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In this video, we'll share several tips to help your pepper plants grow faster. There are many techniques you can use to help speed up the growth of your plants, leading to bigger, healthier-looking, and more productive plants.
We'll also share some tips to help get more ripe peppers within a limited growing season (like ours in New England). Timing is a lot of it, but some changes to environment or feeding can also make a big difference.
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[@kirkmuffie7542]

I have over 60 pepper plants in the ground right now. Only hot one are jalapeños. All of mine were started from seed and are of an heirloom variety. I love my peppers! 😃

[@catfishsnagger3284]

Can you take seeds from the peppers you grow from year to year and get good yields.

[@kirkmuffie7542]

@@catfishsnagger3284I do but I make sure to separate the hot ones in a different garden. Otherwise you can end up with all hot peppers the next year. Lol

[@rfui7675]

60 is a lot! Do you sell the peppers?

[@kirkmuffie7542]

@@rfui7675 No. I eat them and we freeze a lot to save. Our plan is to start canning. BTW I put 15 more sweet peepers in late that a friend bought and had no room for. Haha

[@austinkidder8373]

I just bought a 150 heirloom pepper seeds, to test a couple different fertilizing methods!

[@rogerdavenport9618]

Many years an old guy said that peppers liked "dirty soil" by what he meant was sulfur type soil don't know how he found this out, but he said to put a couple books of matches around each plant, and I can tell you it works. Good video.

[@sirvivor294]

Thank will try it.

[@smas3256]

Cheaper than black strap molasses.

[@jiggsborah7041]

Hey thanks for that tip

[@matthavill3882]

you guys are very well spoken and knowledgeable

[@nysheikaj]

I can’t believe that “monster” is only one plant!! Wow!🤩

[@MortalConquest]

Thanks to you guys I have about 10 super healthy plants ranging from bell peppers to reapers. As always I appreciate all the advice

[@PepperGeek]

☺️ That makes us super happy to hear!

[@12thFan23]

That big pepper plant is beautiful.

[@joesimone3635]

Living in Florida I start whenever I wish.

[@peony7967]

Lot of KZbinrs show their knowledge but Laura shows how to keep it clean after planting. Thank you Laura

[@WisGuy4]

Who’s Laura? The female half of the PepperGeeks is Crystalyn.

[@Rick-the-Swift]

I don't recall any Laura in the video or a clean-up after planting. But I do hope your peppers are growing nicely :)

[@thedoggoesskrrrt]

Dried cow dung works best then adding couple of live earthworms on adult pepper plant for aeration. And then I would collect banana peels or any scrap vegetables in the kitchen then ferment them in water with brown sugar for like a month then I dilute it like a teaspoon per Gallon and use it for my watering. Then when it's fruiting season I do collect egg shells, crush them into like a fine grain then I soak them in vinegar for like also a month and same method with the teaspoon to gallon method. My reapers grew tall and healthy and there is like a hundred of fruit per plant and surprisingly it got a lot of attention from my fellow pepper keepers and I'm not even aware that I'm doing less than they usually do to make their peppers to have a lot of fruit. And it's all organic.

[@PepperGuru]

00:36 So glad you guys are moving past this paradigm of pruning early biomass in your more recent videos! Came back here to remember the journey!

[@dizzyspinner648]

I have a tip concerning cloning peppers. I have apparently been conceding defeat prematurely. I have now had several cuttings drop all their leaves. I had them in small cups of potting mix inside a clear plastic container covered in plastic to keep the humidity high and they'd been dipped in rooting powder. Several of the denuded twigs have now gone on to grow new leaves and roots and are leading their merry lives. So don't assume they are dead just because they dropped all their leaves. I was surprised. I'd been sure they were toast, but I was wrong.

[@purplethumb7887]

I've cloned a tiny piece of Cayenne, and it has TONS of peppers now. Every single node (arm pit) has either a fruit or bud. There's no greater satisfaction than knowing, "I did that!" 😂 The clones do take a very long time to root!

[@StationRussification]

The key to successful cuttings is maintaining the temperature in the sweet spot. Do Not go BELOW 75*f or ABOVE 79*f EVER .,. INCLUDING if U allow a dark period which I do for 4 hours a day.

[@dizzyspinner648]

@@StationRussification Optimal is not practical or affordable during the winter in my circumstances here in Northern Wisconsin. I nevertheless managed to breed and clone my ghost and scorpion and have ghost scorpion seedlings coming up. They also don't set fruit well in the dead of winter due to the temperature. But they've survived the winter and I never ran out of dried pepper. My large plants will get transplanted into the garden eventually and clones will be retained for future breeding experiments. Ditto for tomatoes. I'd never tried breeding either until this past year. I have saved tomato cuttings from the garden and then used them to start next years crop, but I didn't try breeding them- they just self pollinated. I have a sungold that's fruiting well right now and it's so huge it's going to have to be severely dismembered just to get it out of the house and into the garden. Hopefully I can give some of the parts away to others as clones.

