went to school with a girl who whose name was pronounced as I said it - I think that's why I kept saying it wrong. I hang my head in shame for getting the great states of N. and S. Carolina pronounced wrong. :-( But so pleased you enjoyed the video! :-)

[@dahutful]

@@GrowVeg I always enjoy your videos, Ben. It is pronounced that way among Latin languages. So it’s not wrong in that regard. But for us, here in the Carolinas, It is a shocker L O L

[@SistaChic]

Hello, my fellow chili-head! When growing chiles, the hotter the temperature the hotter the pepper. If you have a cool growing season, the peppers won't be as hot. Also, peppers cross-pollinate easily, which can dilute out a lot of the heat. One year, I had milder peppers next to my jalapenos and there was no heat whatever in the jalapenos! You could eat them like a green pepper. Grrr! It's best to plant a row of peppers, then say, a row of tomatoes, then you can plant another kind of pepper. Just make sure they're separated by some other plant that will keep them from crossing. As for putting up your harvest, peppers pickle beautifully. So, if you have a peck of pickled peppers, you'll be able to enjoy them all winter. This year, I'm growing Carolina Reapers for the first time. So excited.

[@GrowVeg]

Really great advice Deborah, thank you. Very exciting to be growing the Carolina Reapers for the first time!

[@looneygardener]

My fermented Sriracha is so popular with my family, that a good portion of my garden is devoted to jalapeños and cayennes. I find them very easy to grow with no pests to speak of.

[@GrowVeg]

I bet it tastes divine!

[@missreg333]

Jalapeños are my speed and very easy to grow in pots! They are very forgiving-thanks for the video! 😊

[@GrowVeg]

Nice one!

[@sarahd5064]

Another great video! Last year I grew jalapeños and one trick I heard was plant two plants as one (so two plants rather close together and then space out your next set if two). It worked really well! This year I’ve been trying to start jalapeño seedlings but I’ve not had much success with my seedlings so far this year. I’ll be off to the nursery in a couple of weeks for jalapeños and hot Hungarian peppers and maybe some poblanos.

[@GrowVeg]

Great tip, thanks Sarah.

[@matthewfriday2979]

Great video as always! Ben, try fermenting some of those beauties with garlic for a few weeks and then blitz and bottle for a delicious hot sauce! I do it every year, adds homemade taste and heat for most anything.

[@GrowVeg]

Brilliant idea - cheers Matthew.

[@ALangston35]

Thanks for the tips! We wanna grow poblano, jalapeños, Thai chili and habaneros ourselves. Also the chili peppers joke was 💯

[@GrowVeg]

Cheers Ashley - some lovely spicy varieties there.

[@TheLazyDutchGardener]

I planted a normal chili seed 3 weeks ago, and it sprouted quick! Waiting for the true leaves now. Nothing crazy spicy for me, can't handle that!

[@MrCareer707]

I'm growing my first chillies this summer, didn't buy the seeds, bought chillies for Chilli Con Carne and harvested the seeds from one fruit, only sowed one seed and now it's around 4 Inches tall.

[@GrowVeg]

That’s a great result already. 😀

[@ZerraChannel]

Ben Thank you !!.. you have the best Vids Ever.. love them all !

[@GrowVeg]

Cheers so much! :-)

[@Avaristaa]

Thankyou Ben I have been gardening for a few years with only a little success, this I am going for broke with my biggest garden ever and I have learned so much from you thanks. I went from two raised garden beds to five raised beds one large table planter my husband built me and a raised 3ft herb garden and pots of berries. Love your videos thankyou.

[@GrowVeg]

So pleased Jackie. I hope this year is a great success in the garden - I'm sure it will be.

[@juliekraft4102]

Excellent timing on this video,thank you!🔥

[@karmaarachnid8345]

I've had mixed results even getting peppers to set fruit. My biggest success by far has been with tabasco peppers. The plants seem more robust and bushy than other peppers I've attempted. The peppers are also quite tasty, and unlike most peppers they are not hollow but juicy throughout.

[@angelaguilar9222]

Try topping of your plant to make them bushy. But not for a big variety tho cause you need it to tall for those

[@lindsaynorman9323]

3 yrs ago we grew jalapenos, last yr we did serrano, and this yr we planted tabasco peppers :D excited and hopeful they survive our maritime climate

[@terrynaidu7717]

I really enjoy your videos - informative and entertaining!! Thank you Ben

[@GrowVeg]

Really appreciate that, thanks Terry.

