How To Plant Peppers | Complete Guide to Transplanting and Fertilizing

This video is a complete pepper growing guide for how to plant peppers. This video will teach you how to grow peppers, both hot peppers and sweet peppers. We discuss how to dig your planting hole, transplanting pepper plants as seedlings and fertilizing pepper plants in great detail so you can get your peppers off to a great start and grow more peppers than ever before!
We also discuss how you can fertilize your pepper plants completely organically, as well as how to supplement your pepper plants with soluble fertilizers to increase yields if you are not into pure organic gardening.
If you have any questions, please ask them in the Comments section and I will do my best to respond.
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Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful. I'll be posting another update on peppers tomorrow afternoon as well.

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I need to unplant, fertilize more and replant after watching this. I just put coffee grounds and eggshells in mine. thanks for all the explanations on fertilizers

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This is great tutorial on peppers! I am growing mine in containers and use straw mulch, Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil and Neptune Harvest fertilizer.

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SE NC? I used to live in Southport myself. I recognize that sandy soil. I'm transplanting my peppers next week.

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I hit the like button right away before watching. This is what I have been waiting for.My question is how do I nurse plant the pepper before transplanting. Is there any video for that? Your quick response will be highly appreciated. Thanks

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Very well explained! 👍 Just in time too. Our last Frost date in zone 7b is coming up we're still dropping down into the 40's some nights so I'm holding off. Some of my Tomato plants as well as my Pepper plant are starting to produce flowers already too! Happy Gardening 👩‍🌾

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I’m in 7B also and it’s May 3…..haven’t planted my tomatoes or peppers yet….hope I’m not to late….oh well, I’ll see…..😂🥰. It’s trial and error sometimes…. I’m not going to get spaced out over it…… I’m just having fun 😊

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Great show thanks. My problem is I'm growing 600 pepper plants in salty air, high wind conditions. Tons of leaf lettuce, carrot, radish, okra, beans, peas and 500 tomato plants.

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Thanks for the tips, your tips are good but am a Sierra Leonean I want to plant peppers in my village but I don't have this opportunities for now in my village, can you please assist me with any other method of planting peppers?

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What is your favorite pepper variety to grow? Let us know in the Comments section below!

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Melrose Peppers

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@@gardeningwithdiane that's funny, I am growing 3 Melrose this year. I had never heard of them before, but the picture in the Baker Creek catalog looked beautiful, so I bought them on impulse.

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The Millennial Gardener Jimmy Nardello is another variety I’m growing that is very similar.

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I planted my pepper seeds like in late fall and my pepper plants are huge now. I’ve started to get peppers, bunch of them. They’re still small of course but it seems like it’s going to be good. I totally disregarded spacing and it doesn’t necessarily seem to be a problem. It does seem a bit crowded now that they grown big and the leaves overlap. I placed them within a few inches apart.

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I am Montagnard live in NC too I planted chili 🌶 today I love spicy food

[@maureenmatthews261]

I am seeing this for the first time. Am new to all of this. Didn't do any fertilizing while transplanting. It's been about two weeks and I've pinched off any flowers and leaves above six nodes. What are the best fertilizers to use now and when it begins to flower again I'm in Connecticut Thanks

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Millennial Gardner - @ 14:35 you mention using a natural, shredded hardwood mulch. The closest thing my local store has is "Cyprus Mulch Blend." Made by GardenScape. Will that work? Thanks for all your help!

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god i cant wait to supplement my planting hole!

[@Lyndsay-jh2um]

Taj Mahal x Pink Minion, Sugar Rush Peach, and looking forward to growing Khang Starr lemon Starburst this year.

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Lyndsay Perry what’s the first one? The cross? As in which type of fruit? Sounds interesting.

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@@TheMillennialGardener I believe it to be a cross of one of Chris Fowler's Orange tigers. They are pink/purple pods. They are peppers. They truly are amazing, check out Towns End Chilli and Spice. I'm also growing out his Taj Mahal Mustard, Roxa Lantern Black. They all have almost black foliage.

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@@Lyndsay-jh2um is it hot? I usually grow mostly hot peppers, but I always get more than I can use and nobody wants them. This year, I'm shifting strategies and growing mostly sweet peppers. I need more cubanelle types.