[@StationRussification]

👍 @Dizzy Spinner Growing has it's challenges & climates need considerations.... If U have space indoors, lighting, heat mat under the humidity dome then it's doable

[@dizzyspinner648]

@@StationRussification I actually was able to up the heat and humidity for the cuttings. Not so much for my larger plants. My Sungold tomato is over six feet tall with limbs over eight feet long. I'm going to have to severely dismember it to get it out of the house and into the garden. In the meantime, I'm getting lots of fruit and I'm able to give away it's severed limbs as clones. Which are a lot easier and faster than peppers to clone. Snip, plant, water, done. Never needed to enhance humidity. They only wilt and possibly cannibalize the bottom leaves if you do cuttings more than a foot long. And it just gets warmer from here.

[@lindacabral5307]

My plants are so small compared to others in my community garden and I get why now. Timing is everything! Really wish I hadn’t waited so long! I live in NH and we have a relatively short growing season so I will make sure to get them out in the ground ASAP next year. Thank you!

[@cowboyblacksmith]

I live in NH too (seacoast area) and just started my pepper seedlings (mid Feb.) I'm supposed to wait until March mid March but I'm tired of waiting, lol. I'm finding it takes my seeds a few weeks anyway to sprout and they grow slow anyway. I may top some just as and experiment and that will slow them down if I need to. Good luck this year but I think we'll do just fine.👍🏻

[@MermaidMakes]

Hey I’m in VT!! It’s going to be an El Niño year so our growing season might be longer this year. I just bought my peppers from the nursery and am putting them in tonight! Good luck, neighbor!

[@lemmzz]

I always add pk 13 14 when flowering works like a charm

[@apeacebone6499]

On a whim at the beginning of the year, I saved and planted some seeds from peppers I had bought at my local farmer's market. They have... well, survived. :P I found your channel a week ago, and since then I have learned the multitude of things I've been doing wrong, and found SO much inspiration for the future. I've even ordered some seeds of less common varieties to start next year. Thank you for everything!

[@kc-hd2hm]

Grow bags are great to use, especially if your aching to grow chillies and your a renter..😁

[@StationRussification]

Almost everything U suggest I already do BUT what I like most about your videos is U R short sweet simple direct & honest.

[@johnwhite5806]

Just want to say thanks for your channel and all the great info you provide for us amateur growers. Prior to this year, I have just killed every plant I have attempted to grow. This year I have been able to grow 9 variety of peppers with 4 from seeds I collected last year all in huge part to your hugely informative videos. Also, ALL of my plants have produced tons of fruit. Everyone I know has benefitted from this. So thanks again so much for all you do.

[@PepperGeek]

Thanks John, that means a lot! Glad you are having some success this year :)

[@Bruce_W29]

Plants in me and my dad's garden grow to 5 to 6ft. All the kinda that we grew did Forgot to take any pictures of the garden but this is the final yield of my ghost pepper plant before first frost. Sorry thought I could send a picture but couldn't figure out how. It was about 100 ghost peppers I picked on my last harvest

[@nelsonlobato8472]

Now, this is some great information and tips. How come there are 10 idiots that doesnt like this kind of content?? The word is lost...greeetings from Lisbon, Portugal!!! PS- thanks for passing on the wisdom ;)

[@PepperGeek]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@boosted211]

Maybe the chemical fertilizer recommendation. 🤷

[@jazradcliffe2286]

I used a child light which I plugged into the socket next to my indoor pepper plant. It comes on automatically when it goes dark and switches off when it gets light. It has worked well with my peppers. Also I use a stick to make holes in the soil around my plant when the soil starts to get too hard. This helps getting the water to the roots better.

[@zacherytoone9957]

Try worms they help aerate the soil

[@patriotdefensegear]

Great video guys! This year I can really tell what was done right and what I had no idea what I was doing at the beginning of the year (same as last year). My last pepper plant planted, which I bought at the beginning of June, is my largest plant with the most fruit. Thanks guys for all the knowledge and tips. I’ll be trying some pepper plants in a can this winter to prep for next season.

[@PepperGeek]

So glad to hear and thank you for your support. Have fun!

[@FutureIsBlue-tq1xy]

I have used a child light that fits directly into an electrical socket as a grow light next to a pepper plant growing inside. It automatically turns on when it goes dark and switches itself off during the day. It worked great on birds eye peppers but not on bell peppers. I grew some Naga peppers this year which grew very big with a lot of foliage but very few peppers even though it grew a lot of flowers which it kept shedding. I think I may have used a too high nitrogen fertiliser. I used Baby bio indoor plant and Tomorite.

