This last year was my first year to grow peppers and I started them indoors under a grow light and I used a heating pad. The only lost like 3 out of 20. I also kept them next to a small electric heater and they did very well. I love to watch these videos over again to refresh my mind on your growing tips. You and Cindi are awesome!
use watering can that sprinkles the water. if the water comes out in one heavy stream it makes holes in the soil and disturbs the roots especially for young plants.
Another great video. I plant peppers in pairs. By planting in pairs, they grow thicker and you don’t have to top off because they naturally have more support. Plus, it provides more shade for the peppers that grow.
I've had habanero's and cayenne peppers growing for the last 10+ months in Middle Alabama, it never gets below freezing in my zone and they've been doing amazing with a near equal nutrition ratio, have had 3 harvests so far over 4 Total plants able to make plenty hot sauce thanks to videos like these
I garden in tropical Puerto Rico year round and I enjoy your segments very much--learn from them. I ignore the last frost dates, of course, and plant any time I want to. I was pleased to hear you say that pepper plants should be planted at soil level. I have heard so many contradictory statements and was glad you cleared it up! The balanced fertilizer advice was welcome, too. Keep up the great work!
Ah, I've been worried about my peppers looking a lighter green in my raised beds compared to my very dark green hot peppers in containers, seems that's ok. This is my first year growing them and they are putting out a lot of fruit so I was thinking they were stressed. Also I've noticed that as the temp has been steadily warmer the tops are greening up a bit more! Thanks again for all your videos they help out so much!
LOL, i watched your2021 video; suddenly i am watching your 2015 video !!!! i felt like a 6 years transplant shock seeing you then and seeing you in 2021 !!!!! how time flies when you are having fun !!!!! the good news is that all your videos are super informative and i am taking notes on everything what you say !!!! wonderful !!!!! long live my friend...
Planted 21 peppers yesterday. Prayers needed lol also three 7ft jubule (lang, li, sugarcane) and a 2yr of 4ft sugarcane. Didn't know peppers were tropical plants!
Just started growing a few varieties and Walter melon in my back yard in Southern California. I love you bruddah. You da best. One love from CALI baby ❤️💛💚
You totally helped me out just now my paper plans we not sprout, I never know to trim. I will start subscribing to your channel brother thanks a lot keep up the good work
First time growing peppers and your video is really the only one that really explains all my wonders and questions you were very thorough and knew what you were talking about I thank you!
Man you’re my favorite. Thanks for all the help I hope UA-cam makes it worth your while! I caught one of your old videos like a week ago. It’s interesting how much more confident you’ve gotten since then but even as a youngster you were knowledgeable and helpful. Keep it up man more people should grow their own, especially in these weird times.
I have watched several videos on many different vegetables and this series is by FAR my favorite. You are knowledgeable and very easy to understand. I live in the SW but your information is applicable to my area as well. Thank you!
Hey there! I just got your seeds i ordered. I got autumn beauty sunflower, nasturiums, strike beans and coneflower. Super excited about all of it its my first time so I'm so excited! Thank you so much for the speedy delivery. 😊
Hello and thanks for your tips! I’m in zone one and have had success with growing peppers in large pots. I over crowd a bit 3 to a pot. Put on south side of house what a lovely pot of peppers 🌶 it makes. September jelly!
Great Video. I am in England, rather colder than America I suspect, so to achieve ground temperatures as high as yours will only happen in June July and August if the weather is kind. I am pleased you said they don't need so many hours of sunshine, now I know where to put mine. I am excited to grow mine, looking forward to my Stir Fry and Pizza toppings.
Thank you for the pepper video was doing alot wrong. I will keep u up on my new batch I started indoor . I carry him out during the day bring them in at night. When they seem big enough I will put them in the garden and I will let you know after taking all your advice
I planted my peppers from seeds indoors in Late Feb ( Im zone 4 WI). The absolute best luck Ive had with getting healthy pepper seedlings is to broadcast seed them in a little plastic grocery store mushroom pack with lights just above the plants. From there they all get planted 2 to a white 5 gallon bucket. This way I can move them where the sun is late season after some other crops have been pulled. I have less disease and much more fruit this way. I always have better luck crowding them a tad. We have sandy soil which over the past 3 years of working it is getting better but needs a bit more amending. Clean forested wood chips worked awesome but aren’t always readily available. I will certainly heed your advice on the watering and type of fertilizer. That explained one issue I have. Good tips as always!
