Looking at your plants once a day or every other day 😂 😂 Think you mean once an hour (in between shouting at them "grow ya b*stards" ) 😂 😂 great video as always 👍🏻
I've always found that with some plants, particularly chinense, the first flush of flowers drop and then they start setting fruit, caused me a lot of stress as a beginner, but now I just expect it and get a great crop. It's amazing how I stressed about every little detail 5 years ago, and now I just let the plants do their thing and only intervene if needed!
Thanks for sharing, now I see why? It had been very hot and dry last June'July and I watered my chillies a lot at the bottom however nothing on their leaves fearing I would damage all flowers. Learn from the mistake and give them water from top down 😂
Could've used this a couple months ago when I tossed my chili, after not fruiting after 2 flowerings. Must've been the humidity! Good to know for next season :)
Thank you. I will try this. I've had my chilli plants for almost a long time now and only ever got 2 chillis from them ! So frustrating. Multitudes of flowers. I can't figure it out. The leaves were fading so i repotted with fresh soil and now the leaves look nice and green again but still no fruit. I will try the shaking thing. The humidity is not an issue where I am. Also we've had no bees for a long time. I won't give up though 💪
19% humidity here in Denver. I've noticed that keeping the plants close to each other so they'll make a micro-ecosystem that is much more humid. I get a lot more fruit that way. Getting the peppers to breed true...
@@zacmacleod4629 if I was in Denver I would! The south of England may be too far though 😅 Edit: Wow! You share the sir name of the friend I do trade chilli plants and seeds with!! 😅 Sam MacLeod. Perhaps you are distant relatives
I save deep jar lids and put an inch of water in them. Then I place them in the top of the pots to provide abit of extra humidity. Laying clay balls in the top of the pot is good too, just damp them down on sunny days and they work like tiny sauna stones
The blossoms on my sweet peppers dropped after days of high humidity and 90 degree temperatures. In my experience the high temperatures are the culprit
Oddly, I have two ghost peppers next to each other. They get equal sunlight, equal fertilizer and watering, and equal love. One is producing fruit in a prolific manner and the other has been dropping every flower. The one dropping flowers WAS bigger when I brought it home, but that's the only appreciable difference. Ideas?
Got this tip from you on the Facebook group, and I can concur it does wonders. I do still manually pollinate (sometimes even making bee sounds for the full effect). It can't hurt and meanwhile you get a good look at your plants and the chance to spot any other issues.
hi mate have u grown chillis last year in u.k? cos i want to know how many weeks we have left in the grow season this year with the strange weather????
I have a Habanero from 7 years now. It still making flowers but he does not keep them. IN 7 YEARS he never maked a fruit. He make flowers all the time, they bloom, and they drop...100% i try to manual polenization, i changed pot, i try now to use calcium, etc npk...iron, boron, all the stuff....
I haven't had any trouble with flower dropping on any of my plants apart from a chinense variety. I'll definitely try the humidity trick on it and see how it goes. Thanks ChilliChump!
Of the Baccatum, Annuum, and Chinense I grow, the Chinense are mostly the only ones dropping flowers. Baccatum are thriving in the scorching greenhouse under the TX sun just not the Chinense. Perhaps different varieties prefer different humidity levels? It gets swamp humid in my area lol
Absolutely....different plants have different humidity requirements...but ultimately humidity is important, some just can get away with less than others.
So I thought my chilli needed direct sunlight, but today it rained and all the flowers opened, while most plants close in rain apparently that does not go for chilli. Its out in the rain under cover and loving it.
My habanero made it to 80cm producing a single fruit. I thought it was because our summer was cold af lazt year. Better than nothing I guess, you live and you learn.
i have an aji chara ive been growing since last year never fruited so i over wintered it nd only got one fruit on this year maybe just bad genetics or a fickle plant
I think it’s important to mention that most chili varieties when in climates that reach consistently over 95 degrees F, pollen will go sterile and thus, not allowing the fruit to set.
Hey Chilli Chump, Just discovered your channel and your advise has helped me where others have failed! I was getting to the point of being scared to touch my plants for fear of knocking off more flowers! Who would have thought raising the humidity was the answer. Thank you. Keep up the great and interesting work.
In Alabama, humidity is not an issue... however, i have several pepper plans that refuse to even set flowers. The habaneros have been going wild this year though.
Lol, thanks for the info. I have tried a variety of seeds for 3 or 4 years now repeatedly and couldn't get them beyond seedling stage (every attempt lol) except for this one birdseye chilli that dropped it's flowers. It's very dry here in South Aus but have had birdseyes growing and producing fruit in an almost pest like state previously, years ago lol. A mate of mine is growing chillis but he bought the established plants outright. I just cant get past the seedling stage (the 2 round leaves) then they die, some cases have been my fault (I have gone camping for the weekend and left them in full sun) But still... I must be doing something wrong. The birdseyes ( i'm pretty sure they were) were hardy enough to keep growing all year and fruited most of the time. The plants were little shrubs about 30cm/1 foot tall and just kept producing. (they were a kind of border around the grass section of the yard) If I can get the seeds started, I reckon there is a good chance I can keep em going
I never manually pollinate my indoor pepper plants - just a shake during a day when I check them. That was always enough (when humidity was right). Another reason for fruits not setting is the lack of Boron - people often ignore micro-nutrients (and calcium\magnesium quite often) as something insignificant, but peppers need good and balanced feeding in order to produce good pods.