[@ijazh6790]

My plant is about 3 foot tall but getting very lopsided with a lot of foliage on one side compared to the other. I want my plant to be shorter and bushier so I can move it around more easily. It is producing a very good yield of peppers so far I've taken off 60+ large peppers and still have approximately 30 peppers still on the plant. I haven't used any fertilizer on the plant for about 4 months. The letting the soil dry and then watering it and the pollination trick both have worked fantastically. This was using a child light to automatically come on at night instead of additional lighting.

[@sncrabs65]

Prune and rotate, sounds like you have it potted, the plant will grow towards light but spinning the pot can help even that out

[@juhgfdsapiyhhnnxc3517]

Top it cut it in half

[@davidisaacson9328]

@@juhgfdsapiyhhnnxc3517 I wouldn't top it at this growth stage, as it will most likely stunt the plant. Some considerate pruning would be beneficial though. Just my 2 cents. Cheers!

[@DaHebo69]

I come looking for some help for a few pepper plants i've have, and the first thing i see is that marvelous well cared plant, heck, you've earned my subscription, you're almost 100k! Congratulations!

[@AcornHillHomestead]

I make my own potting mix, I fed 20-20-20 at 1/2 strength for seedlings. We have a short growing season and have poor sandy soil so I now grow 2 plants in each large pot. Pots are 1/2 filled with small logs, twigs and oak leaves and the rest is my potting mix. I started feeding them weed tea and am having nice success this year. Last year my plants flowered way too late to mature. I got nice tall plants but late fruit production in ground with synthetic fertilizers. The plants were nice sizes when they were planted and grew big but I think the drought created a need for too much hand watering and washed away nutrients. Growing them in pots is a game changer and we are having another drought. So far we are getting plenty of thick fruits and even earlier. I use a lot of peppers in canning season and my experiment this year is really paying off so far. Who can afford Fox Farm growing products? Might as well just buy the produce. It will be interesting to compare yields this year growing less plants.

[@hunterfowler3559]

Thanks guys. Me and my fiance have a banana, jalapeno, ghost, & carolina reaper plant. They are growing great and look beautiful. I think here in Myrtle Beach, SC they grow great with the weather. Thanks again.

[@MrStaybrown]

Thai chili's are awesome too.

[@hunterfowler3559]

@@MrStaybrown ours are doing great dude hope y'all's are as well!

[@MrStaybrown]

@hunterfowler3559 started a month late but great👍 hagd

[@hollywood4809]

Question is, can we get some information on that vintage lawn chair? Lol!! Awesome video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@PepperGeek]

Isn’t it lovely? 😃 they’re from the 70’s 🌸💛 thanks for watching!

[@DementedDistraction]

I'll have to keep these in mind next year - I'm in Denver and our growing season is pretty short (last frost is usually in April but sometimes May, and our first frost is usually in October, but sometimes September), so growing peppers has proven to be a challenge, because by the time my plants really get going it's late August.

[@pittiesplus4108]

I live in Colorado too, I find that I can put into the ground till around the 20 of may. I remember cuz it’s my birthday and in the last ten or so years we’ve had a frost.

[@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock]

​@@pittiesplus4108how's the planting going this year? Only a couple of weeks to go

[@pittiesplus4108]

@@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock we got the root verges in the ground, got seeds growing ready to plop in ground soon!!!

[@brandyjaques6865]

I’m in Denver as well, since it’s been warm I put out some of my early peppers and tomatoes that I could sacrifice if I had too. All this rain lately (5-2023) is scary though! I have many in containers and some in the ground. My super hot peppers are all still being acclimated so we will see how these go.

[@vikingrobot4179]

