Hi fellow pepper heads! I've recently created a FB page for sharing interesting gardening articles and aggregating all of your questions for upcoming videos. If you have something you want answered about peppers in my next video, hit the link and drop me a line in the comments: facebook.com/veronicagrows/posts/161775457877160
Thank you Veronica,,Fantastic! Can you come over and prune my Refa plant?lol.....When you trim the longer storks,Could you replant/Root hormone them?I live far North in USA,And my season is short,And can use any trick to get peppers canned and stored for winter....I dug up Jalapeno and a Poblano plant and have them wintering in the house.We will see how they do this summer if it ever gets here.lol..TY73s
Veronica Flores I did pruned my chilli plants 3 weeks ago. How long doss it normally take them to start flowering? They are getting tall again and the new branches are growing upwards instead of sideways.Give me an advice, please...
Thanks to this video, 2020 is the first year I dared prune my pepper plants in april. If all of the baby fruit I can see now will grow up, I'll be able to make a lot of hot sauce this year!
Watched this video about 3 months ago. I took your advice and pruned my bells and banana peppers as you instructed. Holy leaping lizards, did it work great!!! Peppers transplanted and never looked better! Thank you for teaching an old fart a better way. I have become an avid fan!!!
There is also another great technique that puts less stress on the plants, and it’s by pinching and twisting the main stalk, twist back n forth a lil until the plant becomes pliable and you bend it over horizontal to the ground. It’ll form a big ole knot in the stem, creating a super highway for nutes tp travel, plus harden up the stem dramatically, and it’ll force the growth hormone down into the other nodes for a big growth. Super cropping it’s called, you can do this bending on any branches which hardens all branches as well. It’s a form of low stress training
I re-watch your pepper pruning video every year to refresh my memory and embolden myself before pruning my new young peppers. THANK YOU FOR SUCH AN INFORMATIVE VIDEO!
@Rich S I wonder if our founding fathers envisioned career politicians who are repeatedly elected for decades by an electorate just looking for greater and greater handouts? Probably not.
Hey, @Rich S, the moment you open your yap to whine about 'big government', you lose any and all credibility, right? I suppose you prefer a family of corrupt morons running things? And three years ago, lots of scientists saw the potential of something like this coming, and they said so, and #45 spit in their, and our, faces. We had a chance to 'keep our powder dry' but #45 pissed on it. But I'm sure 'blah, blah, blah, FREEDOM!', right?
hi, just to give you some feedback on your advice in this video, I did exactly what you said and my plants grew just as you said they would! lovely and bushy. Great tip and I will be doing this every year now. Your a star!
I’m growing peppers for the first time and my plants are all getting tall & top heavy. I NEVER would have thought to do this type of pruning, but I’ll give it a try now. Thanks!
You had me at growth hormone ... as a n00b gardener I've watched a lot of videos about planting and while everyone agrees that leggy plants are bad, nobody has scientifically explained "WHY". thank you
Out of ALL the pruning pepper videos I peeped, yours was detailed and to the point. I'm a newbie (since May 2019) and this really helped me to learn EXACTLY WHEN TO PRUNE (3 layers of leaves). I'm going to subscribe and check in with you more often for your advice!!!!
This is my forth year growing hot peppers now. I finally mustered up the courage to prune last year because of this vid, and my yield was much better. I have you to thank for that, lady.
Thank you for the detail instructions and the video showing exactly where you are pruning - this is the first I have heard about pruning peppers. I appreciate your efforts and excitement in working with the peppers.
This is great. I’m going to cut back my leggy banana peppers. I used to love doing this with roses, snapping off individual leaflets to steer the growth of the plant. I never thought to do it in any other plant. Thank you.
Good material, thank you. I have been pruning tomatoes for years, but not my peppers. This year I have a ton of pepper plants so have plenty to experiment with and try your techniques. Thank you!
Don't know how I ended up here but it's pretty awesome because I have just put my first little ones through germination and into the soil to get them ready for my experimental aquaponic system. I love the Reapers. Not easy to come by here in Mozambique but I have seeds waiting for me in South Africa that I will collect later this year. Awesome vid, my first batch still has some growing to do before they get the cut but at least I have a pretty informed approach thanks to this. Cheers!
