EASY PEPPERS FOR COLD CLIMATES. HOW TO GROW PEPPERS IN CANADA. | Gardening in Canada/Mighty Mustache

[@yssubed2]

I have overwintered some. I put them in a cool basement and let them go dormant. A little water every 3 weeks or so. Will bring them upstairs for more light, heat and watering in March and you will have your first batch of peppers early in the season.

[@GardeningInCanada]

What’s your bug solution? Or have you never had a big bug issue

[@GardeningInCanada]

Go check out Bobby’s video! kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3PCZZp_mKpgm9k If you want to grab any of these peppers Hungarians - www.zappaseeds.com/pepper/79-friariello-hot-pepper.html?affp=282 Red Cherry - www.zappaseeds.com/pepper/83-red-cherry-chili-pepper.html?affp=282 Scotch bonnet - www.zappaseeds.com/pepper/316-scotch-bonnet-pepper.html?affp=282 Sweet pepper nocera Rosso - www.zappaseeds.com/pepper/317-sweet-pepper-nocera-rosso.html?affp=282

[@Lochness19]

Jimmy Nardello was a top producer for me last year. Basically a heatless cayenne pepper. Those and my cherry peppers were the fastest to turn red. Peppers that are typically eaten green like shishito, pepperoncini and poblano can be picked early too. I started and planted my peppers a bit late last year for Ontario Zone 6, but these were my transplant dates (for seedlings about 4-6" tall) and ripening dates Jimmy Nardello (sweet cayenne type) Transplant: Jun 19 (in ground) Ripen: Aug 26 (68 days) Time Bomb (cherry hybrid variety) Transplant: Jun 11 (in ground) Ripen: Aug 15 (65 days) Roulette (heatless habanero hybrid, maybe 500-1000 SHU max) Transplant: Jun 23 (in container) Ripen: Sep 3 (72 days) Chocolate Cake (brown bell) Transplant: Jun 11 (in ground) Ripen: Sep 10 (91 days) Criola de Cocina (thin walled sweet pepper) Transplant: Jun 11 (in ground) Ripen: Sep 10 (91 days) Holy Italian (marconi/bull's horn type?) Transplant: Jun 11 (in ground) Ripen: Sept 10 (91 days) Chocolate Cake and Criola de Cocina were possibly later than they otherwise would have been due to being crowded out by the much larger adjacent Poblano peppers. Also, not sure how the Cherry pepper turned out for you, but the Time Bomb hybrid I grew turned out rather hot, definitely hotter than the 1000-2000 SHU advertised, just a single little ripe pepper will give a nice kick to 6-8 servings of chili. Not quite as hot as habanero or scotch bonnet, but much hotter than jalapeno, banana or poblano for me. I also overwintered banana and shepherd peppers, so I can't make a fair comparison for timing compared to the other varieties, but the bananas were ready to pick in late Jun and the shepherd in mid July and the shepherds only started to come out of dormancy in late March/early April. Shishito, gypsy, poblano and pepperoncini were all ready to pick 57-60 days after transplanting for me, but that's as green peppers, not red peppers, so I'm not sure if it's a fair comparison. Roulette, Jimmy Nardello and Time Bomb could've been harvested as green peppers

[@scottsmith507]

I grow the banana peppers in garden. Very productive and early. In states where I'm at hot banana are also called hot wax. Nice heat to them for picking, mix the sweet and hot for a nice salsa that doesn't blister your tongue. Fun fact I have observed, sweet banana peppers grow with point of pepper grows downward to the soil, the hot ones point to the sky until they get heavy enough that gravity turns them downward. If you forget to label, this will help out. Remember with bells or sweets and also hits, you can get cross pollination and bells and or sweets can get spicy!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Oh really? That’s very interesting ive never really paid attention to thst

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Your information is mind boggling, best on YT. THANK YOU!

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s very kind! Thank you

[@NimWithRandomNumbers]

I’m in Edmonton, so zone 3b. I grow my peppers in a Vegtrug, (a table style raised bed with a cover). It was my only garden bed when I was living in a rental but now I have a bigger garden and the Vegtrug turned into a dedicated pepper bed. It worked beautifully last year with sweet peppers. I’m excited to try some hot peppers this year.

[@GardeningInCanada]

That sounds like an amazing setup.

[@themightymustache69]

That’s me the crazy pepper man

[@TheObsessiveGardener]

You're possibly a sociopath!

[@GardeningInCanada]

hahaha

[@buds8423]

Why did it take KZbin so long for you to end up in my feed!❤ so helpful!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Glad it was helpful!

[@The_forgetmenot_homestead]

Thank you very much! This is solid info for peppers! I bought a ton of seeds for a variety of peppers this year, but a friend of mine said they are all really hard to grow! I don’t think she has tried these tips! Thank you!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@villagesteader3552]

I put some of my peppers in grow bags...so now I know why they did so well. The others, the ones in the ground not so well. ♥️👍

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yes grow bags they would go wild in forsure

[@yssubed2]

I did the same last year. My Hungarian wax plants nearly collapsed the so much fruit!

