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Great future video idea! I've been thinking about something like this.

@PepperGuru It would also take away any serious doubts/doubters that don't think a Pepper plant can grow that big that fast because let's face it, these are probably by far the largest pepper plants most of us have ever seen...especially myself lol. I didn't even know a Pepper Plant could grow that much in 6 months unlike Tomatoes. Would be super cool to see that!

@@matthewkheyfets1309 You’re right! Thanks for the compliment, but I’ve been converting doubters for over two decades on one platform or another. Nothing makes me more happy than helping others escape Plato’s Cave so to speak and start seeing these plants for what they are. While I don’t care to make a “prove the doubters wrong” type video, I do think you’re right about serving my audience and showing them the plant from seed to frost, the entire step of the way ❤️ Great future video idea for sure. Now to build that plexiglass Timelapse box!

@PepperGuru is there a website about pepper growing I can check out? Want to try badly as I grow 10ft maters but not peppers...yet. Super into this now thanks to your video!

@@matthewkheyfets1309 pepperguru.com -- thehotpepper.com -- facebook.com/groups/peppergrowing

We first have to ascertain the WHY of your sun scald. If it was simply sun that scalded fruit, the Earth would be in serious trouble. I get this question a lot. Scald is something I have never experienced unless I’ve put seedlings with fruit on them, directly into full sun from indoor lighting without hardening off. There is something else at play we need to consider. It likely has something to do with transpiration. A puzzle I would definitely like to help solve for people.Most likely it’s a combination of conditions and not the Sun by itself. For shade cloth, the sweet spot is around 30%. Directly above. Perhaps it’s your temp swing from 50s into the 90s everyday. I would try the shade cloth @ 30% as well as mulch layers and mid day misting under the shade structure directly onto the plants and the mulch/soil surfaces.

@@PepperGuru thanks for the reply. My plants are well hardened off before they start blooming. I can't do anything about the temperature swings, but will try growing in an unheated high tunnel to see if I can keep the night time soil temperatures up. I've been using 40% shade directly above, I'll go for 30% when it needs replacing.

@@stephentueller899 You’re even getting scald in the high tunnel? Or have you not tried planting in it before?

@@PepperGuru This will be my first year in the tunnel, just finished building it.

@ Nice! Ok! Keep me posted on the improvements if you notice them!

@@DonutChucka 🙏 Thanks! Welcome and happy growing!

I will definitely do a video on this in the future. It’s pretty straightforward though. Fish scraps and water with optional carbohydrate source or lacto source. Then just time. Takes about 2-4 weeks in Spring time temps. A little faster if summer temps have hit.

@@shonwatson awesome! Welcome aboard! The main issue with Alaska is that not only does it have the wrong NPK for peppers, but it’s an emulsion. Inferior to proper fish hydrolysate in every way.

@@truckywuckyuwu At least you’re thinking! Cold night time temps and high wind can definitely cause some early season hurdles. You’re on the right track for sure with some shelter of sorts. Whatever it takes and that your effort and budget can bare. Doesn’t have to be expensive either! Essentially, I used to to believe only my overwintered pepper plants could produce that early season jump, compared to new starts. The truth is, clone taken from a decade old mother plant can become the same size as the mother plant in a season. So it’s really just those early season conditions, and it sounds like you’ve got your wheels spinning on how to better provide them. Thanks for watching! ❤️

@@westvirginianlivin9871 perfect for that! They tend to hand their branches low and cascading, with clusters of leaves and fruit. In this cage setup you can train them into small bushes.

Depends on if you have at least three months outdoors within the temp ranges discussed. I'd imagine you get at least three months of temps between 65-95F correct? If so, no reason not to, so long as all the other fundamentals are met as well. Greenhouse sounds great though! For sure!

@@matekwkwkwk Capsicum frutescens can become giants! I have a video where we travel to Ecuador and the Galapagos finding ancient C frutescens with trunks as big around as my wrist! Definitely check that out! They also grow just as large for me here at home in the USA. It’s all about focusing on these fundamentals. If you’re not getting huge plants, quickly and early then one of the fundamentals isn’t just right yet. Small changes can lead to big improvements! Keep me updated!

No. Topping is a delusional fallacy. You can never create more biomass by removing the potential for it. I’ll do a video on this in the future for sure.

@@truckywuckyuwu You don’t need to overwinter to get huge plants like this, just follow the advice in our video here: th-cam.com/video/KRBxnUKY8Kk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=MfXq3NRnS_9sBqX4

@PepperGuru I do where I live. The growing season is only really about 3.5 months. The weather in the spring is quite hostile to plants raised inside. I've tried many years and it's just too cool at the start for them, but overwintering the plants inside and then putting them out they're much more establishe, and grow faster. Northern Canadian spring weather is not the best lol. It is very windy and cool where I am. Might be easier if I can get some windbreaks planted. My tomatoes do well with it. I get tomato's that are as big as your pepper plant. I'll look at the video. See if there's anything I can do to help. I just feel the weather is the biggest issue. My tomatoes were saved seeds over years, and are acclimatized. I also grow them and then plant them in a very specific way that gives them a huge root system. I had a black cherry tomato plant that took over the entire 4x8 garden bed I put it in last year. Choked out all of my other plants in that bed.

@@kernnoah7135 Great future video idea. I’m on it!

@@jayroldification I recommend waiting 6-8 weeks before plant out to start germinating.

I’m not sure you’re commenting on the right video, but I’m glad you’re here anyway! 🌶️

Now that's a great future video idea! Long story short, it's simply for catching and reabsorbing runoff. Waste not want not! ❤

@@PepperGuru Nice, I would love that!!

