Ted - That's all well and good. I posted the time stamp for the people who (like myself) were just curious to know what the pepper was - not to discourage people from watching the whole video.
Thank you Teri; that is exactly why I clicked on the video, and fast forwarded through it; but, did not catch the spot. So, your tip greatly appreciated.
The one thing that bell peppers have going for them is that they are great for stuffing with rice and other goodies. The other varieties tend to be too small for that purpose.
My experience teaches me that bell peppers need more sun, more space between them and you need to prune them to get huge yields. Another fact is lower the mineral feed and lower nitrogen feed after the plant and root system are established and the plant is two to three feet tall. High nitrogen and mineral is good to start the plant growing strong but drop down to a thirteen or lower number after plant is established. I strongly recommend adding a balanced feed and a good mineral blend of sixteen to ninety minerals whether dry or liquid form.
Yes a 6-2-2 is great for before it produces flowers, and one plant per five gal bucket. Once it flowers switch to a 2-4-4 or 2-4-2. Bells grow big which means they need a lot of root space to draw nurtrients from and a lot of sun and water to sustain that growth. I followed my dads advice this year for planting three per bucket, but by late june i realised thst was too crowded as the roots are growing upward which means the buckets are root bound so they will not produce any more or any bigger without early picking.
@@nunyabisnass1141 I used 3 gallon pots on my first try successfully. I used alfalfa meal, dried coffee grounds, powdered egg shell and then used nutrient sticks for bloom from the dollar store. Maybe lucked out but it was a hot hot year zone 4 lol
@@dana102083 I prefer organic gardening too, but we didn't get our manure in time. I'm zone 6 so letting it compost from the end of August is fine if you plant in April. Anyway, yes last year was brutal. It was perfect for my peppers but with the root bound pots I had to water everyday instead of the every other day that's typically better here to prevent other problems.
@@nunyabisnass1141 oh gosh..two summers ago i was watering four times a day thru the crazy heat we had! My neighbour kept saying he watered too and we both didnt believe we watered ha ha.. :) organic is so easy, I wish everyone understood some soil ecology and WHY diversity is important. Hope you have a great growing year! 🙏🌿
Bell Peppers grow great in my zone, 7b. If you have no fruit, that is a problem with sunlight, soil, etc. I'm not sure why someone would say not to grow Bell peppers. If they don't produce for you, it's either a problem with your zone or a problem with the gardener. Sorry, but that's the truth. Bells don't have a lot of flavor? That's a matter of opinion. I use them in sandwiches, chili and salads. I think they're great.
Yeah I do think it’s his zone, the leaves looked a lil sun burnt so the plant was probably scared to produce thinking it was to hot he said he was in the desert after all.
@@fluffy_0211 I have learned this, too. Bell peppers love magnesium and if there isn't enough of it available to them, they don't produce much or they produce smaller peppers.
@@fluffy_0211 You can give them 1/4 cup every other week per plant with bells they are monster magnesium consumers. Also doing foliars weekly in the early morning with a solution of 1 teaspoon/quart gives them an immediate boost of mag and the plant doesn't have to transport it far from the under leaf pores to the blooms and fruit.
maybe u should grow peppers before u judge him... i actually plant mine 8" apart in a five star pattern..... wow amazing production and they support themselves even when loaded with fruit.... happy gardening! epsom salt and egg shells in the planting hole ;)
@@tfrank1326 all plants love magnesium , and all will benefit from a dose of Epsom salts. It's how they produce chlorophyll and what makes them green ;-)
I've grown peppers for years and one thing I learned with them (and all my plants) is space them so that there is room between for air movement and sunlight to reach all of the plant. Air movement will let them stay dry enough that fungus and mold don't take hold. Sunlight will help with that also. I have so many peppers on my plants I had to use larger stakes to hold them up. Also, I get just as many peppers with fewer plants.
He said they produce but the number of ounces is not as high as other varieties that he grow. So the question is how many good sized bell peppers do you actually get in a season? That's what's critical AND also he said the flavor is not that great.