This was excellent advice! I followed this and it helped my habaneros and jalapenos. I yielded about 14 pounds of jalapenos from 3 plants doing this and it was indeed very scary at the start, but the yield was great! Thank you for posting this!
I am gonna prune my chili plants, which have just came out from the seeds. How big were they when you pruned your plants? I don't want to do it too soon
Levintry thank you for your post stating it work with habanero peppers too. First year growing peppers. I’d heard not to top habaneros.....then proceeded to top all my peppers. My habanero is very nice and bushy.🇨🇦🌞
Just found this channel and I really enjoy your content! I'm from South Africa and I have just started a similar chilli growing journey as a hobby. I'm really enjoying it so far! Thanks for the inspiration and all the useful tips!
Really great presentation! I've saved this video and watch it every year when it's time to prune my Shishito peppers. Always get great growth and lots and lots of fruit! Thanks!
Thank you for posting this video. It will help me grow stronger, more fruitful plants going forward. Subscribed, not only for the information, but because of the beautiful spirit. You actually care about what you're doing and the content you're sharing. That is genuine and valuable. Thank you and looking forward to watching future videos.
This is my first time to watch your video for like the first 5 mins and I went out to the patio to trim my first pepper plant. After that, I finished the other half of your video and went out and trim ✂️all my pepper plants 🌱 . This is very addictive 😂
Wow, I literally stopped the video half way thru and ran out to my raised beds and pruned my peppers that I just planted a week ago. I couldn't wait until the end of the video! Great explanation on how and why you prune peppers!
I have been gardening for 55 yrs, retiring after 24 yrs growing turf grass at upscale golf courses. Long resume growing things. This lady knows what she'stalking about. Follow her advice and you will have amazing peppers.
I also recently started this pruning and it is definitely worth it,using a razor blade works so well for me. The plants look way better and as you say, holds a crop better. Great Channel!
You know that expression, "If I learned one new thing, it was worth the time"? Holy Crap! I've never heard of this and I have 6 peppers just about at the perfect point to prune this year. I've got to try this. Yes indeed, this is scary! You lopped off 70% of the growth on one of those! I can't let my wife see me do this, or she will freak. I'm not sure my explanation will suffice. "Don't worry, honey, I saw this video on TH-cam..." Thanks for making this video. I'm truly stunned.
That was the best instruction on the scary, dark art of pruning I have ever seen. Thank you!! I was always terrified to prune plants, but now with your encouragement, I'm going outside and start pruning away.
Growing superhots for the first time, indoors, about 2200 km north of the weather I'm used to. Our season starts late though, so I'm just around 10--14 leaves right now. Last night I watched this and just lobbed off about half of everything I've worked so hard on! Let's hope it pays off! Also - great video.
Hello Veronica. This is very useful information. I am in Zimbabwe and at the moment my peppers are falling over and are only bearing one or two per plant. I am going to try your method next time and I am sure it will be a much better crop. It's nice of you to share your knowledge. Thanks a lot!
How cute you are. Thanks for this kind and helpful video. I was just looking for this. Just transplanted my new plants into new pots and will be ready to prune them in a week or two.
What great advice! I think most people are too afraid to prune peppers and even to "sucker" tomatoes. I have been growing pepper for a LONG time and have done this forever and it works! :) Thanks so much for your videos, your a natural. :)
Mandy Novak Eichelsderfer I feel your pain ✌ I'm about to do the same. I've got a tall lanky plant. Excellent information straight away in this video👍 Best of harvests to you!