[@aarontaylor3768]

Thanks Ben great tips there so looking forward to growing my Chillies

[@rebecca686]

I'm a native New Mexican living in France. I have been craving traditional New Mexican chile (yes, that is spelled correctly). I found a European distributor that can supply these seeds. I am growing New Mexican Big Jim, Sandias, Chimayo. I'm also growing serrano, pepperoncicni, ancho, and garden salsa. This will be my first attempt at growing them here. Thank you for this video, it helps to add to my knowledge and hopefully success with my chiles!

[@GrowVeg]

I hope they do well for you Rebecca and you enjoy a welcome taste of home. :-)

[@manonguinchard5829]

I just started using your garden planner and it was the best decision ever, the app is perfect ! So useful

[@GrowVeg]

So pleased to hear that! :-)

[@sarahtomaka]

I'm glad you explained why my "hot" peppers weren't so hot last year - I probably overwatered. I'm doing jalapenos, serranos, and poblanos this year. They're off to a great start, so fingers crossed.

[@dustyflats3832]

Great points! Love the sticky trap idea. We have Extreme record breaking heat in Wisconsin that has been 90+°F all week. Farthest from my mind is Hot anything🤣 The spring bulbs are not lasting and the tree leaves have barely popped--no shade=Hot! Everything is off in growing. Trying to keep greenhouse cool. I wanted to get a jump start on cool weather veggies and can't because of the heat. Thankfully next week we are to cool off. I have 1 more bareroot to plant and the others are stressing a bit. I'll have to get umbrellas😁 Speaking of heat, I've found peppers actually do better here with a bit of shade. I have luck planting N-S with tomatoes on the W and peppers on the E. Listen to Ben when he says to WEAR GLOVES when handling Hot peppers. They will continually burn your skin for quite awhile. I did that once with the milder jalapenos and found covering my hands in yogurt helped. Just wear the gloves AND DON'T REUSE THOSE GLOVES! The oils remain and eventually can bleed through the gloves. That happened to me also and didn't figure it out until the Burn kicked in. Can't imagine what the hottest peppers could do to the skin--YIKES!

[@cbryce9243]

I wish we could trade a little of our temps. I'm here in the WA State in the Pacific Northwest, it's been raining, raining, raining, and temps in the 50's. I am growing mushrooms and my feet have grown webs.

[@GrowVeg]

Safe words Dusty! Hope it cools off soon for you.

[@dustyflats3832]

@@cbryce9243 Oh I wish also, we Need Rain Badley. Whole state under fire warning.

[@maryallan453]

I'm in Oklahoma, USA so peppers grow well here. I'm a wimp though and jalapeno is about as hot as I like. I am growing a couple that are a *bit* warmer to make sauce - Filius Blue, Fish and Aurora but chilli afficionados (sp?) consider those sweet. 🙂.

[@GrowVeg]

Still delicious though, whatever the heat level! :-)

[@Boomcheeks]

I'm growing Carolina Reapers again. Last year I grew 6 very healthy plants but my over wintering failed unfortunately. So I'm just growing the two plants this time and preparing for winter better.

[@GrowVeg]

Hope you get a good crops this year.

[@Boomcheeks]

@@GrowVeg Thank you!

[@barrymorgan7215]

Thanks Ben , just potting on some Apache chillies this afternoon ,great informative video

[@GrowVeg]

Great stuff Barry - hope you'll have a tasty harvest.

[@samm6806]

Another great video, Ben! I'm attempting to grow Lemon Drop and the much milder Biquinho peppers this year. After a rapid start in the heated propagator, a few of the seedlings died off when taken into our suntrap of an annex. The survivors seem OK but are growing very slowly in their individual pots. Fingers crossed they take off now we're moving towards summer 🤞

[@GrowVeg]

Keeping fingers crossed for you Sam - hope the rest pull through.

[@cdoubleu8719]

I'm growing chili peppers for the first time this year. Used seeds from a (bio) supermarket pepper. Have 6 plants at the moment (already gave away a few) and really looking forward to what comes next. Thanks for the tips!

[@JHS9498]

This year I grow the Cayenne And the Jalapeño. A part I will grow in the vegetable garden and the other part in a little greenhouse at home!