I was having an issue with flower drop on my red habanero, so I just cut back on watering and that helped a lot. My Tabasco is still totally barren, though. Gonna try the spraying trick!
Awesome video! Will definitely refer back to it if the issue comes up, Last season I had almost too many chillies, the reaper plants wouldnt stop producing 😱 3 plants, over 7kg of fruit
I have sweet banana peppers coming out of my ears🤪. Can u use them to make a hot sauce by adding hot peppers to them. Using the banana peppers as the base? I am previously fermenting 3 gallons of them… wondering what to do????
using sweet peppers as a filler is a good strategy, add in some hotter peppers to get the spice right. I do this pretty often with some of my sauces, even my commercial ones. Some chilli varieties work better than others in combination, so do some experimenting.
Make sure all the fundamentals are in place: good soil, correct feeding and watering, enough light and warmth. th-cam.com/play/PLuQ_ySnkV1en8UPfuoJVWCLT9dIZnKCQa.html
Perfect timing for this video to appear on my feed. I was getting frustrated as most of the chilli varieties I am growing are giving flowers and no fruit. I will make sure to keep the mini greenhouse humid now and hopefully this will kick start the chilli babies.
My Rocoto stands outside (Humiditi shouldn't be a Problem) and all of the other chilis do produce fruits in mass. But the Rocoto ist dropping all the flowers in the second year again. I don't get it. Pot is about 40l so that should be okay too.
First time I've heard this. Makes sense. Unfortunately, for me, I believe my problem is different. After three fruitless seasons, playing with watering, nutrition and pollination my plants start well but get drop flowers and a few leaves. Some never flower. Fruit I get, if any, is small. I've put it down to trying to grow outside in Northern Wisconsin. Despite daytime temps in the 70s and 80s, nighttime temps often drop into the mid 50s. Once a week I can almost count on getting a night that sees 40s. I figure I've gotta find a way to keep 'em warm over night out side or go to and indoor grow. "no officer, they're just hot peppers. Have a bite..." When I lived a couple hours to the south never had any issues. Plants so flush with peppers I had to stake 'em to keep 'em upright.
Leaf drop happens when you change the environment too much all at once. As long as you have new growth coming through you should be fine. But to avoid the leaf drop you should try use the same or similar soil mix as before.
Will to much humidity cause flower drop as humidity in my area rarely drops under 70% and in my pollytunnel I find it hard to get the humidity under 80%
Still believe you have a fine pepper factory under development Shaun! Here the 37+ degree temperatures of summer may have finally broken, along with some good rain, the first good rain since mid June. Happy Gardening! Stay Spicy! -Bob...
It could also be a poor root system. The plant will reject the flowers, as it will not be able to handle the added stress of carrying the fruits. But that will be mainly down to bad growing practices.
Talking of things dropping off. Just had the main stem of a Carolina reaper snap off under the weight of chillies. Loads of large green pods on a lovely lush 2 foot long stem. Is there a way to ripen them or should I dry and use them green? I have it standing in water at the moment. Gutted to say the least! Suffice to say I've staked and tied the rest of my plants.
I'm not having a problem with flower drop but moreso a problem with insects, holes in the peppers and peppers falling off the plants before ripening. Some peppers seem to be getting soft spots as well. I've starting adding a bit of calcium and magnesium hoping that will help. I watch a lot of your vids but I'm not sure if you've done one on that topic. Any thoughts/suggestions you have would be appreciated. 😁
Ive always heard another reason is from too high of temperature. Above 90 degree Fahrenheit your flowers may drop. Im an south FL and I'm having a terrible time with my peppers fruiting, the plants in the shade however are doing much much better
in where i live, all of my flowers drops because its too damn hot :( we have a long season but in the mid summer its just too hot and makes all the flowers drop.
We had an extremely wet and humid last summer here in Sydney, Australia... and I barely got any fruit off my plants at all. It didn't really get that hot at all, plants definitely didn't like it. Aphids were chronic also.
I’ve noticed that so I leave my door closed on the tunnel for some days and open on others this I’ve found gives the opportunity for the air/wind to strengthen the plants and pollinate. On the other days I spray a mist and keep the doors closed to get it humid I have to be careful as I have cucumbers and tomatoes in there but it seems to work cheers 🍻
Been growing habaneros since March. They still haven't even opened a flower bud yet :( I'm kinda worried it's too late in the year now and they're not going to actually have time to ripen before frost in 2 months.
Depending where you live, you should still have a good month or two to go before end of the season. Have a look at some of my grow update videos from previous years. I get harvests well into October, even November.
I always have a tendency to plant my chillies too close together. Does this also affect flowering? My plants are now as big as they're going to get this year and relatively little sunlight reaches the middle bushy parts. Also wanted to ask, do you sell seeds from your super hots? Would love to buy some! Thanks for another great video, greetings from Germany!🍻
I've got my peppers growing really close together, 5 different varieties, and I haven't had any problems with fruiting. In fact, I've had to come up with something to do with all the extra peppers I pick so they don't go bad! I can't eat them as fast as they're ripening! I'm about an hour east of Dallas, Texas, and the humidity here is pretty significant right now.
