6 Tips To Ensure a BUMPER CROP of Peppers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- We are having a great year for peppers. In today’s episode we are showing you 5 tips to growing a huge bumper crop of peppers. We will discus varieties, Scoville, watering, fertilizing, and topping with how they affect pepper yields.
Pepper Plants are perennials. Cut them back saving the "Y" stem. Keep the plant in temperatures over 45 degrees during the winter. I've done this to 20 peppers and have had the largest pepper harvest ever. You get peppers faster because the stem is already grown.
Thanks 👍🏾
I've tried bringing pepper plants inside but did not prune them down to the "Y" stem. Maybe that is why they did not survive. I am going to try your recommendation this fall. Thanks! What size pot do you use?
Is keeping them in the house ~70* ok or do they need slightly cooler temps during the winter?
I’m so glad you didn’t edit out THE BURN 🔥
This is an underrated video Luke! The way you took one for the team with that hot pepper for our entertainment was great Sir! 👊🏻🌶👊🏻
😂 Yep! Awesome!
Did you know the part of your brain that helps you remember things is right next to the part that activates when you laugh. So when you laugh and learn together it sticks! Thank you for your hard work to bring gardening success to us! 😘
I've been watching this channel for quite a long time. I have to admit...watching Luke in half speed is a guilty pleasure...sooo funny. Watch the part after he eats the pepper in slo mo..amazing. Love the gardening training :)
Crush? 😆
Too funny, I watch at 1.5 speed because who has time? I'm gardening and need info fast
@@amykruse6887 I do that often as well. Fast for info, slow for the laughs.
OMG! I'm dying laughing! Thanks for the suggestion! Soooo funny!! It looks like he's totally wasted! Now, I wanna hang out with drunk Luke in the garden! HAHAHAHA
Half-speed makes this video epic!
Hey, Luke...I recently discovered that pineapple (cooked), is faster at cooling that pepper burn.😁 So much so, in fact, that I made a relish with the grilled HOT jalapeño that had offended my mouth and some freshly grilled pineapple...plus a spoon of salt.
It is so good!!! By the time I taste the heat, it’s already taken care of. I love it.
I have watched this video so many times!!! My favorite things about this video, in order of when I noticed them:
1. That vintage Tiger's shirt... Gotta love it!!
2. Some very good info!
3. Luke continuing to give good info while still in obvious pain 🙂
I grew Habaneros one summer. During a bonfire, a drunk friend took a ripe one and roasted it on the fire thinking it would help with the heat factor. It didn't, at all. Later that night, drunk me wanted to roast a marshmallow. I took the pepper fork and tried to "burn the spicy off" in the fire, and then used it for my marshmallow. Spiciest marshmallow of my life!
I removed my first green pepper on the plant . It was hard to take off that first baby pepper….but it yields more peppers later on. I think I learned that on this channel. Both my green pepper plants produced about ten large peppers each! I grew them in a large container! Great success! Used rabbit manure and covered the soil with straw. Wonderful outcomes.
Use a fabric pot and organic fertilizer and you will harvest 5 to 10 everytime you pick them which is every few weeks.California Wonder is a great variety..Fish emulsion and kelp work great.
I have i tiny bell pepper should i pick now? Thanks
@@Nvent1 pick now and give the plant a bloom booster organic if possible with kelp.
@@Nvent1 if it’s the first pepper on your plant….yes. Sacrifice the first for more abundance later.
@@Nvent1 You can still use the pepper fruit even though it is tiny.
For a small, sweet pepper, try red picnic peppers. You get lots on one plant, multiple harvests, and they are sweet!
thank you! I like sweet peppers but do not have a long enough growing season. I will definitely try these!
So good to know to nitroginize early on. I'd have never thought of that. Trying more peppers next year, and now I'm revved up with more confidence.
With anything you grow you want nitrogen first then switch over when plant starts flowering or a few weeks before Structure and leaves first then flowers and crop.
