5 Tips To Start Better Peppers - Garden Quickie Episode 191
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Its Pepper Time! Pepper growing season is here and tomato's popular cousin is on many people's minds for this year. Starting your peppers off right is the key to getting those mega harvests later on this summer.
In today's Quickie, I got 5 spring pepper tips for you that'll increase your pepper game and make sure your plants produce for you this year!
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Another piece of information I did not know....peppers have advantageous root system. You never fail to help us learn and grow just like our gardens!!
Only while they are young. Once the stem goes woody they won't grow any
@@Chattyman2 Thanks, good to know.
Adventitious roots! 🌶️
@@Ramen.and.Satie. Thank you.
THANK YOU for mentioning the advantageous root system on peppers. A lot of gardening channels fail to mention this fact (beyond tomatoes) but if you know, you know and it makes for much stronger, robust plants!
I’ve been growing peppers for years and I just learned some valuable info in a few minutes, thanks Jeff!!
Hi
Thanks Jeff, I think I’d better start a separate gray of peppers because of their unique propagation temp needs.
How i love to grow peppers 🌶️
I find peppers like to hug each other. I get much better production and vibrancy in my plants when i plant them in groups or pairs closer together.
I have buried my peppers deeper one year but i few that rotted at the stem and the others did not have extra roots when i dug them up to over winter. I wont try it again
Possibly helps them support each other too when they get taller and full of peppers.
Awesome Jeff❤
Hi
Jeff, l grow bell peppers every year and you are spot on. Great info gives great results. Now, waiting to get going.
I just got some pepper starts today! (AND I always start my seeds 12 weeks before last frost date). I always planted my tomatoes deep, but now I will also plant my peppers that way.
More garden quickies! So good! Such quality in sucjmh little time! Thankbyou for the information!
Thank you Jeff. As always, great information. I will try burying mine a bit deeper this year. I'm thinking, I can't go wrong with a bigger root system.
I'm happy you mentioned the advantageous roots and planting them deep like tomatoes. Almost all others here on YT say to keep the soil level the same.
I also tried the 'top prune' vs no top prune but it was such a cool, wet season last year it was hard to say for sure but I'll give the nod to you based on my results.
Khu vườn được chăm sóc thật tốt 👍.
Awesome videos, great job.
Thank you Jeffe! So glad the peppers ended up surviving💓🌱🫑🌶️😍💋
One of your pepper videos you said not to fertilize when putting out transplants. That may work in a soil that is already an organic garden ,but not for a new garden, that has never had fertilizer applied.
It's not so much that they never need food... It's that when transplanting, let the labs have a few days to transition abs get established before blasting them with nutrients.
Great video, Jeff. Also, exactly inline with what I'm going through right now. My pepper seedlings are struggling. I've watched all your videos on seed starting and seedling care but I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. My cotelydons are yellowing and falling off at a rapid pace, sometimes even before the first true leaves. Not only that, they seem to be stunted and haven't grown much since they sprouted over a month ago. Not a lot to go on and I don't expect you to have the answer. 2 things I know now I did wrong: gave them constant light 24hrs first 3 weeks and let em dry out once too much. Idk how your seedlings stay moist for a whole week between watering. Mine seem to dry out in 2 days. You make it look so easy. 2nd year Gardner and I'm gonna keep trying. New pepper seedlings are sprouting now but I'm worried I'll make the same mistakes. Love your videos, thanks for making them. P.S. where is your how to grow pumpkins part 2 video?
I'm growing pimento peppers for the first time. Great video. 🌶
That's awesome to hear. We plan on making tons of pimento cheese. 😀@@paulreid7370
Great video ❤ I’m growing peppers from seed so thanks for the tip to plant them deeper. I did not know that
I have a short season so grow chillies in a poly tunnel. Definitely got them in about three weeks too late this year . Discovered the hotter the type the longer they need to be growing to have good harvest. I put one stake in for each too but this year my Sputnik red capsicum often had broken stems under the weight of the pepper and sometimes before they had ripened. Thus the age old question, do you nip the young plants central stem to force it to branch low on the stem or not? Wouldn't that give stronger branches to hold heavy peppers as it grows? I think next year ill try a round cage type support like Ive seen on determinate bush type tomatoes. Hopefully that will stop branches breaking when laden with heavy capsicums. Oh and Ive always wondered if you can plant deep like tomatoes. Your the first vid I found which answered this question so thumbs up!
goodlooking guy :-) thanks for the tips!
