10 Pepper Growing Mistakes

In this organic gardening video, Brian with Next Level Gardening covers 8 mistakes you might be making and how to avoid them or fix them to grow a ton of peppers. Whether you are growing peppers in pots on a balcony, growing peppers in raised beds, or you have a homestead, these tips will help you with planting peppers, pruning peppers, pepper pests and diseases, watering peppers and so much more!
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00:14 - When do you plant pepper plants?
01:21 - How much sun do pepper plants need?
02:53 - How far do you space pepper plants?
05:49 - How much water do pepper plants need?
06:27 - What is the best fertilizer for peppers?
07:29 - Should you prune or pinch back your pepper plants?
09:18 - Should you stake pepper plants?
09:48 - Harvesting peppers
10:32 - Pepper plant pests and disease
14:04 - Can you overwinter peppers?

[@kat6084]

I'm watching even though I don't grow peppers. Hi, I'm Kat & I'm a gardening addict

[@sunsetsky594]

I have had great success using tomato cages to support my pepper plants. Sometimes, I add a stake to keep the tomato cages from leaning when the plant gets heavy with fruit.

[@deecooper1567]

You’re always so full of interesting things & information 🦋 Have a great weekend 👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

[@janetbade2774]

Great information!!! I have done it all wrong, so now I know 😮

[@22trident45]

Over-wintering peppers works, thanks to your guidance over the years. It's worth it! Zone 9B.

[@katherinecadwallader5418]

I overwintered my peppers as well and I’m in zone 7A!!

[@gingerydelights3554]

​​@@bobalmanI did it the laziest way I've seen, overwintered my Jalapeno in my Greenstalk, i just left it there, pruned down but no digging, no fertilizer in cold months, get about 4 hours of sun/day in my yard in winter, mostly watered once a week, but in January I think I watered every other week. Now it's pumping out Peppers and I'm going to try the same with the additional peppers this year also in the same Greenstalk.

[@gingerydelights3554]

@@bobalman zone 10!

[@chrisb2088]

I live in Southern Ontario and we definitely have lots of frost here. I've been overwintering my peppers for a few years now after watching one of your videos. It certainly saves a lot of time waiting for the pepper plants to grow. I've already eaten a couple of peppers from the garden this year and I also have jalapenos ready to pick. My super chili plants have loads of flowers so it looks like a good crop this year. Thanks for the tip, Brian.

[@krickette5569]

I've used the mesh bag method and it worked Great!

[@goldiegirl6705]

I just watched your video about growing beans. I've ordered Neptune's Harvest. My peppers are growing very slowly this year. I have no jalapeno next to another jalapeno but it's not growing much. Hoping this fertilizer I get today, will help all my beans, tomatoes and peppers to grow huge.

[@renardajackson8474]

Thank you for the aspirin spray idea. I am headed to try it right NOW. I also plan to try it my greenhouse this fall.

[@ronwhite6837]

I always plant one bell and one habanero or jalapeno together !! Love it! the sweetness of the bell pepper Anda taste of the habanero or jalapeno.

[@gregcrawley2668]

400 ft apart. Hmmmmm ok I'll plant my hot peppers in my yard and plant my bell peppers 5 houses down the road. Surely my neighbor won't mind.

[@Zizzyyzz]

Lol.

[@solanisomeni]

😂😂 You only need to worry about cross pollination if you are planning on saving the seeds. The seeds from those, if they've been cross pollinated can turn into a mix of either. Although, that could be quite fun too... 😁

[@gwendolynwebster7722]

hahahah! I was thinking the same thing!

[@sourgummiez]

This only applies to the new seeds from the cross pollinated seeds

[@patriciaburlow8469]

I tried cross pollination with my neighbour...her husband wasn't too impressed..😮

[@plantyfan]

Unrelated to peppers; hoping someone will see my question. Brian -- do you have a "my best tips for squash plants," like you do for tomatoes? I'm tending a community garden with pumpkins and some of the vines have evidence of what I think started as a pest biting the plant and transferring a bacterial infection. I want to get it healthy again because it's at our elementary school and the kids will love to watch pumpkins grow. Thanks!

[@always.wondering.wandering]

I planted way to early. Next year will go better after today's lesson. Thanks Brian!

[@logan847653]

Same also those scorch marks won't happen next year

[@RoyHolder]

I have capsicums coming up as volunteers, dozens of them!! When they get bigger I'll transfer the best ones. Thanks Brian!

[@thebackyardfarmers_]

Thanks for the video.🎉

[@dmick9168]

on pruning / topping. I live in a shorter season area and still top. The key is to start earlier, top the pepper, and up pot all before you actually plant outside.

[@Gardeningchristine]

“Tomato” cages work great for peppers. My tomatoes grow up and over cages by July, but peppers are just the right size.🍅🫑

[@littlejefe494]

Brawndo has what plants crave!!!!!😅😂😅

[@judycee9263]

I have 2 or 3 pepper plants (habanada, jalapeño, Cajun queen and anaheim) each in big 5 gallon pots and they're loving it. This is the first year I've tried habanadas and my plant in 6a looks just like yours.