Here's one that's stumping me pretty good. I have 6 varieties of hot peppers in my raised beds: jalapeno, habanero, chiltepin, thai hot, rocoto, and poblano. All of the pepper plants are thriving with very high yields... except for the rocoto peppers. They are simply dropping their flowers. They all have the same humidity, same access to loads of bees pollinating. What could be the reason for one variety to be failing like this?
Hi Mr Chump. I have a Thai Chilli plant that I overwintered last year and i'm growing it in a fairly small pot (human head sized). The chilli's are growing in abundance (outdoors, don't have a greenhouse) but they never ripen. Any solutions to speed up the process and also, what would happen if I took the whole plant, chillies and all indoors before first frost? When I overwintered last time I cut off most of the fruiting parts of the plant.
I'm not sure what's going on with my plants. I have a few varieties in pots. A couple of non-hot pepper plants which are doing fine. A lot of antillais and big sun habaneros. They seem to be doing relatively OK too. And some Cumari chillis. The little bushy ones with the tiny fruit. Those are NOT doing well and I don't know what's going on. With those specifically the flowers are dropping off and the plants just don't seem to be thriving. I'm losing some leaves as well, especially on one plant. I was wondering if I'm overwatering or over-fertilizing... or under fertilizing... or underwatering... Help? I've been doing the "wobble the plant to get the flowers to self polinate" thing and it works mostly, but on the cumari plants they're just dropping off if I do that!
@@ChilliChump Secondary question! What would you make of this? It's happened on all the plants to some extent but it's pretty mild on everything except the Cumari chillis. On those plants it's a lot more severe. There's brown/black discouration on the leaves around the edges/at the tips. It doesn't look like bacterial leaf spot to me. I was thinking some kind of nutrient problem. The plants are in John Innes No.2 Potting-on Compost if I recall correctly. I have been adding a half dose (half the recommended amount on the container) of Chilli & Pepper Focus fertiliser weekly. Am I over-fertilising due to the compost, or did the nutrients in the compost run out and I'm starving the plants? I can't seem to find good examples online of what the leaves look like. I did have some aphids and white fly that needed spraying twice with insecticide to get rid of them, so perhaps an overdose of the bug spray could have contributed as well. All the plants have a bit of curling going on as well.
I know it's the wrong video but do you have any tips for treating caterpillars on my plants? I can never find them but they are destroying my plants this year!
Another great tip Shaun and very well done! So I get a fair amount of flower drop in my grow tent. I do have a humidifier in there and I keep the humidity around 65% and I still get a lot of flow drop. Especially from my super hots. I also get a weird wrinkled leaf a lot of the time. my watering schedule is good IMO. My leaves dont turn yellow from over watering. So…. With that said, what might be the next step if you are still have flower drop. I do manually give my plants a shake about every other day. Just a gentle shake. Would love your opinion. As always Shaun, I love your content. Keep it coming. Stay Safe and Stay Spicy! - v/r Shane
I would check the feed that you are giving it. My guess is you are using a feed with high nitrogen...like a miracle grow possibly. Try stopping feeding altogether
Hi Shaun i have a problem why some of my fruit on chilli plants half grown are droping off? Maybe they have too much fruit they are loaded with chilly pepers stay spicy and thanks
I can only guess without knowing all the details...buy I would suggest if you are feeding your plants fertiliser, that you stop. Only use water for a few weeks. Also have a look at my recent video about water pH....
@@ChilliChump thank you until I watched your video I couldn’t understand why I’ve only had 5 off one plant 1 from another and none from the third plant and I’ve had Loads of flowers all over the plants once again thanks for the help cheers
I live in Brazil and started to growing chili peppers since 2019. This year i did my first harvest. The climate it's appropriate to peppers (hot and wet), but I still have a lot of troubles with flower drop. I've started to slightly shake the plants to try to manually pollinating the flowers, but when i did it they're dropped off for real. Could this be some P or Ca deficiency?
Could be boron deficiency. Are you feeding them with some mineral fertilizer (the one that contains NPK and additional microelements)? There is a good document on pepper growing called "SQM_Cropkit_Pimiento_EN.pdf" which gives more information on deficiencies, growing mechanics and proper fertilizers (you can mix your own basically from basic salts)
If you start off with a good soil mix like I recommend in my beginners guide, the micronutrients will be taken care of for the whole season. Boron deficiency can indeed cause flower drop...but should really not be an issue unless you are using as soil that hasn't been enriched or soil that has been depleted.
@@ChilliChump true. This year I've tried growing few plants in 20L grow bags (bought few on Ali, then made more myself) with prepared soil - the results are much better than in open ground and next year I'm moving other plants to grow bags. IMO it's the best option for those of us who doesn't have greenhouse or poly-tunnel.
@@ChilliChump I use this fertilizer because last year when I didn't use it, leaves started to get yellow. The other thing is why is only one of my 4 plants affected of this problem and the others not. Is it because of the sort?