I'm surprised how many seeds come in his packets for .99 about 50. What's more ironic is the other UA-camrs seed shops inflate their prices like calikim and rusted garden. So I think I'll use migardener from this time forward.
I started growing my peppers from storebought peppers that i first enjoyed like 3 years ago. been growing and harvesting them since, and at the end of each season i save the seeds from 2-3 peppers for the next spring. i mean, for peppers it's fairly easy to get started for pretty much nothing i guess, as long as you have a healthy garden already.
@@renookami4651 That is fine if all you want to grow are the varieties found in the supermarkets but if you want to experience the variety and taste of some of the other varieties you need to purchase seeds, if only for the first time you grow them. Heirloom varieties will grow true to type from saved seeds but Hybrids will not reproduce true to type and need to be repurchased whenever you run out.
Ren Ookami That only works for heirloom varieties while most store bought ones are hybrids. But if you know the pepper is not a hybrid, that works. You can buy seeds once and then grow a plant and save the seeds and never have to buy that variety again.
Love the tips I have grown Carolina Reaper to purple bell peppers You are correct about planting habaneros by seed I live in NM and tried it this year I planted about 50 habaneros and today I have 3 tiny plants
I pruned most of my peppers, I didn't prune the cayenne, and it snapped near the base on a windy day. It gets windy over here! Great video, I love peppers.
Last year I started my peppers too soon and they got root bound before it was warm enough to get them in the garden. As a result, I saw all the plants develop roots off the bottom few inches of the stems.
Good Year for peppers ! This year i got Pepper Madness specially for the mini Varieties ( Sweet Bell Mini Orange,Yellow,Red, Green and Purple ), Hot ( Padron, Padron Red, Habannero ), and the classic Red and Green Peppers standard.
Taking note as I watch your video. I'm having pepper problems: 1. Bought young plants in small pots which looked healthy and about the size of the ones you're planting in this video. 2. I'm in North Florida, soil temperature is fine as early as late February 3. Transplanted them into the ground 7-weeks ago, second half of March. 4. Soil has been amended with compost & garden soil 5. Too late for this year, realized I should've added Coco Coir or the like, perhaps too dense? Without amendments, the native soil is pure sand. 6. The plants get full sun most off the day (hmmm, a problem?) 7, The plants aren't crowded, I spaced them out at least 18-24". 8. I don't know the soil pH (my bad), but it's probably slightly alkaline. My Better Boy tomatoes in the same plot are doing well. 9. I planted them at the level of the soil in the pots as purchased, no deeper 10. I have a long growing season, and when the plants still looked healthy, I did prune them. 11. I have used a balanced fertilizer several times since planting 7-weeks ago. 12. It's been pretty dry, aside from a couple good drenchings, we've gone weeks without rain. And, I've watered at least once a week in those stretches, sometimes a couple times. In the same plot, I've got sunflowers, tomatoes, sugar snap peas, lilliput cantaloupes, radishes, squash, cucumbers, and watermelon. Everything except the peppers appear to be doing well, especially the tomatoes, sunflowers and peas. But, the peppers are struggling. I've noticed dropped leaves, and even a few dropped immature peppers. Trying to figure out what the problem is. Almost ready to pull them and use the space for something else.
This is my 1st year of using Trifecta plus and I am hooked. All of my plants are doing so much better than they did when I used the organic fertilizer from the big box farm and garden stores. I have many more blossoms on my peppers alone. Can't wait to see what kind of a harvest that I get. Blessings
I've gown 7 kinds of chili peppers last year. I've buried all of them deeper while transplanting and all of them did send additionall roots higher up the stem. I had no problem with them being stunted.
So that is why it took 2.5 months before I saw the pepper growing put from the ground lol😂😂😂. Thank you I really appreciate you for helping us. I'm going to search on your channel for different fruits/vegetables that I have.
You just educated me so much on how to grow these. I just had 2 plants this year to try it, they are dark green leaves with no fruit , so right away my soil is not balanced right. They are under a tree ( partial shade) that's wrong and I water them everyday, that may be wrong as well. I am actually happy after telling you all of this because I learned sooo much from this video on what to do next time so it's all good 😀👍 thank you so much for this info , you explain it perfectly.
if you sprinkle the water instead of watering you wont have those problems ever, and you save water. the Earth Cannot be drenched, and use mulch to conserve water.