Thank you so much for the information on peppers 🌶 ! I’m new to growing my own food and even though this looks scary I will do half my peppers this way... thank you again for making a video that was easy to follow and understand. 🌶
This was the first year of topping peppers and it makes a real difference if you cut them down near the base. I cut one up higher and it did not bush out like the ones that looked butchered. A few of them, I just pinched the top where it splits and those also did not bush up as well. Just clip it back like a rose bush and wait for the results... My sweet peppers are producing like crazy, already pickled some and the plants are loaded again LOL! Hot peppers are big and bushy and setting peppers all over; one of them is covered with blazing hot peppers OMG
I have never prune my peppers (or we call them capsicums). I will try this. I am growing indigo at the moment for my dye pot, but they are leggy. Thank you so much for the video! It was really helpful! ❤️
clear, well expressed, confidence building for me sitting here surrounded with small pepper plants at just this stage....so here we go (gulp) Subscribed
Thanks for a great in depth video. This is my first time planting some peppers. One of my uncles used to keep his tomatoes pruned down to just a few feet tall. I couldn't believe the amounts of beautiful tomatoes he got from those little bushy plants. He said that pruning them concentrated the plants nutrients into the tomato instead of into huge amounts of vine. I have looked at a few videos on pepper plant pruning, yours is by far, the best... I like how you show what to do. Then show what results you have gotten. And yes, I can imagine for the first time it was very scary cutting so much off. But I come from the school of knowing the results before having pruned anything.🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅(I would have used peppers emojis but they didn't have any) Anyway, thank you for a quality video with great descriptions.
I am starting a tiny herb garden and have been researching the past few days. Out of all the videos I have seen, you have provided the best tips for pruning plants. I am very impressed. Thank you so much!!!
I’ve grown peppers in containers for 2 years. I’ve never pruned and I always have about 10” at the bottom with nothing and a huge, weighty bush on top. I’m definitely pruning next year.
Just went out to top 5 of my 8 pepper plants. Hope to plant out in a couple weeks. Didn't quite dare to do them all.... maybe next year. Thanks and enjoy your videos.
OOOOOOH, this is scary, wonderful, helpful and promising!!! I have about 5 blooms and hope of tiny peppers at the top of my tall skinny pepper plant. I'm goint for it! Thank you!!
Hi, thank you for your video. I've also just registered to your facebook page. I have 5 baby sweet peppers. I've been growing them from seed since February. They are from a supermarket veggie and are my very first attempt of growing this gorgeous plant. You convinced me to give them a little "hair cut" 🙂
Very educated, doesn't mind work or getting dirty, and carries a knife where she goes. I like it lol. Thanks for the great info and keep up the good work
This really works. I have a ghost pepper plant that's about 6 months old that I pruned yesterday for the first time and there's already new sprouts on it today. The pepper that's growing on it even looks healthier. Don't be afraid to cut branches off because you'll be happy you did. I cut my plant in half.
Rooting the pruned-off parts might be a consideration, given how much of a stalk it has and how easy it is to root members of the nightshade family. I found this out after some knucklehead in Killeen, TX 'delivered' the phone book by beating up one of my banana pepper plants and breaking its stem into three parts before dropping the book onto the plant. Both parts that were broken off from the roots, despite sitting in the summer heat for an afternoon, rooted quickly and caught up with the stem pretty quickly.
That's amazing! I remember that the humidity in Texas helps so much with re-rooting cuttings as well. I had a puppy run over a pretty mature pepper last week in CA, and ended up just putting a little duct tape on the stem where it broke, lol. (Wasn't a clear cut.)
I logged in to suggest this same thing. You could double your pepper plants by just rotting the cut off tops. I'd love to see a follow up video of your peppers later in the year as they grew out. I will look through your videos.. Thanks for sharing this !
I just recently learned about pruning peppers and tomatoes, I still have a couple Bahamian Goat pepper and Tabasco plants that I never done this to, they're over 5 feet tall now but luckily didn't need any staking, Just now pruned all of my other pepper plants I've got growing, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I like you! 2:43 "I may just pull my knife out". I always carry a knife too and it's amazing how often I use it around the garden. I've had people get upset with me for carrying a 'weapon' even though I tell them it's not a weapon, it's a tool! Oh, thanks for the info on pepper growing. I grew them for the first time this year and my plants got all spindly and even though I staked them most broke during a particularly windy week we had.