Some plants are going to use more water than others. The yellowing leaves are more likely due to overwatering. Once the plant is putting out flowers and fruits, the nitrogen is no longer as useful as early season.
Playing Devil's Advocate here but not all of us have green houses what about the people that had them outdoors. I'm in Kent, so it's humid, but not 70%
@@ChilliChump just gave it a try, but I'm a really bad shot. Mist. Yes, I'm a dad, and I'm sticking to these jokes. Will go get the spray bottle now. Does magnesium help in the spray?
Have a look at my previous years grow updates, you can see I am harvesting well into October. th-cam.com/play/PLuQ_ySnkV1en09dBWL3culZUn4oEMua53.html So we still have time as long as the weather doesn't do something ridiculous.
@chillichump: Any thoughts on why some flowers don't even get to produce pollen? I've noticed that a flower has a relatively limited timespan for when it can produce pollen, and I guess that if conditions are not good, it simply won't produce pollen. I think the production of pollen has to do with a requirement for direct sunlight, but I'm not sure. Hope you have some more insights. Thank! Best regards, Robin
@@ChilliChump the ratio shouldn't be an issue though. Overfeeding could be a possibility. How do I know if I'm overfeeding? Any visible signs other than fewer fruit?
@@ChilliChump it is 4-3-6 general tomatoe and chilli fertilizer. In the summer blooming period I supplement with a 0-16-16. I feed half amount almost every time and in 15l pots- that's approximately once a week
Try stopping the feeding for a couple weeks. Chilli plants can be quite sensitive to nutrient build up. Also have a look at my recent video on pH. Check if you pH is in the right range
My 👻 🌶 from Walmart has been dropping all the flowers after they’re pollinated it looks like it is nitrogen deficient it’s kinda yellow it was fine indoors a few weeks ago I transplanted into organic soil and from Walmart also has fertilizer balls not sure why if it’s organic but the plant isn’t wilting so it’s hardened off it’s been in the low 90s but not very humid last year I put a reaper outside in the spring and it was fine I’m confused why it’s dropping the flowers after the perked fall off before peppers get a chance to grow
Looking at your plants once a day or every other day 😂 😂 Think you mean once an hour (in between shouting at them "grow ya b*stards" ) 😂 😂 great video as always 👍🏻
I've always found that with some plants, particularly chinense, the first flush of flowers drop and then they start setting fruit, caused me a lot of stress as a beginner, but now I just expect it and get a great crop. It's amazing how I stressed about every little detail 5 years ago, and now I just let the plants do their thing and only intervene if needed!
Chinense flowers really don't put out much pollen. Even my mature plants have trouble setting fruits...
Thanks for sharing, now I see why? It had been very hot and dry last June'July and I watered my chillies a lot at the bottom however nothing on their leaves fearing I would damage all flowers. Learn from the mistake and give them water from top down 😂
Could've used this a couple months ago when I tossed my chili, after not fruiting after 2 flowerings.
Must've been the humidity! Good to know for next season :)
Thank you. I will try this. I've had my chilli plants for almost a long time now and only ever got 2 chillis from them ! So frustrating. Multitudes of flowers. I can't figure it out. The leaves were fading so i repotted with fresh soil and now the leaves look nice and green again but still no fruit. I will try the shaking thing. The humidity is not an issue where I am. Also we've had no bees for a long time. I won't give up though 💪
19% humidity here in Denver. I've noticed that keeping the plants close to each other so they'll make a micro-ecosystem that is much more humid. I get a lot more fruit that way. Getting the peppers to breed true...
Denver here too. I have some fire ghost peppers if you want to trade a few peppers. Or is that weird? Lol whatevs
@@zacmacleod4629 if I was in Denver I would!
The south of England may be too far though 😅
Edit:
Wow! You share the sir name of the friend I do trade chilli plants and seeds with!! 😅
Sam MacLeod.
Perhaps you are distant relatives
I save deep jar lids and put an inch of water in them.
Then I place them in the top of the pots to provide abit of extra humidity.
Laying clay balls in the top of the pot is good too, just damp them down on sunny days and they work like tiny sauna stones
The blossoms on my sweet peppers dropped after days of high humidity and 90 degree temperatures. In my experience the high temperatures are the culprit
Nice. It's always good when you don't have to spend money on new things. Some folks just keep buying stuff hoping cash will solve it.
Thank you i have a cowhorn plant that has flowers and only produced 3 peppers so far so I will give this a try and hope I get more
Oddly, I have two ghost peppers next to each other. They get equal sunlight, equal fertilizer and watering, and equal love. One is producing fruit in a prolific manner and the other has been dropping every flower. The one dropping flowers WAS bigger when I brought it home, but that's the only appreciable difference.
Ideas?
Got this tip from you on the Facebook group, and I can concur it does wonders. I do still manually pollinate (sometimes even making bee sounds for the full effect). It can't hurt and meanwhile you get a good look at your plants and the chance to spot any other issues.
hi mate have u grown chillis last year in u.k? cos i want to know how many weeks we have left in the grow season this year with the strange weather????
We should have at least another 6 weeks
@@ChilliChump ok thanks man, its because i don't have a greenhouse and just left them outside but i am getting some chillis now
@@ChilliChump Maybe I missed it but what is the humidity percentage you think is optimal vs the humidity that you should start misting the plant?