Great video Luke. One suggestion is the mention of companion plants. I have basil planted next to my shishito, farmer, and purple jalepenos. I'm curious to see if their is a difference in taste compared to the plants I have, each in a 7 gallon fabric container. The basil is supposed to enhance the flavor of the peppers.
Great tips Luke. My shishito peppers are just starting to put out peppers. You helped a lot when I was trouble shooting the various issues they faced. They look great now, thanks!
Thanks Luc, Nice video I'm glad to hear about the sunlight as my plants are limited to about 4-5 hours of direct sunlight in my backyard, so I guess I should have good conditions for my plants. I have a bunch of Piri Piri, Scotch Bonnets, Trinidad Scorpion, Thai along with a variety of bell peppers. The growing season did start off cold though so hopefully I don't end up with stunted plants as there were a number of days that came down close to freezing.
great video. i have had two of the experiences you described. i planted deep and got weak stalks. one year i had them so healthy they barely produced BUT as Tommyr commented below,i did winter them indoors and started the next season early.Thanks alot.
I live in the south east so our summers are very hot and humid and typically I need to water at least every other day what I’ve learned is peppers don’t like that much watering at least in my bed they do much better when I can dry them out to point of almost dry soil around them but I struggle since my beds are mixed and no other plants like getting that dry ... just my 2 cents from what I see in my garden moving soon and I think I’ll put them in smart pot bags or a less irrigated bed
It's pretty funny how I get onions from the bulbs and people say "never start onions from bulbs, always start from seeds" then I start peppers from seeds and people say "Never start peppers from seeds, always get them from the store" lol.
I have a couple of pepper plants that were initially a bit leggy, I planted them a bit deeper to stabilize the plant (about an inch is enough if it is a seedling) along with staking so the plant doesn't snap from a strong wind. The ones that are still maturing as plants, are overall healthy (a couple of them are a bit overwatered, so I have that issue on some). I've planted some close together and still gotten flowers and fruit, but because of the lack insects to successfully pollinate the flowers (or even lack of wind), I don't always get a successful pollination by hand. And because of watering issues (bad habit), buds are dropping either before or after flowering
Even if the stem does create more roots, the plant needs room to expand at the base. The soil, or even the secondary roots that may occur, can choke the base of the plant, much like a tree being buried too deep, it chokes itself with a secondary root system.
Thanks you helped me out with a question. I heard that you can bury them deeper but I didn't dare because I always heard that you bury it up to where it had been buried so I didn't know what to do. I just got 3 new peppers. Red peppers,Cubanelle peppers and Chilli peppers. Peppers are great. Great video.
Good morning you'll awesome gardening information I started watching your channel this pass summer,and this one about the peppers 🌶 I see why I bomb this summer my peppers didn't get to size flowers drop off ,you see I started my small garden about 5 years ago and it was good but i did know about amending my soil I did top of with compost, and fertilizers, so I have 1 questions Can I plant different varieties of peppers in one bed I have a 4 by 4 raise band?? Thank you I love your channel ❤️
Thank you for sharing your passion with gardening I am looking to start my own small garden here in Florida but we basically have one season hot or hotter any tips on vegetables that are great in Florida weather thank you
Great intel. Finally getting to bingeWatch ur channel. I live in Orlando and we get a ton of sunlight. I use vegetable scraps from cooking as compost for my garden. Do I still need to treat my soil to prevent hot spots by the roots. Also how often should I blend eggshells with water mix and add to soil
I'd love to see you do a video on the pros/cons, or circumstances under which you recommend topping peppers. I don't see this in any of your MI Gardener videos.
How easy it can get. Zone 9B has an advantage, tropical and perennial. Year two is awesome, limit full sun like you said, epic yields. I get a high germination rate and can wait a year. Epson salts and teas with bloom booster jam peppers into boughs that yield highly with hidden peppers that make me remember why I talk to them every day . YEARS OF HARD TRIMMING and heavy mulch have high yields past 6 years. Growing friends say Azomite and Epson Salts keep away the pepper weevils, don't know but plants they came top me for are over 6 years old. hedges on the southeast side of the house . Be blessed with the right conditions and magic happens. Peace.
