8 Week Pepper Update - Potting in Double Solo Cup
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2024
- It's now 8 weeks since I started the first set of pepper seeds and am officially done starting peppers. In this video I show how I repot the 8 week olds into double Solo Cups where they will remain until they get transplanted outside in May.
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I liked how you broke the soil out of the roots before replanting, I learned something, thanks, I have been trying to keep my roots packed tight when transplanting, but I have still been lucky because everything survived, I am obsessed with pepper plants and tomatoes
glad you learned something. it's important especially if the roots are compact. They won't grow out properly if they are too tightly wound up.
I bought two 50 cup sleeves of those red solo cups and both only had 49 cups in them. I was so perturbed I contacted them and they never responded. Can you imagine how much they are cutting I costs by shorting every package by one cup? 😂
I had to share that. I love your updates, keep them coming!
wow that is crazy
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That’s crazy I bought a 50 pack and a 28 pack and both were missing 1 cup each that’s so dumb lol
At first I'm thinkin' "No big deal?" But big picture- It pisses me off. And that is how they screw us. Not enough to send you raging, just enough to get them out the door before you even notice. Maybe that's why they are called Solo, because they have sunk Solo.
@@ezrabrooks12 Oh Lord, you sound nuts. Get some help, bub.
The foliage of the peach peter reaper is just gorgeous.
Thanks for sharing. When I use the double cup method I place a marble or a small stone in the bottom cup to allow space for the roots when the come out of the slits Good looking peppers!
Yup that is what I do too. I wait until the roots start coming out the bottom before adding a rock.
@@gapey The stacked cups, is it just useful as water container or does it have another reason I don't get here ? Am growing peppers since 6 years now. I once grew thirty of them, but couldn't manage them well once planted in the garden with moths digging holes in fruits plus water shortages during hot summers. Now since 3 years I'm just growing 9 plants I groom as well I can and I prick in large pots for the season. Am surprised to see so much varieties of peppers though !
@@MrWookie21 It's also to hold the roots that come out the bottom. I have some videos that show a massive amount of roots in the bottom of the cup by the time I transplant them in the garden. it keeps them from getting root bound in the cup.
@@gapey Oh yes good find. Since I transplant peppers in bigger containers now @ 4 to 6 inches tall ; it's not a problem anymore. But this could be useful for celeries or celeriacs, don't know yet because I'm still testing the best sowing period for those plants ; especially celeriacs on which I'am making sowing date & ferilizers tests this year. Thank you for the tip !
Ive watch since your very first video, really nice to get updates! Thank you so much!
Wow that's impressive! Thank you.
WOW! you are already in full gear.I did not do any thing yet.because my garden does not get ready until late April .everything look so good.thanks for sharing.new subscriber.
Yeah these will be staying inside until probably end of April or May. Will see how the weather is in April.
Looking good, Paula! Great progress!
Nice looking plants Paula!
Interesting and well-explained video. Thank you for posting.
I've been growing many of by veggies from seed for quite a while now. Each year I try to do something different whether it's using different germination and potting mediums and/or transplanting at different stages in a seedlings life. Of course, I've had many failures but this season I discovered something that works well for me.
I've always started my seeds in various types of germination mixes, including pure vermiculite (which works well). I always waited to transplant my seedlings until the first true set of leaves appear. But this year I decided to try some transplants before the appearance of the first set of true leaves (tomatoes, peppers and lettuce). To my surprise, these transplants have done incredibly well and I haven't had a single failure among my 12 transplants.
Just thought I'd share that with you. Cheers.
Thanks for sharing. I always like to experiment. For my pepper repotting I'm testing out Spiked Soil and Fox Farm potting soils to see if one performs better.
Those are some beautiful stout lil peppers!
hah the chinense varieties sure are. My sweeter ones are wanting to get tall though.
Very nice update, thanks. Looking very good.
Thanks! So far so good but running out of room. I just ordered another big heat mat. :D
Great looking starts, nice and healthy, also really like the selection/varieties.
Everythig's amazing, love the set up, keep up the awesome work!
Thanks!
Those domes are a good idea. Because seeds don't germinate all at once, the big dome over the whole flat isn't good
Yay!!! I can’t wait to see how them rocotos grow for you :) Everything is looking nice!
Thanks! The pineapple one just sprouted overnight so just waiting on the amarillo now.
Hi Paula! The unidentified seedling in your Eruption Lettuce starting is a kale seedling!
Everything looks great!
Thanks!
Looks really good. It looked like a radish that popped up that you didn't know what it was.
My guess is it's probably a brassica. I did start some brassicas recently (kale, cabbage, broccoli, etc) so maybe a seed fell into the seed starting mix.
@@gapey Yeah was thinking brassica as well. I knew they looked real familiar .