@@Dhagen6278 you want around 60 to 70%
I have a Habanero from 7 years now. It still making flowers but he does not keep them. IN 7 YEARS he never maked a fruit. He make flowers all the time, they bloom, and they drop...100% i try to manual polenization, i changed pot, i try now to use calcium, etc npk...iron, boron, all the stuff....
I haven't had any trouble with flower dropping on any of my plants apart from a chinense variety. I'll definitely try the humidity trick on it and see how it goes. Thanks ChilliChump!
Plenty of humidity here in Florida, along with wind (and rain)! I presume they are self-pollinating during the breezy days.🤞
I KNEW it was for a reason that I bought the dual purpose watering system that can mist as well :D
Now that's the gold standard...nice automated misting!
humidity don’t think is my problem guest going to have to shake my plant 🥴
Of the Baccatum, Annuum, and Chinense I grow, the Chinense are mostly the only ones dropping flowers. Baccatum are thriving in the scorching greenhouse under the TX sun just not the Chinense. Perhaps different varieties prefer different humidity levels? It gets swamp humid in my area lol
Absolutely....different plants have different humidity requirements...but ultimately humidity is important, some just can get away with less than others.
So I thought my chilli needed direct sunlight, but today it rained and all the flowers opened, while most plants close in rain apparently that does not go for chilli. Its out in the rain under cover and loving it.
My habanero made it to 80cm producing a single fruit. I thought it was because our summer was cold af lazt year. Better than nothing I guess, you live and you learn.
That's so helpful thank you hopefully we will get alot more this year 🙏
i have an aji chara ive been growing since last year never fruited so i over wintered it nd only got one fruit on this year maybe just bad genetics or a fickle plant
I think it’s important to mention that most chili varieties when in climates that reach consistently over 95 degrees F, pollen will go sterile and thus, not allowing the fruit to set.
Hey Chilli Chump, Just discovered your channel and your advise has helped me where others have failed! I was getting to the point of being scared to touch my plants for fear of knocking off more flowers! Who would have thought raising the humidity was the answer. Thank you. Keep up the great and interesting work.
I'm glad it helped! And welcome to my channel!
In Alabama, humidity is not an issue... however, i have several pepper plans that refuse to even set flowers. The habaneros have been going wild this year though.
Lol, thanks for the info. I have tried a variety of seeds for 3 or 4 years now repeatedly and couldn't get them beyond seedling stage (every attempt lol) except for this one birdseye chilli that dropped it's flowers.
It's very dry here in South Aus but have had birdseyes growing and producing fruit in an almost pest like state previously, years ago lol.
A mate of mine is growing chillis but he bought the established plants outright. I just cant get past the seedling stage (the 2 round leaves) then they die, some cases have been my fault (I have gone camping for the weekend and left them in full sun) But still... I must be doing something wrong.
The birdseyes ( i'm pretty sure they were) were hardy enough to keep growing all year and fruited most of the time. The plants were little shrubs about 30cm/1 foot tall and just kept producing. (they were a kind of border around the grass section of the yard)
If I can get the seeds started, I reckon there is a good chance I can keep em going
Plenty of humidity here in Michigan.
Well that makes perfect sense. That's exactly what I'm dealing with. Time to intervene. Thanks for the info 👍
I never manually pollinate my indoor pepper plants - just a shake during a day when I check them. That was always enough (when humidity was right).
Another reason for fruits not setting is the lack of Boron - people often ignore micro-nutrients (and calcium\magnesium quite often) as something insignificant, but peppers need good and balanced feeding in order to produce good pods.
I was having an issue with flower drop on my red habanero, so I just cut back on watering and that helped a lot. My Tabasco is still totally barren, though. Gonna try the spraying trick!
Thank you so so so much for this the timing is perfect many thanks Dave
Are you saying humility or humidity?
lol
Thank you! We appreciate you sharing your experience.
Spot on advice mate, thanks for sharing.
Thank you. Ill give this a go to see if it works for me
Any idea why my chillies are so small this year? They are tiny compared to usual? Thanks.
@@Darren_Kelly could be many things. Most common that I see is overfeeding.
Awesome video! Will definitely refer back to it if the issue comes up, Last season I had almost too many chillies, the reaper plants wouldnt stop producing 😱 3 plants, over 7kg of fruit
You definitely reaped the fruits of your labor. 😁
I need advise as my chillies are not spicy hot compared to previous years!
It could be a number of reasons! Would need to know more about your grow
Nice Video . Your a rockstar Sir. How’s your 7 pot bubble gum doing ? The two I have could have used some higher humidity.
My two 7Pot BG's are doing well. Loads of pods!
Thank you ❤
I need to install a thermometer and a humidity meter in my greenhouse. I have no idea what conditions my peppers are growing in...
That's one of the reasons I monitor temp and humidity throughout the year. Really helps to know whats going on!
