5 Pepper Growing Mistakes to Avoid
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- EDIT: MISTAKE 1 IS...A MISTAKE! Flavor isn't affected in the pepper from crossing, but the seeds will be hybrids. So you can plant sweet and hot together if you don't plan on saving seeds.
Growing peppers is extremely rewarding due to the sheer variety of flavor, shapes, sizes, and colors. There's something for everyone! But there are some unique mistakes you can make when learning how to grow peppers that can hamper your success. We discuss 5 of them in today's video.
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EVERYONE I AM WRONG about the crossing...I anecdotally noticed this in a batch of my beds then didn't completely research. You are generally OK to mix sweet and hot, unless you want to save the seeds and replant, THEN you should definitely space them very far apart.
The general spacing of 12" for small peppers and 18" for large still applies in that tip though!
@@epicgardening yes it does and I sure didnt follow it. My bell peppers and my reapers are touching leaves right now. Should make for an interesting flavor on those bells lol
Got it - thank you for correcting & informing us in comments! Back to the garden I go...
@@epicgardening I grow Bell, Banana, and Jalapeno with the Square Foot Gardening method - one per square foot. They grow beautifully, and produce lots of peppers.
@Seriously! How? well we will see next year then.
I once overwintered a jalapeno plant for several years. I live in Wisconsin, so that meant keeping it inside for the hard winter months. After three years or so, the plant was huge, and had to be overwintered in a big, ugly plastic pot, so I decided to just leave it outside and let it go.
It was out there all fall, with weather getting into the twenties, but refused to die. I kept seeing the temps going down and down, and on several mornings thought I'd go out and find out my little jalapeno had moved on to spice the food of the angels. But nope, it refused to die. Finally, one day in early December, it got down to twenty and the plant still didn't die. I gave up in sheer admiration and brought that hulking pepper and its ugly plastic pot back in the house for the rest of the winter. It made a ton of peppers the next year.
How does that happen? I want a pepper plant that strong...
This should be a children’s book. 🥺. The little jalapeño that never gave up.
I overwintered my peppers this year. I'm excited. I usually get good amounts of peppers but late in the season, it will be nice to see how quickly they fruit this year. I completely cut all the stem to a single stem, and kept in a cool but not freezing garage, and they're starting to throw off leaves and tiny stems already.
Amazing! 😅🎉
This is my first time overwintering my peppers. I just put them in the ground and am excited to see what happens next!
My dad once told me once you’re getting ready to pick the plant if you skip one day of watering it will scar the jalapeños and what he called “pissing them off” which made them really spicy
🥰😂
it's easy enough to test that theory. doubt it's true but I'll try it myself next harvest for giggles
@@ikigai47 stressing peppers will make them spicier
It is true. I deliberately let mine droop before watering again. Not just increased heat, but more flavor as well. Only do this once the plants are well established and setting fruit, young plants that still need to grow won't be benefited by this stressing.
Thank you! I’ve heard this about some plants as it increases the oil production when you stress them.
Any idea if ice shock has the same effect?
Edited to add: I know this is only done once right before harvest.
0:55 placement
1:59 improper watering
2:51 over-fertilizing
3:48 not overwintering
5:03 temperature control
6:06 bonus tip for harvesting
The real important thing I got from this video is to start referring to all my stretch marks as my corking.
Love it Kevin, but cross pollination only effects the seeds that are produced
Fixed this!
Cross pollination can change the end result. My banana peppers all got ruined one year due to the ghost near it. They were a hybrid shape of the 2 and way hotter. I mean if you wanna grow peppers that look like genitals then go for it, but it was not my intent. 🤣 Maybe because banana and ghost are closer in type than ghost and bell🤷♀️
Michelle Cross omg your comment made me bust out laughing! I wondered why the jalapeños and habaneros I’ve bought recently were so mild, no kick. Perhaps this is why, they’re growing them to close to mild peppers....hmmm
Actually it does affect the fruit on the plants. Seen spicy bell peppers that were near spicy peppers.