I started some different sweet peppers on 3-13 and today 4-10 I had to pot them up already due to the leaves beginning to yellow, dry, and curl. I have either been giving them too much fertilizer, too much water, or a combo of both. I have a fan in my grow area so they dried out every 3 days or so and I was watering them when they dried. I had some tomatoes that got leggy and put them into solo cups with a lightly fertilized mix and they responded very well so I'm hoping the peppers will do the same. I did it a bit differently though. I don't have a lot of space to grow and so I need to make every inch count. I decided to put 2 pepper plants per cup/hole. I'm leery that this will work so the plan is if they start struggling, I'll just cut one out. If they do well, then good. I'm growing california wonder peppers, grand bell mixed peppers, sweet banana peppers, and mini sweet/mini bell peppers.
Love your updates. Can you go over why you trim your onion starts and how you transplant them. I’m hoping this year my onion have a better start. It gets so hot out here in zone 9a so fast that they didn’t grow as I expected.
A few reasons. It helps with root growth and makes the new growth come out stronger and also because if they get too long they will just flop over.
Awesome Video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good Video.
@2:45 you talk about the Jiffy mix compared to the other one. Jiffy is made by "Plantation Products". They are the mass producer of the gardening industry. You can go to Dollar tree and buy small bags of seed starting mix and it too is made by "Plantation Products", but it is branded differently. Id be willing to bet it is the same stuff, just placed into different bags and shipped to different stores. You can go to their website and see all the brands they produce. Id bet it's all the same seed starting mix.
It wouldn't surprise me if the same stuff is sold under different brands. I don't think I've seen seed starting mix at a Dollar Tree before. It's easy to check the ingredients of them and see how they compare. The other stuff I used besides Jiffy has tons of ingredients that you wouldn't find in most potting mixes and seed starting mix. Spiked Soil is the brand name and it's labeled as a potting mix not a seed starting mix but doesn't contain as much nutrients as some other potting mixes as they also sell a fertilizer that they recommend adding to the mix.
@@gapey The mix from DT is sold under the "American seed" brand in small 1.5 Dry Quart bags. Distributed by Plantation Products. The ingredients list: Sphagnum peat, horticultural vermiculite, perlite, and wetting agent. In the next few weeks I'm going to get a bag of the Jiffy seed starting mix and compare it to the DT seed starting mix and I'll check back.
Nice video series. Very interested in the Carolina reaper peppers how are they doing.
This is a pretty old video but they ended up not doing well. Carolina reapers appear to be very difficult to grow here. I've tried a few times and never was able to get normal sized peppers from it. If I got any peppers at all they were tiny.
very inspiring! nice to see your other veggie seedlings too.
i suspect some of my super-hots are stunted from cold. do you only use a heating pad or is your ambient temperature also pretty warm (70f+)?
ambient room temp is 60-62. I have a heat mat only on the peppers set to low 70s.
my room temps are about the same.
interesting that a warm soil temp may be more important than the air temp, even beyond just germination. (for certain varieties)
i guess i need to buy a heat mat. thanks. :)
Hi Paula. I'm curious why you put the cups into another cup.Do you water the bottom cup?
yup I put water and nutrients in bottom cup and give some room to let the roots come out to drink so it doesn't get root bound. I put a rock in the bottom cup for space.
That's a cabbage in that 3rd lettuce tray
That's a good possibility!
Do you water from the top or does the bottom solo cup allow you to bottom water?
I'll be primarily watering from the bottom. If any get super thirsty and look wilty I might give them a little from the top occasionally.
Hi, can i ask? Why you moved in the dark area? What's the purpose? Thanks👍
It's just something people do to help with transplant shock. I do it with my peppers and tomatoes after repotting.
@@gapey thanks for the reply maam👍
9:16 "that guy" looks like a bak choy or something.
Could be. Hard to tell. Lots of seedlings look like that. :D
that random sprout with lettuce looked like maybe a radish?
oh wait nvm. I saw the kale comment and the rest of your video showed kale lol.
hah thanks for guessing. :)
Why do you put them in the dark for 24 hours after transplanting them?
You don't have to but it is recommended to help them recover better from transplanting.
why the second cup? Isn't the one enough?
The top cup has holes in the bottom for the roots to come out and the bottom cup has no holes. I put a rock in the bottom cup to elevate it and add water/fertilizer in the bottom cup and the roots come out of the top cup and drink up the water/nutrients. The roots get quite long and it allows them room to grow without them getting rootbound. If there's no bottom cup the roots will just wind around inside the cup and run out of room to grow.
You keep saying and recommending spiked or spikes soil. What is that?
Spiked Soil. It's a brand of potting soil/fertilizers. I haven't been able to get to their site for a while so not sure if they are still in business...
@@gapey Thanks, you're awesome. I don't see Spiked Soil this far north in Alberta but they do have a Cleveland, Texas location on a plantANT.com website listing some supplies.
Why dont you start the seeds in the solo cups instead of transplanting.
Because they do better if started in seed starting mix and I'm not going to fill a solo cup with seed starting mix.
Electric heat mat in a cardboard box sitting on carpet. Probable cause of your next house fire.
hah not sure why I used a cardboard box. I usually use plastic totes.
@@gapey Safedey is pwiowity numbah won!