Topping Pruning Peppers Comparison (Seed to Harvest)
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Topped pepper vs Untopped harvest comparison
Hello guys, It's been some time I've been working on this video, and it's here 😉
Both Pepper plants have been growing under same conditions (Same container size, soil mixture, temperature, amount of sunlight, watering and fertilizing). Though I topped one of the plants to find out which one is able to produce better yield 🌶
Topping Peppers is very common nowdays,
so I've made a little comparison ✂
How I grew these peppers: • Growing HUGE PEPPERS i...
Overwintering peppers: • Video
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i found the video interesting and well done. keep up the good work.
@@paulk5311 Thank you very much :)
Thanks for sharing. Now I know what do do with my peppers in this coming summer
Thank you! Good to know I don't have to worry about it too much.
It is so cool that you can overwinter pepper plants! I wish we lived in an area (or had the inside space!) to make that work
Yes it's pretty cool 🙂 I overwinter just few plants every year, because of the same reason you've mentioned (inside space). Thank you for your feedback 💚
This is great info. You got a great harvest of peppers. 😊 I am over wintering some pepper plants for the first time this year.
Thank you 😊 Good luck 🍀 I hope it's going to work for you and multiply your next year's harvest 👍
Love your little pink watering can!
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Something very beautiful about a man gardening. Another amazing video....thanks so much.
Hehe, Thank you for watching 🙂
more men than women garden. i am 64 and it is seldom i see women grow vegetables. sure they grow flowers quite often but usually it is men i see that do have gardens. not a couple pots in an apartment gardening (which is great and you do with what space you have) but actual having a decent size plot to grow produce.
all my life my dad had a garden and i guess i got the love of it from him. now i am passing that down to my grandsons. my son is a meat eater and does not like hardly any vegetables so is not interested in gardening.
Nice comparison, thanks for the efforts
Thank you for watching! 🙂
Good harvest and repotting striaght away i can't wait to summer then i can start planting chili .
Glad to know you're from the same side of the world. Because I want to grow peppers and chilies (my favorite). This's gonna be my first of growing them.
Great to learn from your video that they're doing so great in this climate. You're a pepper thumb!
Thanks for the video!
Depends on the summer we get 🌞
What kind of chili peppers are you going to grow?
Thank you for your kind words 🙂
@@Liap I just started a Turkish pepperoni (Sumher) from seed. It's f1 hybrid though. I don't think this's tough for keeping over the winter. And I have two young seedlings of bell pepper (from the Kitchen). Not sure this will succeed.
I'm thinking to buy more seeds as well. Do you have any suggestions of which I should get?
Thinking should also start early next year. This year I'm a bit too late for starting chilies. :/
The best chilli peppers I've had so far were cayenne peppers. Great production!
Definitely start earlier. Especially when it comes to hot peppers.
@@Liap Thanks! Will definitely give it a try! :D
Wow,i really love pepper, and nice you grow them like that
Thank you 🤗
You really doing great
No overwintering here in California, year round peppers 🌶 and seedlings already outside liking the cool night temperatures and hot daytime sun getting bigger each day 🌱
Well, good for you and your peppers 👍🙂
yeah go ahead and rub it in.
lol
Cool vid , I watched a 3/4 speed :) Thanks for the tips
Thank you for feedback 🙂
The joy I felt when you said you were from Europe :D Being further North than you, I guess it's definitely a bad idea to top my peppers. Thank you so much, this was great! Overwintering peppers sounds interesting, too...
If you can start them early indoors, ideally under grow light, then you can top them and have pretty much "ready to bloom" plants for outdoor season. Otherwise you are right, in short growing season it's not worth as the topped plants will need more time to grow and ripen all the peppers on so many branches. At least that's how it works for me.
Overwintering is great if you have space indoors where you can allow the plants to stay during those cold months. I overwinter only the strongest looking plants (due to space problems indoors). This year I grafted hot peppers on those overwintered ones and can't wait to see how will they do 🙂
Thank you for your kind feedback fellow Europian 😉
@@Liap Thanks a lot for the tips!! I'll definitely overwinter mine this year as I have the space, had no idea it was even an option before this video tbh. Have a great day! :)
@@valeriavagapova Thanks :) you too!
Just found your channel. 👍 Great video.