[@kimzachris5340]

I like mildish peppers, and my partner likes them really hot, so we grow a range from bell peppers and heatless habaneros to Trinidad Scorpions every year now. Our Trin is almost five years old and gave the most fruit second year (enough that we still have some dried and in the freezer). We keep them in the open on the balcony in the summer, and though our summers rarely get above 25 C, they still grow well and give enough fruit to last us the year. We just make sure they don’t go out until temp is above 15 C, and take them in again for a while if it gets too cold. We put them in five liter pots first year, ten liter pots second year and so on up to 20 liters. I especially like the fish pepper (fairly mild, interesting plant, nice and fresh flavour for cooking) and the vampire chili (mild-medium, much hotter before cooked, slightly smokey, fruity flavour).

[@GrowVeg]

Great to hear you get good results even without the very warm temperatures.

[@Mangolassie72]

Thank you Ben, I’ve been following you a while and have always learned from your posts! I have always planted chili peppers, last year it was Serrano peppers that grew but had no spice. Now I now they probably got too much water. Thank you!!!

[@GrowVeg]

You're welcome Christina - I hope you get something spicier this time round!

[@DailyMyChildhood]

This is awesome video …Appreciate your sharing😊

[@billow9721]

Really enjoyed your advice Ben thank you!

[@steve20664]

Excellent again and you’ve cheered me right up with your joke and drums👍thank you 🌶🌶🌶

[@GrowVeg]

Cheers Steve!

[@la1163]

Perfect timing! This year we are growing a whole boatload of them, Lemon citrus jalapeño, serrano, Anaheim , aji cachucha and many more. But not any super hot ones that you'll shoot fire out your mouth like a dragon. Having no gall bladder is a bummer :-(. Happy gardening Ben

[@GrowVeg]

Those are still some cracking varieties - lovely stuff!

[@ScentSational35]

This is a GREAT video! Thank you!

[@bradfry5403]

I have been growing chillies for years Apache is my favourite to grow as they have the right amount of heat and a heavy crop, I have heard that a fine mist spray of water with dissolvable aspirin helps fight off any diseases and increase the crop , I am trying it out for myself this year. Thanks for your video

[@GrowVeg]

Yes, apparently the aspirin trick can help with a few plants like that, including tomatoes.

[@partidaportet27]

We recommend using Mycorrhizal fungi and weekly feeds of fermented comfrey with chillies. The beneficial fungus stimulates the SAR response and this boosts the ping of heat and the comfrey ramps yield

[@GrowVeg]

Great advice, thank you!

[@feffe4036]

Got Habanero lemon, ancho grandes, poblanos, brown jalapenos, mirasols and havanna peppers going at the moment.

[@mbuhtz]

Catching up after vacation -- I'll be planting jalapenos this year. Some years they do great, some not so much, but this video was really helpful!

[@GrowVeg]

Great to hear that Marie. Good luck with this year's Jalapeños.

[@pnutbuderjj]

I WOULD really love an update of these!!

[@GrowVeg]

I'll be doing a few garden tours over the summer, so will be sure to include an update on them, don't worry. :-)

[@AnyKeyLady]

I am totally here for the puns! lol We are growing sweet bell peppers but might give this a go, especially if we can over winter them. Also, re the courgettes, we currently have 4 fruits and tomorrow we will get to eat our first one of the season! I really missed eating these over winter and doesn't compare to the big ones from the shops!

[@GrowVeg]

Wow - your courgettes have come early! :-)

[@AnyKeyLady]

@@GrowVeg Yes i sowed them on the 26th Feb and kept them indoors under a grow light. They are thriving in the containers outside now.

[@catherinedonovan7039]

Thanks for the video! I’m growing hot peppers for the first time this year. I’ve got a Sugar Peach Rush that I’m anxious to add to everything!

[@the-lost-pets-yt-channel]

Thank you i just started getting back into gardening and im growing chillies

[@ajdexter4195]

Trinidad scorpion is my all time favourite to grow, they look soo good when they go purple befor red 🌶🌶🌶

[@DarrenEngh]

I don't have much of a heat tolerance BUT, I'm growing Habanero, Rooster Spur, and Black Hungarian among some milder peppers which are more my speed. My Brother loved hot peppers. He passed away last fall. Let's see if I can hang with the big bro!

