GROWING CHILLIES - CONTAINER SIZE MATTERS
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Have re-edited this film in HD as one of the fundamental things you can do to affect the size and taste of your chilli crop is to use the right size container and no time is more pertinent than now.
Mark Abbott-Compton
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My left ear really enjoyed this video.
Bro thanks. I was listening to this at the studio with my right ear and was like wtf, but this made it better.
I'm nearly deaf in my right ear, didn't notice a problem.
Lucky for those with a left ear... I have both and the sound was a disaster.
Why not delete and upload a better video? Let me guess... the Likes! the Coments... at the end of the day, likes and comments matter. Quality, not that much.
@@paradisoperduto4900 why would he ? are you deft in your felt ear ? well here is a tip. take the ear bud out and place it in the right !
@@thesage1096 Not deft in my felt ear, more a feeling of deafness in the ear. Great video for callcenter workers with mono headphones though. Or for those with a sound amplifying echo chamber between the ears.
I am really pleased that my films are useful to you. Look forward to seeing your plants!
i know that the ideal container for basically everything medium sized to large is 20 Liters/5.28 Gallons, period.
but one can grow Peppers in a 1.58 Gallon container or 6 Litter container.
the key is always the potting mix, and how you fertilize it weekly !
The best video I've seen to help first time growers like me. Thanks for all the advice!! Great vid!
Thank you - really nice to have your feedback. Mark
Looks like I need to find some new pots for my indoor pepper plants!
Thanks for the excellent demonstration.
Thanks for the info. It really makes sense that a larger pot will yield larger plants, yet I never thought about it.
Thank you! great video. I usually grow all of my chilis in the ground but this year my garden is massive and I just don't think I can dig anymore holes so I plan on growing some in containers and this video basically answered any questions I had in regards to that. Great work and thank you again
I wouldnt pot on until they are about a foot tall because keeping them slightly constrained makes them flower. Its the balance between constraint and then allowing enough room to give you a heavy crop.
a lot of channels say the fabric bags work very well even if the containers are a little smaller, I'm trying it this year in 5 gallon fabric bags
so that would be a little under 19 liters
Do you mean to over winter in which case the main thing is to prune the chlli back by about two thirds, reduce the watering and just let it tick through the winter.
Absolutely fantastic video friend you covered something then explained it in a way that I haven't seen yet. I'm excited to experiment with this containment versus confinement.
Cheers!
Learned a lot from the video, thank you! My question is, is it better to re-pot the chili plants as they grow bigger? Or just plant the seedlings into the 10 liter pot right away? Thank you!
There is no harm to the plant by sprouting seed right in a large pot, it would grow well. However, for most folks repotting is better because the small pots can make better use of limited indoor space and light in the late winter and spring. And moving large pots in and out every day when hardening the plants is a chore. The largest pots can just stay outdoors.
normally my sequence is germination plug; one or two indoor pots sizes; then final outdoor pot. The tray of plugs fits in my warm box [I also use it for proofing bread] and the indoor pots fit in front of my window and when the coldest nights have passed they fit in the unheated greenhouse.
Great video! I was very informed by the comparisons! Happy Gardening!
Thank you for sharing this information with us! I found it very helpful and eye opening- I’ll be buying a larger pot for sure!
Cheers mark Trotsky forgot about this video and its a question I was asking just last week, great thanks.
Great educational video!😊
Thanks👍👍👍👍👍
This is very informative. I will buy some 10 L pots for my 3 kinds of chili.
Thanks!! I live in London, I hv brought it in and is in the kitchen😎
Awesome, thanks!
Excellent
Awesome tutorial, as I am just starting to grow Chili plants in pots in containers at home. I want to create some products with the fruits for my micro farm in Australia.
Many Thanks
Marty Ware (Australian Micro Farmer)
thank you sir ! very kind of you.
Thank you. I'm growing 25 different peppers & chillies for seed this year. I've germinated & cultivated two chillies each from each variety & plan to use 7L grow bags and put each set several meters away from other varieties besides using a voile "veil" for the pots once they start to flower to avoid cross pollination. I was wondering about size of containers. I really hope these will be adequate.
Minimum is 5 Litters, this year i'm using 5 to 6 L so you are Ok!
the key is how you fertilize it weekly and the potting mix that you use !
Excellent video.Thanks for all the detailed info.
I've been wanting to do that comparison myself. Interesting how much difference a bit more size makes.