Thank you 🙂
Its good another idea to take care pepper
wow nice idea my friend .amazing
Thank you 😊
nice looking peppers. container gardening can be done anywhere and it is so refreshing to see so many city dwellers growing a bit for their own. nothing like eating things you grew yourself and it is often healthier as well.
i have tried topping some peppers and leaving others alone. what i found is the topped peppers had thicker stronger stems and are shorter and bushier. since i stake my peppers that does not really matter too much to me. i find that those not topped grow taller and produce as much or more peppers than the topped ones. my growing season spans from mid april until about november and i do my gardening in the ground. no raised beds or containers are used. so i have a decently long growing season and my first peppers i harvest are in may.
the comparison videos i have seen of topped vs untopped peppers are in containers and only one of each. i just do not see a row of peppers with some of each to compare. that is not a true way to judge a method to see if it is more productive because plants vary from one to another even when they come from the same seed packet. i will grow between 30 and 50 pepper plants of different varieties and they are all a bit different. some plants produce like crazy (within the same variety i might add) and some are just average. just like people.
I agree. Two plants can't decide whether it is better or not to prune or top pepper plants. I grew more peppers in pots than these two, but I decided to compare this two, because they were very similar from the start when it comes to growth and thickness.
I think topping pepper plants is worth if you have longer growing season. But that's just my opinion.
I grow plenty of peppers outside. Two years ago I grew around 200 peppers outside. But I did not top any of those, because here in middle Europe, there is a risk of very low morning temperatures in october and I can't plant them outside before 15th-17th of may. If I topped them, they would not have enough time to ripe fully.
Yop, there is something special when you eat food you grow yourself. Very rewarding feeling.
Thank you very much for your feedback 🙂
Would love to hear how you fertilized your peppers to get such large fruit in an area with a somewhat short growing season such as central Europe. Thanks for a really well done presentation.
I used nettle fertilizer once a week until the first flower showed up. Then, I switched to chicken manure fertilizer and used it just as often as the nettle one. Though, every other week I mixed a little bit of nettle fertilizer into the chicken one.
Thank you very much for your kind feedback! 🙂
@@Liap nice
thanks. Well done video!
Thank you!
Love the video, quick question what was the reason for using a smaller pot to over winter? Was it just for space?
Thank you very much 🙂
Yes, the main reason for smaller pot is the space, but also when you cut down almost all foliage, the plant doesn't need the same sized root system and will easily handle with smaller one.
@@Liap Nice video. Your talking isn’t "boring". In fact, it would have been nice to hear you describe why you were over wintering the way you did (instead of just silence or music in the last portion of the video). Thanks tho!
You are right 😕 thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it!
Очень хороший обзор и сравнение, спасибо
что ж, спасибо тебе /I used translator, don't know russian. But I will learn one day 🙂/
If you pinch the buds on the pruned plant to allow it to bush into 4-6 fruiting shoots (the point of pruning) because it can concentrate on the foilar growth which is needed to make pruning effective you would have had wooden stalks and a bush. Those are georgous fruits tho! I' in a shorter season zone myself and pruning gives me the largest most productive plants anybody local has ever seen grown here. But the early blossoms take the energy from growing into more producing branches and us it for the fruit as well as the descending hormone flush that triggers root growth to stop and everything but the fruits. Great vid and I love the way you did it and showed the results and made quality content!
Thank you very much for taking the time to explain! I agree, this was just an experiment video with the one plant having it’s top cut off and the other one left as it was.
I love how at 4:42 you tidy up the pot and then lift it by the branchand it plops right back out
🙂
How many times did you top? I try to do so twice before letting them produce. Get the peppers later in the season, but get more overall.
Just once. Yes, give it a try 🙂 especially if you have longer growing season
Beautiful peppers ! Do you use any type of fertilizer ?
I did use nettle fertilizer until the first flowers appeared. Then I switched to chicken manure fertilizer but I still used a bit of nettle one every other week. Thank you! 🙂
Can you send some to me please? ;-) I love peppers, chillies..all the things I can't grow I love it lol..What a great harvest you got!!
Thank you 😊 why can’t you grow them? Ofcourse I could send you some, but I think they would go bad by the time they would get to you 😶
If I can grow peppers in the middle of a canadian winter anyone can grow them. I grew them indoors under grow led lights and in nutrient rich water and with an air stone. I had no clue that I could grow sooooo many sweet red peppers and there is no need to let the plant go dormant at all. I’m consistently pruning and cutting off peppers that ripen on the plant and it just keeps growing new branches and flowers and I do hand pollinate from time to time and it just keeps right on growing. If I can anyone can!🙏🏻🥰🇨🇦
Great video! What’s your soil mixture?
Thank you 🙂
The soil mixture is garden compost, wood ash, egg shells and a handful of forest soil.
