What I appreciate most about your content is how you take the audience through the entire journey from seed to harvest, showing real results. If any of you are new to gardening, get a copy of their ebook, it is the perfect book for pepper newbies. Thanks Calvin and Crystalyn!!!
I remember your same tip from another video about plucking early flowers to encourage more plant growth. That was a solid tip, definitely had pepper plants get bigger than normal using that method
Great video. I love my Sweet Sunset Banana peppers growing in pots. Most wire "tomato" cages are perfect for peppers too (even though they suck for actual tomatoes hahaha).
Oh yes, start the day geeky and spicy. It wasn't one of your favorites, but you introduced me to ají amarillo and it is now my favorite chili of all time. Thanks for doing what you do, guys.
@proprietarycurez8463 Has a berry-like tart sweetness, and Serrano-level heat. They look like giant orange jalapeños, but taste better and are hotter on average. Perfect for my uses!
Beautiful peppers 🌶 🫑. Nw Nevada desert here & I wish I could get beauties like that. Have done some tweaking in the garden so hopefully next yr will be good. Thank you 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
I'm from a family of chili farmers from the South of India 😊 I'm now farmless in Seattle, learning your ways to grow "peppers" 😉 Both places have their own unique set of challenges, both are fun in their own different way ❤ thank you for sharing all your priceless knowledge and presenting it so well 🙏
I have a Grand Bell Sweet Pepper plant in a pot i started by seed last year. I live in Maine and i bring it in on the radiator by the livingroom window in the off season and outside in the summer. When the seed germinated last year i took a calcium pill and used a file and put the calcium powder in a small cup of water that i put on the plant to help prevent blossom end rot which helped. I use miracle grow once in a while and not too often. The peppers doesn't get very big, but i think it's due to not big enough pot. Other than that the plant is doing good for it's second year. I am doing an experiment to see how many years this Pepper Plant will live for.
Last year, I grew sweet yellow bell peppers from seeds. They grew very nicely in my sunny veggie bed. I started harvesting them in early July, when they turned from green to yellow. But the rest of the still green peppers refused to turn yellow. Instead of ripening, they turned into mush and went splat onto the ground. I noticed that the ones that were still hanging onto their stem, had tiny dots resembling pin pricks. When I cut them open, I discovered maggots feeding on the inside flesh of the pepper. Very gross sight. I googled it and found out that my peppers were infested by the Pepper Fly. Apparently, once the maggots land on the ground, they crawl into the ground to overwinter there and emerge as adult fly, which mates, lays eggs into the pepper and the life cycle keeps going. My neighbor two doors down from me grew the same peppers in her backyard and had the same results. For this reason, I am giving up on growing peppers. I wish I knew how the commercial pepper growers manage to come up with a healthy harvest of sweet bell peppers. How do YOU protect your bell peppers from the Pepper Fly?
Just wanted to send along a thank you for your content. I've been trying my best to grow pepper plants for years but took a break last year to learn what I was doing wrong. Wound up with 3 different bell varieties that exceeded expectations this year for growing in Michigan. Yellow and Red bells with around 8-10 peppers on each, and a lunchbox orange bell variety with around 18 or so peppers on it. They were the best looking and productive plants in my garden this year.
This year, I grew Scotch Bonnet peppers. Beautiful red color. Last night we had a Jamacian Jerk Chicken cookout using them! 😊 I also grew jalapeños and Shishitos but had never tried the Scotch Bonnets. Thanks for a great informative channel.
I just got some Hungarian crushed paprika paste (hot). Literally crushed paprika peppers. Tastes great, going to save some of the seeds from it to grow next season.
I killed 2 flats of seedlings this year spritzing seed tray. Bad damping off problem. Bottom watering and sterilizing mix with boiling water solved problem.
My peppers definitely don't look like that. 😂 I'm in Texas 8b and I think the heat stunted growth. Bells and bananas are very small or going straight to red before becoming big. Only thing that did well were Jalapeños.
Can you suggest what to do about gnats, scales and other annoying pests that are attacking my peppers inside? I have them growing in a sunroom and I'm overwhelmed. I rinse the leaves. I already a mix of isopropyl and neem oil. I vacuum them up. The peppers were producing in the sunroom until the BUGS ATTACKED! Enjoyed your video!
I back onto a natural space and have given up on trying to keep the weeds out of an in ground garden so have switched to containers, 10 and 20 gallon grow bags. Have you ever tried to keep a pepper plant producing year round indoors?
Great video, thank you so much! You focused on bell peppers in the video, between the two sweet peppers. Do you have a comparable video for banana peppers?
Only bring them outside when night time temps are above 55? In Vancouver (8b) that doesn’t happen until July lol. Our average night time temps in the summer are 57. I feel like these planting guides need to be modified for colder zones. Any PNW growers know when you can transplant pepper seedlings to outdoors?