Dude, I love, love, LOVE that you kept going even in the aftermath! Good on ya! 😂
That pepper eating was hysterical, I’ve done that which is why it was so funny to me. 😅 Great pepper info and it explains why my yield this year was so small, I have a short growing season as well and I topped them.
This year I added Carolina Reaper, Ghost Pepper, Serrano & Hungarian peppers to my pepper section of my garden. I had them all in starter containers in my staging area outside before putting them into the ground. We were late getting everything in because we bought a new farm that had no garden area. We had to start from scratch. During the time they were still in containers we had a microburst come through first of June. Almost all the pepper plants were snapped & tons of leaves missing. When I finally got them planted in the garden, I added your Trifecta. I’ve never seen a greater yield! Currently there are over 100 Reapers on one plant alone! The ghost Peppers, Serrano & Hungarian are loaded too as well as my bell peppers, Banana & Pepperoncini. Mother Nature did the pruning early on & Trifecta came to the rescue. We also (first time this year) put down the DeWitt Weed Barrier fabric & that really has helped to regulate the moisture in our garden. It’s all been a great combination!
Oh Luke! I was feeling your pain! 🔥 So glad you know the milk trick.☺️
With it hovering around 100° all summer and no rain, everything in the garden is struggling. It's starting to break now so I'm still hoping for fall produce.
Blessings!💜
I feel ya, in NE PA, same weather, producing now in sept!? 🧐 wildly hot and dry this summer! Tomatoes even struggled, normally I’m pulling them out soon, everything is just now getting started.
@@susanturner9023 Same. I keep reminding myself that Creator doesn't promise us a bountiful harvest Every year.😏😉😄
Hey Luke, just want to say be yourself. Don’t worry about anything beyond that. You are naturally charismatic and charming. Been with you since you were a kid. Also try ajvarski and criolla de cocina as alternatives to bell peppers
MAN! Watching you eat that Lemon Habanero made my eyes water!!
Your information helped explain why I've gotten 100+ Ghost Peppers from 1 plant, (its the largest pepper plant we have -- looks like a huge bush!), and only 20 or so from our Carolina Reaper.
I'm looking forward to saving my pepper plants over the winter as Luke covered in a previous video.
I wish I could get out potatoes & asparagus to grow like our Peppers & tomatoes do!!
*I've also found that deer won't bother tge hot peppers types.
*Hot peppers are great to dehydrate and make into a powder to add to your food.
Thanks Luke for your knowledge!!
Thank you for all you share with us! And I must say this is one of the most entertaining videos you've done!
Our own personal Hot Ones for Gardeners 😆 thank you, Luke! We are growing super hots for the first time this year in Washington State. We are learning a lot about the long growing season required. Thank you for the laugh, and I commiserate.
I've been watching so many of your videos lately and they are both enjoyable and informative...and straight to the point, which i love. But I had to comment on this one because of how much I enjoyed watching your response to eating that pepper! Gave me such a great laugh... I'm so glad you didn't cut it out! You're a brave soul! And so helpful to the gardening community. Keep it up, Luke!
I had a Jalepeno pepper that lasted 4 years. My cayenne pepper is now 5 years old. We have been able to overwinter here in the Arizona desert. The cayanne has yield more than I will ever use.
hahaha…Luke, I love that you didn't edit that out of the video. You really took it for the team! HAHAHAHA
I appreciate the fact that you soldiered on!
@MIgardener your videos are great! I live in SW Ontario so obviously our climates are very similar. I can relate to the extreme weather changes of the Great lakes basin and the challenges of growing warm weather crops in this area.
Luke, I have to say THIS was some devotion. Remind me NOT to plant a lemon Habanero! 🥵. Thank you for suffering the pain for us.I was watching this video because I am wanting to plant several varieties of sweet peppers. In fact, I actually had planted some Anaheim's earlier this year and 2 of the plants have been REALLY productive. One is almost as tall as my deck. Oddly enough, the peppers were not hot and tasted like bell peppers (which no one in my family likes, except apparently my dog who managed to grab a couple through the deck bars. No worries, she didn't manage to eat them but then we discovered they weren't hot anyway so she'd probably have been fine). I actually plan to plant one of the sweet varieties just for her.