@@beverlycharles6534 Well, to be honest, I can't remember ever having been disappointed by the size of my peppers. I do agree that a lot has to do with the variety of vegetables that are grown. But all in all, I always had a very successful garden.
@@beverlycharles6534 I never planted a garden with the number of fruit on each plant in mind. I just planted it and harvested it using the tried-and-true methods that time and experience had taught me. A good farmer is always tweaking his work to make it better. I always learned from my mistakes and tried to not make them a second time. I am after all a bean planter not a bean counter.
are you pruning your bell pepper plants? if you prune them back when they are small theyll put energy into fruit and not leaves. Im in WV and peppers grow great here. I dont know why you think bell peppers have no flavor. Thats strange. A bell pepper from the garden here is delicious and full of flavor. Just because you had a bad year with bells doesn't mean people shouldn't grow them. My goodness!!!
+Louisa Capell do you think I could still get decent yield by planting pepper plants about 14 inches apart rather than 24 like whats typically recommended?
+zepguwl thistle starting them inside, obviously, but I sprout the seeds on a heating mat. I put them out late late late too. I do use a deep mulch method. kind of like thr back to eden thing. that keeps the ground very very warm. if you container grow, black pots really absorb the heat well. and if needed, as a cheat, I feed them miracle grow every great once in a while. but they always end up giving me peppers so far. now that I've said that, watch me get no peppers this year. lol.
thanks. I have been getting more peppers lately and hopefully even more this year. I do organic growing but will do more with peppers. I pray we both get a lot of peppers this year :)
True about the bells. I don't bother. I grow the TAM jalapenos, the bananas, poblanos, and a trinidad scorpion this year. Tons of fruit on all of them.
My kid got nervous in the spring of 2020 and harvested seeds from grocery store produce, worked up some plant beds and started a very sizeable garden. Unbelievably, this worked. The peppers were slow growing but produced enough peppers for weekly fajitas. We are just about out now. Very proud of her. Not everything did well, but she got at least a little of everything she tried. Good to know you can't grow chickpeas very well in zone 7. Plant 10 chickpeas, harvest 30. This year, we planned out her garden together and bought her some good quality seeds. Excited to see what she can do with better quality beds, seeds and equipment.
Bell Peppers are my main pepper staple.....why ? Because I use them in everything from chili, soup, meatloaf, etc and can chop freeze enough to use until the next harvest. They are also great stuffed. Never had family, friends or neighbors turn them down. Three pickings from August to frost.
Agree, my Bell Peppers have been in the barrels now since 4/3/17 great looking stalk, a few buds but still no peppers. I am thinking it is because of the pollination issue i'm having, i had to research why my tomatoes haven't popped out yet, i have tons of buds but they turn brown and die off, plants are 4 foot tall easily, so i learned that its possible that they were not getting pollinated, hasn't rained here since may so with the heavy winds and no rain there hasn't been much on pollinating. I had to really look into what i could do. it turns out we can hand pollinate i did the Que tip idea, now its been 4 days and the buds are opening and i think I am seeing a continued growth on the buds/flowers. X my fingers. this was my first year for a garden. great learning experience. Keeping it green here in Red Bud Illinois. Cheers.
I had given up hope for my bell peppers this year too, and about two weeks ago I suddenly noticed dozens of them all around my garden-what a shock! I have already harvested two of the purple bell peppers, and the rest are nearly ready-can't tell you how thrilled I am! Just for some reason they didn't produce until much later this year-who know why?!
I've got 52 pepper plants in a 4x8 bed, sweet peppers, peperoncini, jalapeno, cayenne, and about 16 various bell pepper plants too. They're all doing great and all producing, thanks for the idea on closely planting them together.