Cheers, thanks for watching! :-)
I always buy my peppers from the store. I need to start planting my own peppers.
Best time to start is now!
I read that Pepper plants have adventitious roots if the stem above ground is kept dark and humid but not moist. 'Poncirusguy', (Steve Rodenberg) uses toilet paper tubes on his seedling pepper plants to get roots up 3 inches on the stem.
How often do you water them, and when do you move them from seed trays to pots ?
Awesome info! Thank you!
Perfecting timing as always! My peppers are popping and this info comes exactly when I need it. Pulling out that fan and lowering the temp by next week! Thanks Jeff!
Thank you for another excellent video! I have a garlic question. I live in Cape Breton and I planted hard neck garlic in pots last fall and kept them in a shed for the winter. Now that the spring is here, can I take the pots out and leave outside until harvest?
Good to know about the depth of planting. What do you think about snipping off the tops so the plant becomes bushier? I did this last year and I did think it helped some. Good to have another opinion though. Thanks for the great videos!
Jeff has video below this one. I live in zone 6 and I think the growing season is too short for pruning. I only tried once so small sample size. I think it would work if growing season is long enough. try a few plants to see what happens.
Thank you @carmenlamanna5391. I’m in zone 4 and start all my plants indoors since we have such a short growing season. Thank you for suggestion of other video. I’ll be sure to check it out.
@@carmenlamanna5391 Ive tried both ways and if I don't nip them often they will branch on there own anyway when they reach a certain height.
You say to plant peppers deep, but if they grow too tall and lanky, can you remove the bottom few sets of leaves and plant them even deeper like you can with tomatoes?
Geoff, would like to know which pepper plant has been the hardest for you to grow? (Apologies if its Jeff...)
great video as always. my peppers always grow well but the sweet red peppers never seem to get ripe. I am giving it one more year.
I'm in zone 2b. I start my peppers 14 weeks before I expect to plant them out into the garden. When I transplant them, I pot them into the 3 cup yogurt containers to give them plenty of room to develop roots (drainage holes drilled into the bottom). They are big, have blooms, and some even have baby peppers by the time I start hardening them off in preparation for planting into the garden. I have wonderful success most years (depending on the summertime temperatures). Don't give up! It's worth doing!
I have overwintered peppers in my greenhouse. Should I take them out now or wait until night weather is over 55°? I'm in Ca Zone 9b. 😊
I took mine out of cold storage in February. It took a couple weeks to get growing again. Now the new growth in my sunroom is about 2 feet and about 50 flowers per plant 😅
I've heard conflicting information on whether peppers grow adventitious roots, as well as the conditions necessary to encourage this root development. They don't grow as readily as they do on tomatoes for me, but I have seen it happen, and am not sure why. I know the adventitious root growth is slower than on tomatoes, but I've always planted mine up to the first set of leaves regardless.
How do I get big bells? Mine don’t seem to get big I get a bunch but not the size like in grocery store.
I use root blast or tomato blast. One scoop when planting and once a week at the base of the plant. I get BIG bell peppers. It's organic
I've been adding bone meal at planting time and then again at about 5-6 weeks later. Seems to help.
@@carmenlamanna5391 thank you I will try that
I started my peppers in Feb (zone 7a) and they are still tiny babies. Only 5 of 12 varieties are still living. Im about to give up. 😢
I have never heard that peppers can be buried deep like tomatoes!
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How about chili
Would you like to know why I like watching your videos? The word 'um' needs to not be in the video. Some content creators constantly use that word too frequently. You don't and I really appreciate that. Thanks for that.
Never mind UM what about the youth of today and Like....Like.....Like
What is your advice regarding hard water? Is there a substitute?