I'm in the Idaho Panhandle 20 mi south of the border, 5b/6a, avg last frost 5/15. I put mine out around the 3rd week of May but my bells were King of the North and Ozark Giant which are both supposed to be suited to cooler climates. The overnight lows were definitely below 55° at that time, probably more like 40-45°, they did fine. I started picking some peppers around the 1st of July. I've had frost 3 times so far in September, I cover everything at night of course. The peppers are blossoming and fruiting like crazy right now since it's cooled off, they seem to be loving the cool weather.
Glad I found your channel. going to share it with my brother and a couple others. Wondering what grow lights you're using. Did not see a link to your book but I'm guessing I can find it on Amazon. I'll be checking your other videos soon. I'm in Fresno California and I'm a little concerned it might be too hot and dry here for containers but I think I'll give it a try. We do have three great growing seasons here. Thanks
Hi there, so we have a few grow lights, all of them LEDs. This article includes a few options: peppergeek.com/best-grow-lights-pepper-plants - also our ebook is here: peppergeek.com/ebook. Thanks for watching and sharing the channel!
Am in the Philippines. Finding seed is tough. I transplanted yolow wonders into pots. Had a heavy rain and 90% of the leaves fell off the next day. Hope they come back
one advantage of using pots is that you can move them indoors or somewhere where your plant is protected from heavy rainfall since the water will accumulate in the pot.
I am in zone 9. What is a good bell pepper to grow in 5 gallon buckets that will provide me with regular size peppers. What I have tried are about 1/5 the size they should be. self wicking planters with regular fertilizer.
No heat lamps. For germination, a heating pad below the mini greenhouse. Once the seeds sprout, artificial lighting 14-16h/day. You can use specific LED plant lights, but it's not strictly necessary just for seedlings, since they don't need that much light. Something like 30W of LED lighting 30cm above the plants is easily enough for seedlings. Any regular white LEDs will do for this, I think cold white is somewhat preferable though. If you grow them beyond a few weeks under artificial light, the light requirements will increase of course.
We don't really spray for beetles. There is some evidence that neem can help, but neem can kill some beneficials too. What we're thinking of trying is borrowing our neighbor's chickens to in the fall to dig through the soil and eat the beetles/larvae.
I’m wanting to try growing just one or two plants in five gallon buckets. Is there any reason to not start right in the buckets without all the transferring?
so... red and green peppers come off the same plant? I just started my pepper growing journey. I have 20 8-inch plants I grew from seed. I'm keeping them in the 1-gallon containers they are in because I live in an apartment. I want small plants with small peppers.
After 40 days and 40 nights of rains, I wasn't sure if they got enough watering, so I watered them with Hurricane Lee. Does that help? seriously, with all the rains, I haven't needed to add extra water but I felt that the fabric grow bags were probably draining the nutrients, so, I upped the fertilizer schedule a little.
I have a banana pepper plant that has grown over 5 feet tall in a 5 gallon container; throughout this growing season about 50% of the peppers have/ are getting BER; I tried a CA++ supplement with no change! I water it consistently ; i fertilize every 2 weeks; what am I doing wrong???
What I appreciate most about your content is how you take the audience through the entire journey from seed to harvest, showing real results. If any of you are new to gardening, get a copy of their ebook, it is the perfect book for pepper newbies. Thanks Calvin and Crystalyn!!!
None of my peppers have ever stopped making peppers long enough to grow bigger. In fact I think it's probably the reason green peppers are so popular.
I remember your same tip from another video about plucking early flowers to encourage more plant growth. That was a solid tip, definitely had pepper plants get bigger than normal using that method
Wow, thank you, I'm planting out in bulk, we are all growing our own in UK at the moment, Respect from UK
Thank you for talking about sun scald, i had no idea thats why my peppers did that sometimes.
Great video. I love my Sweet Sunset Banana peppers growing in pots. Most wire "tomato" cages are perfect for peppers too (even though they suck for actual tomatoes hahaha).
Right! Those cages are much too small for most tomatoes, and they end up falling over anyway. Perfect for peppers though.
Oh yes, start the day geeky and spicy.
It wasn't one of your favorites, but you introduced me to ají amarillo and it is now my favorite chili of all time.
Thanks for doing what you do, guys.
Whats it taste like?
@proprietarycurez8463 Has a berry-like tart sweetness, and Serrano-level heat. They look like giant orange jalapeños, but taste better and are hotter on average. Perfect for my uses!
So happy to hear that! Glad we could help you find that variety.