@@slowpoke4557I'm growing some as well. Got mine from Papa John's Pizza😁😆 I wanted to experiment and see if you could grow from the seeds of those peppers they give you with your pizza. I had like, 18 but a STUPID CATERPILLAR ate 10 plants 😕 I lost the others within the rest of my peppers because I moved them and forgot to label from being upset with the CATERPILLAR 😬😬😬😬
@@Charm-313 I heard that you could use those seeds, but kinda iffy if they'll even sprout. I saved some seeds from them too, but got busy and don't remember where I put them
I have a suggestion for a pepper you should try. The lemon drop pepper, it is one of the most flavorful peppers I have ever eaten. The aji lemon drop pepper. It has a citrus flavorful to it, By far better tasting than just regular hot peppers. The species of peppers the lemon drop is, is baccatum
My favorite pepper is Aji Habanero, which is C. baccatum (not C. chinense like actual Habaneros). It's one of my hardiest peppers, and the earliest and most prolific C. baccatum I've tried. One of my favorites for taste. The fruits dry on the vine if you let them. The fruits grow and ripen fast.
I love hot banana peppers. I planted one in a container and it lasted 4 years until I let the frost kill it.some of the best peppers I ever ate and it was a big producer.thank you John for another great video.
We only grow the bells (although I didn't garden this year), we plant them farther apart than what you have there. We never have a problem with getting a good harvest.
How do you fertilize your peppers and/or amend the soil? What varieties do you grow? Do you buy plants or grow from seed? Buying plants is nice since it takes quite a while to get them that large/mature from seed.
I tried those peppers too (Las Vegas) the plant is beautiful got the seeds from supermarket fruit but, slow to harvest. I did get ALOT of peppers (many more than you are describing) they are just REAL slow in ripening. I bought a packet of peppers it said Tobasco peppers... they grow like weeds and are HOT - HOT. so fun to grow.
Look for small peppers on the Bells and go ahead and pick them off. This will encourage production. It can be very hard to see the small green bells. Get down at the base of the plant and look up, especially where it is facing the interior of the bed. I bet you'll find some small ones. Go ahead and pick them.
Bell peppers aren't fun to grow. I got a plant from a nursery and it grew a few peppers but they grew super slow and the plant really struggled. And most of the flowers fell off. I did put it in new soil and kept amending soil so it's not like it had no nutrients. Just never did well. But it's starting to recover now that the two peppers growing where done. It's starting to grow more now that the seasons is nearly over and get green again now. The plant went a lime yellow green. Didn't look good at all. So it sucks its now only doing something. Maybe results are better if you grow it from seed yourself and you get it acclimatized to your own garden sooner. I have no idea. I have been enjoying growing Piquante peppers and Jalapeños from seed even baby peppers. Waiting for the Piquante peppers though because we've had bad weather so much rain and not enough sun sigh. It delayed everything. But they have buds the jalapeños are very busy already with lots of peppers on so at least one pepper I grew outdid itself or my expectation. And I want to save seeds from the Piquante peppers to see if I can get better quality seeds because I really struggled to get them going where as the Jalapeños needed no encouragement. It's fun growing Peppers they all perform differently and keeping the bugs at bay is a mission too.. The jalapeños are just a lot less fussy to get to produce and I have grown habenero chillis before where they weren't too bad, but I learned a lot growing bell peppers and the failures I had with the snack peppers I got too so its definitely better to grow from seed as the plant adapts better to its surroundings if it's been there all its growing life. Taking a plant out of a green house to a nursery to someone's home, the plant sometimes doesn't recover well in my experience with pepper plants. I got the plant before it started making flowers or fruit. Not 100 percent sure what I did wrong with the bell pepper or even the snacking peppers.
You may stutter allot. But you are one kool kat in my eye's brotha. I have been secretly watching you since you had 5 thousand subs. Your one determined guy with a good meaning and intentions. I love (over the years) watching you grow along side your garden. I have a big one myself, but not exactly the same type of "fruits" -if you would. hehe(legal of course) The wife has a half acre tho dedicated to our garden. It's defiantly eye catching.. Anywho, just wanted to say brotha your devotion and mentality is something others need to learn from. Keep up the good work meng. I've been watching since the beginning and I'll watch to the very end. Life sub here brotha. Nice peppers by the way. Also if you ever want to take a trip to beautiful British Columbia Canada. I also live in the deserts, mountain deserts. I have 40 acres of land tucked far away from the city. My wife is thinking of devoting 5 whole acres of it for her garden this spring. (which is 4.5 acres more then now) We are importing allot of fruit trees. And have allot of cherry trees already around the property. We're planting allot of peppers, tomato's, patato's ext ext.. IF your ever around or want to make a video of it, I'm sure we can work something out. It beautiful now. But by mid summer it will be a oasis, so she says'. lol Anywo Keep on kepp'n on brotha.