Thank you! My struggling pepper plant has some hope now. It would be nice to follow this with the same pepper plants once they are ready to harvest. Then we can see what the little bushy pepper plants grow into. Also, if it were possible to do a comparison of a staked pepper ready to harvest with a top-pruned pepper! ?
Hi fellow pepper heads! I've recently created a FB page for sharing interesting gardening articles and aggregating all of your questions for upcoming videos. If you have something you want answered about peppers in my next video, hit the link and drop me a line in the comments: facebook.com/veronicagrows/posts/161775457877160
Thank you Veronica,,Fantastic! Can you come over and prune my Refa plant?lol.....When you trim the longer storks,Could you replant/Root hormone them?I live far North in USA,And my season is short,And can use any trick to get peppers canned and stored for winter....I dug up Jalapeno and a Poblano plant and have them wintering in the house.We will see how they do this summer if it ever gets here.lol..TY73s
Veronica Flores thanks!
Veronica Flores
Hey there pepper anne you wanna go out sometime we could talk about pruning for hooouurs
Veronica Flores I did pruned my chilli plants 3 weeks ago. How long doss it normally take them to start flowering? They are getting tall again and the new branches are growing upwards instead of sideways.Give me an advice, please...
When it's time to prune the baby peppers, I return to this video for courage. Thanks, Veronica.
😂
Thanks to this video, 2020 is the first year I dared prune my pepper plants in april. If all of the baby fruit I can see now will grow up, I'll be able to make a lot of hot sauce this year!
😆😆 I know right???
I'll keep saying it in my head, Once you occasionally trim well you'll never go back, Veronica said.
Watched this video about 3 months ago. I took your advice and pruned my bells and banana peppers as you instructed. Holy leaping lizards, did it work great!!! Peppers transplanted and never looked better! Thank you for teaching an old fart a better way. I have become an avid fan!!!
Was just gonna ask about bells, I have minis so idk if it's the same. Gonna try it and see
Do the plants grow any taller after you cut them off, or just stay short and bushy?
There is also another great technique that puts less stress on the plants, and it’s by pinching and twisting the main stalk, twist back n forth a lil until the plant becomes pliable and you bend it over horizontal to the ground. It’ll form a big ole knot in the stem, creating a super highway for nutes tp travel, plus harden up the stem dramatically, and it’ll force the growth hormone down into the other nodes for a big growth. Super cropping it’s called, you can do this bending on any branches which hardens all branches as well. It’s a form of low stress training
I re-watch your pepper pruning video every year to refresh my memory and embolden myself before pruning my new young peppers. THANK YOU FOR SUCH AN INFORMATIVE VIDEO!
me too lol
My grandpa had always done this and his plans are so thick and lush! ❤️ Those will be gorgeous plants here soon
My first experience of pruning was from a snail eating the head off a plant causing it to bushout immensely. I wish I could thank that snail.
Well it's probably dead now.
LOL That made me laugh. But I do see your point! 🤣
You just did
Book boom
Which type of compose u do use?
2017 feels like a different planet.
Wait till 2030
It would IF we lived on a 'planet' ( which we don't )
@H M You must give 1/2 of all peppers produced to the state.
@Rich S I wonder if our founding fathers envisioned career politicians who are repeatedly elected for decades by an electorate just looking for greater and greater handouts? Probably not.
Hey, @Rich S, the moment you open your yap to whine about 'big government', you lose any and all credibility, right? I suppose you prefer a family of corrupt morons running things? And three years ago, lots of scientists saw the potential of something like this coming, and they said so, and #45 spit in their, and our, faces. We had a chance to 'keep our powder dry' but #45 pissed on it. But I'm sure 'blah, blah, blah, FREEDOM!', right?
hi, just to give you some feedback on your advice in this video, I did exactly what you said and my plants grew just as you said they would! lovely and bushy. Great tip and I will be doing this every year now. Your a star!
I’m growing peppers for the first time and my plants are all getting tall & top heavy. I NEVER would have thought to do this type of pruning, but I’ll give it a try now. Thanks!