I have sweet banana peppers coming out of my ears🤪. Can u use them to make a hot sauce by adding hot peppers to them. Using the banana peppers as the base? I am previously fermenting 3 gallons of them… wondering what to do????
using sweet peppers as a filler is a good strategy, add in some hotter peppers to get the spice right. I do this pretty often with some of my sauces, even my commercial ones. Some chilli varieties work better than others in combination, so do some experimenting.
top man great advice thanks
so i've been doing both and my humidity is high and never had a pepper form on my ghost plant. could it be a nurturance issue?
Make sure all the fundamentals are in place: good soil, correct feeding and watering, enough light and warmth.
th-cam.com/play/PLuQ_ySnkV1en8UPfuoJVWCLT9dIZnKCQa.html
Perfect timing for this video to appear on my feed. I was getting frustrated as most of the chilli varieties I am growing are giving flowers and no fruit.
I will make sure to keep the mini greenhouse humid now and hopefully this will kick start the chilli babies.
My Rocoto stands outside (Humiditi shouldn't be a Problem) and all of the other chilis do produce fruits in mass. But the Rocoto ist dropping all the flowers in the second year again.
I don't get it. Pot is about 40l so that should be okay too.
Funny, cuz the "community wisdom" on social media crows that misting pepper plants is a cardinal sin.
First time I've heard this. Makes sense. Unfortunately, for me, I believe my problem is different. After three fruitless seasons, playing with watering, nutrition and pollination my plants start well but get drop flowers and a few leaves. Some never flower. Fruit I get, if any, is small.
I've put it down to trying to grow outside in Northern Wisconsin. Despite daytime temps in the 70s and 80s, nighttime temps often drop into the mid 50s. Once a week I can almost count on getting a night that sees 40s. I figure I've gotta find a way to keep 'em warm over night out side or go to and indoor grow. "no officer, they're just hot peppers. Have a bite..."
When I lived a couple hours to the south never had any issues. Plants so flush with peppers I had to stake 'em to keep 'em upright.
What about leaves dropping off after potting up?
Leaf drop happens when you change the environment too much all at once. As long as you have new growth coming through you should be fine. But to avoid the leaf drop you should try use the same or similar soil mix as before.
Thank you 😊
Will to much humidity cause flower drop as humidity in my area rarely drops under 70% and in my pollytunnel I find it hard to get the humidity under 80%
Still believe you have a fine pepper factory under development Shaun! Here the 37+ degree temperatures of summer may have finally broken, along with some good rain, the first good rain since mid June. Happy Gardening! Stay Spicy! -Bob...
It could also be a poor root system. The plant will reject the flowers, as it will not be able to handle the added stress of carrying the fruits. But that will be mainly down to bad growing practices.
Talking of things dropping off. Just had the main stem of a Carolina reaper snap off under the weight of chillies. Loads of large green pods on a lovely lush 2 foot long stem. Is there a way to ripen them or should I dry and use them green? I have it standing in water at the moment. Gutted to say the least! Suffice to say I've staked and tied the rest of my plants.
I'm not having a problem with flower drop but moreso a problem with insects, holes in the peppers and peppers falling off the plants before ripening.
Some peppers seem to be getting soft spots as well. I've starting adding a bit of calcium and magnesium hoping that will help. I watch a lot of your vids but I'm not sure if you've done one on that topic. Any thoughts/suggestions you have would be appreciated. 😁
Ive always heard another reason is from too high of temperature. Above 90 degree Fahrenheit your flowers may drop. Im an south FL and I'm having a terrible time with my peppers fruiting, the plants in the shade however are doing much much better
in where i live, all of my flowers drops because its too damn hot :(
we have a long season but in the mid summer its just too hot and makes all the flowers drop.
We had an extremely wet and humid last summer here in Sydney, Australia... and I barely got any fruit off my plants at all. It didn't really get that hot at all, plants definitely didn't like it. Aphids were chronic also.
Thanks bud always a great video. What’s your favorite chili pepper this year?
hi, my flowers are dropping off. what chillies likes a low humidity like 25%? or do all want high humidity?
Unfortunately they all need higher humidity for flowers to set fruit.
Have a look at this video of mine, should give you some tips for a big harvest and help with flower drop th-cam.com/video/Mq_R5lDGEUs/w-d-xo.html
I had an Aji Chombo that didn't flower at all for the entire season. The rest of my plants were full of fruit.
Thanks for this. Doesn’t this risk burning the leaves when the sun hits wet leaves? Think I lost some leaves early on this way.
And what happens if I live in Florida, humid all the time. Currently 70% and I'm getting flower drop?
You need cooler temperatures for part of the day.... Around 70 or below at night.
@@ChilliChump thanks for the reply. It's 78 right now 11pm and 85 realfeel. Can't do much else. If I take them in I'm afraid the shock will kill them.
I’ve noticed that so I leave my door closed on the tunnel for some days and open on others this I’ve found gives the opportunity for the air/wind to strengthen the plants and pollinate. On the other days I spray a mist and keep the doors closed to get it humid I have to be careful as I have cucumbers and tomatoes in there but it seems to work cheers 🍻
Great info, sir! :) I am waiting for ChilliKitchen :D
Tks, perfect timing, am having that problem at the moment
Many thanks.
Great tip.
Greetings from the Galilee
Or it could be too hot in your grow tent
Been growing habaneros since March. They still haven't even opened a flower bud yet :( I'm kinda worried it's too late in the year now and they're not going to actually have time to ripen before frost in 2 months.