I have no problem growing my super hots in N. Ga mountains. I have cayenne, giant peach habaneros, Bolivian rainbows which I give away as beautiful gifts to close friends and family, reapers, scotch bonnets and jalapeños. For some reason I could not get my green bell peppers to do anything. My seeds may have been bunk but everything else went crazy as I pruned for ultimate fruit growth. This year I’m going to dehydrate all my super hots and grind them in a small electric herb grinder to make super hot chili powder instead of freezing and using after thawed. I’m hoping I wont lose much heat by doing this as I’ve acquired a very robust tolerance to super hots. I always feel so energetic after eating super hots with a meal….there’s gotta be something to that. I used large pots and set a marigold between each plant this year. I did not have any issues with aphids or any pests although Ive seen tiny black flies and crickets on the plants I had zero leaf holes or other trouble. This year I also mixed that nasty smelling fish fertilizer with my rainwater jugs and applied every 10 days which seemed to really energize the plants with no burn. I’m going to try to overwinter my hardiest plants for the first time and also start some seedlings with a grow light early. I swear hot peppers are the superfood nobody talk about. If you can develop a tolerance you can eat them every day and feel great. I love going to Mexican restaurants and asking for their hottest pepper sauce. Usually they give me a cup of diced habanero if it’s a mom and pop restaurant and not a chain. One time the server sent the owner with a cup of what appeared to be ghost and reapers chopped and lightly sautéed in oil. I spread it all over my meal and went to town. Yeah baby my lips were on fire but I was used to it. It was funny cause all the staff kept glancing over to check on me to see if I was gonna live…lol. My table mates could smell it And even got irritated just breathing it in…lol. The manager had to come by and shake my hand and said I was one of the only people that survived his concoction….haha. The key to not looking like a total dweeb is to keep some white rice nearby to help quell the heat. Yes milk works but that’s cheating. Note: Yellow rice won’t help.

[@nunyabisnass1141]

In my experience of drying and grinding ghost peppers for a spice it didnt impact the heat what so ever. If the temp of the dehydrator is too high it might do something but i haven't heard of any significant effects from others. This year me and my brother are going to pickle some habeneros with the normal cucumbers and carrots to see if it adds the right amount of spice to the brine. The rest we are going to smoke and grind. My brother a couple years ago had made an habenero sauce with a little vinegar and salt and it did not affect the heat what so ever even after two years. You can feel the heat as it goes all of the way down and it only lasts about ten'ish minutes. The fruity flavour is still there and it goes great on anything chicken, so i might think about using it in a wing sauce. Now id like to ask you a question if i may, since you have grown reapers, is it normal for them to resemble scoth bonnets at times oe not have that little tail? I ask because i thought i was growing the ghost peppers i ordered until they began fruiting and look nothing like ghosts. At first i thought they migh be some scorpion variety until i sent a picture to pepper joes, and they think they are reapers.

[@furtalance_x]

Soooo now i know why my pepper plants crapped out on me. Got them in June and they already had peppers on them (1 foot plants at the time) I planted them in the ground and left them with those initials peppers. Those peppers grew enourmous but the plant themselves remained 1 foot tall with barely any leaves. Oh well lesson learned. Thanks great video.

[@vincentconsiglio106]

I feel like the cannabis growing world provides so much more information about nutrients and what they do. I’ve also learned there’s no such thing as “ synthetic “ nutrients. You cannot make a synthetic macro/micro nutrient. ( NPK, cal-mag, potash, silica etc ) “ organic “ nutrients are really just time release nutes. I use dyna-grow products with mammoth P, bud candy, and fish sh!t and some PK boosters. I get massive, delicious fruits

[@m0nkEz]

"Organic" in this case generally refers to compost. He explained why that's more helpful for the soil long-term than synthetic fertilizers. They're both useful and should be used appropriately.

[@jakegaming818]

Synthetic means nitrates in the cannabis world. Thays why you hear of "flushing" and crazy shot thay isn't natural. I got into "living soil" and KNF/ JADAM and making ferments, compost teas, and innoculants. I've grown AMAZING ganja... and took that same practice to my peppers. My indoor chile plants CRUSH the outdoor stuff by miles

[@firsttimefarmer4666]

🤩🌶️ in Las Vegas are nonprofit therapy Garden had a aquaponic section and we grew our hot peppers in there as well as other places but they did extremely well on nothing but fish waste and ebb and flow aquaponics system extremely easy to make $20 worth of plumbing parts and any kind of large barrel or vessel get yourself a fistful of goldfish Petco and you're well on your way

[@JuniorFarquar]

The ol "non-profit"...quite the oxymoron.

[@RagynStepz]

I've been growing Gator Jigsaw peppers in my garden I'm excited to see them bloom and I'll definitely use some of these tips

[@PepperGeek]

Nice! We’ve got our first gator jigsaw growing this season as well. There are a few small pods coming in and they look amazing

[@jeffbrown2727]

Love this channel and all the information and pics. And sure most of this information pertains to most veg. Love that that even though not a complete control with same breed and seeds from same pod, but at least focuses only on peppers

[@johnjude2685]

Iowa mid Ohio zone 6 and have picked 34 nice stuffing size bell peppers and at least 16 more on my 37 plants partly from listening to you about spring temperatures as I could see growth from 3th day in ground and listening to your many tips. I started my seedlings in a 16 oz. beverage containers and raised them in it until 18 inches high and moved directly outside and best peppers I've ever had had several stuffing size before July so Yeah I'm learning plenty as normal not getting peppers by August. Keep teaching and I'm hoping to learn more. QUESTION what cover crops should I plant in my pepper bed for next season. Thanks 😊

[@MrEzekiel1982]

The proof is in the putting. Those plants look amazing. This year I planted my peppers where they will get mid day shade as an experiment

[@ZAdobber64]

*in the ‘pudding’ That’s where the Proof is.