Had a lone deer decide to prune ALL my pepper plants for me in late July. They're just recovering now and starting to produce.
Rabbits got some of mine Who knew? Some hot too!
I feel your pain. If you're growing peppers, then grow some of the superhots as well, and use those to make a hot pepper solution to spray on all your plants to deter deer and other herbivores. The plant itself is not hot, only the ripe fruit, which is something I learned the hard way several years ago.
Deer pruned mine in 2020, and ironically it made my plants super productive! 😂
A good remedy for eating spicy foods is to melt a square of milk chocolate in your mouth. It works for me every time
Thanks for another informative video! I chuckled throughout ... so funny on eating that pepper!
I loved this video. Very informative but extremely entertaining. 😂😂😂
😂😂😂 I'm drinking a glass of milk with ya..
I overwintered my peppers from last year but they didn't survive. It was such a bummer. I thought I would buy new pepper plants since I had not started any from seed. When I bought them they were mislabeled and when theyy started fruiting they where mostly HOT peppers. I was so upset. They are so productive and I have no idea what to do with them. I can tolerate a few in a stir fry and then add cream. My California Wonder peppers had bacterial spot and only have one or two peppers on each plant for a total of 4 peppers , and two ended up rotten🤦♀️🤷♀️. I started last week to water with compost tea to give that extra bump for the last month of growing season. Last year was such a good pepper year and we love peppers so much that this year has been such a disappointment. As always ... LIVE and LEARN.... HAHA , I also took a big bite out of my hot peppers like that. Won't do that again...at least this growing season. 😂😂😂
Growing peppers this year has been awful up until the past month. Humidity and disease has been bad this year. They are FINALLY giving us good peppers 😊 I've also taken some seeds to save for next year 🙂
Luke your devotion to fellow gardeners is unwaning. Thanks for powering through :)
I agree!
When I eat my hot peppers in the garden usually do it with about four cherry tomatoes 👍🏻
😂😂😂Thanks for the laugh, Luke!
I took some seeds out of my store bought red peppers, stuck them in little pots with dirt just as an experiment and now I have 5 huge plants in tiny containers with so many peppers I'll never eat them all. I did nothing special - no special dirt, no fertilizer -nothing. And they're good!! Maybe it was my loving conversation with them!! :)
My new go to is the Jimmy Nardello, or Red Marconi. I did find this Purple Jalapeño at one of my Nursery places. It is in a pot and growing better than all of my in ground pepper plants. Most likely because I have it in part shade. I think I will overwinter it. The Habanada plants have yet to produce any blooms, and they were planted in late March. I am however enjoying the Gold Nugget Cherry tomatoes I planted. I can't understand the fascination with growing peppers so hot that you can't taste your food. You should try eating a cascabella, or a Peter Pepper to compare.
Where did you get your Jimmy Nardello seeds? I ordered some from a company that wasn't reputable, because it was the only place I saw that had them, and they gave me lambs quarter. That's an edible weed, which I didn't order.
@@brianduncan8276 Baker Creek
Love your T-shirt, man, shout out from SoCal.
I did learn something new...don't eat a hot pepper on-camera if it's your first one of the season 😜😬
Thank you for all your helpful information, Luke!
That Lemon Drop Pepper is killer! I don’t know how you continued to film! I would have been running 🏃 🥛
Hands down the best part of this video was post-pepper-eating. Info is great... but that was hilarious.🤣🤣 Keep up the good work!