[@villagesteader3552]

@@yssubed2 ha ha, you made me remember that one of my jalapeño plants split in 1/2 after a storm but it kept on thriving anyway!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Hahaha holy man that’s crazy!

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s wild they love abuse

[@juliaf_]

I'm in Hamilton ON (6b) and this'll be a great help for next season :)

[@GardeningInCanada]

yea! absolutely

[@jessicatrottier7226]

I had good amount of fruit from my ornamental hot peppers in the garden bed this yesr, but never done well with sweet peppers. Will test in pots!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yea! Give it a shot

[@Pigearvet]

Interesting. I'm only starting my peppers mid March. Worked well last year, but I might try a couple early and see. Thanks.

[@GardeningInCanada]

I do too but I also have the smaller growing degree day ones.

[@linda-MyLifeAndOtherAnecdotes]

That’s me! Yes I am watching, I’ve been waiting for this since we spoke last year, lol. My plants last year looked AMAZING... aaaand completely void of fruit. When I took your advice to start beating them up a little, they very quickly flowered and began to fruit (more as an experiment because it was way late in the season by then). This year I’ve put 4 plants in 2 grow bags (yellow bell and sweet pimento). I’m very excited to see how they do. I’m going to send you pics. My dad has trouble with hot peppers; evidently the wild rabbits think it’s hilarious to eat his plants down to a nub, lol.

[@linda-MyLifeAndOtherAnecdotes]

I planted a bunch of stuff from seed for my dad and he somehow managed to kill everything. I’d given him some chocolate bells and Iko Iko. I believe I kept a chocolate for myself and after mentioning the short grow of the shishito, I decided to check my Iko Iko and they are a 65 day seed so I may throw a few in a pot and try again for myself.

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s awesome I’m glad it worked!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Maybe he isn’t hardening stuff off properly

[@linda-MyLifeAndOtherAnecdotes]

@@GardeningInCanada they eat all his hot peppers every year, one by one, under the cover of darkness. 🤷‍♀️

[@GardeningInCanada]

HAHAAH aweee

[@miriambartley6622]

I have never been satisfied with my pepper production, so I will try your suggestions.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Oh no. Are you a bit cooler in the nights?

[@ancientgardening6920]

Start peppers a month before starting tomatoes, and start peppers now if you haven't already. Definitely plants in containers go to seed early, which helps peppers along amazingly, since they just keep going and going, but they do grow relatively slowly compared to tomatoes, so keep them separate if you want to keep the peppers from getting overgrown.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yea that’s a good point that are as quick to pile on the foliage

[@clutchmadness]

You make me proud to be Canadian :)

[@GardeningInCanada]

Haha awe that’s awesome

[@TheObsessiveGardener]

Mustache! He has a great channel! Hilarious and yet educational content!

[@GardeningInCanada]

I agree!

[@concert610]

Lol love your reaction to his eating hot peppers. I grew a few ghost peppers last year. For whatever reason my jalapeño plant had some pods that were mild like a normal pod and some were just unbelievably hot. Same plant picked at the same time. No idea why that happened. I tried to over winter my peppers with no success. I will be trying a different soil mix next time. Zone 8B we have the issue peppers shut down after 90°F.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Oh that’s interesting. Was one side getting more heat from the sun maybe?

[@concert610]

@@GardeningInCanada Hasn't thought about the sun impact. Maybe. I've heard planting a hot pepper next to a mild pepper can make the mild pepper hot but it doesn't make sense to me and I had a bell pepper beside the jalapeño pepper.

[@adampetherick6266]

Good to no thankyou I grew 5 peppers in one container and their fruit was great has so many flowers on pepper plants I will take a picture this summer knowledgeable Channel going to check out Bobby's Channel 4 hot peppers

[@GardeningInCanada]

Sounds great!

[@yssubed2]

You should try Hungarian Blacks. They look like jalapeños but are black rather than green. The plants are stunning,dripping with purple blossoms and black fruit. They look a little gothic. My other suggestion would be Seranos - classic narrow hot pepper, not crazy hot. Best when harvested green but leave some to turn red for great colourful preserves (you can add some of your Hungarian wax for some more colour).

[@GardeningInCanada]

Ohh that’s really cool! I’ve never heard of those.

[@susanjohnson5824]

Very Informative - I also live in a cold climate (Minnesota, USA) I'm going to try a couple of these starting early sounds like fun and I love peppers. Salsa is my favorite food group!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Haha food group I love that

[@michaelmarchione3408]

Good info from both of you. May have to bring in a pepper plant this fall for fun.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yea! I always want to put I don’t want the bugs.