Nice video. Would like to see your yield results the following season, after overwintering. I'm wondering if they're as strong as year 1, or if you're better off starting from scratch the 2nd year
I have used the overwintered ones for grafting. There is still some original branch left, but most of them have chilli pepper varieties grafts on them. But they will be most likely involved in some future video 🙂
Thank you!
I live in Queensland Australia so peppers grow all year round because winter is warm and summer is very hot.
Good for you! 😉
Looks like the untopped one produced more pods but the topped one produced more ripe pods? It's a good experiment that I've been wanting to do but I typically only plant one of each variety I grow.
Yes, that is how it worked out for me. But with longer growing season I am sure the topped one would also produce bigger harvest due to more branches. But we had very cold autumn mornings last year (unexpected) so I had to harvest them earlier than I planned to.
That's the same choice I am facing every year - few plants of more varieties or more plants of the same variety. Need more space to grow 🌍🙂
Thank you very much for your feedback!
@@Liap it’s exactly right the topped one eventually will outproduce because it becomes much more sturdy and has many more branches that produce more blooms. I’ve found with topping it produces a plant with a much lower Center of gravity and it makes it overall much stronger which should make it able to withstand much harsher conditions outdoors however I’ve only ever grown mine indoors in a hydroponic setup just nutrient rich water and an air stone with led lights and I have sweet peppers year round which is just awesome especially in the middle of winter in canada when the ones at the grocery store look and taste like plastic my peppers are every bit as delicious as the ones I grow in the summer because I’m always growing indoors with no pest pressures. It’s awesome! I never knew this was even possible but I will always be growing my own sweet peppers from now on. If I could start growing tomatoes indoors in much the same way I’d be very happy! I’m trying and each day I’m getting a little closer to it becoming a reality. 🙏🏻🥰🇨🇦
@@leannekenyoung True :)
I grew few tomatoes indoors during the winter. Delicious!
A lot of gardeners encourage pruning pepper plants advising it causes them to produce more. This proves otherwise. I'm doing this same test with 2 jalapeno plants I have. The one I topped is definitely bushier, has substantially more branches and intersections as well as being taller. I seeded them in early May. Now in mid-July they're just starting to produce and at least from what I can tell the pruned one is going to produce a substantial amount more than the one I didn't touch. Can we agree weather and soil conditions effect it more than pruning does? Maybe?
Great feedback! Pruning is worth if you have long growing season, or If you start Your plants indoors and also prune them indoors already. I don’t have long growing season and when I grew these, there were few very cold autumn days that basically stopped any further growth and ripening of the peppers. So I had to harvest much earlier than I had planned. The soil and weather definitely affect growth and production, but when having the same conditions, pruned peppers will produce bigger yield if the plants will have enough time for it.
Thank you for Your feedback! 🙂
@@Liap Thanks for replying! Much appreciated! I live in NE Pennsylvania USA, north East Coast if you're not aware where that is. The growing season here is between late May and the middle of September, maybe in to early October depending on how the weather is. It's usually too cold by Halloween (October 31st) for fruiting plants to produce. So we don't have that long of a growing season either which is why I've stopping picking off early sprouts and letting them do whatever they're going to do for the rest of the season. I stopped picking early flowers off last week.
Tomato plants grow like weeds here. They're difficult to keep under control they grow so fast. Peppers and potatoes are a bit difficult and require a lot of TLC due to the climate and soil conditions (coal everywhere, very little to no clay or sand) where I am.
I need to try to overwinter mine. It’s scary! Lol
It is a big shock to the plant and yes I admit that it looks kind of scary to cut down all the foliage. But if done properly, you can raise the rate of success for your Peppers 😉
Are you keeping them inside? It looks like you left them outside. Did not understood the difference in yield of the two plants, unless I missed it
I am saying in the video that I topped one of them to find out the pepper production difference. The other one was growing without any pruning (just bottoms). I am overwintering them indoors. If you are interested, I have a whole video about it: ua-cam.com/video/vNENL3tpqOM/v-deo.html
I thought you've already seen it, because of your comment 😉
What do you consider the best size pot for growing peppers. Is it true that the bigger the pot the more peppers you’ll get? Thanks
I don't want to complicate the answer, but that is very dependant. If you have long growing season with mild winter then sure - the bigger the pot, the better the yield potencial. But if your peppers have like 6-7 months long season, then I'd say roughly 15l sized containers are perfect 🙂
The ones in the video grew in 10liter containers, but I fertilized them very often to get that harvest. I overwintered both of them, grafted some other varieties on them and just few days ago I planted them in greenhouse. Because this year they would need much bigger containers due to their size.