Chicken is some of the best fertilizer for peppers! No Doubt!

I have a series titled “Traveling The World In Search Of Peppers” where I explain just that! Go check out that playlist! ❤️

This species is critically endangered, so anyone selling them is doing so at their own risk. I gifted some out to a small handful of citizen scientists since rediscovering them in Samaipata, Bolivia in 2019

Ok that’s awesome that you are trying to bring them back

@@PepperGuru have you grown Capsicum Eximium "not buforum" before? I just got seeds for it and am excited to start the seeds for next year

@Runningred54 That isn't an actual classification or designation. It just means someone incorrectly ID'd the line as C buforum at one time. I've collected and grown all of the purple corolla clade species.

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Thanks! SO glad you enjoyed it. Just remember, this isn't hard, I'm not special, and zone isn't as important as many make it out to be. Just make sure you nail these 4 fundamentals down and I promise you that your yield increases. Yes, for some people not living on the 70% of Earth's surface that do get temps in the sweet spot range, they may have to use their imagination and build structure to maintain these temps for three months, but....the big picture is....they can still get harvests like this if they do!

@PepperGuru I'm in the North in zone 7a. Believe me I get a lot of sun on my property for 10 straight hours in the summer. The neighbors huge Maple trees are so far that it does shade my property. I planted some Japanese Maples and Cherry and Apple Trees but they don't even do shade. So peppers is very ideal for my property.

I meant the neighbors Maple doesn't shade my property.

Very much inline with my findings. Glad you’re figuring it out!

@@madmanjim795 One of the best flowers in the genera!

70% of Earth's surface experiences at least three months of temperatures between 65-95F. The plants in this video were only three months from plant out at the time of filming. If you live where you can provide the plants these temps for a minimum of three months, You too can grow plants like this if you focus on the pepper growing fundamentals I shared in the video. We live in Atlanta, so we have more than 3 months that meet that temp, however, once again, I started late this season and these were planted out June 1 and filmed on Sept 1. Three months. Focused on all the fundamentals. Fundamentals > zone. You got this!

Fair enough bc that's what you covered in your video. Thats a very lawyer answer. Haha You should run for office.

@@okiebear Truth is truth.

I'm glad you're vibing with it! 🔥

A little sand is fine, and if you need to make up volume, adding peat is OK, but I really do recommend moving toward an all humus compost mix. You can use these fertilizers on all plants! Yeah the black plastic containers can get hot for sure! Enjoy the ride!

Sadness can often lead to the greatest lessons learned about ourselves. Maybe one day, you can look back on the message in this video, seeing it from a whole new perspective. Also, I'm a bit of a jokester. In here there should be a message of realizing that it's not always about the mission, but the journey with the ones we love. Making memories for the ages.

@@lucifurtuna Hey! Welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting. We love you! ❤️🙏🧘🏻‍♂️🌶️

@@susanmortara2754 I will definitely publish a narrated version of this one! Check the description and comments for answers to questions just like yours! This is a jadam/knf inspired method for making not only homemade fertilizer but soil life applications rich in microbial life. The sweet tanks were a wine pressing of grapes and the salty tanks were kitchen scraps. The main dank tank FPJ was Alfalfa meal. We used the other tanks to inoculate the alfalfa tank. I will definitely redo this one for those who prefer narration! Great future video idea!

The double cup video where I make the worlds biggest double cup, was mostly a joke for the other contestants of the annual Growdown Throwdown harvest competition on Thehotpepper. I told them all I would beat them growing in a double cup, and I did 😂 Not my preferred method, and that video shows the only way double cups even make sense 🤣

There is no medium that exists that can sustain this type of production for a season. No matter what medium you grow in, no matter how nutrient rich, a pepper plant of this size will spend it all. So the notion that you can plant a pepper plant in a nutritious medium, not ever have to replenish nutrients and still continue to get this type of production is a pipe dream. These plants can eat!

@@PepperGuru well now, as i have noted, you are really pushing performance. your compost process? from the Philippines here😇

@@paulbraga4460 This compost used here was a blend of green grass clippings, livestock bedding, manure and fungal inoculant.

@@PepperGuru my compost piles gets a sprinkling, no, dusting of ag lime and guano. i keep forgetting to push fungal performance...will not try supermagro as soil drench. hope i don't forget to document with video...mygreathanks and blessings

@@paulbraga4460 anytime!

One single plant per container. That's also a part of container size fundamental. You want each plant to have as much root zone capacity as possible.

AS I explained and demonstrated in the video, approximately 70% of the Earth surface experiences temperatures between 65-95F for at minimum of three months out of the year. If you experience at least three months out of the year between these temps, then you can also get plants like this. Or if you provide your plants these temperatures despite your climate not getting that range of temps for three months, like greenhouses etc.

The entire Capsicum genus is perennial, but as I explained in the video, these pepper plants were planted out three months ago.

As I explained in the video, 70% of Earth's surface experiences temps between 65-95F for a minimum of three months every year. If you don't then you have to figure out a way to adhere to the pepper growing fundamental of temperatures in that range. If you can figure out how to provide these temps for the plants for a minimum of three months, then you too can have plants like this. I've coached many northern growers well into Canada, Sweden, etc. It can be done. There are people doing it in northern climates. I showed you in the video.

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Close! The first one was actually Capsicum bac var bac. The second one was Capsicum lycianthoides! Love all the wild pepper species!

Definitely doing a video on this soon!

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