I knew you were going to regret eating that habanero. Thanks for the entertainment! I recently did this with a cayenne
Wow!!! I wish my pepper plants are that bushy!!! I love your dedication!! I need those yellow habaneros 😅
You made me laugh! I am from NM so very familiar with hot peppers! Last year I did exactly what you did but with a sante fe variety. Just bit into it to try my luck and OMG! Never again. :) I have had more luck with peppers this year than in the past but lost my markers so now I get to test all of them. I tried to grow some in pots so I could over winter but they dry out quite often and have had little fruit yield. I will try digging up my good ones again and hope that thirps stay away this time. Thanks for showing us your not so super gardener side. :)
Learned lots of stuff I didn't know but I just started gardening this year so I am learning lots!! But I have to say that I think I could taste that hot pepper all the way here in Idaho..I seriously could feel your pain 😫
Thanks for all the tips!!
Luke I've watched most of your videos and this is the most entertaining one yet. Eat more hot peppers. Totally entertaining. LoL.
Thank you for the great tips. I have been trying to grow mini sweet peppers indoors on my window sill. I have yielded 4 in a 3 year period. The first year I had 2 peppers, the second year 0 peppers, and the 3rd year I added Schultz's plant food, and yielded 2 mini sweet peppers. GOD forgive me I was LOL when you ate that hot pepper. I sure hope you got some milk ASAP. The one thing I didn't do was consistent watering, without over watering. GOD bless you, and have a great day
OMG you ate the Reaper!! 😳🤣🤣🤣 I’m dying 🤣🧨☄️
Ah I have a hot pepper success story! We planted a reaper, ghost, and scorpions each in a separate pot on my deck. Used crab and lobster shell and chicken poo to start. Then each week I added a bit of blood meal and chicken poo. I actually did water every day because pots get dry fast. We just did our first harvest a couple days ago and got about 30 red hot peppers per pot! And there are already tons more coming!
I still can’t believe you ate one 👊👊
Omg ha ha ha Luke! Thank you for giving me a belly laugh. Your pepper accident was so freaking funny. Been there!! Thanks for leaving it in!!
Oh my word it was so hot.
Oh, Luke. I feel for ya, my friend. I can’t do hot peppers at all…hiccup 😊
I had store bought colored bell peppers and used the seeds from them to grow my own.
I used two trays for seedlings. Once they were 2inch tall, one tray received a liquid fertilizer, then after a few more weeks I transferred both trays into garden beds. I see a massive difference in growth and yields, fertilized plants are about 4 feet tall and bushy, the other ones are very sleek and just a few small peppers. I didn’t pick the peppers early until they turn colored and didn’t prune at all.
The question I have is now is October when daily temperature lowers to 70 and nights are around 55-60 in the Carolinas. The peppers stopped turning colors, there are huge fruits hanging and bending the plant, but they all are green and not so sweet as when colored. Is that because of temperature and how can I get them to turn color?
Oh dear! Tears streaming down my face as I watched this..good tips thanks!
That was hilarious.. Well done brother.. Great job.. Great content..
I wintered my peppers over (Michigan) in the basement and started the season with a head start! Lots of Fruit in early July 🎉
That is definitely an awesome way to get a head start. Way to go!
I guess you just explained why my mini bells are so prolific and my king of the north is not! Lol
I don't know how you handled that pepper so well... sending virtual milk!
Thanks for the tips!
Ok I was lmao after you ate that pepper 😂😂😂😂😂😂 "that was so dumb"
I laughed so much at this, as soon as you coughed you knew it was a bad idea
Oh yeah. The instant I bit down it took the wind away from my lungs.
I enjoyed your habanero experiment and am looking forward to you testing the Carolina Reaper when it sets fruit.😄
One thing I definitely learned about peppers (hot ones), is don't try it without a fire extinguisher handy. Wow, Luke, I hope you recover soon. 😉😂
Loved the video, food for thought for next year. Maybe you could do a food tasting and torture session based on the peppers you’ve grown.. you might develop a whole new fan base.
🤣 Oh I can't stop laughing!
I've never had much luck with peppers of any kind. This year, I jumped back into gardening after a 15 year hiatus, and I have peppers I don't know what to do with! I can't wait until next year! I just hope I remember what I did!