[@GrowVeg]

Sorry to hear of your loss Darren. Do your bro proud with those peppers. :-)

[@prunechat8401]

We grow chillies every other year and 2022 is a growing year so we have small plants at the start of their growth. We grow “apache” chillies, this year from seed because we couldn’t find plug plants. We freeze the chillies as they ripen and then use direct from the freezer. One thing that I learnt painfully was to wear gloves when handling cut chillies; as a contact lens wearer I found that no matter how well I washed my hands after working with chillies traces would transfer from my fingers to the lens. Not a pleasant experience! The chillies that we grew in 2020 are coming to an end but these last few are just as good as ever. An efficient and simple plant to grow even when space is limited.

[@GrowVeg]

Oh wow - that must have stung!

[@IndigoCobalt]

Hello! I’m from Northern Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦 and I’m glad I found this channel! We’re going to grow jalapeño, and habanero peppers - we’ve done this successfully outside last year! Thank you for the great videos! - Sara 👩🏻‍🌾

[@GrowVeg]

Cheers Sara. Hope they do well for you this season also.

[@tonybaird5469]

from nl, grew bell peppers last year. seed packages can deceive. got some bells, and 3 types of hot. enough left for a pot of chili. my garden is all still indoors. 3 degrees today, windchill minus 7. typical june in iceberg alley

[@angelaguilar9222]

You can prune your chile plant to get a bushier plant but only works for small papers something like a Ancho Grande pepper needs a taller plant. And you can pickle Chiles my mom would pickle them with carrots onions and Jalapeños, that's how we would eat them besides salsas in Mexico.

[@GrowVeg]

Might try pickling any excess chillies - sounds like a great idea. :-)

[@lottypunter-bradshaw1232]

Thanks Ben, you’ve just saved my baby chillis! I will change the compost, spray and not overwater!!!

[@GrowVeg]

Top work - hope they pull through.

[@ChrisSurawy]

I've grown Santa-Fe Grande for years, saving seeds each year from the fattest fleshed fruits. I reckon I am starting to see a difference now in that the walls are as thick as bell peppers but still have heat. Love the Santa-Fe Grande because they are mild enough to be eaten halved with melted cheese (yum) and there is always that one bad-boy in amongst the sheep... a chilli lottery. Great video, you're like my old neighbour on steroids.

[@GrowVeg]

Cheers Chris. Liking the sound of those Santa-Fe Grandes - sound delicious!

[@mariuscarrick4256]

I’ve got 4 Armageddon plants currently fruiting in the greenhouse, this season’s chilli jam should be interesting! 🔥

[@GrowVeg]

Very interesting!

[@BenAfricanCichlids]

I'm just trying jalapeños peppers again. I'm in Canada and I started them to late last year so I had to pick them before they were ready because of frost, so they were not hot. Hopefully I started them early enough this year. I'm new to gardening so I'm glad I found your channel to help me out. I started 4 years ago and tryed aquaponic for the first 2 years.......this was a little to complicated for a beginner. I kept losing everything to deficiency. Last year I planted in dirt in raise beds for the first time, I was somewhat successful but I started things late and I really overcrowded all the vegetables so the plants stay small and didn't produce much. Hopefully I'll do a little better this summer.

[@GrowVeg]

Hope everything grows well for you this summer.

[@markw5779]

Nice one Ben,I made some very nice chilli sauce last year which helped use up an excess amount of tomatoes too,also had good results by freezing chillies whole.👍

[@GrowVeg]

Have always frozen them in ice cubes, but will try just freezing them whole to save a bit of time. Very impressed by the homemade chilli sauce!

[@lizjhones9455]

this is motivational video thx Ben. them varieties 🌶 🌶

[@user-jc8tj5co7d]

I have a 2yr old scotch bonnet plant thats prolific and this yr i'm doing Jalapenos which are doing well .

[@roelbeckers81]

Thanks for these tips! Very helpful as I just planted my Moruga Scorpion Chocolate seeds this week. Hopefully these will work as I've already tried Carolina Reapers twice without any luck so far.

[@GrowVeg]

Good luck with those. I think that the hotter the chili pepper, the longer the growing season needed. So slightly less hot varieties may give more success.