[@MrEzekiel1982]

@@ZAdobber64 ah yes I stand corrected

[@2t0y]

I've been waiting for this since your last vid!

[@PepperGeek]

That's great - hope you enjoyed it!

[@olioli6165]

Just new adds sucks!

[@firestarter2793]

Absolutely excellent. Thank you for taking the time to share. I send you both much love and positive energy. Regards as always

[@PepperGeek]

Our pleasure! Thanks for stopping by and watching :)

[@jonmccormick8683]

My pepper plant faces East with a brick wall behind it. Gets very hot 90-100+ deg F every day with the sun bouncing off the below asphalt and the wall. (3 sources of sun = direct, wall, and asphalt underneath). Too hot to grow small pepper plants, but store bought plants work well with planting a few in a 5 gallon bucket. With the plants getting the size of small trees watering becomes the issue. Having the soil exposed to high heat temps can also pose problems = you need the plants to protect the soil from the high heat = a few plants planted together work better than just one. =You plants are rather small, but look very nice. You need to move to a place with more sun to massively grow peppers. Your pepper production could easily be 8-10x more. You could try growing your peppers against walls (can be moveable) and other reflectors and heat sinks. -Even big rocks underneath the pots. Keep those temps 70-80+ degrees at a minimum.

[@ricmars8980]

Thank you Mexico and MesoAmerica for such amazing staple crops! Not to mention Maize/Corn! Jitomate and Tomatillos as well! The Maguey/Agave!

[@smas3256]

Yes. I get my asparagus in my local store. So good. I have to look for corn now.

[@seamusmcmasters114]

The best mixture I have found for in ground growing is Peat, Vermiculite, Cow Manure, and Top soil

[@missmollycollie911]

I feel like a pepper baby killer!!! I just picked off about 30 baby peppers and flowers off my peppers since they are just no big enough yet. Planted them in Jan indoors and potted them up 3 times before planting outside, Most are about 10":tall but I don't feel like they are mature enough yet. Same with some of my tomatoes.

[@rmftrushing6591]

I love to grow hot peppers. I usually grow jalapenos, habaneros, and ghost peppers. I've also grown Carolina Reapers and chocolate bhutlahs. I'm in Mobile, AL so our heat and humidity make for lots of TLC to maintain pepper plants. It's only "cold" for maybe 1-2 accumulative months out of the year. And by cold, I mean like 30 to 50°F. Not growing anything but weeds and algae in my pool this year, but I've got my heart set on a pepper garden next year. There's not enough hours in the day....

[@user-th6rz2pe8r]

Hey brother I hope you read this!!! How's that garden bubba? Parents lived in Bay Minette but now I'm Spanish Fort, I figured you would have a ideal location there, it's a different kinda hot haha

[@reallymattis8016]

Gotta love these pepper socks

[@PepperGeek]

🤩🌶

[@JP24556]

The socks and the Hugh Hefner slippers doing it!!!

[@mytech6779]

Seedlings won't be damaged by 100ppm of N from a dissolved balanced fertilizer, even when applied with every irrigation.(they may even take double this without issue) For unbalanced fertilizers, homemade multi part mixes, or boosting other nutrients you need to get into hydroponic style calculations and use the total ppm(usually in the 600-1500ppm range) and account for moisture in the salts.(ie magnesium sulfate can be over half water) I won't get into the complex stuff here. The rest of this post is for ready made balanced commercial blends. Commercial greenhouses commonly use 50-300ppm of N depending on the type of bedding plants, weather, and stage of growth. To get your dilution just divide the N content by your desired ppm with the decimal shifted three places. Example you have some 20-15-15 and want 160ppm then it is 20/0.16=125 ; this is one unit of fertilizer to make 125 units of solution, or slightly rounded to one dry ounce per gallon(128 fluid oz) in SI it is 1gram in 125ml; second example 8-15-11 and 130ppm is 8/0.12=67 parts water per one fertilizer. This is by weight of fertilizer and volume of final solution but at these dilutions you can assume water volume equals final volume; thus one ppm delivers one mg fertilizer per liter of finished solution; and 100,000ppm delivers 0.1Kg per liter. If you want it the other way for a fixed final volume and variable fertilizer, just flip the division and multiply by desired volume. So example one becomes 0.16/20=.008 , .008*128=1.0 oz per gallon or .008*2000= 16grams for 2000ml; likewise the second example becomes .12/8*128=1.9 oz or 55g fertilizer per gallon or .12/8*2000= 30g for 2000ml with 8-15-11 and 120ppm.