I found that is can affect the current produce. Several years ago, one of my habanero plants crossed with a green pepper (they were right beside one another) and at the end if the season I had orange-ish green-ish spicy green peppers.
It’s funny because where I live, I don’t worry about overwintering since it never drops below 32. Instead, I “oversummer” and bring my peppers indoors during the heat because it gets to 115+.
Sounds like Phoenix AZ am I correct? lol
I’m on year two of a cayenne pepper plant that I put in a grow tent during the winter. It literally has bark on the stem and I’ve gotten pounds of peppers off that beast already
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Overwintering is a new concept to me and this year is my first garden. So if my peppers survive I can move them to the basement that has windows, through the winter and put back out in spring? Do you water them over the winter or do they go into a dormancy? So interesting
@@trueblonde316 if they get decent sunlight and start growing leaves you can water them once a week with just a little bit of water. if they don't grow back indoor then maybe once every 3 weeks just so the soil doesn't dry up completely.Another thing I usually do is wrapping the pot in a plastic bag leaving the top part of the plant out and poke a whole in the bag. That way the soil doesn't dry out completely and I don't have to water as frequently. My plant produces peppers even in winter. But they can go into dormancy if the temperature in the room is low and if they don't get enough sunlight.
When I think of all the pepper plants I just let die
And I always container grew them🤦🏻♀️ lesson learned!
How did you handle any pest or bugs in the pots soil?
I grow about 30 plants a year and have had one amazing cross pollination. My large Sweet Maroni bred with an Calabrese hot. The result were these huge hot grilling peppers!
That can only happen if you collect seeds from the cross pollinated pepper then grow from the hybrid seeds. If you plant a jalapeño and pollinated with Carolina reaper, it will have zero likeness in look, taste, or heat from the reaper, UNLESS you collect the seeds and then grow from the hybrid seeds. What you’re describing does not happen.
@@CurieBohr you are correct 😊 the DNA of the fruit is specific to the DNA of the plant, the seeds however are a DNA mix from parent plant(s) * can self pollinate too.
Advice from my Indonesian wife: 1) you can eat the leaves of chilli plants; 2) when picking the chilli fruit keep the little stem it grows from attached to the chilli and brake the stem off at the main branch (this allows the chilli plant to produce more chillis than if we leave that little stem attached to the main plant.
I feel personally attacked. Should've titled this the 5 things I'm Currently Doing Wrong with Peppers
Me too, lol
😂
5 things I’m doing wrong with all my plants, especially the consistent watering bit.
@@Infiniti25 I agree...lol
Yep, pretty sure my chilli plants over the last 2 years have hated my forced love! 😂
I have a piquin pepper plant that I've been growing in a pot for almost twenty years. The poor thing doesn't produce peppers much any more and it looks kind of funny, but it is still growing after all these years. Thanks for the tips. Great show!
I didn't know what a piquin was. My uncle had a plant growing in his yard and he told me to try one. WHOOOEEE!! I know what they are now!
lol that pepper is now family
We grow lots of peppers. Mango salsa: mango, red bell pepper, sweet onion, cilantro, lime juice, pinch salt. I can live on this.
icouldjustscream sounds delicious..I will try this, thank you.
Put it over cream cheese. Sooo tasty
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Do you find they need varied lighting? I am trying to grow a good range but don’t have a lot of sun!
Where's the heat??
I accidentally "overwintered" my chili pepper plant and it literally grew three times as big the second year. I was in complete shock. Went from a small little 3" plant that produced one pepper, died, then shed all its leaves 😂. I thought it died for good but didn't bother taking it out and throwing it away. Literally just kept the stem in the pot. I now have a 5' pepper plant that is a powerhouse of fruit. help.
EDIT: Don't throw then away if they "die". Just cut it back all the way to stem and leave maybe a 5" stem and watch it grow twice as big the next season. Crazy.