Just started watching, so maybe you've already started doing this. I think it'd be really neat to see some of those experiments (like how you experimented with having the stem higher or lower in the soil in this one) covered as separate videos. Watching your videos is a legitimate learning experience. Thanks!
I started my peppers indoors in Feb/Mar but I think next year I'll start them in January. I'm growing them in my greenhouse. I hope it doesn't get too hot/too much sun in there for them. I did prune some of them before planting them in but probably will not prune any more. They are just starting to flower but haven't set any fruit yet. I guess we'll see how it goes.
Gapeys Grub I, too, started my peppers in February, indoors in my south facing windows. Pruned them twice while indoors. They are now planted outside in my zone 5 garden. So far they are healthy and stocky plants. Several peppers on the plants and lots of flowers. I am having trouble with a tiny red bug. New leaves distorted and tiny brown blotches on the leaves, some holes. I am squishing the bugs and spraying the plants with soapy water. Seems to have helped, it has been a week and no more damage YET. :0) Wish me luck on a good harvest.
LARK'S GARDENS Good luck! I used grow lights with mine. Mine are doing well but could be doing better. They don't grow as fast as tomatoes so wouldn't take up too much room if I started them earlier. Good luck with your harvest! :)
You're awesome. I used to love parties and clubs. Now I get excited about wetting my plants
I have a plant you could wet 😉
Lol is this what happens when you’re quarantined alone
@@geanvincentalmendras1559 yes, Gean. You're exactly right. Lol
Lmao
Dewd me too! I used to be a raver
By 2:45 I’ve realized I’ve done literally everything with them wrong.
Thank you for making this video.
My downstairs neighbor, he is 16, talked to me about growing peppers and tomatoes for sauces this summer and your channel was the first I checked!
"If you do LETTUCE know" I'm here for the gardening advice but I stay for the veggie puns.
no
We’ll be sure not to squash your fun!
😅😂👍
This last year was my first year to grow peppers and I started them indoors under a grow light and I used a heating pad. The only lost like 3 out of 20. I also kept them next to a small electric heater and they did very well. I love to watch these videos over again to refresh my mind on your growing tips. You and Cindi are awesome!
I want to begin my pepper farming but the soil I want to use is very harder, how can I do so?
8 years later I still reference your videos! Thank you. ☺️
use watering can that sprinkles the water. if the water comes out in one heavy stream it makes holes in the soil and disturbs the roots especially for young plants.
on young plants use a good spray bottle
Another great video. I plant peppers in pairs. By planting in pairs, they grow thicker and you don’t have to top off because they naturally have more support. Plus, it provides more shade for the peppers that grow.
I've had habanero's and cayenne peppers growing for the last 10+ months in Middle Alabama, it never gets below freezing in my zone and they've been doing amazing with a near equal nutrition ratio, have had 3 harvests so far over 4 Total plants able to make plenty hot sauce thanks to videos like these
Don't call my midget plant pathetic! He might be stunted, but he's all a pepper parent could ask for! lol
Wow I also have a pepper plant that is growing even if it is stunted!
deal with it
I garden in tropical Puerto Rico year round and I enjoy your segments very much--learn from them. I ignore the last frost dates, of course, and plant any time I want to. I was pleased to hear you say that pepper plants should be planted at soil level. I have heard so many contradictory statements and was glad you cleared it up! The balanced fertilizer advice was welcome, too. Keep up the great work!
I did the best at the banana pepper plants and I orded more seeds! I start in.my house under lights at the end of February. Since this is Michigan
banana peppers ain't those HOT ?
I just planted 4 pepper plants. Thanks for all the helpful information. I have pruned 2 and left 2. Looking forward to see how they grow.
Ah, I've been worried about my peppers looking a lighter green in my raised beds compared to my very dark green hot peppers in containers, seems that's ok. This is my first year growing them and they are putting out a lot of fruit so I was thinking they were stressed. Also I've noticed that as the temp has been steadily warmer the tops are greening up a bit more! Thanks again for all your videos they help out so much!
