Pepper Seedling Care Tips - Keep Young Pepper Plants Happy - Pepper Geek
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In this video, we'll discuss how to care for pepper seedlings. Our germinating pepper seeds video churned up quite a few questions about what comes next. So, here we share all of the things we do during this early stage of pepper plant growth.
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Curling Pepper Leaves (video):
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Temperature & humidity domes
1:22 - Fertilizer
2:01 - Watering
2:53 - CATS
3:10 - Grow light distance
4:13 - Provide a breeze
4:48 - Thinning out multiple plants
5:20 - Seed husk stuck on seedling
5:48 - Aeration & crowding
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Thanks for watching!
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Wait are we the pepper geeks? Or are you the pepper geeks?
Both, I hope
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OMG! This video was such perfect timing!! My pepper seedlings are the same size as yours. I am in Texas and we just went through an EXTREME freeze. My seedlings were still inside under growlights, but with no electricity, they had no heat or light source. Thank God they survived.
Why have I just now found this channel?! 🙏🏽 🤩
Perfect timing! Thank you so much for the info! 🌶 ❤🌱
Super good video. Quick and to the point and one of the best ive ever seen on these topics. Good job. Wish i had this vid back when i started my pepper grows.
We appreciate the kind words :)
Absolutely loved this video guys. It’s my very first time growing and iv been lucky all my 12 peppers have come through and all looking so good. Thanks for the great advice guys.
Glad to hear it, thanks for watching :)
WOW.. you are guys are very thorough! I have read many How-to's and nothing was more informative like this video and the starter one! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you! I'm glad you found our videos helpful :)
Great Channel guys! just found this while I was looking at my pepper plants it's going to be a big help.
Thank you! I’m growing 4 varieties and having success thus far. 🤞
Great video guys, I am in St. Louis Mo & I am getting ready to try growing my sweet peppers from seeds I harvested from peppers. Thanks for the tips!
Nice one 👍. For a newbie to growing this is get info / advice. Watching from across the pond. Thanks for sharing Robbo.
Thanks guys! I thought I had a bug problem when I saw the crystal-y leaves and plucked them all off and started looking up info. Glad to hear there's no bugs, and just in time for moving my plants outside!
Glad to help! They should be much happier outside (though then the bugs may actually become the issue, keep an eye out!)
New fan right here! 🌶
Thank you for this info, I have been binging your channel for the last few days and have learned so much! Growing peppers from seed has been a struggle for me, but your videos have really helped mine sprout! Looking forward to more!
Awesome! So glad you found us :)
Thank you, you answered alot of my questions.😁👍🌶
Connecticut !?! I'm from CT also. I started growing peppers 2 years ago, last year from seeds. Love your videos. Keep up the great work. 🌱🌶️🔥
Yessir! Glad you found us, we’ll keep at it
Wow, I didn't realize you guys were in CT. Thanks for all the tips, following your videos is gonna be much easier now that I know I'm in the same place
I am planting some ghost pepper seeds. This is my first seed planting endeavor. Thanks for you helpful tips. Wish me luck.
You two are so awesome! Love Your cat, too. I thought I had one of the most unique looking cats ever, but she's almost spitting image of Yours!!! Thanks for all the great videos!
I set up my Philips Hue lightstrip for grow light, that I basically taped to the inside of the humidity dome. Whats nice is that you can decide what kind of color you want, in terms of using a red or blueish white. And, you can easally set how bright you want the light to be, from completely dimmed to full sunlight.
I'm playing around with this now to see where my plants likes it. So far, no issues.
Lotsa vids warn of planting leggy pepper seedlings deeper than the root ball because of stem rot. I did just that 2 weeks ago , but I dusted the part of the stem that was going to be buried with CINNAMON as an anti-disease agent and my seedlings are doing very well, looking much better than before. Thanks for the tip about the fan. It really works.
Such great tips, as always. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Super informative!! Thank you so much!
Awesome information guys
Love your videos, so informative and very interesting to watch thank you.
So nice of you - glad you found us :)
Thanks a bunch guys!
Very good video. You brought out a lot of good tips. Thank you.
Thanks for watching :)
Great advice and beautiful kitty! Thanks!
Thank from a fellow CT pepper geek 🌱
Great information! Thank you 🤙🏾
Glad it was helpful!
Found your channel in the nick of time, I am in N TX, starting peppers this weekend 😀
great video guys. I'm a subscriber!
