Why Pepper Drop Flowers

Why Do my pepper plants drop flowers?
00:38 - Extemely high temperature
02:45 - Over fertilizing
05:45 - Pests problem
08:55 - Over watering
10:55 - Diseases
11:45 - Plant cannot support so many peppers
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[@Prakaz]

I had been breaking my head over why my pepper plants were stunted.. These were the classic signs - they were over fertilized. Thanks!

[@donnadao3712]

You might want to repot your pepper plant with new soil. Mine just stopped growing and I found that the soil just clump together preventing the root to expand. I took out the old soil and mix perlite and a little of chicken manure compost. Two days later, there are tons of new leaves coming out.

[@edrm1188]

Thank you for breaking down each segment on your video. It's greatly appreciated! 🙂👍

[@mustang19ms]

Thank you for the timestamps, much appreciated

[@TheAbominationprime]

Thanks Khang. I have been watching your videos for like 3 months now, and you have helped me learn so much. I started with a couple Home Depot chili's and a couple weeks later decided to get some seeds. I have my first seeds on their way to me (hopefully) in the next couple days. I can't wait to take all the things I have learned from you and apply them to my own garden! Thanks for all of the motivation to grow my own garden of peppers, one of these days I will have one of the famous KS seeds!

[@rbid]

Your tips are always excellent advises.. greetings from the Galilee

[@annduong5861]

Great video with great information! Thank you

[@wpsam52]

Very informative. Thanks for doing this.

[@KLUVATL]

Khang, thanks for the education. Your voice is so soothing.

[@Yoav76]

Great video. Thank you!

[@kingjackupeace5844]

Brand new subscriber here...I was given a book on hydroponics for my birthday just a few weeks ago... been a Gardener for decades... found this channel and I'm definitely looking forward to trying this soon...I personally like your videos and will continue to follow and look at past videos, as well.

[@yannip2083]

EXCELLENT video! Thank you so much, Khang Starr. Just subscribed.

[@HomeGardenNature]

Thanks for the tips. Growing chili & green peppers.

[@katfrankie6484]

You are amazing, thank you for this video!!

[@meowkoshka9578]

Thank you so much, this was so informative! I would love to see one for troubleshooting peppers grown hydroponically too 🌶🌶🌶

[@DAlexKablack]

this is a very simple, yet informative and useful video. thanks dude had a golden bell pepper turning yellow, was just getting too much water, had a couple peppers with new leaves that were curling up and dying at the ends, turns out it was over fertilizing. they're looking better just a week later

[@carolyncollier1589]

Thank you Khang!!! I have some plants that I have over-fertilized. The leaves look just like the one you showed. I won’t fertilize for awhile. I hope they will come back to being healthy! And .we have had a lot of rain here in Oklahoma! Yikes.....at least I don’t have clay like soil.... Thanks again!! 🙃🔥❣️

[@ryanjessup5790]

I have been following you for years now!!

[@nhanmac3974]

Good video .Thank you.

[@punamnarula4263]

Marvellous information....my problems are addressed

[@katty3234]

Thank you for sharing!

[@boblevey]

Vey good video Khang, very thorough. Thank you

[@elcurandero44]

,,,thanks for the expert advice Khang...saludos del Rio Grande Valley.

[@urbanspaceman2007]

Very informative...many thanks.

[@JoseEllen1]

useful info! thank you

[@goonygoogoo2]

thank you...

[@Lettusfarm]

Thanks Khang, I was wondering why a couple of my leaves were wrinkled. That explains it lol

[@DoddsFarm]

Good info. Thank you.

[@painfulpeppers5103]

So helpful

[@saule8764]

Thanks for sharing ! 🌹

[@steverick5281]

Great vid, very informative

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Good info.

[@chaseturner]

Thank you Khang! Your videos are always great and informative, and have helped me a lot in my growing journey. Its the middle of July (in FL) and most of my peppers have been pretty scarce with few flowers and pods. I was starting to wonder but I think its just too hot for them right now. I'll leave the shade cloth on and maybe get some straw mulch to help. My two habanero's are producing really well though despite the heat :) Happy gardening!