+KidGrow Mahali Stutter a lot? That`s an odd comment, after watching hundreds of John`s videos, I have never heard him stutter at all, just a slight lisp and an occasional mispronunciation of words.
res7itzt Your obviously lying about watching hundreds of videos then... Because I have, and let me tell you, almost every video he makes he stutters at some point or another.
+KidGrow Mahali No need to get your panties in a bunch, maybe I just have`nt noticed. I know if I did I probably would`nt be rude enough to feel the need to point it out.
Lol. Sorry meng Every time I say something here on youtube I get attacked. So I've grown accustom to immediately taking a natural "defense" .. Sending good vibes.. Said that this is what this world has come to eh? I feel the same way brotha..
My bells are doing great despite the plants being small from having a rough start. They're pretty loaded for their size. My first year having a real attempt at gardening. I had to amend my soil quite a bit with nutrients, epsom salt water, bone meal, coffee grounds and wood ash.
I think you are feeding your plants with too much nitrogen, which makes the plant grow too much top and no fruit. I think you need more potash which promotes fruit growth.a good example is beans which is a legume. if you use nitrogen you will have great leaves no beans. the pepper plant that is load with peppers has smaller leaves. and the soil will been better suited than the big ones.. I am just an old farm boy.lol
Nitrogen improves foliage thats why lots of garden centres use 'high nitrogen feed' to encourage flowering and sell more. And you can purchase powder potash which you mix into the soil you use.
I grow my bells indoors, in organic soil under a 400 watt mh, I noticed they need warm dry temps very easy to over water also I have fans running on them I have over 15 peppers per plant, keep up the good work
I agree with you, John. My bell peppers are not big producers. I do like to have a few around, but next year will try some additional varieties. I agree with ***** , the Jimmy Nardello is excellent, a staple my garden year round, and produces prolifically. Excellent, sweet flavor on the grill. I can't be without it!
Tangerine Dream! I used to grow those all the time and absolutely loved them! If anyone has any seeds they'd be willing to pass along, it'd be mighty appreciated. ;)
You need heat tolerant bell peppers and plant really early and give the bell pepper more space for their roots to spread. The wrong variety will not produce in the hot weather or the fruit will be very small.
I am not fond of bell peppers. I prefer other varieties of sweet peppers with thinner flesh and more enhanced flavor. Jimmy Nardello is a fantastic Italian grilling pepper.
Thanks to Praxxus55712 I am growing Jimmy Nardello Peppers the first time this year. Had to import the seeds from the States as we do not get them in South Africa.
Peppers is the one plant I grow the most, many varieties :-) Trying ghost for the first time this year, already have the seeds. Very excited. I chose to bring in the Cowhorn pepper plant this year (not a lot of indoor space), it's doing well (mid-January). Love both these garden guys! GrowYourGreens and Praxxus55712!
not at all. wide spacing is very old school and for the last 20 years hort programs have taught close spacing on many "fruit bearing" plants can be as close as John did here. The problem he is experiencing likely nutrient deficiency and probably magnesium. Peppers are huge mag hogs and IF he didn't keep the mag going early he will be likely to even harvest enough fruit to justify his efforts. I have been planting close since 1994 and to date, my yields have been great, fruits have been as big IF not bigger than wide spaced and I have fewer problems with invaders.
I've had the same exact experience for years. Bell pepper plants take too much space for how much they produce. Me personally, I love simple sweet banana peppers, hungarian wax peppers. They grow pretty nice in size, I love their flavor, the plants don't take much space and they yield tons. I also grow chili peppers, I just checked out that website you mentioned. I'm gonna give them a try this year.