[@mattmn23]

Thank you for all the great tips and information. Glad I have friends like you that can help me with my peppers. ;)

[@PepperGeek]

:) you bet, glad we can help!

[@cochroach10]

Miracle Grow Performance Organics potting soil works amazing and then I used Miracle grow performance organics all purpose plant nutrition too and it made my peppers go wild!

[@tezzd6127]

Looks really good.. I’m in Australia and we are slowly coming up to Spring here so I’m definitely looking forward to trying some of those tips out 👌

[@tylerbauer7015]

When does your spring start?

[@tezzd6127]

@@tylerbauer7015 1st of September

[@timothybarrett3665]

Happy frog is AWESOME soil compound, I toss in some organic compost from last year as well as cow manure and my veggies love it. Some of Happy Frog soils I have added vermiculite for better oxygen at the root levels with uptake of water and nutrients for my plants.

[@user-th6rz2pe8r]

I can attest to this. It don't matter if it's tomatos, peppers, Grade A+++ Cannabis, or any regular veggie garden regardless of size Happy frog and Oven Floor Soil will greatly be appreciated by you and your PLANTS!!!

[@jamesbond-ic6qx]

Sending love from the Philippines!

[@PepperGeek]

👋🏻

[@dalewagnerW1EW]

Great video! Looks like all the rain we’ve had here in Ct. hasn’t hurt your plants. Mine could use a little help but this year and last I’m going chem free. Lots of vermicompost tea and fish/seaweed liquid and they’re starting to come around. Thanks, from around the corner in Manchester. 🌶

[@nunyabisnass1141]

Im thinking of getting a truck load of seaweed and horse manure in the fall. Despite what many think, its not necessary to compost it for two years. If using as an amendment you can use it the same season. Plus mixing in your yard clippings with fall leaves shredded in the mowing works very well too, but you will likely have a problem with weed seeds getting in there too. With that said you will have a very healthy nutrient balance and soil ecology where you may not need to fertilise or rotate for a few years.

[@WS-by5cl]

@Dale do you make your own vermicompost tea and fish liquid? Mind sharing how? 😃

[@dalewagnerW1EW]

@@WS-by5cl sure! I do 5 gallons at a time in a 7 gallon bucket. I use an air pump with 2 hoses and a small aquarium pump to keep things moving around. In the water I put about an ounce of liquid kelp, same of fish hydrolysate, organic gem brand, and some humic acid. In my cloth bag I put home made worm castings, a handful or two of some good compost and a little azomite for minerals. I don’t use molasses anymore so I let it run for about 48 hours. With molasses I did 24 hours. When done I dilute 50/50 with saved rain water. I stopped using all chemical fertilizer about 4 years ago and everything is doing great. Good luck to you!! Dale

[@WS-by5cl]

Thank you!! I have been researching making my own fertilizers so this helps!!

[@WS-by5cl]

Thank you!! I have been researching making my own fertilizers so this helps!!

[@johnstanley8091]

Worm castings and worm tea are amazing for peppers

[@DandeSaft]

growing peppers for the first time this year and its been rough. first the weather was cold and dark for longer than usual and the seedlings didnt grow much yet and i noticed that our soil sucks for peppers, so i'll either dig large holes in the soil and fill it with the tomato soil i used to sprout them or figure out where to put several more pots

[@davidisaacson9328]

You may also want to mix in some compost(fresh if you have it), Azomite and a little bit of worm castings to your soil. Just some food for thought. Sounds like a winner to me anyhow. Cheers!

[@AcornHillHomestead]

We have sandy soil that doesnt hold nutrients. This year I am growing Heirloom Bells, banana, poblano and jalapeño peppers all in large pots and tree tubs. Most of the seed was my own from last year.the growth and fruiting has been much better this year. Last frost here is 5/7 and first is 9/15 so a short season. I filled 1/2 of the pots with twigs, dried branches, leaves then 1/2 with my home made potting mix. I planted the home grown plants in May and then mulched all the pots well. I always use blood and bone meal at planting and fertilize this year using home made weed tea with a few comfrey leaves. The comfrey isnt real well established yet. Never used the tea before but it’s really doing great in the drought. We are upper midwest zone 4. I’m growing the maters in the ground and they seem to be doing fine with the tea as well. The biggest difference on the toms is there had been zero blight whereas I have had frustrating blight every single year in this garden. So the weed tea must really be helping the soil.

[@StewieGriffin505]

Good info for beginners. That Fox Farm soil is very expensive. I used Miracle Grow potting soil from Costco. Fifty quarts for $9.

[@PepperGeek]

We're doing an informal comparison this year between 5 different potting soils, miracle gro included!