Hey Luke! I got my seeds today! Yay!! Thank you! I was wondering, since you can overwinter pepper plants and keep them for the next spring, can I plant seeds now and grow the plant inside and put out in spring? I live in zone 8 B I believe in South Alabama on the coast.
Peppers are perennials. Cut the plant back to the "Y" stem. Overwinter, keeping the plant in temperatures over 45 degrees. Plant in the spring. I've had a bumper crop this year, plants are huge, over 4-5' tall. I've had a third harvest and more peppers growing and still more flowers.
@@mrs.rogers7582 do you need light and watering during the winter or is it ok just tucked in the basement or something.
After growing peppers successfully for years with no issues, last year I started battling pepper maggot fly (Niagara region, Ontario). The fly lays an egg on the pepper when the pepper is just a wee thing and the larva burrows into the fruit where it eats away at the placenta. Once mature, it eats it's way out at the bottom of the pepper and drops to the ground to pupate in the soil over the winter. The next summer, it emerges and starts the cycle all over again. This causes the peppers to appear all healthy and beautiful while they are growing and just as they start to turn red and you get excited about the pending harvest, they suddenly wither up and rot into a wet, stinky mess.
This year was no different and my plants were covered by the flies when my plants started producing their first little baby fruits in mid July. (I planted them in a different, fresh bed that I had never grown peppers in before). Sadly, I had to cut off all the little fruits and discarded them and then covered the plants with fine netting to keep the flies out. They are producing like crazy again and I am patiently waiting for my first red ones. So far, the netting has worked to keep the nasty pepper maggot fly out and fortunately, the green peppers I have harvested have been maggot free. I have never heard of anyone ever having this issue.
In Niagara Region, Ontario too and absolutely facing the same issue the last two seasons. It is so discouraging. I came to the comments to ask if exclusion netting would be the best approach for this. Glad to hear you are finding some success!
@@jend3457 I'm sorry to hear that you're having the same challenges! I grow my peppers in a 4' x 12' raised bed. In mid July, the flies were thick on my plants so I ran out and got some wide bridal veil tulle as a quick response. I already had hoops that I used to protect my hascaps from the birds so I moved those over to my pepper bed and draped the tulle over, sealing it at ground level, and shaking the peppers to scare out all the pepper maggot flies. It would have been sad to have even one hiding in there continuing the destruction! Oh, I cut off every last baby pepper as well and discarded them into the municipal composting bin so as to not contaminate my own compost pile with maggots which might winter over since I can't guarantee that my own pile gets hot enough to kill them.
I have since replaced the tulle with mosquito netting which is sturdier and UV protected (at least I hope it is). My pepper plants are getting rather crammed against the netting now so next year, I'll use higher hoops and will cover the peppers as soon as I plant them out. These flies are real buggers. Today, I chopped up a bunch of my jalapenos that I harvested from this covered bed and all were good with absolutely no evidence of pepper maggot so I think I have saved the rest of my crop. Good luck with beating these nasties!
@@ctimms417 thanks so much for taking the time to share details of how you intervened.I a, definitely going to go that route next year right from the start with exclusion netting (good call on the mosquito netting). I grow in a raised bed, but also a considerable amount in buckets, so I’ve been trying to think my way through a way to deal with the height and fastening the netting securely. The pepper fly maggot is seriously the utter worst. Such a heartbreaker to see all of the bounty that would have been, but that they have been infiltrated 😭
Lol! Oh man, I very much enjoyed watching you try the Lemon Habanero Pepper. Good entertainment along with valuable information, ha!
Luke, I thought that was awesome that you ate that pepper in the video! 💪👍
Im growing Jalapenos hydroponically. its my first year trying hydroponics and so far the two I have are producing. they are tiny now but I look forward to trying them out when they are ready
You are the Dr. Who of the garden universe.
Thanks for tasting that pepper I haven't laughed that hard in a bit. I need to order some seeds for that.
I’m sorry. But I lost it laughing at the pepper trial.