@@Liap Thank you very much for your answer. I am so happy that you responded. I live in Houston Texas so I guess I’ll use the 15 L pot. Have you ever grown two peppers plants in one pot. Thanks
Actually I did. It was this winter, I grew 3 peppers in the same container, but only for cuttings.
If you have container that is wide enough, you definitely can. But remember that every plant needs it's own space 🙂
There are peppers that grows very tall and also wide. And there also are varieties that don't. I think the best you can do is try it.
What I can tell you is, that if you decide to grow more peppers in those 15L pots, and you have long growing season in Texas, you will have to feed them more often.
@@Liap thank you so much for your knowledge.
@@howardbellamy6301 Good luck growing your peppers! :)
Hello friend, I also have concerns in planting vegetables in the pot, I really like the way you doing... watched all video and hope making friend with you, stay connect and keep connecting. say hello from minchan channel in jp, lk13
Hello and Thank you 💚
We need one with small to mid size peppers.
3:32.. so the conclusion is we should not top pruning plant? By pruning we get less?
The conlclusion is that topping peppers is worth when you have growing season long enough for topped plants to fully grow all the peppers on all those branches. By topping you get more branches and therefore more fruit, but it will require more time to grow and ripen. If I could grow these for 4-5 more weeks, the topped one would most likely produce bigger yield.
@@Liap thx for the enlighment🙏
What kind of pepper is this
I do not know the exact variety, the seeds were given to me by a friend who had them from store bought peppers in Austria. Someone in the comment section mentioned “Anaheim” variety, and they look quite similar. Hope this helps.
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Thank you 🙂
I’ve always wondered what the real comparison is. Also wondered about the comparison of cutting off all the suckers on tomato plants.
I like the peppers topped, looks better and you got more ripe peppers on the second harvest from the topped.
Perfect video, except the way you jerk and spin the camera around, it made me feel dizzy/nauseous. 😜
Tomato video in progress 🙂
You may also get better yield overall from topped pepper plant, but you either have to start it very early to make the season as long as it needs, or just live in much warmer climate than I do.
Thank you for your feedback, I apologise for the camera stuff. Will try to improve 🙂
I don't top mine that drastically I just pinch the very tip top off.
I wanted to make another plant so that's why I cut much lower and didn't just pinch off the very top. But good point 👍
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Hello 👋
Can you make your video 8mins more next time.👍
I am trying to make them more interesting to watch, but yes I should definitely try! Thank you for advice 🙏
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@@Liap back me please
The reason you did not yield more in your topped plant is because the container is way too small. The size of the root system has a lot to do with production. You severely limited the growth of the topped plant by keeping it in such a small container.
Agreed. I was thinking whether it was just the short length of growing season or also container size. Not sure, because the "not topped" plant was limited the same amount as the topped one. Will try to grow them separately in 40l growbags next year and will bring them in greenhouse for October to increase the length of season for them. Thanks for pointing out!
OMG! do you really need to damage the root system so badly??? oO
Next time if you want to get roots clean just gently wash off the dirt in a bucket of water (room temperature preferably). The plant will be much happier, plus you can exam the roots better and trim in case there are some dead roots ;)
This is not empirical evidence. You need to do say 100 plants in the exact given circumstances and conditions and then see what happens. The seedlings of these two plants could have been different, stronger, weaker whatever
First of all, I didn't say it is "empirical evidence" 🙂
Yes, you are right, two plants can't provide enough example to decide whether it is worth cutting the plants or not. And I know my english is not 100%, but if you listened to what I said in the video, you could save yourself time. I said that with longer growing season you might get different results and you most likely would.
When it comes to seedlings, I picked two that were as identical as possible. They germinated at the same time, they were similar size when being transplanted and they had same conditions for their entire life. I know I can't be sure that they had the same potential, but I tried to make the comparison as unbiased as I could.
I mean, it is just a video showing results of topped vs untopped plant grown in quite short growing season 😉
This video makes me feel sick! Please keep the camera still.
My apologies, this was recorded on phone. The very starts of this channel, I haven't been recording anything before, and used smartphone very rarely. I will try to make more steady videos.
Thank You very much for your feedback.
@@Liap sorry to be so blunt! No need to apologise I wasnt able to watch till the end unfortunately...
@@walamo8971 not blunt at all, there is no other way that I can make better videos without You and people who watch this kind of content telling me. I have no video editing backround and like I said I did not really use the camera before I started this channel. So if there is something bothering You about the video, feel free to tell me so I can learn from that.
Thank you very much, hopefully you will get a better experience when you stumble in to some of my newer videos.
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May be it is too basic for you and you should not watch it. I found it helpful to me since I am a beginner in gardening.
Pitiful
why? 🙂