[@breakforself5651]

Very interested in the progress of the Make Peppers Grow Faster!

[@getoutsidenow420]

northern mi, got hungarian wax pepper seeds started, even if its late, picked up s 12 inch cayenne, and tobasco, have a bunch of peat moss and old fox farm soil

[@Clark42EoC]

Yeah pick early and often for monster fall yields...Everytime you do the plant increases the number of pods produced.

[@matty332010]

Great info, thanks again.

[@GrowingOrganicTvShow]

So Happy Frog soil must be a good mix. Your peppers are looking healthy. Bat guano is great too.

[@PepperGeek]

Yes happy frog was amazing - highly recommended if you can find it locally

[@simplymeconnie4003]

Another tip! Do not buy Bell Pepper plants from Walmart when you lose yours to a late frost! Instead of Bell Peppers, I have some wickedly hot banana peppers... Next year, I am so staggering planting seeds just in case it happens again.

[@TheReReRetard]

I bought 4 bells at Home Depot. One turned out to be a banana pepper...

[@simplymeconnie4003]

@@TheReReRetard Yep! But these ones are spicy! I mean, I am super happy that I grew a ton of peppers, just not so stoked that I am giving them all away! haha

[@jaybailleaux630]

I'm using a combo punch of natural and commercial fertilizer. Osmocote , fish emulsion , bone meal. , and miracle grow.

[@SacEdits]

This video was so informational honestly best pepper KZbinr

[@cindystrother7710]

Thank you so much for sharing your time and All your information thank you

[@PepperGeek]

It is our pleasure :)

[@lmullens75]

Love Green Chef! The garlic-thyme steaks are the absolute best steaks I’ve ever cooked at home! Salmon recipes are also amazing!!! We are prepping the tilapia with mango salsa for dinner tonight, and I’m going to add some sugar rush peach peppers to that. 😎

[@PepperGeek]

Nice! We'll have to pick the garlic-thyme steaks next time they come around. And you always gotta add some fresh peppers... ☺️

[@sonictheheadshock756]

I just use a regularly poting mix and add a bit of blood fertilizer and some fish bone fertilizer and tok 3 leafs of the top and they are growing very well so i im looking forward to see how tall they will get one of my chilli plants leafs 🍃 are the size of a hand and it got 10 of them so thats cool

[@burningpentagram666]

Imagine the face of the policeman that busts your attic garden 😁

[@Mikey196601]

I’m growing locoto peppers , my wife is from Bolivia and that’s the common pepper they eat , they sure that forever to make a pepper , I have a ton of flowers for the last month but no peppers, the plant itself is huge , I hear peppers take awhile

[@bethgaither1214]

I have a shisito pepper, a jalapeño, red and yellow bell pepper planted in the same container. It's a LARGE container - I heard pepper plants like to "hold hands." I have gotten a handful of shisito pepper and 2 jalapeños. I have one green bell pepper. I'm not worried about this year. My question is NEXT YEAR. Should I plant each of those plants in separate containers next year? I have kept that BIG container watered. Zone 7b here.

[@PepperGeek]

If it works out for you this year, why not do it the same way? We have a few pots with 2-3 plants per container and they are thriving. Hard to tell if the yields would be higher as the varieties are all different, but it has been fun to watch them grow in close quarters

[@squashit339]

You should do a video on whether to overwinter pepper plants or just start new seedlings every year. A lot of people live in areas where this is possible. And if I am overwintering, how best to get those plants going when spring hits. I overwintered a jalapeno from last year but the fruit is small and this plant is not doing as well as my others.

[@kevinbossick8374]

I would not rely on overwintering. Try some, but use starts as well. It works, but takes some time to get it right.

[@squashit339]

@@kevinbossick8374 That's what I did, I only overwintered a jalapeno but the jalapenos are only about 1-2 inches long and starting to ripen so not sure what I did wrong lol. Most of my pepper plants were started from seed this year

[@kevinbossick8374]

@@squashit339 Same here. I had a Serrano that kept going all winter, stopped, then came back late spring. Seems to be doing well now. But I usually like to just start fresh.

[@Hotpeppers-b2m]

Hi l love to plant peppers.that guid gives amazing help for that.

[@PepperGeek]

Happy to hear that! Keep on growing

[@StephenCrowe6]

Just watched your video for the first time. I use the same 3 Gal bags, Happy Frog soil and grow lights as you do. However, I prefer the Fertilome Veg and Bloom granular fertilizers.

[@fordguyfordguy]

Wow you guys are awesome! Incredible way of presenting information.

[@oldpetyt2289]

I use a granular fertilizer that I mix with water, still has worked great for me.