Beautiful peppers 🌶 🫑. Nw Nevada desert here & I wish I could get beauties like that. Have done some tweaking in the garden so hopefully next yr will be good. Thank you 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
I'm from a family of chili farmers from the South of India 😊 I'm now farmless in Seattle, learning your ways to grow "peppers" 😉 Both places have their own unique set of challenges, both are fun in their own different way ❤ thank you for sharing all your priceless knowledge and presenting it so well 🙏
I have a Grand Bell Sweet Pepper plant in a pot i started by seed last year. I live in Maine and i bring it in on the radiator by the livingroom window in the off season and outside in the summer. When the seed germinated last year i took a calcium pill and used a file and put the calcium powder in a small cup of water that i put on the plant to help prevent blossom end rot which helped. I use miracle grow once in a while and not too often. The peppers doesn't get very big, but i think it's due to not big enough pot. Other than that the plant is doing good for it's second year. I am doing an experiment to see how many years this Pepper Plant will live for.
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Last year, I grew sweet yellow bell peppers from seeds. They grew very nicely in my sunny veggie bed. I started harvesting them in early July, when they turned from green to yellow. But the rest of the still green peppers refused to turn yellow. Instead of ripening, they turned into mush and went splat onto the ground. I noticed that the ones that were still hanging onto their stem, had tiny dots resembling pin pricks. When I cut them open, I discovered maggots feeding on the inside flesh of the pepper. Very gross sight. I googled it and found out that my peppers were infested by the Pepper Fly. Apparently, once the maggots land on the ground, they crawl into the ground to overwinter there and emerge as adult fly, which mates, lays eggs into the pepper and the life cycle keeps going. My neighbor two doors down from me grew the same peppers in her backyard and had the same results. For this reason, I am giving up on growing peppers. I wish I knew how the commercial pepper growers manage to come up with a healthy harvest of sweet bell peppers. How do YOU protect your bell peppers from the Pepper Fly?
Just wanted to send along a thank you for your content. I've been trying my best to grow pepper plants for years but took a break last year to learn what I was doing wrong. Wound up with 3 different bell varieties that exceeded expectations this year for growing in Michigan. Yellow and Red bells with around 8-10 peppers on each, and a lunchbox orange bell variety with around 18 or so peppers on it. They were the best looking and productive plants in my garden this year.
Great tutorial! This looks insanely helpful!
This year, I grew Scotch Bonnet peppers. Beautiful red color. Last night we had a Jamacian Jerk Chicken cookout using them! 😊 I also grew jalapeños and Shishitos but had never tried the Scotch Bonnets. Thanks for a great informative channel.
They dont taste good enough to put up with all the heat! None of the superhots taste very good.
@proprietarycurez8463 Real Scotch Bonnets are very flavorful, and a country's famous cuisine is built around it.
I just got some Hungarian crushed paprika paste (hot). Literally crushed paprika peppers. Tastes great, going to save some of the seeds from it to grow next season.
Thats a lot of flavor! 👍
Hi I just followed u❤❤❤❤ from Belgium 🇧🇪 thanks
Beautiful Plants!
A lot of Great tips, thank you .
I killed 2 flats of seedlings this year spritzing seed tray. Bad damping off problem. Bottom watering and sterilizing mix with boiling water solved problem.
Thanks for your videos
My peppers definitely don't look like that. 😂 I'm in Texas 8b and I think the heat stunted growth. Bells and bananas are very small or going straight to red before becoming big. Only thing that did well were Jalapeños.
Jalapeños and other Mexican/New Mexico types are a great choice for any hot/dry regions!
Can you suggest what to do about gnats, scales and other annoying pests that are attacking my peppers inside? I have them growing in a sunroom and I'm overwhelmed. I rinse the leaves. I already a mix of isopropyl and neem oil. I vacuum them up. The peppers were producing in the sunroom until the BUGS ATTACKED!
Enjoyed your video!
Love your step by step. Its super helpful like following a recipe. Thanks for all your pepper knowledge
I back onto a natural space and have given up on trying to keep the weeds out of an in ground garden so have switched to containers, 10 and 20 gallon grow bags. Have you ever tried to keep a pepper plant producing year round indoors?
Great video, thank you so much! You focused on bell peppers in the video, between the two sweet peppers. Do you have a comparable video for banana peppers?
What do you do with the plant when the season is over?
i appreciate your vids bro
Great info.
Glad you think so!
very informative, Thanks
I successfully germinated seeds in mineral substrate, this reduces greatly to problem of fungus gnats (I try to completely avoid soil in the house)
Only bring them outside when night time temps are above 55? In Vancouver (8b) that doesn’t happen until July lol. Our average night time temps in the summer are 57.
I feel like these planting guides need to be modified for colder zones. Any PNW growers know when you can transplant pepper seedlings to outdoors?