I love happy accidents. It gives me hope that the brown stick I got from the nursery will magically start growing.....someday
Can I ask what zone you're in? It's how cold your winters are? I just learned the concept of overwintering peppers and I'm wanting to do it in as easy a way as possible 😆
Amanda Jordan Zone 10
Hoping my lavender does that 😢
@@potatopotatoeOG what zone are you in? Lavender is a perennial where I am. I’m in zone 8a. I loved my lavender and then my fiancé decided to just mow them over. We lived next door to where we are now so maybe the guy living there now will get some lavender but I’m sure it’s probably gone. I also had a baby fig tree he mowed over as well 🤦🏻♀️
I love how you get attached to your first over-winter pepper plant. I can’t wait to create such an attachment and have bought pepper seeds!
Did you have any success?
A mistake i learned last year - I'm not a seasoned gardener and, i live in Las Vegas. I've had some success and fun growing Cayenne peppers in 5 gal buckets. in early Spring i kept them on the south side of my house and, they loved it, the 1st peppers i was getting were huge and wonderful... then summer got here and I didn't move them... I didn't kill the plants but the fruit turned tine and useless. So i learned - too much Las Vegas sun = bad. Moved them to the west side and, they recovered in a big way.
Hey, love the videos, but there is a major mistake here..., when a pepper flower cross pollinates the resulting fruit is exactly the same as the rest on the plant, the seeds inside will grow out to be a hybrid of the two peppers, but the pepper itself will not change. I'm one of those mad pepper growers, it's also confirmed in David DeWitts book which I double checked. I have a few purposeful crosses myself this year. Thanks for all the great video's in general, I'm looking forward to seeing the new garden develop!
I actually noticed this too - total mistake on my part - corrected in pinned comment
Ok so if they cross can i make a hot bell pepper
Is this a concept that applies to all fruiting vegetables? Lets say I have several varieties of french beans, but only one I want to grow to seed. Can I grow the ones I don't want to save next to each other and the other further apart?
@@ashelymichael5808 If you are looking for a spicy bell pepper, a really good one already exists called Antep Aci Dolma that is pretty easy to find online. And yes, through crossing a bell with a spicy pepper, saving the seeds, growing them out and selecting for plants that show the signs you want (bell shape and spicy for example) you could create a spicy bell pepper. Once as you have identified some seedlings showing some of those characteristics, continue saving seeds from those ones and growing them out. This cycle of growing a plant out and then saving seeds from desirable plants is how you'd refine a new variety.
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If you like this format of mistakes to avoid, let me know what plant I should cover next!
*Thank you so much for creating such amazing informative videos* 🥰🌿✨🌶 Dragon 🐉 Fruit! 😍 Please! ☀️
Zucchini
Indeterminate tomatoes would be a helpful one!
Tomatoes and corn
how are your cucumbers?? mine is putting a bit of growth in following pollination, about a couple centimeters every couple days
When I lived in Costa Rica I had pepper bushes that lived and produced for years. One habanero was up to the eves of the house. Other types were 4 feet tall and years old too. Now I'm back in the states and my peppers are sprouting indoors for the spring.
OMG THEY CROSS POLINATE?! IS THIS WHY MY PEPPERCHINIS LOOK LIKE GIANT ANAHEIMS ?! 😂😂😂
They cross pollinate but that flavor profile he was talking about should really only affect the peppers that those seeds grow into, not the fruit itself. The fruit itself should contain the cells with DNA from the parent plant and have the profile given to it by the climate and conditions it’s growing under. I don’t see any reason why growing a sweet pepper next to a hot pepper would somehow make their fruits taste different, other than them competing for nutrients if they were in the ground together. But say they were in separate pots they would be totally separate, and they wouldn’t affect the flavor of each other at all. One random guys two cents
You got to be kidding me! Again a video with perfect timing, I just bought a pepper to grow today.
I've got multiple varieties in pots. My habaneros are starting wave #2 of blossoms. Can't wait. And a Tabasco plant I have went absolutely nuts. It's about as tall as me and covered in peppers. Being near the Gulf in Alabama really helps. Lots of sun. Hot humid weather. Can't wait to try overwintering them too. I first grew a pepper plant in north Georgia and the lack of sun and days of rain ruined my plant. I got maybe 10 peppers all season. 😢
I grow Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers. 30 degree weather brought them down to hard sticks. When summer came back they grew an produced alot of peppers.