[@Hexsyn]

Living in yakima Washington. As of right now (end of september) the overnight Temps are making my Habs pack it in. Looking for some other varieties next year that might last a little longer

[@GardeningInCanada]

The thicker the leaves the more frost tolerant

[@tobruz]

Best sweet productive peppers in Ontario for me would be sweet banana peppers I grow in a 5 gallon bucket that’s self watering and home - made one of the best moves I’ve made

[@GardeningInCanada]

I really like your design! That’s pretty cool

[@yahushaismyshepherd1179]

I grow my sweet peppers in containers in unheated greenhouse ( high tunnel house structure)

[@GardeningInCanada]

They would do awesome in there

[@CarnivoreChristian777]

I have had awesome yields in 5gal. buckets and fabric bags 2 plants in each. The earth garden produces huge plants unless you top them but even then the yield is lower but better. Best way to guarantee you have them every year is to remove all leaves and cut them down to 4 or 5in. before bringing them in house to over winter imho.

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s awesome. And I agree gardens allow plants to product to much foliage

[@joesmith942]

I can see Canada now - at least a mountain or two. This cool marine climate has not been pepper nirvana. So hopfully the info here will help. Thanks.

[@Lochness19]

What size containers do you use? I've heard baccatum varieties (ex Mad Hatter) tend to need more space and grow bigger than annuums?

[@pristineperistome5696]

Really enjoyed the info regarding pot size to trigger fruiting vs endless root/leaf growth. Do you have a general recommendation for how many plants in a 10 gallon grow bag? I have a lot of Jalapaneo and habanero as well as Hungarian sweet wax seedlings and others I can’t remember.

[@themightymustache69]

It’s a cross between a green house and a poly tunnel.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Come build me one 😅

[@bcpeppers906]

Amazing upload!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Thanks so much!

[@kareninsask1375]

I’ve been told that when it says 60 days it means from transplant date not from seed start date.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Oh no! It’s date to harvest from germination. So if it takes 2 weeks to germinate its 60 days plus 14. If that makes sense.

[@monikazaremba2726]

What size of container is best for one sweet pepper plant?

[@GardeningInCanada]

I like about 5 gallons. but it depends on how much maintenance are willing to give. So 5 gallons you do need to water probably every second day in the heat of the summer. If you’re not ready for that often watering that I would suggest going a bit bigger

[@monikazaremba2726]

@@GardeningInCanada thanx, that makes sense :-)

[@buckbeaksgarden761]

Hey Ashley! I took 6 of my peppers indoors this fall and they have an aphid infestation. I give them weekly showers but the aphids keep coming back through eggs I missed. I'm going to spray them with capsicum water (blended 3 hot Thai chillies in 3 cups of water and strained). My question is this...would it help ir hinder to actually water the soil with the capsicum water? Do aphids come from the soil?

[@GardeningInCanada]

It’s not a bad idea and won’t harm anything. Make it pretty strong though to really deter them

[@kendravoracek3636]

💚💚

[@GardeningInCanada]

❤️❤️❤️

[@icouldjustscream]

I'm going to start some mad hatter, orange blaze and purple star. Black pearl for a hot. Oh, and a chilli.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Those all sound super duper spicy 🥵 😆

[@bcpeppers906]

Nice I did orange blaze last year and I have mad hatter seeds germinating rn

[@GardeningInCanada]

Are those mad hatters seven pots?

[@bcpeppers906]

@@GardeningInCanada I got mine from west coast seeds in delta bc

[@icouldjustscream]

@@GardeningInCanada No, they sound and look very hot but they are sweet with very mild heat. I got them from Vesey's seeds. I don't grow super-hots. My husband likes to graze the garden/growbags but he doesn't know one pepper from the other. I can just imagine him biting into a ghost or reaper! *DEATH BY PEPPER* I will caution him about 'Black Pearl' but that's only 10,000 SHU when black and 30,000 SHU when red/black at full ripeness......so he'll live. Probably.

[@Marina.mimi133]

Bobby’s channel link, please

[@Shepherdingtwogirls]

What about growing conditions? Amount of sunlight, soil conditions, water requirements?

[@GardeningInCanada]

Like I mentioned containers, potting soil since it’s in a container, full sun and preferably in a greenhouse or enclosure of some sort similar to what I showed. Regular fertilizer, and watering I water everyday but if your not getting flowers back off on the watering and wait for some wilting.

[@Shepherdingtwogirls]

@@GardeningInCanada Sorry, I was listening specifically to know sunlight requirements...where in the garden to put them. Don't know how I missed the water requirements. So I can't have them out on the garden wall. I don't have an enclosure. Don't they need pollinating?

[@GardeningInCanada]

So if they aren’t hot hot peppers and just a mild and sweet pepper you don’t need any cover at all. My bells and mild heat peppers I don’t cover.

[@ACryin_Shame]

Cubanelle is a sweet pepper only 65 days!! I get it from MIGARDENER

[@GardeningInCanada]

Oh that’s a nice short amount