You had me at growth hormone ... as a n00b gardener I've watched a lot of videos about planting and while everyone agrees that leggy plants are bad, nobody has scientifically explained "WHY". thank you
Out of ALL the pruning pepper videos I peeped, yours was detailed and to the point. I'm a newbie (since May 2019) and this really helped me to learn EXACTLY WHEN TO PRUNE (3 layers of leaves). I'm going to subscribe and check in with you more often for your advice!!!!
Thanks! Feel free to check out my update to this one as well - there are a few varieties we've collectively found to respond better than others. 🙂
This is my forth year growing hot peppers now. I finally mustered up the courage to prune last year because of this vid, and my yield was much better. I have you to thank for that, lady.
I never thought you could do this, And from now on it shall be done
Thanks
scariest video I've ever watched on YT - thanks for the comprehensive pruning instruction!! subbed
I have watched this video every year around this time for like the last three years lol.
Thank you for the detail instructions and the video showing exactly where you are pruning - this is the first I have heard about pruning peppers. I appreciate your efforts and excitement in working with the peppers.
This is great. I’m going to cut back my leggy banana peppers. I used to love doing this with roses, snapping off individual leaflets to steer the growth of the plant. I never thought to do it in any other plant. Thank you.
“I always carry a knife”
Yes it was , she gardens and carry’s a knife..👍🏼
Looking like that....at least a knife
as soon as she said that I scrolled to the comments to see. wasn't disappointed obviously.
@@thebigmick1348 are you psychic
totally hot!
Off all the explanations on you tube for pruning peppers, this is the best in my opinion. Thank you
Thank you!
This video had me on the edge of my seat. Love the cutting sound effects with a delay ❤️
After 20 years gardening I learned something new from you I used to do the tomato but not the pepper👍🏽👍🏽👌🏼👌🏼💋💋
I was gonna do this with my Red Zebra tomato plant. Did it work?
Thank you very much. By far the most helpful video on pruning peppers. Definately pruning my peppers today !
Are you a Kiwi?
I never considered this. Always concerned myself with the roots. I learned a little today. Thank you
I'm really glad I watched this video. I think I'm actually going to try this method. Thank you for sharing. Have a wonderful evening.
Good material, thank you. I have been pruning tomatoes for years, but not my peppers. This year I have a ton of pepper plants so have plenty to experiment with and try your techniques. Thank you!
Don't know how I ended up here but it's pretty awesome because I have just put my first little ones through germination and into the soil to get them ready for my experimental aquaponic system. I love the Reapers. Not easy to come by here in Mozambique but I have seeds waiting for me in South Africa that I will collect later this year. Awesome vid, my first batch still has some growing to do before they get the cut but at least I have a pretty informed approach thanks to this. Cheers!
This was excellent advice! I followed this and it helped my habaneros and jalapenos. I yielded about 14 pounds of jalapenos from 3 plants doing this and it was indeed very scary at the start, but the yield was great! Thank you for posting this!
I am gonna prune my chili plants, which have just came out from the seeds. How big were they when you pruned your plants? I don't want to do it too soon
Levintry thank you for your post stating it work with habanero peppers too. First year growing peppers. I’d heard not to top habaneros.....then proceeded to top all my peppers. My habanero is very nice and bushy.🇨🇦🌞
Just found this channel and I really enjoy your content! I'm from South Africa and I have just started a similar chilli growing journey as a hobby. I'm really enjoying it so far! Thanks for the inspiration and all the useful tips!
Really great presentation! I've saved this video and watch it every year when it's time to prune my Shishito peppers. Always get great growth and lots and lots of fruit! Thanks!
Thanks for posting this, Veronica! I'm new to gardening and am learning via TH-cam videos. Very helpful and encouraging!
Thank you for your informational video. I gave it a try and Wow!! My pepper plants are doing amazing!!
Thanks again!! Have a great Summer!!
Very informative! I love how you try and help us over the angst of pruning.. Thanks for the video!
Thank you for posting this video. It will help me grow stronger, more fruitful plants going forward. Subscribed, not only for the information, but because of the beautiful spirit. You actually care about what you're doing and the content you're sharing. That is genuine and valuable. Thank you and looking forward to watching future videos.