Super helpful video! Following along from Alberta Canada. Thanks for all the tips
Nice - thanks for watching - would love to hear how your harvests turn out from up there in the chilly weather!
You are so caring to your peppers. I simply use a heat mat and rotate my peppers each day. But then I don't grow any more than three peppers each year and grow lots of other vegetables.
Great video! I subscribed!
Last couple of years have come to count on all my seeds sprouting (2, 3 per cell) for peppers and tomatoes to get the number of plants i need. Easy to pop the block from the cell swish the soil off in water untangle the roots and plant up to individual pots. Before it hurt to eliminate all those sprouted plants as well as half of the sometimes expensive seed.
I hate to throw out good seedlings.
Great video, I look forward to more tips from you!
Awesome, thank you!
That's my third Carolina Reaper trial hopefully this will be a success following your tips they're slow growers just subscribed to your awesome Channel 🌱
So I love the videos yes, great information. All correct. The lack of a humidity dome will account for the increase in bacteria. Also, I’ve found the plastic dome just gets in the way lol. I usually just use them as trays to use for bottom watering.
Random fact: your cat looks exactly like my cat, squeaky. Love marbled cats!
Awesome information as. Always thang you
Awesome! Thank you guys.
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching
You are geeks and we love it 😃
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Worth noting that if you don't need many plants and are using quality seeds you can just spoil them and sow one per cell.
And if you do need a good number then it is also possible to stack seed trays in most propagators (rather than over sowing and thinning). You just have to take them out once they need light. This is something that suddenly dawned on me when I had some seeds I wanted to sow but didn't have any more space for them. Tried it and it worked.
Great video!
Planted my first peppers today. Habanero, Jalapeno, and Serrano. Hope they do well.
Damn this is cool. I just wanted to start a vegetable garden this year, but i totaly can see myself becomming a pepper geek and forgetting all the rest :p
Plant onions and store bought tomato starters in the gaps. Instant salsa garden.
fellow nutmegger and Tortie owner here, great vid with excellent tips. keep up the good work
🤓😸 thanks for watching!
I just planted some birds eye chilies. I followed a tutorial on how to germinate seeds from fresh chilies. It's now a month into summer here so I planted them outside because it will be warm from now until May.
Good job , very helpful
Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the recommendation on the starter fertilizer. I was wondering what to use that wouldn't burn them.
I've found your channel a couple of weeks ago - and I have to admit that I enjoy it a lot. Both WHAT you do and HOW you do it. :) Greatest thanks for sharing! It is my first year to grow rocotos, my first year to grow more than a couple of chili varieties - and probably the 20th or so to grow sweet peppers. Thus, not a complete newbie - but with a very shy experience in growing hot pepper varieties indeed. One thing that I do differently is that I always water from above - very gently and carefully but definitely from above. Why? Because the water evaporates from the soil surface, letting all the soluble stuff in the thin upper layer of soil. Watering from above washes this soluble stuff back where it came from and distributes it evenly in the soil. It actually is not a big problem with young pepper plants - because they will be pretty quickly planted to where they were meant to grow and the gradient of water-soluble stuff in soil will not grow big at all. But with plants that grow longer in a pot, especially in hot climate and with frequent of waterings, it may grow into a problem.
Thanks so much, Harri. A lot of people do this. Definitely stick to what works best for your climate and pepeprs!
I use Neptune's Harvest as well but just go straight to full strength indoor dosage as soon as they sprout. You really can't screw up with that stuff though, pepper plants just love it.
I agree. Neptune's was a real game changer for me
I felt lucky that I live in a tropical country so I don't have to think about the temperature in growing peppers. I'm trying to grow the superhot varieties. This is a perfect video for me
Lucky you! The only thing you might consider is that they like it a bit cooler when they are fruiting - not sure if you get any sort of changes in temperature throughout the year. Good luck!
Growing mine from the Desert S.W.
love it! we are pepper lovers here in So Cal too, grow hundreds every year😊
Woow nice! Would love to see the crops
Pepper Geek we’ll be sharing on our channel😊
Thank you!!
How often should I be feeding them?
Thanks
I used to have trouble with seed husks stuck on seed leaves for both peppers and tomatoes. I think I have it solved -- the change was packing the right amount of pre=moistened potting soil over the seeds when first putting them in soil; depending on seed size -- for peppers 14" to 3/8". I use a spoon to gently pack the soil above down and then water with a full eyedropper.