I always appreciate your clear and concise format. Your videos are pleasant to watch and informative! Thanks, Kevin!
I swear you have a hidden camera over my garden 👀😕😂 - I was JUST walking out to check my pepper transplants (first year growing, seedlings are from my neighbor). I dont know what variety they are, but I’m excited to learn as I grow. PERFECT timing Kevin - THANK YOU!! 🌱💫
Has happened to me twice now. The lemongrass and pepper video both came out as I needed them. Maybe I'll see a butternut squash one soon.
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You and self sufficient me are my two faves when it comes to gardening on youtube!
Thank you for this! Im starting my own garden. Great tips💖
Love your down to earth attitude for all of us to understand... cheers👍👍👍
I found this video a few months ago (winter) when I was considering making my own hot sauce over the summer, and since then your channel has inspired me to start a raised bed garden this summer! I can't wait; I never thought I'd have a green thumb because of my arachnophobia. Thanks for all the knowledge and inspiration 💐
In Canada our pepper plants don’t make it to the tree size. I’m constantly trimming them back to force fruits before the winter hits. But in cold climates I’m completely on board with the idea of containers it’s a game changer. A regular garden bed doesn’t have the same results.
Also in Canada. I'm doing the potted plants shuffle as it is still too cold at night in the Alpine regions and in day the greenhouse even ventilated, is way too hot. What Kevin said about the shade cloth can also stimulate earlier production of flowers and fruit. We had scheduled automated shade cloth application in pointsetia greenhouses to force them to change colour to be ready for the winter sales. Same can happen with other plants by simulating nature's shorter days to get them to reproduce before winter.
Trish Davi that’s awesome what zone are you in? I’m in zone three out nights are still getting super low.. we had 6 Celsius last night... feels like summer is slow this year!
I'm also in Canada and have a north facing balcony overlooking Lake Ontario,
but using a grow tent and starting in jan. or feb. I.ve got the best garden on the street!
I can even grow cayenne successfully! a head start lets me put big plants out in the
start of june, I've already got some jalapenos and purple russian tomatoes are in bloom!
My cousin lives in Toronto, he plants the Moruga Scorpion and has lots of luck growing it. Not sure how much peppers the plant produces though.
Annaliese A that’s awesome! Does he bring it inside during the winter? I have heard of ppl doing that before and placing them under lights. It’s supposed to work really well.
I love this guy so much. He is such a great informative gardener.
Great info! Thanks for sharing. We just started our seeds indoors and are looking forward to a decent garden this year.
stoked you posted on peppers!! just made my hubby a plant daddy for fathers day by gifting him pobalo, habanero, and a roma tomato plant so we can get our salsa and guac on point this summer!!
You are a quintessential teacher; very well done! I'm jumping head first into growing Chimayo red chile (New Mexico). I have 55 juveniles and couldn't figure out for the life of me how to gift them to friends/neighbors... and here you go with these grow bags! Keep it up brother!
Great video.......you answered all my questions......I’m glad I found your channel.....thanks so much for your time and knowledge
Very good informative video, mate. Enjoyed it. I love all things chilli here in Australia. Will be sure to follow you for updates.
Thanks for pointing out the oversight of overwintering or the "myth" that peppers don't grow back after 1 season. I agree and can attest to pruning it back 2/3 and check for new growth before pulling it all out. So glad I kept my pepper plant, which is now flowering again!
Definitely my favorite thing to grow. They do very well in hot regions.
thanks for the advice. enjoyed the video.
Very well presented. Thanks for this.
After failing miserably to grow Reapers last year, I'm giving it a second go. This is super helpful bro thank you
Same. I'm zone 9b and my superhots never kept fruit last year. Flower would drop then whole stem right after. I'm guessing in was temp so all my superhots are going greenhouse this year. Best of luck.