[@wildlifegardenssydney7492]

Thank you for your post . My birds eye chillies are still producing hundreds of fantastic chillies and the bush is 7 years old. Next to it are two reapers. They are 4 years old. It is one month from the winter solstice in Sydney and they are still laden. I am harvesting eating and freezing every couple of days. In late winter I will fertilise and mulch with a mixture of worm castings, horse manure ( will warm and moisturise the soil leading to spring in the dormant time when there are few flowers) coir ,coffee grounds ,and lucern. With rocks on top to stop the winter gale force winds blowing it all away. I am both delighted and surprised about how abundant and long lived my chillies have turned out being . In a bed with competition from a huge passion fruit vine too.

[@JahRasta01]

I thought peppers could only produce for two seasons? This is interesting information. Do you cut yours back once the season ends?

[@wildlifegardenssydney7492]

@@JahRasta01 no , I have not cut them back much at all. Just tied them back off my path. They are 8 years old , produce approx 1,000 chillies per bush.2.2 meters tall. I will need to cut lower (just a few branches for a trial) if they get higher, as I won’t be able to pick the chillies. The plants still have a lot of chillies on them still from Autumn. The plants are now 8 years old. Over this current winter, I put some aged horse manure and worm castings, and sugar cane mulch and rocks to hold; as it gets extremely windy and cold (13 degrees) during winter. That should make their roots and the surrounding soil more enriched and more insulated .

[@JahRasta01]

@@wildlifegardenssydney7492 Thats awesome, thanks for the info.

[@deonlatchman3283]

Thank you I over fertilized my pepper and though it was pest

[@surensalgado945]

Thank you. Very clearly explained. 👌🏼👍🏻🌶🌶

[@randomasiankid017]

thanks, really helpful

[@jordansimmons629]

Awesome video! Subscribed.

[@jaymohanpn7127]

Thank you 🙏

[@nmnate]

I'm trying mild organic fertilizers for my peppers this year. Found some fox farm stuff for peppers that has some calcium in it. Haven't really had issues with plants not wanting to fruit, but I usually tend to neglect them a little bit. They also grow really well in this climate.

[@littlefanbigfan4122]

thank you for the video! I may have over fertilized my plants ;-)

[@MattGarver]

Nice work Khang, as there is very little information online for pepper blossom dropping. Your video should help a lot of growers.

[@Waldabie]

The overfertilization tip was extremely helpful. Jalapenos and habaneros looking good!

[@sand0p0sse]

I also have that same problem and thought it was caused by bugs but now I know 😀

[@ham6809]

Same here my chilli's have looked pretty sad all season. Guess I was killing them with food.

[@cheesegirlk22]

Thank you so much for this video. Been stressing out trying to figure out why my plant started looking in such bad shape. Kept thinking it was pests or calcium deficiency but now I'm almost certain it's over fertilization. My plant pretty much looks like yours. I'm hoping it recovers since I never flushed it and it's been over a week now since I had fertilized it. 😮‍💨

[@G-boi]

I think it's good to explain things more then once or twice because the second time around the explaination could be more detailed for example and there for beter to understand which is a good thing ;) :).

[@maraimacarvalho]

Thanks very much , yours videos helped me A LOT, very explained, very good information! Muito obrigada 🇧🇷

[@shanteporter4676]

OMG thank you! I was gonna follow the fox farm fertilizer schedule... probably would have been too much!

[@captnodge]

I'm feeding my apache chilli plants with dryed banna skin and the soaking it in water to liquid feed them .I also use the dryed bannas as a mulch.seems they like a high potassium feed . Thanks for the helpfull video

[@RRan-dk7ct]

Thanks.....I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast; My habanero's took off when it was Above 85-95+ Degree's It Loved The Sun and Heat....:)

[@KhangStarr]

Nice! Habs don't seem to mind the heat. I had one that produced like crazy, even with crazy temperatures.

[@shaneh1327]

Which varieties of habaneros do you have?

[@roberttillotson6861]

Khang, a note regarding nute overload. Doing a slurry to find out ppm of soil near root area 1-2 days after feed tells you more accurately where plant needs are. Depending on TDS model such as TDS 500 a range of 200-400 is key with 300 best.

[@leomaciel5295]

Thanks 🙏

[@AchmadTumardi]

Hi friends i'm from Indonesia. Beautiful.