LOL, i watched your2021 video; suddenly i am watching your 2015 video !!!! i felt like a 6 years transplant shock seeing you then and seeing you in 2021 !!!!! how time flies when you are having fun !!!!! the good news is that all your videos are super informative and i am taking notes on everything what you say !!!! wonderful !!!!! long live my friend...
Planted 21 peppers yesterday. Prayers needed lol also three 7ft jubule (lang, li, sugarcane) and a 2yr of 4ft sugarcane.
Didn't know peppers were tropical plants!
Just started growing a few varieties and Walter melon in my back yard in Southern California. I love you bruddah. You da best. One love from CALI baby ❤️💛💚
You totally helped me out just now my paper plans we not sprout, I never know to trim. I will start subscribing to your channel brother thanks a lot keep up the good work
thanks! That will explain my curling leaves on my jalepenos... I will less water
First time growing peppers and your video is really the only one that really explains all my wonders and questions you were very thorough and knew what you were talking about I thank you!
Man you’re my favorite. Thanks for all the help I hope UA-cam makes it worth your while! I caught one of your old videos like a week ago. It’s interesting how much more confident you’ve gotten since then but even as a youngster you were knowledgeable and helpful. Keep it up man more people should grow their own, especially in these weird times.
uhh okay?
I have watched several videos on many different vegetables and this series is by FAR my favorite. You are knowledgeable and very easy to understand. I live in the SW but your information is applicable to my area as well. Thank you!
Hey there! I just got your seeds i ordered. I got autumn beauty sunflower, nasturiums, strike beans and coneflower. Super excited about all of it its my first time so I'm so excited! Thank you so much for the speedy delivery. 😊
2-3 months later, did they grow at all?
Sad and snowed in in northeast Ohio so I’m planning my garden to make me feel better. Can’t wait for spring!
Hello and thanks for your tips! I’m in zone one and have had success with growing peppers in large pots. I over crowd a bit 3 to a pot. Put on south side of house what a lovely pot of peppers 🌶 it makes. September jelly!
Only listen to you thanks for my great garden and orchard.
Great Video. I am in England, rather colder than America I suspect, so to achieve ground temperatures as high as yours will only happen in June July and August if the weather is kind. I am pleased you said they don't need so many hours of sunshine, now I know where to put mine. I am excited to grow mine, looking forward to my Stir Fry and Pizza toppings.
You helped me to know that I have been watering mine too much. Thank you!
Oh yeah opposite of tomatoes! They like to breathe in the roots!
Thank you for the pepper video was doing alot wrong. I will keep u up on my new batch I started indoor . I carry him out during the day bring them in at night. When they seem big enough I will put them in the garden and I will let you know after taking all your advice
I was wondering about burying them deep like tomatoes - and here's my answer! Thank you!
I am starting my garden and this information was helpful. I am in the middle of planting green peppers and they are already sprouting.
I planted my peppers from seeds indoors in Late Feb ( Im zone 4 WI). The absolute best luck Ive had with getting healthy pepper seedlings is to broadcast seed them in a little plastic grocery store mushroom pack with lights just above the plants. From there they all get planted 2 to a white 5 gallon bucket. This way I can move them where the sun is late season after some other crops have been pulled. I have less disease and much more fruit this way. I always have better luck crowding them a tad. We have sandy soil which over the past 3 years of working it is getting better but needs a bit more amending. Clean forested wood chips worked awesome but aren’t always readily available. I will certainly heed your advice on the watering and type of fertilizer. That explained one issue I have. Good tips as always!
I'm surprised how many seeds come in his packets for .99 about 50. What's more ironic is the other UA-camrs seed shops inflate their prices like calikim and rusted garden. So I think I'll use migardener from this time forward.
I started growing my peppers from storebought peppers that i first enjoyed like 3 years ago. been growing and harvesting them since, and at the end of each season i save the seeds from 2-3 peppers for the next spring. i mean, for peppers it's fairly easy to get started for pretty much nothing i guess, as long as you have a healthy garden already.
@Ecc12:13 I don't think so.
You seen how many seeds a single pepper have inside? Jut cut the top and bury it with its seeds in a greenhouse, it will start growing.
@@renookami4651 That is fine if all you want to grow are the varieties found in the supermarkets but if you want to experience the variety and taste of some of the other varieties you need to purchase seeds, if only for the first time you grow them. Heirloom varieties will grow true to type from saved seeds but Hybrids will not reproduce true to type and need to be repurchased whenever you run out.