Have you weighed your harvests? Bell pepper might seem like they don't produce that much because they only have a few fruits, but the fruits can get huge. My biggest bell pepper was almost 10 oz. Meanwhile my Biquinhos are
The way you present, the way you speak is so unique....really feel like leave the mobile and go in to my garden and start gardening....i love it . Thanks
Ours (non gmo store bought [idk the brand]) would be kinda random along the way but I found out cayans and habaneros all bloomed at once and probably ended up producing more than the bells, further to note, we got the bells in April, already a foot or 2 tall, and I planted the cayenne and habanero in like June, by seed. BUT now that I think on it, the bells definatly produced less. But i put bells in all my meals. Can use em a lot more, so always a good crop. But the production rate probably wont ever end up saving you money growing at home than buying them from the store. Unless your all self sustained.
My daughter got very very nervous at the start of the pandemic. She went out and created several additional garden beds. No idea why, but rather than going for our garden seeds, she sprouted beans from the pantry, and salvaged grocery store produce. Without a doubt, those grocery store pepper plants were hearty. 3ft tall, with massive leaves, but didn't produce peppers until late August. She also regret green onions And, she got about 3 cups of dried beans. We had an awesome chili dinner. I gave her nice quality seeds for her birthday last year and she had her own beds with a lot of fun plants. Portal Jade dried beans, long beans, purple bell pepper. She did great.
John, your info is very good! I took your advise and made a garden for the first time in containers that I got free from the farmers market. I made my own soil from composted leaves, wood ash, bone meal, and perlite. I have many varieties of peppers, tomatoes, beans, etc. Later, I added some of your recommended rock minerals. I am getting very large plants with lots of fruit. How can I reuse these plants next year? A friend of mine did that with some jalapenos. He cut off the plants 6 inches above the soil and it came back the next growing season. Thanks for sharing your life and vision, John!!
I planted several green bell seeds last year, germinated just one and had tons of bells. I ate some of them I had frozen last night and today. Delicious! My one hot pepper produced a lot, also. Maybe it's the central Texas weather we had in 2021. My little grandkids loved them and so I am planting quite a few this year.
The Carolina Reaper is a late bloomer but in a month you will have hundreds of pods on your plants. Smokin Ed is from South Carolina (about an hour from my house)
I planted 6 bells this year. We use ProMix potting mix and water 10 min with drip irrigation once a day in the morning. Each plant has at least 12 peppers and still pushing out flowers.
Trippy_g00n thanks cause I thought I was hearing it wrong or I was confused.. my bell peppers are doing amazing my first year growing and I was waiting for him to give a good reason but it felt like the only reason is he can’t grow them so no one else should try ... lol..
He did say that it was just his "opinion". The other peppers were doing well and these just looked like they were taking up space that could be used for a plant that would produce much better.
Hi. Sweet Peppers are actually very sensitive to what soil they are grown in. They like more of a poor soil, lots of sunshine and heat! It looks a tad shady there and maybe even getting some shade from the other plants. I'd try them again, because a homegrown sweet peppers are delicious and beautiful!
Great tips John. Ironically enough, just a couple of hours ago, I was outside in my garden, checking with frustration, the red bell peppers I grew at the beginning of this year and they took so long to produce a FEW fruit that it is now well into winter and they are useless (not enough heat) and pathetically stunted due to the cold. And I was thinking exactly the same thing. I'm not bothering with them this year!! Personally I love the birdseye chillis. It's the middle of winter here in New Zealand and my bushes are just rocking. I get fresh hot chilli's all year round with these babies:)
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My local garden centers are very disappointing when it comes to varieties. It’s always the same old California Wonder and Big Boy tomatoes. The big box stores are sadly lacking in varieties too. I’m ordering seeds online and starting a better selection.