[@bbaasje]

So less sun should work. Thanks for the tip!

[@KhangStarr]

Not less sun, but less extreme sun =). If you climate is between 75-85F, give them sun all day, no problem.

[@petrab9098]

Thank you for the post, your chilli videos are really great and I learned so much from them. I'm only growing a few much smaller plants inside and this is the first year they seem to be doing well for the whole season. I managed to overcome the flower drop problem on my habanero (with a brush) but my cayenne which seemed to fruit so well (15+ peppers on a plant kept relatively small by the pot size) is now dropping smaller fruits. About 8 of the oldest pods have now grown full size and I'm hoping they'll start changing colour in a week or so but it has dropped all the smaller fruits over the last week, first the tiniest ones but now even the ones well longer than a thumbnail. It seems I finally got the watering and fertilisation right this year, the plants look very health and bushy as I kept topping and retopping it. Has my plant simply reached the limit of the pods it can sustain and is now dropping the excess, or is there something that I should be doing to help it out? (I stopped giving any new flowers the brush treatment as I assumed the plant would just drop newly formed pods). I looked everywhere but can't really find much about fruit drop on chillies, most info everywhere is on flower drop, any suggestions?

[@edenvillahermosa388]

Thànk you i learned a lot

[@DinaTinyworld]

Hi dear, thanks for all info...I love your chilli plants....I m growing indoor...but 😢 I use miracle grow pot soil, garden soil. And made egg shell, tea, banana peel powder, banana peel water for my plants. I will certainly follow your advice..

[@joegreene8353]

Hey Khann nice video! After my plants were planted for 2 weeks all my plants got black spot fungus. I had to cut off a lot of foliage it even got to my tomatoes! Everything is fine now. I live across the street from the Galleria and if you ever are over this way i would be honored if you dropped by! I live in Apartments and they let me grow in a certain area! I now have 15 pepper plants 4 squash 2 beans and 4 tomato plants all in containers! I got to tell you I'm having the time of my life i only took up gardening 3 years ago and would relish your opinion! Thanks and I'll see you on U Tube! Joseph Greene is my name!

[@thereserioux2178]

My pepper's leaves in the greenhouse have holes on the edges, I saw some crickets, I think it could be them. What can I use to irradicate them without using pesticide on my plants. My plants have been very productive so far. Thank you so much for your precious and detailled info.

[@davebaker4911]

This year I've been growing Bhut Jolokia's, Hot Lemon's, Habanero's, Spangle's Twilight and also a sweet variety called Candy Cane. So far the only ones that have produced any fruits are the sweet ones, Candy Cane. All my plants are quite big and did have a lot of flowers on them but they simply wouldn't pollinate and eventually begin to fall off. Thankfully my Jolokia's still have lots of flower buds appearing and opening but no success yet. I live in Scotland so the climate isn't the best, but over the past 5 years I have had a lot of success from indoor grows, but this has been the worst for dropping flowers/buds. The plants all look very healthy, no discolouration etc so I think it may just be the temperature that's affecting them.

[@wranther]

Another very informative video Khang! Have you ever done a series or play list that deals with reviving "sick" or "ill" plants similar to your coke bottle example towards the start of this video? Nice to see plants with flowers and pods in the great outdoors already. May begin a serious hardening off this week with possible planting towards week's end. Hope you and your family are Staying Safe and Healthy down there. Happy Gardening! -Bob...

[@KhangStarr]

Thanks Bob! I should plan for a video dealing with "sick" plants and diseases. It'll be a while since I have to collect evidence and resolution.

[@vissenmetvelt]

Thnx for the video 👌🙏✌🌶

[@chunhui3936]

I saw your last video, was wondering why you did the same one again XD... thanks for all your information anyway! my peppers are dropping all their flowers, not one single fruit yet... maybe its too hot... and the rain doesn't help either

[@rickrack9091]

Thanks for the info, I'm in Houston and my scorpions and reapers either are not flowering or dropping flowers. Hopefully by October they will start producing.

[@y0ug0tb0died5]

Hey man I’m in Houston as well all my flowers keep falling and aren’t producing fruit are you having problems like this

[@pontonspepperpowderp3544]

Dealing with thrips right now. It sucks. So many of the issues look the same it’s hard to tell which issue you have.