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@@TheMillennialGardener yes, it's definitely hot.

[@Maulyhatchet]

I'm not 100% sure what I did wrong, but I've been following all your videos, they are great! I transplanted pepper plants following this video, and they've all wilted and starting turning brown, and look very sickly. They looked great, before putting them in the ground. I think I'll just have to try again next year.

[@jenniferrevilla5298]

When I transplant snything, I put fertilizer in the bottom of hole, then add an inch or so of soil then the plant and fill the whole. That way, the roots aren't sitting on the fertilizer where they might get burned. I don't know if that might have happened.

[@Maulyhatchet]

@@jenniferrevilla5298 I just mixed it up like in this video, but that’s a great idea. I will try that next year. That being said, 2 rows of my peppers, 2 tomato plants, and my zucchini and squash, just out of nowhere, started turning green again, and seem to have pulled out of it. :)

[@rauljimenez8132]

Another outstanding video. This year I am going for Cubanelle, Arroz con Pollo and Pepper Carmen peppers. What is you opinion about topping pepper plants?

[@rauljimenez8132]

@razorsharpbt Thanks. I also heard that some pepper plants like Bell peppers do not benefit from topping.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thank you. Truthfully, I've never done it. I understand the concept behind it - trying to create a bushier pepper plant and one that isn't topheavy - but I've just never had a problem letting pepper plants grow on their own. I've found peppers are one of the few annuals that thrive on neglect, and frankly, growing tomatoes and figs can be so much effort, I need a plant that I don't have to look after. I don't prune peppers at all, and give them just a little staking and let them go, and I always have so many peppers I can't even give them away. And they are one of the few plants that have little to no disease or pest issues in my climate. They just thrive in my 90 degree, humid summer days. I'm not saying there aren't benefits, but I just haven't had a need to increase my production. I always have too many.

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Do you add more of the organic slow release fertilizer throughout the season or just at transplant time?

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Love sweet peppers . F. J. b.

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Can you please share growing eggplant ?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I don't grow a lot of eggplant, but they can be treated exactly the same as peppers and tomatoes. They are part of the same Nightshade family, so they appreciate the exact same fertilizers and frequencies. They're heavy feeders like tomatoes, so you can fertilize eggplant exactly like the peppers in this video.

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Can I add lime to this mix for container figs

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Kudos to you for this great information. If I may ask; What period is it suitable to cultivate peppers in Nigeria???

[@dndaughtery]

I transplanted some jalapeños starts but they seem so flimsy and fragile. Worried the wind will knock them over. Will they eventually get more sturdy?

[@ericalvarez889]

Is it okay to use this same method for tomatoes/cucumbers aswell?

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I saw your video on making your own garden soil mix where you use peat moss, compost, and perlite. My question is if I use coco coir instead of peat moss what ratio would you recommend? Thank You

[@majorpayne4098]

Sorry, I have tried both ways. Planting deeper than the container stunts them . at least in the north cenrtral states mid west. I am organic Raised bed gardener for 50 years

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Have you tried clumping them, or planting 2-3 seeds in a small pot and keeping them together to form a multi-trunked plant? I'm trying the latter this time. Hoping someone else has tried it and can give some feedback.

[@tylerdenning9396]

you can do that, but in my experience, the plants grow much slower and do not get quite as big. I started pepper plants from seed this year (starting in January) and every single pot that had more than one plant in it now has much smaller plants as compared to the ones that only have 1 plant per pot.

[@catcolbert9044]

How frequently should you add crab and lobster meal to your soil? I am new to gardening in the south and only learned about the benefit of adding this from your videos. Is it an annual soil addition or more frequently? Thank you for all you share.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I add it at planting into the planting hole. You can provide occasional amendments here and there, but it's pretty expensive stuff and takes a long time to break down. Adding it more than once or twice a season seem excessive, to me. If I need more calcium or phosphorous, I add bone meal and all purpose granulated fertilizers.

[@kmcte5]

What if my pepper plants are about the size of yours in the beginning of this video with multiple blooms. They are so small I don’t know if at the size they are at now if the will be able to bare the weight of the fruit. Can I correct this?