Chillihead gardener here. The optimum fertilizer NPK for all stages is 2:1:3.
If u want to be perfect u could use 3:1:2 for the seedling stage and switch to more Potassium when they get to fruiting size.
If u want to stay organic horse menure is what capsicum loves.
Also additional tip:
When the season ends and your peppers are not ready yet you can do a thing that ripens them faster. If u have a green fruit that is about to get ready (red/yellow spot) u should remove it. This will lead the plant to panic and get the other ones ripen faster.
The second thing is that peppers can ripen indoors after harvest. Just get hole branches of the plant inside before the first frost and wait.
this video is perfect timing. Im growing my first peppers, and was looking up growing tips. Thanks!
Very useful information about growing peppers.
Thank you!
Watching! Growing some bell peppers in my fruit & vegetable garden.
Sounds great!
I hear you about the heat, I live in South Texas and coming on July and August here and it becomes brutal.
Here in San Antonio, I have a bunch of 2yo volunteer chiltepin growing along the east wall of the house. Last summer (their first full production year) they just stopped in July and August, then had fruit again for another month or two before stopping for the winter. So yes, a hot summer will prevent flowers and fruit.
I finally got around to cutting off the mess of little branches in February or so, leaving just six inches of main branches. In April they had quickly grown back to most of last year's size and put out flowers. It's hard to believe people will just toss their plants after one summer, it's like they're only just getting started. (I guess if you're trying to cross-breed you want more generations, but that's it.)
Great tips for peppers and excellent video. Can't wait to watch more.
Thank you for all the wonderful education in the veggie garden you provide.
For mistake #2, if you're trying to grow spicy peppers, space the watering out to the point the leaves are starting to droop
YIKES! I've been watering mine every night.... They're still a little damp in the mornings. Should I water every other day, maybe?
Honestly this is really helpful. I’ve always loved gardening. Last year for the very first time I went full force and started a big garden. There was a lot of successes and a lot of fails. I’m growing Bell peppers again and decided to do banana peppers. These aren’t for me as my family enjoys peppers a lot more than I do. But for me it’s the experience!
watching it grow from a small seeding into a tiny tree for just a few month has been a pleasant experience
Thank you!! Love jalapenos -- will try overwintering 😊
Hi Kevin! This video came just in time. I am a beginner gardener and just planted my first two jalapeño plants in containers. Excited to see what this summer brings, thanks for such detailed and informative content!
Superb pinning your mistake, was about to comment that the crossing is only a problem for seed saving. Keep up your excellence.
No problem - can't believe I missed that detail
I am unable to overwinter my peppers so I always re-seed from the previous years crop as well as from seed stores from my favorite seed providers. That said, some of the crosses like my Calabrese/Marconi hybrid have been wonderful. I do in general have my beds segregated for seed and then have a breeding bed. This year I would like to create a Calabrese round (cherry) that is larger. I use the cherries for making hot sausages and need a lot of them so bigger would be better as long as the flavor profile remains. As for shade there are some growers who believe growing peppers in close pairs prevents them from sun scald as well as making for root competition. I’ve tried it and although it does shade the fruit to some degree, the lack of air circulation can cause lots of problems (Fungal) as well as make it difficult to work with pests.
This is the first time I'm growing jalapenos and i found this pretty helpful! Can you do a video on cilantro?
Will do - a lot of people struggle with it
Pls my cilantro flower so fast before i can have a bundle of it !!
@@missmissy2011 was it hot? Mine did the same, shot up then flowered, now it's turning to coriander seeds. I've read where it's more of a fall or cooler weather plant. It got over 100 quickly here in Northern California, everything else is growing.
Great video. Very clear and informative. Thank you!
ive been growing mostly peppers for year but I learned a few things. I appreciate the vid!
The pepper leaves are one of the reasons we grow peppers. They have a good flavor when added to soup . Try it.
CAUTION: Not all peppers' leaves are safe to eat, and even the ones that are, must be cooked.