Thanks for joining! 🙂
""I am a big proponent of pruning peppers." Say that fast six times.
This is my first time to watch your video for like the first 5 mins and I went out to the patio to trim my first pepper plant. After that, I finished the other half of your video and went out and trim ✂️all my pepper plants 🌱 . This is very addictive 😂
Wow, I literally stopped the video half way thru and ran out to my raised beds and pruned my peppers that I just planted a week ago. I couldn't wait until the end of the video! Great explanation on how and why you prune peppers!
fist time i watch one of your vids. nice clear and simple. loved it!, thank you for sharing
This is wonderful! You're great at this.
I have been gardening for 55 yrs, retiring after 24 yrs growing turf grass at upscale golf courses. Long resume growing things. This lady knows what she'stalking about. Follow her advice and you will have amazing peppers.
I've been looking for help with my peppers! Thanks so much for the video! I prune my tomatoes but never thought to do my peppers.
I learn something new everyday, today was your day, very informative. I have started 163 plants groing in my kitchen lol. Thank you
Omg
Wow girl, this worked like charm. I am a new Gardner and this helped me grow tons of chillis.
Your smile is so pretty, and your eye is so pure, and the knowledge is very informative! Instant thumbs up and subscribe!!!!!!
I also recently started this pruning and it is definitely worth it,using a razor blade works so well for me. The plants look way better and as you say, holds a crop better. Great Channel!
Love it! My first major job out of hort school was planting ten acres of hazelnut saplings, and I was so terrified when it came time to top them all.
OMG I can't imagine topping my baby hazelnuts right now! That's real bravery lol.
Thank you Veronica. I have a cloning set-up, so maybe I will try and root the cuttings after the pruning
Thank you for the informative video!! I was so nervous to do this now I feel more comfortable with it!
You know that expression, "If I learned one new thing, it was worth the time"? Holy Crap! I've never heard of this and I have 6 peppers just about at the perfect point to prune this year. I've got to try this. Yes indeed, this is scary! You lopped off 70% of the growth on one of those! I can't let my wife see me do this, or she will freak. I'm not sure my explanation will suffice. "Don't worry, honey, I saw this video on TH-cam..." Thanks for making this video. I'm truly stunned.
Yeah I'll go a little more aggressively on some if they're not performing in the ways I'm looking for... you get a feel for it after a while!
That was the best instruction on the scary, dark art of pruning I have ever seen. Thank you!! I was always terrified to prune plants, but now with your encouragement, I'm going outside and start pruning away.
Growing superhots for the first time, indoors, about 2200 km north of the weather I'm used to.
Our season starts late though, so I'm just around 10--14 leaves right now. Last night I watched this and just lobbed off about half of everything I've worked so hard on! Let's hope it pays off!
Also - great video.
Did it work? I'm facing the same dilemma right now haha
Hello Veronica. This is very useful information. I am in Zimbabwe and at the moment my peppers are falling over and are only bearing one or two per plant. I am going to try your method next time and I am sure it will be a much better crop. It's nice of you to share your knowledge. Thanks a lot!
I had no idea! Wow I’m going out to prune my peppers now! Thanks!!
yep. it is painful for about a week then you can see it begin to change its shape dramatically.
Great video sister!
Chuck
Thanks Chuck! I'll have to do an update on these ones as well. They've bushed out quite nicely.
Veronica Flores let's see the results of those you pruned in the video
Hey! This is a great video, I just finished pruning my peppers with what I learned here. Thanks! You are so pretty by the way
Yes, she is!
I have now watched several of your videos. Very informative. You have also given me the courage to prune my plants. Thanx.
Thanks! Be sure to check out my update on this from a month or so ago if you're still unsure about some of them. :)
How cute you are. Thanks for this kind and helpful video. I was just looking for this. Just transplanted my new plants into new pots and will be ready to prune them in a week or two.
This was the scariest video I've seen this year.