My left ear is feeling really sexy with all the love its getting. For a moment I thought I might have been deaf in the right.
+John Smith i most of the time have my right ear open so i didnt notice anything :D
Nice video. I am growing a whole bunch of peppers in pots of varying sizes and definitely see that the larger pots eventually catch up and yield a lot more fruit. I missed noticing this the first year I tried this because I used only small pots the first year and they all did bear fruit early , misleading me into thinking that they actually do better.
We repeatedly had smaller pots and repeatedly lost all our plants. Sometimes even the pots we thought were large were not large enough!
Great video , started growing chillis for the first time a few months ago now i own my own greenhouse :) , im currently growing cayyenne and apachi but could you reccomend any other kind and where can i find the seeds .
Many thanks
Excellent video! I am a noob at gardening but I have some window box chillies on the go. Some unknown ones (I got the seeds from a sainsburys chilli plant) and some carolina reapers. Very informative, thanks :)
Brilliant thank you
Great helpful video. Thank you.
Have a few seedlings that just sprouted. Thanks for the info
Oh Jolly good! I love a 4 alarm fire during lunch!
I was worried that my 10L pots wouldn't be large enough to move my seedlings into, but it seems that they'll do the trick. Perhaps I'll get a couple of 15Ls for the ones I want to get more yield from (a Thai Bird's Eye and Carolina Reaper).
Thanks for the most helpful video and visual comparison!
Great show, I've learned a lot.
Excellent!
Thank you 😊
beautiful thank you.
really awesome video. thanks
Thanks, very informative.
Thanks only wanted to look for a video of a fully grown plant that I'm growing to see what it will look like but said screw it and watched this and thanks for that good handy information
I really liked your video. Great visual about how the right size container makes a large difference.....I need to replant my peppers into a bigger pot!
Do you have any advice about how the peppers tolerate being re-potted? Any tips or tricks? I live in a very temperate climate (San Diego, CA), so weather is not too much of an issue.
Is there an optimal pot side for growing multiple pepper plants in one pot?
Thank you for the video. I have a chillie tree planted in a 10-inch pot. However the leaves are small and packed, it doesn't look like yours, nice and tall with big leaves. Could you please give me some advice on what I might have done wrong? Thank you very much.
SIMPLE THINGS MAKE BIG DIFFERENCES
@james b if you have the space make a Walipini Greenhouse! you can have veggies every day of the year!
I'm just going to stick in the ground efter all lol I want allot of these chili's! Yummy!
Thanks, Very Useful for me , How much water chili Plants needs per day in a 35 - 40 Degrees Centigrade environment ?
We have a dripping system in our Balcony that waters the containers 2 Minutes and twice a day.
each chili plant is in a 8 Liter rectangle container, Shall I change it to Cylinder Container ?
Are those liters the true pot volumes or a trade size?
Here in the USA nursuries and retailers erroneously refer to standard container trade sizes as "gallons" so there is an error of 20% to 30%. (US gallons are about 3.8 liters, so US quarts are just a bit smaller than a liter)
Example: a number 1 pot is a true 2.6 to 3 quarts [liters] and a #3 is about 2.3-2.5 gallons [9L], but they are commonly refered to as 1 gallon[3.8L] and 3 gallon[11.4L] respectively.
Hi again, i grow mainly chillis but have decided to give sweet peppers another go in larger pots thanks to your vids :), is the Corno di toro rosso worth a go ?
LearnHowToGarden so the larger the container the larger the chilli plant? I have a Jalapeno plant , it says on the pot it can in plant in a pot with a diameter of 30cm as it can grow 50 cm tall and 30 cm wide, but I seen jalapenos around 100cm tall and many feet wide.
audio channels matters too :)
What age were they when you put them in these pots?
Did they go from their germination plugs straight into the larger pots or did you gradually increase their pot size?
I grew 3 x habaneros and scotch bonnets last year and had hundreds of
pods, this time same pots, too little growth, is it time to top the plants out ,
as see people recommend that they take the top out to give bushier plants ?
Ring of fire is a compact plant hence why 10L pot VS ground is not a huge difference. But some chilli varieties in the ground will tower over you and make thousands of pods.
Obviously the roots decide how big the plant gets, however, I grow waaay bigger plants in a small 3.5l container compared to the one he showed. I only give them some extra tomato nutrients once a week.