- Here is one article that discusses it fairly superficially.
maddog357.com/blogs/chili-pepper-news/semi-breaking-news-chili-pepper-leaves-are-edible
The text in the link is not correct. All peppers are capsicum, bell peppers specifically capsicum annuum. They are not in the same family as potato, tomato and eggplant. So all pepper leaves qre equally safe to eat.
@@valkeakirahvi "They are not in the same family as potato, tomato and eggplant."
Hold up. 🤨
Great tips, although I've found my peppers prefer the dry / wet watering method, similar to dry days & rainy. I tried the watering systems but found a lot of rotting in the damp soil & an increase in fungus gnats, maybe this method is better for hydroponics growing. I found they grow best when just at the point where the leaves start to wilt [not too much though] in the heat, that's when I water, & always from the base. This also keeps gnats to a minimum.
Agreed 100% on watering technique. Also seems to help with spice when you allow them to dry out a bit between watering
Straight forward and good tips and advice. Thank you for not trying to be funny or playing loud music! I like the way you give information without telling long story. Good job!
Enjoyed the video of information and great to see you in your new garden.
Great video! I don't think I gave my peppers enough space this year. All of my pepper plants and the fruit so far, are tiny lol! I usually follow a square foot gardening method, but this year I just went a bit crazy with varieties. Oh well, we'll just pretend that I meant to make miniature food😄.
Weird tip, but I remember watch a video where a Japanese farmer explained how he fed his chickens spicy peppers to make their yolks richer. The chickens apparently can't detect the spiciness.
If I ever get brave enough to raise chickens, i'd like to try!
Yeah, that’s actually the theory behind how Peppers evolved. Peppers want to be eaten by birds but not mammals, because the pepper seeds will pass through a bird’s digestive tract just fine but will get destroyed by mammalian teeth.
This video was super helpful!! I had no idea you could over winter them. Thank you!
I was wondering when to harvest my jalapeños! Thanks for the stretch mark trick 😊
Could you do a video like this on Echinacea ? Would be greatly appreciated
That would be cool. I'd be interested in that. I live in central Kansas and dig echinasia for extra money. It's commonly called snakeroot around here and sometimes is known as black Samson.
My daughter got nervous at the beginning of the quarantine and planted in a way that wouldn't have been my first choice. She used seeds from grocery store produce. Normally I buy actual seeds.
Our results are... interesting. She mixed spaghetti squash, acorn squash and butternut in one bed. Sprinkled about 100 seeds in a 4x4 area in an even layer and covered them. She did a bit of thinning. The acorn and spaghetti squash are recognizable. The butternut squash don't look right. The shapes are weird and they have ridges like the acorn. Shes thrilled so I guess its fine. :)
Yeah using seed from grocery produce can result in strange things lol, since the seed used in mass production is typically hybridized and only meant to produce one harvest worth... Sowing from these seeds basically can produce what I call "inbred" produce. It's totally possible to get plants that fruit off them, but they might not be ideal.
@@pvtstash3139 - so far, the peppers seem fine. The black beans look good. We harvested 1 bucket of potatoes because the dog broke the plant. We got one gigantic potato and small ones.
Squash... not a good scene. Tomatoes... I dont have words to describe these weird things. Our second planting of carrots and turnip should help her understand the process better. She salvaged a careot top, regrew it for seed and planted those. The carrots were... hey, the greens made a great pesto
Personal experimentation is the BEST part of gardening. Enjoy!
I've over-wintered a Black Pearl Pepper plant for 2 years now. I just bring it in the house and put it in a full light window (no pruning). It still flowers, but doesn't really produce through the winter. Come spring, when it is warm enough, it goes back outside (just the other day here). Once outside, it starts producing like mad again! I got 5-6 harvests off of it last summer!
I'm in Southwest Virginia so there's a difference in growing seasons but I've learned so much, still learning! Thanks!
would love to see if you have any drip irrigation you recommend.
Stay tuned, that's coming soon in a nfew video
Peppers are amazing
Eat them raw, pickled, chopped in a sandwich, dried and ground into a powder to season.