What great advice! I think most people are too afraid to prune peppers and even to "sucker" tomatoes. I have been growing pepper for a LONG time and have done this forever and it works! :)
Thanks so much for your videos, your a natural. :)
A video on suckering tomato would be great my mom has tryed to explain it about 100 times and I just dont get it.
Peppers grow and heal very similar as cannabis
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I just cut mine💔 it was terrifying🌱💚
Mandy Novak Eichelsderfer I feel your pain ✌
I'm about to do the same.
I've got a tall lanky plant.
Excellent information straight away in this video👍
Best of harvests to you!
Thank you so much for the information on peppers 🌶 ! I’m new to growing my own food and even though this looks scary I will do half my peppers this way... thank you again for making a video that was easy to follow and understand. 🌶
Thanks for watching! You may want to check out my update as well just to understand the mindset a little better in deciding what to cut where. 🙂
awesome! thank you. I'm a first time gardener and just pruned all 3 of my peppers. It hurt my heart a little bit but i'm SO EXCITED!!!!!!!
This was the first year of topping peppers and it makes a real difference if you cut them down near the base. I cut one up higher and it did not bush out like the ones that looked butchered. A few of them, I just pinched the top where it splits and those also did not bush up as well. Just clip it back like a rose bush and wait for the results... My sweet peppers are producing like crazy, already pickled some and the plants are loaded again LOL! Hot peppers are big and bushy and setting peppers all over; one of them is covered with blazing hot peppers OMG
Glad to hear your results have been fruitful as well! This method never ceases to amaze me.
You could also propagate the stem that you pruned off, that way you will also multiply your plants.
I have a wall of peppers and I wanted to cut my plants by half, but needed some more confidence. Thank you for this video!
I have never prune my peppers (or we call them capsicums). I will try this. I am growing indigo at the moment for my dye pot, but they are leggy. Thank you so much for the video! It was really helpful! ❤️
Update: this actually works! Plants are bushing out nicely. Thanks for the tip!
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clear, well expressed, confidence building for me sitting here surrounded with small pepper plants at just this stage....so here we go (gulp)
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You can do it! And they'll be so much happier and stronger over a longer season. :)
SirRobinDeSway EXACTLY how I felt haha
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Your content and explanation are clear and quite understandable. I love it.❤️
Prettiest Gardner Ive ever seen. Smart as Heck too. God Bless Hun.
Thanks for the great tips... very informative and u have such great knowledge in chilli addiction ☺...
Bring on the hot australian summer I say 🤔
I've started growing bell peppers for the first time this year. I've cut the larger leaves off to of my plants.
This has helped me more than any video I’ve watched!! Thank you!
Thanks for a great in depth video. This is my first time planting some peppers. One of my uncles used to keep his tomatoes pruned down to just a few feet tall. I couldn't believe the amounts of beautiful tomatoes he got from those little bushy plants. He said that pruning them concentrated the plants nutrients into the tomato instead of into huge amounts of vine. I have looked at a few videos on pepper plant pruning, yours is by far, the best...
I like how you show what to do.
Then show what results you have gotten. And yes, I can imagine for the first time it was very scary cutting so much off.
But I come from the school of knowing the results before having pruned anything.🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅(I would have used peppers emojis but they didn't have any)
Anyway, thank you for a quality video with great descriptions.
I am starting a tiny herb garden and have been researching the past few days. Out of all the videos I have seen, you have provided the best tips for pruning plants. I am very impressed. Thank you so much!!!
I’ve grown peppers in containers for 2 years. I’ve never pruned and I always have about 10” at the bottom with nothing and a huge, weighty bush on top. I’m definitely pruning next year.
Saw this video last year. Worked magic for me with my peppers. Getting ready to do it again this year. Thanks, Veronica.
You are so welcome!
Just went out to top 5 of my 8 pepper plants. Hope to plant out in a couple weeks. Didn't quite dare to do them all.... maybe next year. Thanks and enjoy your videos.
I've always been terrified to prune my peppers. This video was great! Time to experiment :)
How did they do?!