[@angelaguilar9222]

I'm growing jalapeños, serranos, Ancho Grande, Tabasco, chiltepin, habanero, cayenne, and chile de arbol. The chiltepin is my best one it bushes like crazy and has a ton of peas size and shape that packa punch.

[@austin2842]

I have no problem growing hot peppers outdoors here in Canada.

[@borracho-joe7255]

Great content! Here, in Southern California, I always get leaf miners…never bad enough to prohibit production/kill them. I’m growing bells, anaheims, bubblegums, Carolina reapers, Trinidad scorpions, jalapeños and habaneros…should make some good salsas and omelettes!

[@GrowVeg]

Some lovely ones there!

[@brynhumphreys893]

Brilliant video Ben! I’m a fan Of the Red Hot Chilli Pepper’s music……..but you can’t beat eating real chilli peppers. Roll on mine growing in the greenhouse, superb!!!

[@GrowVeg]

Cheers Bryn. You'll be tucking into those exceptional chillies before long...

[@bobbun9630]

I haven't grown peppers to maturity in a pot for quite a few years now. I did keep a jalapeno plant for three years once, though. I might have to give pot growing with overwintering a go again, even though they grow quite well here (90F rare? That's daily all summer here!). Since peppers can be propagated via cuttings, that would save me the trouble of purchasing hybrid seeds again!

[@Jeff-rd6hb]

Mmm, peppers! Almost 1/2 of my garden space is dedicated to salsa & sauce ingredients, so I grow lots of peppers...red & yellow bell, jalapeño, Serrano, Anaheim, Poblano, habanero, a few others...and Carolina Reaper + Peach Reaper. All of them I started from seed in late January, been hardening them off for the past few weeks & going to plant them outside soon. While they're beautiful plants, I'm legitimately scared of the reapers. 😬

[@GrowVeg]

I think I'm going in blind - I've never tried them so will find out I hope (or do I?!).

[@triptychtwins8438]

I grew chillies for the first time last year but stuck to a mild variety. This year I've branched out a little with Anaheim's, cayenne, sweet banana and birdseye.

[@richalina6583]

You should also try to grow bird peppers. They are really small peppers that pack a punch. They are not easy to find, but worth it. They are common in the caribbean and Vietnam.

[@CoastalGardensNW]

Hi Ben those are some great looking chilli peppers I think Myne wil be going in 10l buckets this year 👍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@GrowVeg]

Great job! They took a while to get going but have started perking up in the slightly warmer weather.

[@trapped7534]

Good morning Ben. Jalapeño is about as hot as I get. Sort of low on the heat scale. One of my brothers loved habaneros and ghost chilies. I believe he had an iron mouth and stomach…. Lol.

[@GrowVeg]

Wow - your brother likes them hot!

[@JasonLockwood87]

Little tip - The best way to maximise heat is to deprive them of water as they approach picking time.

[@GrowVeg]

Hey Jason - great to see you on here! Yes, I'll be tapering down the watering near to picking. Though I'm not sure that will be necessary with these sadistically spicy numbers! Hope you're doing well.

[@maxibake9323]

Fantastic, Love Chillies.🌶 TFS GV, & take care too everyone. ❤🙂🐶

[@mcguyver66]

I love your videos Ben, the enthousiast way you present them. I grow Adjuma (Adjoema) peppers. Yellow color and look a lot like Habanero or madam Janet. I start them in a propagator in december and in may they go outside. I only keep three of them and give the rest away to friends. And indeeed, the less water they get the spicier they get. I use them for hot sauce and some I put in a box in the freezer just like that, and cut off little pieces when cooking a spicy dish. And when you buy pickles in the supermarket and put a tiny piece of pepper in the pot, after a week you've got spicy pickles just like that.

[@GrowVeg]

Thank you, and what a great idea to add some zing and spice to your pickles! :-)

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

Hey Ben! Thanks for sharing this...I am growing Trinidadian Scorpion, Aji Cereza, Black Cuban and Black Scorpion...all very very hot. Excited to try!

[@GrowVeg]

Some crackers there - hope you get a great crop.

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

@@GrowVeg thanks a mil!

[@ianmorton5943]

Love the vidio haven't grown chillies before just got my alotment snd s small cheep walk in plastic greenhouse next week i will try and get chilli plants and tomatoes inuf spas for 4 tomato plants and 4 chilli can't wait im new to all this thanks from uk

[@GrowVeg]

Nice one Ian. Enjoy your new allotment.