Thanks for this...just started seeing my pepper plant drop a flower and wondered why, going to implement some of these tactics
Another great video, Thanks Eric!
Another way to prevent pepper cross pollination is to cover the flowers with a sachet that protects them against pollination. That's actually what I'm planning on with my peppers. Also peppers can self pollinate.
Edit: I'm also overwintering right now actually.
*I honestly love growing peppers 🌶 but I don’t eat them 😅 I just give them away ✨ I can’t be the only one...* 🥵
LOL love it
My grandpas has grown avocado trees for the last 20 years and he never eats them.
Some people make a foliar feed tea out of the hot peppers that works as a natural insecticide.
Same! I have three different pepper plants and I can't stand spicy food lol! I love how pepper plants look though. Thankfully I have enough people around me that'll at least eat them.
Epic Gardening haha 🌿
took your advice and am over wintering a few of my pepper plants
Love your explanation skills👌🏻
My guy said "CULTIVATE THAT LIKE BUTTON"
I find bell peppers have the least crop sometimes even just one pepper per plant!
Ha, I thought I was the only one ! I have 4 bell pepper plants and one plant only has 1 pepper on it ...
Yes !! I thought it was just me too
me too, mine has like 30 flower buds but there is only one bell pepper growing currently!! :( there was another growing but it disappeared over the weekend idk where it went
Get a Mexibell, they are sweet like a bell but have a kick like a jalapeno but not overly hot and produce fairly well although the peppers are smaller than a standard bell.
I overwintered my jalapeno plant and I have a fabulous crop now.
You have saved my garden, thank u so much
Bonus: growing the wrong pepper! It can be a painful experience...
Tell me about it... last year planted triple the bell peppers I planned on and none of the jalapenos D: I ended up having to buy transplants. Lesson learned, label EVERY seedling from the start.
@@murasume511 My lesson was "Dont take unknown hot pepper seedlings."
So dont buy your seeds from Pepper Joe haha
@@MB-co6qj whos pepper Joe and where do i get seeds lol
You never said what “ proper watering” was.
swimant0 water when the leaves starts to hang
Considering he said drip irrigation, and not letting it dry out and flooding, one would assume you just water it a little everyday and not let it dry out.
You have a great channel and I am glad you changed your research. because I am planting peppers today and just finished your video. Your the man thanks for the advise.
I will definitely experiment with bringing a couple pepper pants indoors for overwintering this year. Thx for the pepper tips.
In English you call them all peppers.
We call the spicy ones “chilipepers”. And the not spicy ones are called “paprikas” and I am growing long sweet paprikas (peppers)
Wow! I didn’t know you can save the jalapeño plants year after year! First time growing anything! So glad I found your channel
Thank you for your excellent advice. I love bell peppers & tomatoes so much!!!
Some good tips, thanks! We certainly don't have to worry about the 90 degrees over here in the UK!
Just good info well delivered. Thanks.
Awesome info, got some bell peppers growing on my windowsill. Been hand pollinating and good results.
Thank you for the tips! I am going to try and overwinter my Jalapeno, and Cayenne this year.
I have Serrano peppers that are starting to mature. I can't wait to use them.
Thank you Kevin for this pepper care video!
Great tips! Thank you
Very informative and thorough!
Love the anthropomorphism when explaining the overheating survival tactics. I taught biology and did the exact same thing, the kids laughed but they learned.
Good video. I have grown hundreds over the years and you gave very good advise. Thank you
I'm doing super hots in SD. Looking forward to temps warming up this week, should see explosive growth. Leeeets goooo!
Kevin, this is the first of your videos I've seen. Two thumbs up (I'd give you more if I had more thumbs) on the pace of this video. It was truly enjoyable to watch. It's refreshing that there's no extraneous BS, long musical introductions, goofy video enhancements, off topic material, etc. Keep it up my man. I'll be checking out some more of your stuff as soon as I finish this comment.
I grow several types of peppers...my son wants hot ones this year and after watching this video I am happy to say I do not make the five mistakes...although you did give me a idea about shade cloths...
Thanks so much for these tips!