(Note -- I start pepper seeds inside a small piece of folded paper towel in a non-sealed plastic snack bag in a warm place (~80F),, lightly moistening twice a week until the a good fraction have sprouted, then put them in soil. This is a little different from starting directly in soil but gives me better control over how many viable plants end up in a container).
Yo you guys are the best for translating the imperial units to real ones!
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great job
Thanks :)
yall are awesome
Thank you, you too!
Thank you for these videos. I've grown peppers for years but this is my first time starting from seed. I'm north of you in central (M)assachusetts. The M is optional.
Haha! Well cheers, we're very familiar with your area.
Ayy hello fellow CT resident here.
I started my seeds for the first time this year and my germination rates have been great! It was painful removing the weaker transplants but I know it’s necessary. Really helpful video thanks! 😁 I’m looking forward to the transplant video!
I know, it hurts to pluck them - Thanks for watching!
I really need a grow light. I thought the heat mat would be fine for getting me started in North Carolina (7b) and it was awesome for sprouting. But some of those sprouts like the ones nearest Crystalyn are so large. That's what I want!
I've got some ornamental Chilis (mostly for decoration and low flavour spice) going right now And are about an inch tall with their seed leaves:) I plan on buying some more flavourful pepper plants in early May too. This channel is definitely gonna be a massive help!! Growing from southern Ontario, zone 6
Cool, what ornamental varieties?
@@PepperGeek just super chilies, nothing special:) I've grown them two consecutive years from garden centre plants but I'm doing them from seed this year!
I like to germinate in wet paper towels before i even bother puting in soil in case any seeds are duds... seems to be working well!
I just wasted time in my 1st year planting these babies. Not a single seed came up for me. Then I started researching what's different about Peppers? Heat being 1 I found out. So much to learn with all this stuff. But very fun. Thanks for sharing more information. I think now I can start some new seeds knowing more what I have to do to start and now to keep them alive.
Wow I had no idea that how you guys grow peppers on the East Coast!
Here in Arizona we just put the seed in the ground and they grow like weeds, keep in mind the soil in the Southwest is sandy, so little sand in the soil mix goes a long way to happy chile peppers!
Must be nice! Haha, but yeah well-drained soil is a must, especially for the Mexican varieties.
I need to get me one of those.
Connecticut you say? Damn.
Great info however I find peppers are very sturdy in general kinda hard to kill. Best example I can give is I had planted out my garden had some of the weaker plants left my friend was going to come take them so I left them in there cells in the shade got totally water filled and sat for almost 2 weeks like that by the time he came and got them..
They were totally fine grew almost as good as mine did by end of the year.
Probably couldn't kill them if I wanted too
Cool vid I am 2 weeks in with some habanero and Armageddon seeds.👍🏻👍🏻
Nice, jealous of your warmer climate!
I just bought the pepper book you have and its great stuff. I might have mist the part where you mention how often to fertilize the baby plants / seedlings. Can anyone please help🙏
I knew you were in New England but didn't know you were in CT too. I'm in Portland. We need a meet up for locals. This is my 1st year
We are hoping Chilifest will happen this year in Sunderland, MA! It's an absolute blast.
@@PepperGeek oh that sounds fun.
Thanks so much! My pepper seeds are struggling 🙃🙃
Thanks for the incredible info! I’m a total rookie so I was wondering how often you do your 15 minute bottom watering?
Thanks for watching! We usually bottom water every 2-4 days while they are in seedling cells, depending on the air humidity and airflow. Once the surface of the soil is completely dry, they can get some more water.
😂 the tip about the cats. How true.
Haha, a lot of unsuspecting cat owners out there!
you can stop using the domes during the day when the temperature is warm but at night when the temperature dips below 55 degrees F, put the dome back until the morning when it warms up again
Hello. I’m new gardener I have enough space in my backyard. I am much learning about this. Best place to get organic seeds and fertilizer ++/ I live in Long Island New York. Thanks.
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A man of culture i have that same mario t shirt 👍
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@@PepperGeek i wish my jalapeños looked as good as you guys plants
Question, do you ever grow seeds in the garden? I'm in a similar climate and cross breed ghost-scorpion/ scorpion-ghost last season. I used seedlings to start with but I'm trying from the garden this season.