Ren Ookami That only works for heirloom varieties while most store bought ones are hybrids. But if you know the pepper is not a hybrid, that works. You can buy seeds once and then grow a plant and save the seeds and never have to buy that variety again.
Love the tips I have grown Carolina Reaper to purple bell peppers
You are correct about planting habaneros by seed I live in NM and tried it this year I planted about 50 habaneros and today I have 3 tiny plants
Your video has appeared at the right time because I am about to plant out my bell peppers. Thanks very much Luke
Patrick Meehan So glad I caught you in time! :) Glad it helped buddy.
I pruned most of my peppers, I didn't prune the cayenne, and it snapped near the base on a windy day. It gets windy over here! Great video, I love peppers.
I loved the video! You provided very helpful information on key aspects of growing (space, water, nutrients, soil, and others) ! Thank you!
Last year I started my peppers too soon and they got root bound before it was warm enough to get them in the garden. As a result, I saw all the plants develop roots off the bottom few inches of the stems.
thanks. i think I planted my peppers too deep and I think I have been over watering them this year. so this was helpful.
Thanks, super clear. I'm on my way out to the garden to plant my peppers!
Good Year for peppers ! This year i got Pepper Madness specially for the mini Varieties ( Sweet Bell Mini Orange,Yellow,Red, Green and Purple ), Hot ( Padron, Padron Red, Habannero ), and the classic Red and Green Peppers standard.
Thanks for your great videos!
I really appreciate your in-depth guide Luke. So many useful tips. Greetings from UK 👍🏻
Lots of brilliant tips that I have not seen anywhere else
Taking note as I watch your video.
I'm having pepper problems:
1. Bought young plants in small pots which looked healthy and about the size of the ones you're planting in this video.
2. I'm in North Florida, soil temperature is fine as early as late February
3. Transplanted them into the ground 7-weeks ago, second half of March.
4. Soil has been amended with compost & garden soil
5. Too late for this year, realized I should've added Coco Coir or the like, perhaps too dense? Without amendments, the native soil is pure sand.
6. The plants get full sun most off the day (hmmm, a problem?)
7, The plants aren't crowded, I spaced them out at least 18-24".
8. I don't know the soil pH (my bad), but it's probably slightly alkaline. My Better Boy tomatoes in the same plot are doing well.
9. I planted them at the level of the soil in the pots as purchased, no deeper
10. I have a long growing season, and when the plants still looked healthy, I did prune them.
11. I have used a balanced fertilizer several times since planting 7-weeks ago.
12. It's been pretty dry, aside from a couple good drenchings, we've gone weeks without rain. And, I've watered at least once a week in those stretches, sometimes a couple times.
In the same plot, I've got sunflowers, tomatoes, sugar snap peas, lilliput cantaloupes, radishes, squash, cucumbers, and watermelon. Everything except the peppers appear to be doing well, especially the tomatoes, sunflowers and peas.
But, the peppers are struggling. I've noticed dropped leaves, and even a few dropped immature peppers. Trying to figure out what the problem is. Almost ready to pull them and use the space for something else.
Thanks a ton! Loved ur video . Lots of love from India
Wonderful. Perfectly articulate, easy and watchable
looking good to see the peppers finally in
I start my seeds indoors late winter/early spring and transplant them outdoors may 1st.
This is my 1st year of using Trifecta plus and I am hooked. All of my plants are doing so much better than they did when I used the organic fertilizer from the big box farm and garden stores. I have many more blossoms on my peppers alone. Can't wait to see what kind of a harvest that I get. Blessings
Where do you get Trifecta?
It was nice to be well educated I appreciate your video just plain and simple and right to the point hurry up and post some tomatoes would you
thanks for your vids. it was very helpful
I've gown 7 kinds of chili peppers last year. I've buried all of them deeper while transplanting and all of them did send additionall roots higher up the stem. I had no problem with them being stunted.
Your spreading the wives tale! Stop it!
@@joshuavazquez5534 No, I was speaking about my own first-hand experience.
So that is why it took 2.5 months before I saw the pepper growing put from the ground lol😂😂😂.
Thank you I really appreciate you for helping us. I'm going to search on your channel for different fruits/vegetables that I have.
I just transplanted my peppers. Now to double check the depth I used.