I think the point he was making is that a 10L container will grow the best possible plants without going overboard (obviously bigger pot, bigger plant, but the returns diminish at some point). I'm sure you do grow bigger plants in a smaller pot. Most UK gardeners fill their pots will a heavy soil only mix. Lots of nutrients but the heavy soil easily compacts with watering and this inhibits root growth. Mix in something like vermiculite or perlite and a bit of peat and you'll have a much nicer texture 'soil' to grow in.
lol... i have my speakers on the right side so i heard all in the right ear.
But i still had to open the mouth and fake yawning for "unplug the corks" in both ears. It's still strange to hear it ;-)
Also, it is a interesting video, so i can take the "pain" for good information.
Great hair, which fertilizer do you use?
I love growing Thai Chili.
I bought a small chilli plant from Tesco which is covered in chillies - I took one off when I got home and put on my Pizza. I think it has enough to last me until the end of the year as I don't eat them that often. Maybe one a week at best. I just want to know if it's a perennial and how to care for it over the winter. Thanks
Nice, informative video!
I have containers that are about 40x40x25 centimeters. Would you put more than one chili plant in each? I have a small balcony and trying to make the very most of it, you see. :)
I have started my chilli plants from last year in a propagator and have noticed some little white things crawling around on the compost are they harmful and if so how do I get rid
i forgot to transplant my pepper plant into a bigger container. It has recently started its flowering phase, but If i transplant it into a bigger pot will it then continue to grow or is it to late? (:
If you transplant it will increase growth
LearnHowToGarden even when they are little plants they slow growth if the container edges are near the plant, in those pots where i put only 1 plant, they were growing very well but in those pots with 3 the growth was slow even with just 25 days of life!!.
Great video. But how many (and what) increments in pot size would you recommend when repotting the seedling all the way up to your suggested 10L pot?
Your audio is really loud on the left channel and really quiet on the right channel.
Great vid though!
tnx for the advice
ty for advice!
Very good job done bro, thank you ..:)
hmmm i grew a 5 foot pepper plant in a 3.5 liter pot. I've seen video's of 10 foot peppers in 8.5 liter pots (although they were strung up) Getting the right fertiliser/watering reduces the effect of a bigger pot size. And indeed the sort of pepper you are growing matters. A prairy fire is an ornamental pepper and will never grow bigger than 2 foot no matter how big a pot size you use..
Most plants are limited in size due to their container and growing season. Extend either of these and you will get bigger plants. Sure some plants are slower growers, but they can still reach big sizes with the right conditions.
I've read somewhere that peppers like to be crowded a bit. Not necessarily a small container, but lets say you had a single 20 liter pot, instead of a single plant in the pot, to have two or three (of the same kind). Something about them supporting each other somehow . Doesn't make sense to me but I figured I'd ask.
i planted habeneros in solo cups in June of last year, and grew them from my bedroom window like a houseplant and it grew a little over 1 and a half feet tall and gave me about a dozen peppers. (had to have small pot size/plant because in this part of Canada we only get 2 months to grow and even then we still get frost and such, so i have to grow these things mainly indoors.). they grew just fine in their little cups all through the Canadian winter. i am about to upgrade them to 2 liter pots to see how they grow with a bit more space.
***** Hmm that's pretty cool. I'm in Ontario (Toronto) so I think we've got end of may to probably end of October when the plants can live. I did grow some the past few years but I was using one per 3 to 5 gallon containers but they never got as large as I expected. Say 2 feet tall. I guess its the limitation of the season length. Now I'm thinking of trying maybe 2-3 per container and see if it makes any difference.
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The other thing that may increase your crop is to feed at each watering but at about 1/3 the recommended dose so quite weak have seen some really positive results using this technique
LearnHowToGarden I will definitely give that a try and see how it goes. Thanks :)
I enjoyed that video, What size do you suggest to care over one?
my green pepper flowers are falling off pls advice what to do now...?
To much nitrogen or wet roots. Run high nitrogen until it's close to the size you want it than switch to low nitrogen high potash and potassium
I planted mine in a very small pot and the I'm getting a lot of chilles
what is the size of the big conrainer? (in inches, please), thanks.
So if you use a small container, you can expect fruit faster?
Yeah but it seriously stunts production over all, it's also a pain because you need multiple waterings a day.
What number of liquid fertilizer should we use for plant that size..I have 7-9-6..?.
Would a 10" planter be big enough for an indoor chili plant? I'd like it to grow to about 3-4' tall.