[@ranaisadoll]

You can top them off (cut the tops off) even if they have blooms. This will encourage the stalk to get stronger and you’ll end up with a bushier plant rather than a tall slim plant. It’s heartbreaking to cut the tops off but it really does help!

[@michaelfranks341]

Do you do soluble fertilizer every two weeks or wait longer?

[@corwin81]

I assume you can apply the fertilizer after it’s already been planted?

[@kennedydaniels1096]

I noticed that you planted peppers in March. I live in Richmond VA and have worried that planting peppers may be a problem if nighttime temperatures go below 50 or so?

[@dsan2020]

Do you take off the flowers of your young pepper plants so they produce more energy for growing and more flowers later.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I do not remove any flowers. I let them grow as they please.

[@pretty95138]

Very helpful..I gave my pepper plants in container a FE spray and irrigated soil. Seeing the new growth curling and small...maybe calcium deficiency? Any advice?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I am not sure how well peppers absorb nutrients through foliar sprays. How often do you fertilize the plant? Peppers are heavy feeders and will deplete containers quickly. If you're seeing malformed leaves, my first guess would be a nutrient deficiency. I would dust the soil with bone meal and give it a full strength feeding of MiracleGro Tomato 18-18-21.

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@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks so much fore replying..I gave it slow release tomato vegetable fertilizer 3 weeks back. I gave it fish emulsion a week back. I dont see any pest. But all new leaves are tiny, distorted, curled up.

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What kid of soil do you use?

[@BS-j1965]

WOW that’s allot of food for those peppers🙀I don’t know any gardener that feeds all that to their plants tha🙀🙀🙀

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Not really. If you actually read instructions for soluble fertilizers, they recommend a 2-week rotation. Annual vegetable gardening is *not* a natural process, despite what some channels state. You can give them less food, and in return, you'll get less food from your plants. It depends how much production you want.

[@matthewvance4277]

I am planting my sweet peppers now..Im a little late but they are doing good in the Pots..The question I have is how much sun should they get..?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

For peppers, the minimum sun they need is 6 hours of unfiltered, direct sunlight a day. However, getting them 8 hours is even better. If you live in a hot climate, some afternoon shade isn't a bad thing. However, peppers are pretty tough. Mine get about 11 hours of sun this time of year, which is a little much, but they do pretty well.

[@Fattiapples]

during fruiting stage of pepper, could you use a soluble fert that has higher P over N? Or a balanced is overall better? Asking since for figs you suggested during fruiting to use higher P. Also for miracle grow organics water soluble fertilizer, is this product not as good as their nonorganic one? So it wouldn’t be as effective since it is not their non organic product?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Generally, the first 1-2 feedings I use the all purpose 24-8-16 to help give it a nitrogen boost and put on leaves. I give it the Tomato 18-18-21 for the rest of the feedings, except for when it begins to flower. Once I see the flower buds form, I will give it the Bloom Booster 15-30-15 for 1-2 feedings to give it a phosphorous boost. Other than those feedings, I pretty much only give it the Tomato 18-18-21. I do not like their organic line because the formulas I've seen are all high in nitrogen and low in phosphorous. That doesn't suit fruiting vegetables well, in my opinion.

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@@TheMillennialGardener got it thank you!!

[@jimfournier9065]

Is it ok to use 10-10-10 and mix it into the soil for planting? Just use less? Ty!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I have never seen an organic 10-10-10. I assume they are synthetic slow release granules? I don’t recommend using synthetic slow release granules with synthetic soluble fertilizers because synthetics don’t feed the microbiome in your soil. Organics do. I recommend using synthetic solubles for quick energy to the plants, but use an organic granulated fertilizer in addition to the solubles so you feel your soil and keep it healthy.

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[@jackiegreen3444]

Watched a video earlier that said the opposite about the depth to plant those that send out surface roots. Getting confused.

[@royallred9346]

If it gets very dry, the fertilizer under the roots will burn them..I always put it about 4 inches from the roots.