Last year I had a huge aphid problem that stunted my peppers and this year it is grasshoppers sampling the pepper 🤬😆 the joy of gardening
Oh Luke, my mouth is on fire 🔥 for you 🤣🤣🤣
So sorry for your pain but you’re hilarious 😂
LOL hope you are all right - i don’t like hot peppers. Was hoping for bell peppers, but we didn’t get any to grow this year.
Omigoodness, my ten year old has been wanting to try all the peppers we grow. I cut her off at cayenne level cause her reaction was just like yours for the super hot pepper and I didn’t want to scare her away from being adventurous entirely. She chugged a whole gallon of oat milk and was still rubbing her tongue to try to get the burn off.
Lol- I made the same mistake earlier this summer, taking a big bite out of what I thought was a Grenada Seasoning Pepper, but which turned out to be a habanero. It was so hot I threw up…well, mostly dry heaved, as it was before breakfast. I then proceeded to wipe my eye with my hand, essentially pepper spraying myself. Best I stick with the sweet peppers going forward…
You handled that habanero like a champ!!
OK, eating a hot pepper is something we've all done and had the same reaction. LOL!
If you know the feeling, it is a wild ride.
@@MIgardener Thank God you didn't taste test the Carolina Reaper!
Things I learned today: Luke does not take well to the spicy. Have you done a soil test recently? That reaper seems super small this far into the season.
I top my seedlings before I plant them out in the garden. We do have a bit longer growing season.
That looks like an Aji Lemon pepper you eat. I'm not saying it's not a yellow jalapeño, I just grew an Aji Lemon that looks just like that. I like that you eat it on camera.
Not that I enjoy seeing anyone in pain but dang this was funny! Especially when you said you knew you would regret it 😆
Does a sweet pepper counter a hot one?
I did a row of peppers as a field crop in Michigan this year. I made lots of mistakes, I mean I learned a ton this year!😉 This is great info. I'll try dressing bone/bl meal separately next year.
I watered very little early in season, but am using ground cover on sandy soil. It holds moisture very well!
I thought a big mistake was not removing lower leaves & my plants caught disease. I wonder if good nutrition & ground cover can be enough to let sprawl out & only receive rain, and have healthy, disease free, & uniform yields/fruits.
enjoyed the hot ones impression
Luke I’m cracking up you nut! You should have had something if you were gonna show out on that pepper! Lol
I got bumper crops of all kinds of peppers this year, especially pepperoncini and Thai peppers. But I'm still waiting for the star of 2022 garden, which I got my hands on the seeds already kinda late (June). Ghost peppers!
Luke, don't eat hot peppers as snacks! Use it for cooking (spices).
Lol, we need more random taste tests!😂😂😂😂😂
I did what you did with a homegrown habenero last year. I'll never eat one again . And don't touch your face afterwards!!! 😂😝🔥
Great info! Thanks! 😊🌱🏜️
Made me lol. "That was a mistake". Hope you recovered.
Well that was entertaining- thank you!
Thanks for watching! :)
@@MIgardener every episode!
my green pepper plants got really tall this year and STILL haven't produced. It's September! So many flowers, just now getting fruit :(
That's a good pepper when you get the hiccups. Do you over winter any peppers?
Sadly all the tricks and tips can't help if a deer comes in and eat your plants! Not only once but a second time last night. Lol! Thank you for all the information you share. I have used a lot of your tips and info and have been very successful. Thank you!
This guy would make a great cast for Superman's vegan brother, Kal-e
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Do you recommend pruning your pepper plants?? I just did mine & now I see how bushy yours is, hoping I didn’t make a mistake 🫤
I wasn’t getting much anyhow so couldn’t have done much harm 🤷🏼♀️
Nevermind, I just got to that part of your video!
Ugh thanks anyhow lol
My niece and I like those Gypsy Peppers
Laughing with you about the hot pepper. I did this with a red and ripe serrano and it hurt, just a few days ago. 😆
I apologize for laughing real hard at the "That was a mistake"
I didn’t prune my pepper plant and I got 40 bell peppers and it had about 13 more growing when the frost hit