Interestingly I have two chillies, one in a big pot, about 3 L (not really big but bigger, and the other one in a 400ml pot. Both have the same size, actually the one in the small pot looks slightly stronger.
just started 2, they are in 10cm pots and are about 20cm high and its now june, shall i pot on maybe july? i received them this big 2weeks ago without pot and didnt want to pot up too big. wait a little while then go for the bigger pot?
Do I need too much sun all day for my chili peppers? I bought several small full with flowers, now they are few peppers and it's easy to carry to the other side of the home where the sun is also available in the afternoon, then I take them back to the front to get the sun in the morning. So if I upgrade pote size I won't be able to take them to my bedroom in the afternoon to put them by the window if the pots are bigger due to the weight, unless I use table with wheels and put a tall stand by the window to continue receiving the afternoon that last more hours and it's stronger. This is my dilema. They are turning red, it was so hard to wait patiently to see them turning red, I got so excited. Now it's a pity to crop, because there is only 2 or 3 in some pots. and they are beautiful just to look at it as decoration, if I don't crop, what happens, it dries out and disappear?
this is exactly what happened to me. I finally moved to a big pot but its already making baby peppers
Can you plant two or three different kinds to chillies in one pot?
Prune it and add fertilizer. It will be bushier and produce more fruit
how do you get your plants so healthy looking? can you let me know please. I just started growing edible plants and small tree on my second floor flat balcony, fig tree, kiwi fruit, blackberry etc. but have not been to successful so far. I have look on TH-cam and your plants probably the most healthiest plant I came across. what is your secret.
I was thinking 5 gallon buckets - anyone any thoughts? Can pick them up for cheap and I was going to drill some drainage holes down in the bottom.
Hi mike what size should your chillies be before potting on to a 10ltr pot?
Thanks buddy very good,Do you know the best and or cheapest place to get reaper/choc bhutlah seeds please!? Also is it really possible to grow reaper seeds from dried chillie's?? :D many thanks
Found reaper starts at my local nursery.
I have few chilie pots , but unfortunately it doesn't give any fruits, as soon as it gives flowers, the next day all flower drops, I have no idea why, but if you have , I'll be grateful. thanks in advance
Possibly the flowers are not being pollinated properly. If the place where you grow the plants doesn't have good air flow or insect visitors, you can pollinate yourself with a paint brush/cotton bud/finger tip. Could also be over watering, overfeeding or temperature fluctuation.
No its not too late. Chillis are in fact not annuals so if you pot it on now it will just grow bigger.
when do Chilli`s normally start to change colour. from green to orange,then from orange to red. thanks. Ray
All dependent on which type you're growing. Super hots tend to take longer than milder types, but there are also other factors, like light, heat etc.
can i feed Chilies a Organic Vegetable / Herb food that has Nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium- Sulphur - Calcium- magnesium- iron and trace elements , Thank you
Tim Ryan exactly my thought!
Size matters for a good crop of Chillies
Hi can I leaves it out in the winter? Or do I hv to bring them in? Thanks
+Gizmo b There are blogs about having to bring them in. Depends on where on the planet you live. I'm in Britain, I have 3 plants in 1 big pot and they have been pruned and are in my living room near a radiator to survive the winter. Hope this helps.
How many moth chili have a flowers if I plant by seed?
Only August, are you kidding me? My plants are loaded down and waiting to ripen in April. August is my third or fourth harvest. In a small pot by the way.
Make sure your chillies are in a large enough pot!!
LearnHowToGarden How about fertilizing? I have heard that when you fertilize the plants stops producing fruit and concentrates on growing bigger. Is that true?
+Shahin x y c what number what many well it doesn't ruin the night hzh zip
+Shahin x Hello, I have read that if you give the plant too much nitrogen, it will tend to grow and not flower/produce fruits. e.g. some fertilizers have more nitrogen that phosphorus and potassium. One website suggests using high-phosphorus blend fertilizers to encourage bloom instead.
Also, you might want to check up the use of Epson salt for pepper plants(also works for tomato and rose plants). Epson salt, when diluted in the right amount (I think one tablespoon in one gallon) and used as foliage spray for pepper plants, encourages bloom and fruit production with better quality according to some websites. If I';m not mistaken it should be done not more than once every two weeks. You might want to read about that :P
size does matters !
Everything I’ve heard And read says wider pot are better than taller ones
Why does my plant have a lot of flowers but no chillies..
i have my carolina reapers and ghost peppers in 17L pots