Depending where you live, you should still have a good month or two to go before end of the season. Have a look at some of my grow update videos from previous years. I get harvests well into October, even November.
I always have a tendency to plant my chillies too close together. Does this also affect flowering? My plants are now as big as they're going to get this year and relatively little sunlight reaches the middle bushy parts. Also wanted to ask, do you sell seeds from your super hots? Would love to buy some! Thanks for another great video, greetings from Germany!🍻
I've got my peppers growing really close together, 5 different varieties, and I haven't had any problems with fruiting. In fact, I've had to come up with something to do with all the extra peppers I pick so they don't go bad! I can't eat them as fast as they're ripening! I'm about an hour east of Dallas, Texas, and the humidity here is pretty significant right now.
Here's one that's stumping me pretty good. I have 6 varieties of hot peppers in my raised beds: jalapeno, habanero, chiltepin, thai hot, rocoto, and poblano. All of the pepper plants are thriving with very high yields... except for the rocoto peppers. They are simply dropping their flowers. They all have the same humidity, same access to loads of bees pollinating. What could be the reason for one variety to be failing like this?
I find Rocotos like a cooler temperatures before they start properly setting fruit. So maybe as you head into Autumn/Fall you will get better success
Just tried the humidity solve with a hydro tomato plant that wasn't setting fruit. Worked immediately - like overnight. THANK YOU for the advice!!!
Fantastic, I'm glad it helped you out Bob
Hi Mr Chump. I have a Thai Chilli plant that I overwintered last year and i'm growing it in a fairly small pot (human head sized). The chilli's are growing in abundance (outdoors, don't have a greenhouse) but they never ripen. Any solutions to speed up the process and also, what would happen if I took the whole plant, chillies and all indoors before first frost? When I overwintered last time I cut off most of the fruiting parts of the plant.
They will ripen rather rapidly when they experience a drop in temperatures, so you could try that.
I'm not sure what's going on with my plants. I have a few varieties in pots.
A couple of non-hot pepper plants which are doing fine. A lot of antillais and big sun habaneros. They seem to be doing relatively OK too.
And some Cumari chillis. The little bushy ones with the tiny fruit.
Those are NOT doing well and I don't know what's going on. With those specifically the flowers are dropping off and the plants just don't seem to be thriving. I'm losing some leaves as well, especially on one plant.
I was wondering if I'm overwatering or over-fertilizing... or under fertilizing... or underwatering...
Help?
I've been doing the "wobble the plant to get the flowers to self polinate" thing and it works mostly, but on the cumari plants they're just dropping off if I do that!
Most of the time flower drop is due to lack of humidity. Try misting your plants in the morning and evening with water from a spray bottle.
@@ChilliChump Interesting. I'd been deliberately avoiding getting water on the leaves due to advice from my parents claiming it would lead to sunburn.
@@ChilliChump Secondary question! What would you make of this? It's happened on all the plants to some extent but it's pretty mild on everything except the Cumari chillis.
On those plants it's a lot more severe. There's brown/black discouration on the leaves around the edges/at the tips.
It doesn't look like bacterial leaf spot to me. I was thinking some kind of nutrient problem.
The plants are in John Innes No.2 Potting-on Compost if I recall correctly.
I have been adding a half dose (half the recommended amount on the container) of Chilli & Pepper Focus fertiliser weekly.
Am I over-fertilising due to the compost, or did the nutrients in the compost run out and I'm starving the plants? I can't seem to find good examples online of what the leaves look like.
I did have some aphids and white fly that needed spraying twice with insecticide to get rid of them, so perhaps an overdose of the bug spray could have contributed as well.
All the plants have a bit of curling going on as well.
Could be too much nitrogen. But could also be scorching...although scorching would affect more than just the tips
Chilli I have a question. you say and I have noticed you collect rain water. How do you keep mosquitos out of the big containers?
I have filter bags in the down spouts. And the tops of the barrels and IBCs are all fastened. Never had a problem with mozzies or other insects.
I know it's the wrong video but do you have any tips for treating caterpillars on my plants? I can never find them but they are destroying my plants this year!
A couple tablespoons of white vinegar in 4 or 5 litres of water will deter them
Another great tip Shaun and very well done! So I get a fair amount of flower drop in my grow tent. I do have a humidifier in there and I keep the humidity around 65% and I still get a lot of flow drop. Especially from my super hots. I also get a weird wrinkled leaf a lot of the time. my watering schedule is good IMO. My leaves dont turn yellow from over watering. So…. With that said, what might be the next step if you are still have flower drop. I do manually give my plants a shake about every other day. Just a gentle shake. Would love your opinion. As always Shaun, I love your content. Keep it coming. Stay Safe and Stay Spicy! - v/r Shane
Hi Shane, I would try raising the humidity a little more....and make sure to have a fan in there to keep the air circulating.
Super-thanks dude
What tips do you have for a plant that isn't flowing at all. I have two Carolina reaper plants in pots and haven't seen a flower yet.
I would check the feed that you are giving it. My guess is you are using a feed with high nitrogen...like a miracle grow possibly. Try stopping feeding altogether
Thanks👍 This helped.