[@doodahgurlie]

Very informative. I think repetition is good as there's a lot of information and if the videos are older, people may have missed them or forget what was divulged in the past. :)

[@lefteyepat]

Your channel is so informative!! Thank you! I just started my first garden ever. I’m growing Aji Dulce, Trinidad scorpion, apocalypse scorpion and reaper. My garden is in the ground and in read that planting marigolds around the pepper plants helps keep away rabbits, bugs and prevent a certain disease (I can’t think of the name of it). Do you recommend doing this or is it not really necessary?

[@Inspiron41]

helpful. i'm starting to grow bell pepper, jalapenos, Thai pepper, Chinese hot pepper, and California reapers. I think I lost my mind with my seedlings

[@ernestito2222]

2:45 mine was over fertilized. Just water vigorously the plant every day. The over fertilization was over between the 3rd and 4th day.

[@qhobby190]

great

[@electricboogeyman5855]

My go to spicy guru. I've been giving a less than recommended solution of miracle grow fertilizer. So I never thought I'd over fertilize. Had 5 blooms on my plant and now it only has 1 left. :(

[@nitsuj22]

Hello! I love your videos. I also live in Texas, DFW. I was wondering about your yearly schedule for your plants? When do you start hydroponic peppers? When do you plant peppers outdoors for spring and fall? When do you take your peppers indoors? I bought my first grow light and I'm looking to do what you do!

[@nunyabisnass1141]

If you're doing hydroponics, you will have to take extra steps to make sure they dont get water or heat stressed. In any part of texas I'd hazard to guess you can treat it aa any other climatic zone and put them outside as soon as the night time temp is over 55F consistently. I live in new england so i start seeds in march and keep them indoors/greenhouse until about the second week of june.

[@Ottawajames]

Do you know, I've watched so many videos about flower drop, and I have addressed every issue that everyone had mentioned and my Jalapeno just keeps on dropping 3-6 flowers every day although there are some fruits developing. I would remark that although it was dropping 2 dozen of flowers a week it was still producing flowers faster, at any given time I have 40 or so flowers budding. I came to the conclusion that the plant was just performing resource allocation in deciding that it just couldn't produce as many fruit as it has flowers.... This is the first video I have seen that has suggested that as a possibility.

[@somewhereinitaly.....3580]

Yes I did over fertilizes.

[@iq0099]

I took out some pepper plants from the ground into net pots. I used the hydroponic solution you suggested in older videos, and the leaves fell off quickly.

[@KhangStarr]

There will be a shocking period. Remember, plants in soil have soil roots. If you take them and place them in water all of a sudden, they need a way to breathe.

[@iq0099]

@@KhangStarr hmm.. All 10 of them had died! The leaves have fallen, but some of them still have green stems!

[@user-jc8tj5co7d]

Low humidity causes bud drop as well.. mist them slightly with rain water.

[@Dinie09]

I had a huge aphid problem last year in my greenhouse, introduced ladybugs and they took care of the problem in a couple weeks (have to lay eggs, the nymphs eat the aphids)

[@painfulpeppers5103]

Love ladybugs!

[@abc_cba]

How did you add in ladybugs ?

[@Dinie09]

@@abc_cba buy them from your local greenhouse/garden store

[@maidiep2638]

I like your channel. What should i do when top leaves turn brown ? Thank for your advise in advance.

[@bradkennett]

Hey big fan here I've been watching your videos for a while and just got into indoor growing over the last month or so I would like to know where in Texas are located because I am in the Plano area, and I had some questions about where you're buying your microgreen sunflower seeds I know every where is out right now online and plus they're too expensive at most online shops , so just wanted to take your advice, we shop the Asian market a lot and so I'm looking to get good quality black oil sunflower to do my microgreens with for a fraction of the cost, if you could let me know if you found anything good anywhere around 99 ranch or any of the h Mart's or anything like that, Thanks love the channel!

[@buttoxide8]

Hi Khang, is there a resource to find pepper plants by heat resistance? I live in the tropics and I think this would be very helpful...

[@kma5699]

Hey Khang, great video! You mentioned to stop fertilizing when plant is blooming. Does that mean all fertilization, or were you referring to a balanced fertilizer? I always though a straight phosphorus only fertlizer during flowering is beneficial as it is targeted to bloom production. Is this wrong?