You just educated me so much on how to grow these. I just had 2 plants this year to try it, they are dark green leaves with no fruit , so right away my soil is not balanced right. They are under a tree ( partial shade) that's wrong and I water them everyday, that may be wrong as well. I am actually happy after telling you all of this because I learned sooo much from this video on what to do next time so it's all good 😀👍 thank you so much for this info , you explain it perfectly.
Excellent info. As always.
Thank you for the tip about letting the peppers dry out between waterings and about the leaves bowing down being a sign of stress.
if you sprinkle the water instead of watering you wont have those problems ever, and you save water.
the Earth Cannot be drenched, and use mulch to conserve water.
Very good info, hopefully I have better luck this year.
Absolutely superb support and advice. I have learnt something new here.
very helpful first time growing peppers thanks
I had a great season with my green bell peppers.
Great video Luke. One suggestion is the mention of companion plants. I have basil planted next to my shishito, farmer, and purple jalepenos. I'm curious to see if their is a difference in taste compared to the plants I have, each in a 7 gallon fabric container. The basil is supposed to enhance the flavor of the peppers.
I’ve also seen purslane mentioned as a good companion plant for peppers.
Great tips Luke. My shishito peppers are just starting to put out peppers. You helped a lot when I was trouble shooting the various issues they faced. They look great now, thanks!
Thank you so much! It is that feedback that keeps us going. More growing guides to come! Is there any ones that you would like?
great video thanks for all the tips. I have not been able to grow peppers very well
Thanks Luc, Nice video I'm glad to hear about the sunlight as my plants are limited to about 4-5 hours of direct sunlight in my backyard, so I guess I should have good conditions for my plants. I have a bunch of Piri Piri, Scotch Bonnets, Trinidad Scorpion, Thai along with a variety of bell peppers. The growing season did start off cold though so hopefully I don't end up with stunted plants as there were a number of days that came down close to freezing.
Enjoyed the video, but I wish you'd talked about companion plants that could cover the dirt between the plants!
Radishes work great! We use cherry bell since they are ready in about 30 days and we can replant with something else pretty quickly.
He has a video where he talks about the fact that he doesnt belive in companion planting
Basil and purslane are the two main companion plants I’ve seen mentioned so far in other videos.
I knew I should space them out. Great advice.
Thank you. I think I will start them in a container.
very helpful. thank you for your time and effort to help new gardeners like me.
Thanks for watching Shawn! Glad you like them!
Very good informative video
great video. i have had two of the experiences you described. i planted deep and got weak stalks. one year i had them so healthy they barely produced BUT as Tommyr commented below,i did winter them indoors and started the next season early.Thanks alot.
I live in the south east so our summers are very hot and humid and typically I need to water at least every other day what I’ve learned is peppers don’t like that much watering at least in my bed they do much better when I can dry them out to point of almost dry soil around them but I struggle since my beds are mixed and no other plants like getting that dry ... just my 2 cents from what I see in my garden moving soon and I think I’ll put them in smart pot bags or a less irrigated bed
Making my first attempt at peppers this year. We live east of Seattle. Wish me luck.
how was it ? 8 months later ?
It's pretty funny how I get onions from the bulbs and people say "never start onions from bulbs, always start from seeds" then I start peppers from seeds and people say "Never start peppers from seeds, always get them from the store" lol.
Thanks bro for your explanation re Phosphorus, Nitrogen etc..
Excellent tutorial. Very well presented. You’re an impressive young man. Learned tons too! ^5
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I have a couple of pepper plants that were initially a bit leggy, I planted them a bit deeper to stabilize the plant (about an inch is enough if it is a seedling) along with staking so the plant doesn't snap from a strong wind.
The ones that are still maturing as plants, are overall healthy (a couple of them are a bit overwatered, so I have that issue on some).
I've planted some close together and still gotten flowers and fruit, but because of the lack insects to successfully pollinate the flowers (or even lack of wind), I don't always get a successful pollination by hand.
And because of watering issues (bad habit), buds are dropping either before or after flowering
Thank you very much. Really informative. I’m growing peppers right now.
I would love to see you over winter and save seed from these heirlooms
+me myself and I We will be doing that this year!