[@terrivance8750]

Thank you, Brian. 😊

[@shanec8812]

Great info. I found out that peppers like to grow in pairs close together on accident last year. This is confirmation on what I found last year.

[@smae433]

Thank you. Love your work.

[@clintstevenson1214]

Brian! You are amazing. I love your channel. How do you know when a Jalopena pepper is ready to pick? First time grower. I took SO much away from this video. I live in Norcal north of SanFrancisco. Thank You!

[@dennisblevins5723]

I think the word you were looking for in place of piercer is stinger for the parasitic wasps. 😃 All in all great tips Brian!

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

A friend of mine put in a herb garden in. One of the herbs she mistakenly put in was basil. Since it is a mint it sholdered aside the dill and rose mary she planted. She wound up with a beautiful basil patch. When it flowered the bees loved it.

[@breakdown2878]

I cannot for the life of me get basil to spread. But I can get oregano and spear mint to go nuts

[@yvonnew.116]

I’m gonna try wintering pepper this year. We have really short spring, and to get the pepper established from seeds and be tough enough for the brutal summer is difficult.

[@JD-zb4ve]

Valuable information!! Thank you!

[@oldgoat50]

I learned my planting time is my birthday. Born on mother's Day in the stone age being an Oldgoat .😅 Temps are good for growing .

[@VetaGossman]

Thank you 😮

[@angelaschettino1327]

Thx for the info! My peppers are full of peppers but they reach 2-3 inches and stop growing. What can that be from? Thx

[@namehere1861]

To build on the seed saving tip and tip #10, most new LED bulbs are full enough spectrum for plants. Put a "high bay garage" bulb into a regular socket in a place you want light indoors most of the day anyway and enjoy your winter houseplant. Bonsai chilis not only preserve the original seeds but are fun to look at and grow year round. And if you live in a high rise or windy area, a great way to grow deep roots and thick stems for next season. They can live in a 4x4 inch square pot for 3 months or all winter in something like a 2 liter bottle. Simply cut the bottle away, plant, and recycle like normal. Super hot peppers can be 150+ days to maturity, creative lighting indoors is my only option for Reaper and Scorpion peppers

[@namehere1861]

Short follow-up, indoor/houselamp peppers are a great way to experiment with new varieties before giving them garden space.

[@kentmagruder390]

I grew pepper plants from seeds in the peppers that I bought in the grocery store that come in a bag red, orange and yellow. Can I eat these if they are still green? We had a col and short summer so only a few turned color? Many thx.

[@aileensmith3062]

We DO NOT use any sunshade for our peppers (mainly chile). We rarely use stalking although we have. We are in Southern New Mexico and believe it or not we plant a LOT of chile here!

[@GGsGarden]

I use old tomato cages (to small for tomatoes). Peppers are planted so close that these might not be needed, but since I have them …

[@aileensmith3062]

@@GGsGarden We are going double leader on our tomatoes now. Thus several extra heavy duty tomato cages left over. We are now using those for container size cucumbers and so forth. We plant 150-200 pepper plants a year. So a LOT of expensive tomato cages to purchase! Thank You for your reply!

[@DedeWilliams-r8m]

My chile gets burned from the sun. I'm in Albuquerque.

[@aileensmith3062]

@@DedeWilliams-r8m From Belen originally. Never had a scald problem there. Then we also planted what the other vegetable farmers planted. Here in Roswell we plant the XXX Lumbre chile. Fits very well in our climate. There are still small farms in your area. I would suggest talking to them. Seeing what they are planting and possibly getting seeds from them. What grows good in New York City might not grow well in Albuquerque. Best of luck!

[@GreenThumbGardener65]

So we need to taste the seeds to make sure they didn’t cross pollinate?

[@julie-annepineau4022]

Love growing peppers but I am cool climate and short growing season. I have them in a green house and they grow an amazing amount but I do need to be careful of sun scald. I do find peppers bush out quite well, even without topping, just naturally so I think the topping is more about desired height than production if you have a longer season.

[@GGsGarden]

I have Bells & Jalapeños sharing a bed. I would love a spicy Bell. Are there other risk in these seeds beyond a cross breed?

[@thomascrompton7775]

I have decided to plant my tomatoes later also going forward. Going plant mid july here in midatlantic. The son and heat ladt few years has been too much

[@Juicypaint]

Corn does the same cross pollination thing. We made the mistake of planting sweet corn next to colorful Indian corn which made the sweet corn turn into maze type corn and not edible as sweet corn.

[@miamited69]

how about 2 in a 5 gallon bucket? Should they be together or on opposite sides of the bucket?

[@sasharandomly4221]

Yeah that 400 ft ain't happening 😅 but I'll mesh bag the flower if I want to save seeds. Thanks. This video is helpful.