[@vitorpacheco3519]

Hi Ben really love your videos and your RHCP reference was brilliant 😂 I am growing this year -Sweet bull’s horn Italian variety -jalapenos -fun size bell peppers red and yellow - long bell peppers spanish variety - and the hottest one “adjuma” Not a big big fan of heat, more interested in pickling, roasting and to use them in saladas but there is something about growing peppers that is almost addictive 😝

[@GrowVeg]

Some lovely varieties there Vitor!

[@vitorpacheco3519]

@@GrowVeg thanks Ben. I really love your videos. Let us know any updates on your chilies 🌶 Keep up the good work. Cheers

[@smile30981]

Thanks for this latest video as I had not seen anything about the potting soil blend for chili peppers. My seedlings this year: habanero, jalapeno, tabasco, serrano and Shishito (the last being rather mild and what I am most excited to try!)

[@GrowVeg]

Some lovely varieties there.

[@adairsulhoff5405]

I have started fermenting sirhacha sauce and wanted to try it with purple jalapeno peppers, but none were available in my area, and it is too late to start them from seeds. The most interesting one I am trying looks like a pattypan squash!

[@GrowVeg]

Sounds like a very interesting variety you have there.

[@Stephen_T_Stephan]

In Florida and I'm growing the Carolina Reaper, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, Bhut Jolokia, Datil, Habanero, and I have some mystery seeds my wife started but hadn't labeled. I may cross breed the Datil with the Reaper for seeding next year. So, we'll see how it goes.

[@GrowVeg]

Oh wow - that will be interesting. Let us know how the cross-breeding goes.

[@MamboDogFace]

I've got cayenne and thai chilis from seed this year. I'll be looking in at the nursery for more; I want to add habanero, sweet bells and poblanos for my pepper jelly!

[@GrowVeg]

Pepper jelly - what a super idea!

[@MamboDogFace]

@@GrowVeg Pepper jelly has become a favorite condiment. On toast, scones, baked ham or lamb chops - yum!

[@toniedalton5448]

Love my hot peppers ! Use different ones for different things. The Reaper I use only one seed ! Lol But I dry them and crush them up for flavors. Salsa depends on if it is for me or not. Cause I do like the burn

[@jeffepstein4138]

Wow! Great channel, great info and inspiration.

[@JHS9498]

Last year I got some Carolina Reapers from my neighbor for the seeds and to try. My husband thought it was a nice looking pepper (he didn’t now this was a hot one, he thought it was an old Cayenne 😉) and made fried rice with it. We really cried during diner.

[@GrowVeg]

I bet you did - that's going to be some fried rice dish!

[@ade-1772]

I have grown finger chillies and English ones in my living room window before and worked out well but great video

[@Marcus2233]

spray the inside of greenhouse floor on extra hot days works a treat also like you said spider mites hate it, im growing Corbaci, 7 pot douglah, cayenne, piri piri, Jalapeños and scotch bonnets in an autopot system in the green house, Trinidad scorpion, aji lemon drop, habaneros, bishops crown, naga in fabric grow bags as I struggle with watering In normal pots (tend to over water) heard that if u hold back on the water and let them wilt it stresses the plant and ups the heat to the fruit but doubt the record holders need that 😂

[@GrowVeg]

Yes, doubt they need too much extra heat Marcus! You're growing some great varieties there.

[@H2oAllergicShark]

Nice video some great info. I do however like it when you comment about how to store the produce and give suggestions of how to use a glut of the produce as I think that gives a more rounded video. I do think it's really relevant too as anyone interested in growing things is going to be interested in how best to store and use the produce too.

[@GrowVeg]

Absolutely. Chilies are great to freeze whole or chopped up into ice cubers. I love to dehydrate them too. Cheers for watching. :-)

[@H2oAllergicShark]

@@GrowVeg Thanks for the tips :)

[@gailf.5018]

Hi Ben! I am growing Aleppo & Jalapeño along with mild Jimmy Nardello’s in my New Jersey garden this year. 🫑 🌶 🌶🌶

[@GrowVeg]

Lovely stuff!

[@BejeweledInvasionNannies]

A friend at work gave me some Bhut Jolokia (Ghost Chillie) seed's to plant this year.