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Even if the stem does create more roots, the plant needs room to expand at the base. The soil, or even the secondary roots that may occur, can choke the base of the plant, much like a tree being buried too deep, it chokes itself with a secondary root system.
I planted my seeds from a pepper from produce. Seeds all bunched together.we got numerous plants and more peppers than we can count
I was able to take many notes. Thank you!
Love this video am starting my pepper nursering next week i will love ur advice am just a beginner am in nigeria ,lagos
Thanks you helped me out with a question. I heard that you can bury them deeper but I didn't dare because I always heard that you bury it up to where it had been buried so I didn't know what to do. I just got 3 new peppers. Red peppers,Cubanelle peppers and Chilli peppers. Peppers are great. Great video.
Good morning you'll awesome gardening information I started watching your channel this pass summer,and this one about the peppers 🌶 I see why I bomb this summer my peppers didn't get to size flowers drop off ,you see I started my small garden about 5 years ago and it was good but i did know about amending my soil I did top of with compost, and fertilizers, so I have 1 questions Can I plant different varieties of peppers in one bed I have a 4 by 4 raise band?? Thank you I love your channel ❤️
I’m a chronic over waterer! I also set my peppers out too early. Dang. I’ve got some stunted peppers. Well, there’s always next year. Great tips!
Mine are stunted too. We are having unusually cooler weather than normal so I blame the weather for stunted plants.
Is there always next year?
Thank you this helped me a lot
Thanks for the information
Great tips on growing pepper plants
Thank you for sharing your passion with gardening I am looking to start my own small garden here in Florida but we basically have one season hot or hotter any tips on vegetables that are great in Florida weather thank you
a shade cloth would help to mininize the heat.
I grow my peppers by the compost pile they seem to like it there. I dug a hole at the pile and it was super dense with roots
Great intel. Finally getting to bingeWatch ur channel. I live in Orlando and we get a ton of sunlight. I use vegetable scraps from cooking as compost for my garden. Do I still need to treat my soil to prevent hot spots by the roots. Also how often should I blend eggshells with water mix and add to soil
You got yourself a new sub
I'd love to see you do a video on the pros/cons, or circumstances under which you recommend topping peppers. I don't see this in any of your MI Gardener videos.
Really great knowledge and tips much appreciated thanks love capsicums
How easy it can get. Zone 9B has an advantage, tropical and perennial. Year two is awesome, limit full sun like you said, epic yields. I get a high germination rate and can wait a year. Epson salts and teas with bloom booster jam peppers into boughs that yield highly with hidden peppers that make me remember why I talk to them every day . YEARS OF HARD TRIMMING and heavy mulch have high yields past 6 years. Growing friends say Azomite and Epson Salts keep away the pepper weevils, don't know but plants they came top me for are over 6 years old. hedges on the southeast side of the house . Be blessed with the right conditions and magic happens. Peace.
Yay, peppers! This is definitely going to come in handy :-D
PinkChucky15 I am so thrilled! Any time I can help people out it makes my life totally bright and cheery. That is why I am here... to help!
Very informative video. You answered all of my questions about my pepper plants. Thanks!! :)
Just started watching, so maybe you've already started doing this. I think it'd be really neat to see some of those experiments (like how you experimented with having the stem higher or lower in the soil in this one) covered as separate videos.
Watching your videos is a legitimate learning experience. Thanks!
I started my peppers indoors in Feb/Mar but I think next year I'll start them in January. I'm growing them in my greenhouse. I hope it doesn't get too hot/too much sun in there for them. I did prune some of them before planting them in but probably will not prune any more. They are just starting to flower but haven't set any fruit yet. I guess we'll see how it goes.
Gapeys Grub I, too, started my peppers in February, indoors in my south facing windows. Pruned them twice while indoors. They are now planted outside in my zone 5 garden. So far they are healthy and stocky plants. Several peppers on the plants and lots of flowers. I am having trouble with a tiny red bug. New leaves distorted and tiny brown blotches on the leaves, some holes. I am squishing the bugs and spraying the plants with soapy water. Seems to have helped, it has been a week and no more damage YET. :0) Wish me luck on a good harvest.
LARK'S GARDENS Good luck! I used grow lights with mine. Mine are doing well but could be doing better. They don't grow as fast as tomatoes so wouldn't take up too much room if I started them earlier. Good luck with your harvest! :)