Hi Shaun i have a problem why some of my fruit on chilli plants half grown are droping off? Maybe they have too much fruit they are loaded with chilly pepers stay spicy and thanks
I can only guess without knowing all the details...buy I would suggest if you are feeding your plants fertiliser, that you stop. Only use water for a few weeks. Also have a look at my recent video about water pH....
@@ChilliChump yeah i saw every video on your Chanel and my ph is fine, but the problem might be that i am battling with spidermites.
I’m growing reaper s they’ve just turned red all over how long till I pick them many thanks Dave
Once they are fully red, they should be ready to pick! You can give it a couple more days if you like
@@ChilliChump thank you until I watched your video I couldn’t understand why I’ve only had 5 off one plant 1 from another and none from the third plant and I’ve had Loads of flowers all over the plants once again thanks for the help cheers
I live in Brazil and started to growing chili peppers since 2019. This year i did my first harvest.
The climate it's appropriate to peppers (hot and wet), but I still have a lot of troubles with flower drop. I've started to slightly shake the plants to try to manually pollinating the flowers, but when i did it they're dropped off for real. Could this be some P or Ca deficiency?
Could be boron deficiency. Are you feeding them with some mineral fertilizer (the one that contains NPK and additional microelements)? There is a good document on pepper growing called "SQM_Cropkit_Pimiento_EN.pdf" which gives more information on deficiencies, growing mechanics and proper fertilizers (you can mix your own basically from basic salts)
If you start off with a good soil mix like I recommend in my beginners guide, the micronutrients will be taken care of for the whole season. Boron deficiency can indeed cause flower drop...but should really not be an issue unless you are using as soil that hasn't been enriched or soil that has been depleted.
@@ChilliChump true. This year I've tried growing few plants in 20L grow bags (bought few on Ali, then made more myself) with prepared soil - the results are much better than in open ground and next year I'm moving other plants to grow bags. IMO it's the best option for those of us who doesn't have greenhouse or poly-tunnel.
One of my plants drops the flowers even before the flowers opened completely. Why does this happen?
Could be down to a few things. Are you feeding with a high nitrogen fertilizer still?
@@ChilliChump yes
That will likely be the reason then. Once you start getting flowers you need to reduce the amount of nitrogen you are feeding
@@ChilliChump I use this fertilizer because last year when I didn't use it, leaves started to get yellow. The other thing is why is only one of my 4 plants affected of this problem and the others not. Is it because of the sort?
Some plants are going to use more water than others. The yellowing leaves are more likely due to overwatering. Once the plant is putting out flowers and fruits, the nitrogen is no longer as useful as early season.
Playing Devil's Advocate here but not all of us have green houses what about the people that had them outdoors. I'm in Kent, so it's humid, but not 70%
Same thing...mist the flowers the same way I suggested in the video. The flowers need the humidity to take in the pollen and set gruit
@@ChilliChump just gave it a try, but I'm a really bad shot.
Mist.
Yes, I'm a dad, and I'm sticking to these jokes.
Will go get the spray bottle now. Does magnesium help in the spray?
@@aussiejeff2729 lol. Love a good dad joke.
I wouldn't use epsom salts every time. But occasionally is fine.
@@ChilliChump Cheers mate. Really appreciate your advice. It's not failed me yet
how many weeks do we have left in the grow season in the U.K ???
Have a look at my previous years grow updates, you can see I am harvesting well into October. th-cam.com/play/PLuQ_ySnkV1en09dBWL3culZUn4oEMua53.html
So we still have time as long as the weather doesn't do something ridiculous.
@@ChilliChump thank you
@chillichump: Any thoughts on why some flowers don't even get to produce pollen? I've noticed that a flower has a relatively limited timespan for when it can produce pollen, and I guess that if conditions are not good, it simply won't produce pollen. I think the production of pollen has to do with a requirement for direct sunlight, but I'm not sure. Hope you have some more insights. Thank! Best regards, Robin
Make sure you aren't over feeding your plants. That van have an impact...especially when using the wrong ratio (i.e. too high in nitrogen )
@@ChilliChump the ratio shouldn't be an issue though. Overfeeding could be a possibility. How do I know if I'm overfeeding? Any visible signs other than fewer fruit?
What NPK is your fertiliser? And how often are you feeding?
@@ChilliChump it is 4-3-6 general tomatoe and chilli fertilizer. In the summer blooming period I supplement with a 0-16-16. I feed half amount almost every time and in 15l pots- that's approximately once a week
Try stopping the feeding for a couple weeks. Chilli plants can be quite sensitive to nutrient build up. Also have a look at my recent video on pH. Check if you pH is in the right range
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My 👻 🌶 from Walmart has been dropping all the flowers after they’re pollinated it looks like it is nitrogen deficient it’s kinda yellow it was fine indoors a few weeks ago I transplanted into organic soil and from Walmart also has fertilizer balls not sure why if it’s organic but the plant isn’t wilting so it’s hardened off it’s been in the low 90s but not very humid last year I put a reaper outside in the spring and it was fine I’m confused why it’s dropping the flowers after the perked fall off before peppers get a chance to grow