Awesome vid, thanks so much! Just one question to the lighting... I have my 1000w LED lights at 50% and about 25cm above the leaves. Any further away and they start to get leggy. Now theyre nice and short and fat :-) Is there an ideal lux number for the differant stages?
Great vids! Found your channel about a month ago and just signed up for your newsletter! Ive been growing Carolina reapers, ghost peppers, and a couple of 7 pot strains for the last 3 years and didn't realize I could fertilize this early. I'm still learning about proper fertilization. I have some organic BioFish 3-1-2 liquid fertilizer, could I use this at 25-50% of full strength? My plants are just starting their third set of true leaves under Led lights inside as I live in Canada and don't put them outside until May 15th. Cheers from Canada to my new FAVORITE growing channel!😁🇨🇦
probably overly cautious. last year i used full strength fish/seaweed fertilizer for several weeks while they had a few sets of leaves then i switched to miracle grow tomato food at 2/3 strength which is much stronger and the only difference was they grew twice as fast. if you have several plants just fertilize them differently and see what happens.
@@nymeriagloves3957 Great Thanks!
TFS this video. Daughter just shared it me as I had a question. My plants have fruit. Found them growing in a strange place. Can I transplant them , or is it too late to find a better home for them with more room.
Great videos. How often should you fertilize? Every watering?
No, it is usually once every week or two. Follow instructions on the fertilizer you choose, and be careful not to overdo it!
Very helpful video. I noticed you guys use the seed cell trays vs soil blocking. Have you found you had a better experience with doing peppers that way?
We don’t have a soil blocker (yet) but plan to try it out, maybe next grow season
Very very informative vedio.
Thanks. Pls make a vedio about pepper and tomato fertilization from seedlings to maturity.
Could you give me a tip my tomato seedlings are about 4 inches tall it’s not lush green and my pepper seedlings are the same size as yours but the leaves are yellowish .
A fertilizing video is definitely coming soon. Have you fertilized yet? At that height, you can definitely apply a light fertilizing for tomatoes and peppers.
Love the purple ones I got a purple ghost scorpion 🦂
That's awesome I overwintered mine. Producing pods already.
Ur in CT? Where at! I’m in the quiet corner
I've found out that when the seed shell is tuck on the leaves, I can just cut through it with small, sharp scissors and separate the leaves. I think it's better than risking plucking the seedling or breaking the leaves.
Apparently if you spit on them there are enzymes in your saliva that can help break down the seed casing :D Feel kinda bad spitting on my seedlings though haha
I had good luck with the spray bottle method. The husks softened right up and I was able to brush them off with a pencil.
I might have 108 germinating....not sure what's up my sleeve but it seens spicy!!!
I have 2 mutant pepper seedlings I'm excited to see what happens with them, 1 Hass the first seedling leaves connected as 1 large leaf and the other plant has 3 starter leaves
We had a couple plants with 3 cotyledons this year too! The plants grow normally after that though
Hi Pepper Geek, in your video you mention that after sprouting the ideal temperature is between 21 and 26 degrees Celcius. But is that the ambient temperature, or the soil temperature? In my grow environment the soil temperature tends to be 4 degrees cooler than the ambient temperature, which is why I ask. Thanks so much!
my cat ate all my 2 months old Chili plants when i was not at home for a day. luckily I had 4 plants inside a dome that survived. learned the hard way.
We had one plant get devoured last year down to the bare stem, but it recovered fully believe it or not
@@PepperGeek sadly he chewed them all up to the last bit. I did plant new seeds yesterday, hope they'll make it through :D
Great video. I have a question. My pepper seedling has sprouted but the leaves r pointing upward. The i have an LED light but idk what kind it specifically is but idk what to do. The light is really bright n its at about 3-4 inches away from the plant. Should i put it closer to the plant or do i need to move it further away
How soon before last frost should I start scotch bonnets, ghost and habanero from seed indoors? I container garden outdoors but start indoors.
for seed trays I like the ziplock method bacause you don't waste seeds and you don't waste space in the trays/ under the light.
How long do you leave your fans on?
Awsome to find out you guys are in CT also!!! but sad to see your about a week ahead of me lol. Are you in the norther or southern part of the state?
We are actually pretty central! You should be okay a week behind us. Some of ours sprouted a bit earlier than we expected!
How do you apply this fertilizer? Is it part of the bottom watering, or a spray bottle, or other?