[@hboilermom1]

When you say you give them 2-4-2 every two weeks what does that mean? Can you tell me how? Do I just sprinkle some around the base of my plant? I’ve never done anything with the soil once my plants are growing. Thank you!

[@aileensmith3062]

If it is water soluble we do it through an injection system that we have!

[@Gardeningchristine]

Wow, either you have the best soil ever or your plants must struggle like crazy. Fertilizer is either liquid or granular, or they have shake and feed. The liquid you mix with water and water your plants, the granular, you sprinkle, but then kinda mix into the top couple inches because the soil life has to break it down so your plants can eat it, and the shake and feed, you just sprinkle on the ground around your plants. He’s got videos on all this plus more.

[@aileensmith3062]

@@Gardeningchristine Super horrible soil, VERY heavy clay. We are slowly trying to transition to No-Till gardening. Granular fertilizer generally takes time to break down, which is good. The soluble fertilizer that we use through our injector system goes to work immediately.

[@hboilermom1]

Thank you!

[@Gardeningchristine]

@@aileensmith3062 the best thing you can do is mulch like crazy. Especially if you have a winter. Put down three or 4 inches of mulch, it can be straw leaves, wood chips doesn’t matter the soil. Life will help break it down. That’s the best thing you can do to improve clay soil. the first couple years I would even till it in in the spring.

[@GGsGarden]

Regarding aphids & mint … I plant basil with tomatoes, any harm in adding mint (contained) to the bed?

[@sevenofzach]

The one thing I could think of is mint is apparently hard to contain, though I've only had my mint in it's own container and never have that issue Edit: ha he did mention that later in the video

[@GGsGarden]

@@sevenofzach putting a pot about 1/2 deep into the raised bed is what I am thinking of as contained.

[@sevenofzach]

​ I totally wasn't to the point he mentioned keeping them in a pot yet lol

[@Gardeningchristine]

Ovipositor. The piercer is called an ovipositor. They are very obvious on crickets 🦗. Still yuck, but more scientific.

[@gingerydelights3554]

Question- If i overwinter sweet next to hot, will the 2nd years sweet peppers get hot?

[@Marzbar_50]

The only sun I get on my balcony is the afternoon sun. 😫 Do you think there is anything I can successfully grow? Everything I've tried either gets scorched or just simply doesn't get enough sun throughout the day to produce.

[@paulross2979]

How much Calcium should I apply to my soil when calcium gets low?

[@dustyflats3832]

One pest I never figured out is once in a while I see a pinhole at the top of the pepper. What does that?

[@lliefveld]

if you put a mesh over the pepper so pollinators can't get in, then how would the flowers get pollinated to produce fruit?

[@cindy3014]

Peppers self pollinate.

[@smb123211]

I listen to lots of garden videos but increasingly am wary - not of the advice but the results. I raised tomatoes from seed, set them out, fertilized, watered, great dirt. I tried the "one branch" method (vertical), pinched off early blooms, pruned at the appropriate time and all have died (very unusual heatwave). My parents, on the other hand, planted tomatoes next to the house, got about 5 hours of sun - no fertilizer, no special soil, no pinching, pruning, one branch, blah blah they used to get tons of big tomatoes. LOl Peppers are doing fantastic if I water, epecially those in pots.

[@later_daze_4080]

Where’d you get that shirt?

[@claybecker13]

The sun is strongest at noon. It's hotter in the afternoon because the earth is reradiating heat it's taken in earlier in the day, not because the sun is the strongest then. Loved the video though.

[@AlowisciousMahoney]

Exactly. He’s quite knowledgeable, so I anticipate that he may have simply misspoke.

[@davinasquirrel7672]

My experience is that is more about rest, as in "that's enough sun for today, thanks". But you could rig up a little canopy above them that protects from midday sun, and they get morning and afternoon.

[@sparkleflair]

Hmm, I'll bet my pepper plants are getting too much sun. They are still like 3 inches tall, since about May, when I transplanted them.

[@johnkehoe8368]

dude my peppers are like 14 inches tall had so many flowers and they are doing great but i have some legal marijuana plants for medical for my wife and they are now covered up and i dont know if i should move the peppers or just leave um cause the ones that dont see much sun are still growing fine so i dont know what to do

[@esthersotnas4595]

Why my peppers get ripe when they are really small

[@wendykudronowicz4592]

I have one pepper plant and all I have is leaves and the plant is green and so is the leaves

[@meshab6049]

Can all peppers be overwintered?

[@davinasquirrel7672]

I believe so.

[@madara211000]

Pretty much

[@meshab6049]

Cool

[@MrSBGames]

My biggest mistake is not supporting them enough! See them small and thing "will be fine" then a few weeks later, boom they are 5 foot monsters

[@PrincessTS01]

sounds like a sweet jalapeno is a possible cross...

[@kristinag1610]

🫑 ❤

[@JimmyPrice-b5v]

Horn worm ate my pepper