[@71160000]

I did the usual work on my garden every year. I'd work in leaves and cow manure compost but I don't believe that's what made my peppers grow so well I had to keep picking bell peppers almost daily or the weight would break the limbs off. What did I add. I added my fireplace ash every year. Warning this will change your garden ph so pay attention if you do this yearly.

[@julesl6910]

I grow several pounds of cheese peppers in my aerogarden every year, I yield about 2lbs per month or two. They are perfect for pizzas.

[@bbtruth2161]

I like fox farms ferts for seed starts and potted plants. All my peppers go in the ground in my gardens. I have super soil, amended year to year in a heavy mulch, no till set up. No ferts what so ever in my gardens. Monster pepper plants, monster yields of monster peppers. Very little disease or pest issues. I do like to play with overwintering some of my best plants. Once they take off the next year.... watch out.

[@PepperGeek]

Sounds great! Can't _wait_ to have our own in-ground garden bed now that we have our own yard. Cheers

[@balligger5013]

Thanks for Tips!!🌶🌶🌶👊👍

[@thezfunk]

Aero garden with the seedling starter kit is working great for me.

[@luc0007]

RE: Picking early, im assuming this also means picking those early flowers right?

[@GraftingTactick]

This is such a useful tutorial vid, great tips and helpful advice 👍👌

[@beverlylee6357]

Why are my leaves always curling in and pepper plants always stunted :(

[@ThePleasantDevourer]

Persistent herbicide from straw mulch?

[@ndbg46881]

No need for grow lights, a 5000K, 4300 Lumen LED shop light (ideally two fixtures) will grow great seedlings. 5000K is the perfect spectrum for seedlings. In fact I have a small tomato plant (Kitchen Minis Siam) growing and fruiting under two shop lights right now.

[@angelmelko]

I live in west australia and the sun burns the hell out of them, so leave them in a shaded area.

[@Black-Knight]

I fucking love peppers and I fucking love you guys too

[@PepperGeek]

🌶❤️‍🔥

[@infernocandycompanyhutson4905]

Yall are amazing

[@PepperGeek]

☺️ thanks!

[@brucepechtel7791]

First off I absolutely love and enjoy your videos! It was an easy choice to subscribe to your channel! I thank you so much for all your hard work and time you put into making these videos. They are extremely informative and very helpful! But, I do have a question. I have a Carolina Reaper and a Ghost pepper plant that I am growing and wanted to know if I should prune them. I did prune a little off the top but not sure if I did it correctly. I wanted to send you a pic but don’t know how to. Thank you again!

[@kaf2303]

Peppers grew well in my Aquaponic system also.

[@a.btvthinker9330]

Hi iam from india Iam planted 100 chilli Your tip is very useful for me

[@PepperGeek]

Thanks, glad to hear it!

[@rosemaryspringer4239]

Did you know that Pilipino cooks use the leaves of the pepper plants to flavor their dishes? They put it in soups and etc.

[@DroneWolfMedia]

Great information. Thanks for sharing!

[@christopherbaby3842]

Start your peppers at the right time... Gee thanks. It's July!! I kid. Love your content!

[@PepperGeek]

Heheh, well, you would be surprised ;) Thanks for watching!

[@andromedadelux]

FoxFarm really is GOAT'ed

[@krazykid2002k]

Another amazing video just started growing pepper plants indoors these have been very helpful

[@Jardin-de-invierno]

Love the video guys.

[@chokethewoke746]

5:38 that is one beautiful plant.

[@elijahisrael86]

Did you too that bushy pepper plant? It has so many branches 😮

[@ahuertas69]

Great info as always. Thank you guys!

[@PepperGeek]

Thanks for watching!

[@spfein]

I grew a cayenne in an 8 inch pot, it threw out 10 pods 3 times before the fl heat finally killed it the plant wasn't even a ft tall either I had a 13 month old weed plant flower on me twice too, it was no bigger than my hand bonsai is fun those 2 plants are very forgiving to do it with too

[@spfein]

@cali budz it's not that our humidity causes what I'd call similar to an asthma attack can't breathe abdominal cramps like I'm getting wrung out like a rag, so I can't garden during that time otherwise I'm out there all the time

[@spfein]

If it was just heat I'd tolerate it enough to water but humidity like thanos is inevitable

[@dmitrimikrioukov5935]

I transplanted my seedling from a cup-size pot only now... Outside... In Siberia... 😳

[@ferdtheterd3897]

Good to know I gotta cut off that little early pepper.

[@smas3256]

I know. So happy just counting them. Going to enjoy them is a stir fry tomorrow if too bitter.

[@user-th6rz2pe8r]

GIVE US ADVICE ON AFTER WE HARVEST!!!! Recipes and techniques!!!! Storage and other ways to use peppers overall!!! God Bless!!