I'm in the Idaho Panhandle 20 mi south of the border, 5b/6a, avg last frost 5/15. I put mine out around the 3rd week of May but my bells were King of the North and Ozark Giant which are both supposed to be suited to cooler climates. The overnight lows were definitely below 55° at that time, probably more like 40-45°, they did fine. I started picking some peppers around the 1st of July. I've had frost 3 times so far in September, I cover everything at night of course. The peppers are blossoming and fruiting like crazy right now since it's cooled off, they seem to be loving the cool weather.
what would you consider a short season. in melbourne aus we have warm weather from octoberish till march. would you consider that short
Glad I found your channel. going to share it with my brother and a couple others. Wondering what grow lights you're using. Did not see a link to your book but I'm guessing I can find it on Amazon. I'll be checking your other videos soon. I'm in Fresno California and I'm a little concerned it might be too hot and dry here for containers but I think I'll give it a try. We do have three great growing seasons here. Thanks
Hi there, so we have a few grow lights, all of them LEDs. This article includes a few options: peppergeek.com/best-grow-lights-pepper-plants - also our ebook is here: peppergeek.com/ebook. Thanks for watching and sharing the channel!
Do you have anything about Padron Spanish tapas peppers?
🐝thanks for the great video🌻
Out of the 2 seeds you planted, do you thin out one?
What do you do about the beetles??
Good morning, when ever I plan peppers the stems always turn black. Please say how to fix this problem.
Am in the Philippines. Finding seed is tough. I transplanted yolow wonders into pots. Had a heavy rain and 90% of the leaves fell off the next day. Hope they come back
one advantage of using pots is that you can move them indoors or somewhere where your plant is protected from heavy rainfall since the water will accumulate in the pot.
I am in zone 9. What is a good bell pepper to grow in 5 gallon buckets that will provide me with regular size peppers. What I have tried are about 1/5 the size they should be. self wicking planters with regular fertilizer.
How often do you fertilize?
Would you recommend putting seed starting mix first than switch to potting mix?
You don’t have to, but it is an option. The fluffy starter mixes do a great job for germination, but again not required by any means
@ ok thank you😀
What kind of heat lamps do you use? You didn't link it in the description and I'm interested in it.
No heat lamps. For germination, a heating pad below the mini greenhouse. Once the seeds sprout, artificial lighting 14-16h/day. You can use specific LED plant lights, but it's not strictly necessary just for seedlings, since they don't need that much light. Something like 30W of LED lighting 30cm above the plants is easily enough for seedlings. Any regular white LEDs will do for this, I think cold white is somewhat preferable though. If you grow them beyond a few weeks under artificial light, the light requirements will increase of course.
So when beetles come, what do you spray with? Neem?
We don't really spray for beetles. There is some evidence that neem can help, but neem can kill some beneficials too. What we're thinking of trying is borrowing our neighbor's chickens to in the fall to dig through the soil and eat the beetles/larvae.
I’m wanting to try growing just one or two plants in five gallon buckets. Is there any reason to not start right in the buckets without all the transferring?
Longer growing season, ability to bring indoors for inclement weather.
@ I trust I can move two buckets back and fourth into the house pretty easily
How did you get them to grow so tall?❤
so... red and green peppers come off the same plant? I just started my pepper growing journey. I have 20 8-inch plants I grew from seed. I'm keeping them in the 1-gallon containers they are in because I live in an apartment. I want small plants with small peppers.
Yes! All peppers ripen and change color. Red bell peppers are just ripened green bell peppers 🫑
After 40 days and 40 nights of rains, I wasn't sure if they got enough watering, so I watered them with Hurricane Lee. Does that help?
seriously, with all the rains, I haven't needed to add extra water but I felt that the fabric grow bags were probably draining the nutrients, so, I upped the fertilizer schedule a little.
That is hilarious 😂😂
Funny yet not funny ya know?
Hope you are all safe 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Life is challenging enough, @@deecooper1567, without laughing at things, right?
Can you start them outdoors with out a heat mat my climate is 80-100
Probably, many do. Make sure you plant after the last avg freeze date
I have a banana pepper plant that has grown over 5 feet tall in a 5 gallon container; throughout this growing season about 50% of the peppers have/ are getting BER; I tried a CA++ supplement with no change! I water it consistently ; i fertilize every 2 weeks; what am I doing wrong???
Any tips for dressing with mice or rats in the garden? They are DESTROYING my last pepper crop!
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bro why are you using mirical grow lol
Its called green peppers......
How many videos can you make about how to grow peppers? It’s all literally the same content over and over again in every video I’ve seen from you 😂
What kind of content do you expect from a channel called Pepper Geek?
dude stole a bus tub from a restaurant 💀
That's so funny,let him survive 😅
No you can buy them at Lowes or home Depot.They mix cement in them so they are available where the bag cement is sold.A you tuber said so.
😂😂😂
I have several. Got them on Amazon.