[@Fattiapples]

Do you ever use azomite, earthworm castings, or biochar? Thoughts? I’ve hears others say not to use Epsom salt because it could build up in the soil or something like that, will this cause a problem with raised bed or inground soil in the garden over time?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I have used earthworm castings, but I've never seen a difference using them. Epsom salt should not be used regularly. It should only be used a few times a season. It's only meant to provide trace magnesium and sulfur. I use it at planting, one feeding at flowering and one feeding when fruit set becomes heavy just as a boost. Other than that, I don't use it. It rains here a lot, so my soil is being constantly flushed. If you live in a more arid climate with clay soil, you likely need less fertilizer. I have not used azomite or biochar. I want to set up drip irrigation this season, and if I do, I intend to try micronized azomite.

[@royallred9346]

Very true.

[@cliffordpayne4795]

Is 10-10-10 fertilizer ok to use on pepper plants?

[@badassuchiha4875]

I Planted my Green Pepper in late August Fall is right around the Corner will it flourish before then how to Speed the Growing process

[@TheMillennialGardener]

It depends how long your warm season is. Peppers can take anywhere from 45-70 days to fruit to maturity from transplant, so it depends on what your season looks like and what variety you chose. Something like a sweet banana pepper or a cherry pepper is going to ripen faster than a poblano or a habanero.

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@@TheMillennialGardener I notice that I got allot of Chilli Peppers but my Sweet Bell Peppers are taking Yeare to grow or what feel as such

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Would I do the same if I have a bed that’s 3 ft tall?

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[@bhsbass]

Any updates on these plants? Seems like a lot of fertilisers.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

This was last year's crop, so they have long since passed. Peppers are very heavy feeders. You get what you put into them. Regular fertilizing leads to heavy fruit set as long as you use the proper NPK ratios. If you choose not to fertilize them much, you likely won't get a lot of production.

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[@blessingjohnchelliah4317]

I was told you have to nip off the top of the pepper plant before planting it. Is that correct?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I do not prune pepper plants. Some people “top” them. I have never and have exceptional production. It definitely is not necessary. You can experiment if you wish.

[@jonathanelizondo2529]

How often should I use organic water soluble fertilizer by miracle gro?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Generally, every 7-14 days. That depends on your local factors. For example, heavy soils like clay hold nutrients longer, so you may be able to use less fertilizer. Sandy soils like mine that drain rapidly may need more frequent fertilizing. Also, rain has a lot to do with it. If you have dry summers, you often need less fertilizer. On the other hand, rainy summers like mine frequently wash out my soil, so that can require more frequent fertilizing. Experimentation is key.

[@aleisefloyd4710]

Would these fertilizers also work for pickling cucumbers that I'm about to plant?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Yes. Tomatoes, pepper and cucumbers are actually all fruiting berries. They react well to the same soil conditions and fertilizing regimens, so you can treat your cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant, squash, watermelons and potatoes the same way as peppers when it comes to fertilizing.

[@minhdnguyen5824]

my seeding shishito pepper just sprout. I was wondering do you top shishito pepper to get bushier? Or do you leave it grow naturally?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I have never topped pepper plants before. I don’t prune my peppers until very late in the season when I need to “refresh” them in the fall. Topping definitely isn’t necessary. You can experiment with it if you wish, but I get great production not doing it, so I don’t bother.

[@minhdnguyen5824]

@@TheMillennialGardener thank you so much for replying. I will follow your method. You got one of the best harvested! thanks

[@marlonaustin5815]

This is an amazing video. What can I do about ants? I have two types of ants. Large black ones which are few in number. Smaller brown ones which are plentiful.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thanks. This video may be helpful for you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp-VkGp6oZWpq8k I recommend searching your property for ant hills and treating them with Amdro Ant Bait, which they will carry back inside the colony and it kills the queen. If you eliminate the individual ant hills with this method, and then use the defensive strategies in the video I linked to above, you should get rid of most of your problems. You have to stay on top of it, though, because ants are relentless and always searching for food, so new ones will find their way and try to build colonies in your yard.

[@jonathanelizondo2529]

Use the Seven dust granules sold at home Depot. It is an organic approach and the ants die or disappear almost instantly.

[@billmccullough777]

I mix 50/50 brown sugar/boric acid powder in a bottle lid. Add a little water & stir. Put it where the ants can find it. My experience is massive trails of ants the first day. 8 to 10 ants fhe second day, and no more ants after that. I probably could cut the boric acid to 20-30%, but 50/50 is easy to see. Good luck!