[@koolaid34]

What if the peppers are still in kratky, and are booming? Should I not use the bloom nutrients and have it sit in water?

[@dizzyspinner648]

I have a Trinidad Scorpion Pepper that isn't self fertile. It makes pollen that will pollenate other plants, but unless I pollenate it from my Bhut Jolokia (the only other mature pepper I am currently growing -indoors since it's winter here in Wisconsin as I write), it doesn't set fruit. This has made it easier to cross, at least as the pollen recipient, and my first Ghost Scorpion seedlings are just starting to come up (they don't even have true leaves yet, much less flowers, so it will be a while before they can pollenate anything). Has anyone else ever encountered a pepper that wasn't self fertile?

[@tmm9113]

by bell pepper ahs brusing in the middle of if the two biggest ones that have grown should I pick it off or leave it?

[@ctrey8395]

I got Anaheim,pablono,pimiento,bell pepper,banana,reaper,big Thai hybrid,cayenne,serrano,I also got a unknown pepper,and I put cayenne pollen on my Serrano and the peppers from the serrano are growing

[@jackschitt7783]

My area got a lot of light rain yesterday. It rained for approximately 14 hours because Herricane Henri hit land 600+ miles east of my location. We didn't have high winds or anything just a really long, steady, light to moderate rain. My jalapeno plant dropped some of it's bulbs that weren't flowers yet when I checked it after it stopped raining. Should I be concerned or am I correct that much rain overwatered it and that's why it dropped some? This plant is important to me. I've had a hard time getting a jalapeno to be successful for a very long time.

[@makanankhas1419]

Hello ... Want to ask: chili after transplanting (from soil to vegetable ABmix) why wither on the third day? Though sturdy about 20 cm high. Until now (7 days) still wither. Why? Thank you for your attention

[@Plangtun]

What npk value do you use for peppers?

[@allupinya5938]

What soil do you usually use? Container mix or soil? What brand is best for you?

[@MohammedShekun]

thanks for the recipe. Is it advisable to also spray honey on your pepper to attract pollinators like bees to help pollinate your peeper plant........

[@jonathanlarocque7397]

I planted a habenero pepper plant into an indoor kratky set up and it struggled hard, i used like 5.7 ph 1.1 ec all purpose solution with general hydro flora series, it is a sad plant even to this day with and air pump hooked up to it. Its in a regular sized amber mason jar.

[@jonathanlarocque7397]

Its super chilli hybrid sister i planted at the same time is massive with the same grow method

[@Nyahkimmy]

Put it out of it's misery. Poor habanero. 😩

[@vister6757]

May you please advise on the pot size for small chilli plant?

[@Deborah412]

I live in the desert of California,VERY HOT temps over 100 degrees,but I have them on my porch that’s covered, is that ok??..what kind of fertilizer..7-9-6 is what I’m using..

[@emmjhay7354]

Hi there Khang, just a quick one, is it safe to fertilized more often if a pepper plant is producing more flowers on it? in order to manage the plant to bloom and produce fruits most of it, instead of dropping off.

[@miragonzales6060]

..hiw about curly leaves brother..?..

[@estiben3508]

What bout a transparent pot to check for overwatering khang

[@ytho7618]

Do you have any recommendations for shade cloths?

[@thomasmorano17]

My pepper flowers are dropping like hot potatoes..I'm trying a tarp for shade..Temps here been crazy in massachusetts..heat wave

[@damarjeetchanambam3027]

Hi Khang.. This year all my ghost pepper plants buds are turning brown like burnt very premature. This is happening when buds just coming out. Till now flowers and all buds dead. Plant itself is healthy.Can you please share the reason could be If you know?I wish I could share the pics of the brown buds.

[@jikostravellingvlog]

will all kind of pepper self pollinated??

[@JW-tn3mt]

good video :) can you give a rule of thumb for fertilization?

[@KhangStarr]

Fertilize every 2-3 weeks if your soil lack nutrients. Always go exactly what they label say or less. More will not help =)

[@jimmunhall]

Khang how do I get one of my hot sauces to you for review or maybe a few seed varieties of yours ?