My heart was pounding so loud just watching you cut the pepper heads off! 😂
At least now I know what to do to my peppers 🌶 now . Thank you 🙏🙏
Great video, this old dog learned a new trick. You're great at narrating!
What a great introduction and explanation of pruning. Thank you.
It’s nice to see a girl or a young lady interested in veggie plants like Veronica.
Peppers are technically fruit just fyi
Hey this was a great tip. I tried this on my new red bell pepper and its now growing three branches. Thank you so much.
OOOOOOH, this is scary, wonderful, helpful and promising!!! I have about 5 blooms and hope of tiny peppers at the top of my tall skinny pepper plant. I'm goint for it! Thank you!!
How did it go I’m thinking of doing the same to mine
Hi, thank you for your video. I've also just registered to your facebook page. I have 5 baby sweet peppers. I've been growing them from seed since February. They are from a supermarket veggie and are my very first attempt of growing this gorgeous plant. You convinced me to give them a little "hair cut" 🙂
Well presented vid with great content. Glad I found you in my suggested vids. Subbed.
Me too, on both counts!
Tell that rooster to simmer down ! 🐓
i learnt something today and thanks
You learned it is not necessary or advisable.
Very educated, doesn't mind work or getting dirty, and carries a knife where she goes. I like it lol. Thanks for the great info and keep up the good work
This really works. I have a ghost pepper plant that's about 6 months old that I pruned yesterday for the first time and there's already new sprouts on it today. The pepper that's growing on it even looks healthier. Don't be afraid to cut branches off because you'll be happy you did. I cut my plant in half.
Thank you so much Veronica! I prune my basil but I never thought to prune my peppers! You are amazing! And quite beautiful I must say!
Rooting the pruned-off parts might be a consideration, given how much of a stalk it has and how easy it is to root members of the nightshade family.
I found this out after some knucklehead in Killeen, TX 'delivered' the phone book by beating up one of my banana pepper plants and breaking its stem into three parts before dropping the book onto the plant. Both parts that were broken off from the roots, despite sitting in the summer heat for an afternoon, rooted quickly and caught up with the stem pretty quickly.
That's amazing! I remember that the humidity in Texas helps so much with re-rooting cuttings as well. I had a puppy run over a pretty mature pepper last week in CA, and ended up just putting a little duct tape on the stem where it broke, lol. (Wasn't a clear cut.)
I logged in to suggest this same thing. You could double your pepper plants by just rotting the cut off tops. I'd love to see a follow up video of your peppers later in the year as they grew out. I will look through your videos.. Thanks for sharing this !
How do you re-root cuttings?
That was a very helpful demonstration. Just what I was looking for. Will tune in again for some more good tips. Thanks.
Love your passion for plants!
Good tips on pruning!
Best video on how and why to prune peppers. Beautiful and smart, a real garden Fairy.
I just recently learned about pruning peppers and tomatoes, I still have a couple Bahamian Goat pepper and Tabasco plants that I never done this to, they're over 5 feet tall now but luckily didn't need any staking, Just now pruned all of my other pepper plants I've got growing, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Yeah if they can support themselves there's rarely a reason to prune! I do it mostly to prevent breakage.
I like you! 2:43 "I may just pull my knife out". I always carry a knife too and it's amazing how often I use it around the garden. I've had people get upset with me for carrying a 'weapon' even though I tell them it's not a weapon, it's a tool!
Oh, thanks for the info on pepper growing. I grew them for the first time this year and my plants got all spindly and even though I staked them most broke during a particularly windy week we had.
It totally is a tool! Most useful one I carry for sure. 🙂
Well I'll be damned. I knew I needed to watch this. Excellent advice Veronica! Too late for me this season, but next year, oh yeah. Thank you! ~~jules
We really enjoyed this video! Until next time may God bless your days as He always does ours!
Thank you! My struggling pepper plant has some hope now.
It would be nice to follow this with the same pepper plants once they are ready to harvest. Then we can see what the little bushy pepper plants grow into. Also, if it were possible to do a comparison of a staked pepper ready to harvest with a top-pruned pepper! ?
thanks for shearing :)
I see what you did there. ;)
:)