I am a peppers fanatic. :-) I have eleven potted Heirloom pots. Seeds from my Uncle. 27 stalks total? Oh some of them are Trinidad Scorpion peppers, too. I just put the peat starters right into the pots. One starter per pot. So some pots have 3 stalks. You are lucky to have so much space to grow!!!!! And optimal growing season and conditions. ~ Cheers from Michigan !!!!! Much love. "One".
+LL Mcbee Yes, we have to start them indoors for a better plant / crop. I moved my local / "Heirloom" seeded plants outdoors a month ago, and, they are growing well !!!!! 70 * F days, and, ~ 50% Humidity ???? I have many thick stalks, perhaps 11 thick plants? And 5 still small? .... .... Our mint has overtaken the garden, also, and so instead of throwing it out? And we did throw some away. Instead, I learned to dry it and make Tincture !!!!! So that's pretty cool.
What?! I'm getting fruit already. I've gottan flowers 2 weeks after planting from containers from store. And my garden has all 4 types of bell pepper and are all doing great.
I grow yellow bell peppers and i started gardening 3 y ago only, never had issues with them..in my opinion yours are very packed and they dont get enough sun and maybe trim them a little? I plant mine 30cm/50cm apart in full sun area, water every 2-3 days. Is a pitty to give up on them, are great stuffed with meat and rice and boiled. You have great plants btw, congrats!
+CHILEDOUG KIZERIAN do you think I could still get decent yield by planting pepper plants about 14 inches apart rather than 24 like whats typically recommended?
+Jimmy Spurgeon You'd get about the same yield as you would if you just planted 24 inches apart. Your plants will be smaller and have less fruit. Might as well just grow bigger plants if you can.
"Bell" peppers are a certain shape, which includes a number of varieties. I don't know what variety of bell peppers are proving to be a problem in this video, but I live in northern Illinois (Zone 5) and have had good success growing California Wonder (heirloom bell) peppers with minimal fuss -- in the ground (not raised bed) with average drainage, with small amounts of peat moss and compost worked into the soil, fertilized occasionally with balanced (10-10-10) fertilizer. I even have to cage or stake them because the stems won't hold the plants upright through storms, due to the weight of the peppers. The flavor is wonderful, too. They're great green, or leave them on the vine a while longer and they turn red and very sweet. I encourage anyone interested to try California Wonder, if you haven't already. (If you're sure they haven't been cross-pollinated by another variety, save the seeds from an especially good pepper every year and you'll never lack for great bell peppers!) By the way, I've had good luck with Chinese Giant red bell peppers in the same garden. The stems seemed sturdier (less need for staking) and the flavor was nice in those, too. Worth s shot for anyone looking to grow large, meaty sweet peppers...
That does it... I'll definitely be planting some fushimi peppers next season. Those look so good! However, still gonna plant bell peppers. I love them, too. :)
Experimenting is SO MUCH FUN!!!!! You have to have the composure to be 'ok' when you have a crash and burn, hehe, but when you find things that are much better than had you not experimented it is WONDERFUL!!!
Learn Organic Gardening at GrowingYourGreens John, I grew a Tabasco plant from Lowes and took it to this guy who said the heat don't bother him. Well, this Tabasco pepper set him on fire, he turned red and had to leave the room. This year, I have some 'Trinidad Scorpion Butch T' seeds to grow LOL There is a way to make any chili pepper hotter then the devils tongue.
John I love your videos. You Sir have inspired me to grow peppers. Currently I have 4 pepper plant, Serrano, Dragon Cayenne, Sweet Banana and Poblano Ancho. Thank you for all the information you provide.
Thank you for this video on peppers, I did enjoy it! I'm new to gardening and have been trying to grow peepers this year that I can use in my chili recipes. Sadly, I have much to learn, lol. Thanks for the tip on where to order seeds online. I will give this a look for next season and try some different types.
Wow, I was commenting on a TH-cam video, and it posted here. Not a big deal, but not intentional... Is this a setting somewhere? I rarely comment on videos, usually just reshare them.
I always grew my green peppers in coffee cans, and they grew very well! Same with eggplant. Maybe they grew so well because I gave them so much attention! They do need a cold treatment to help them set early blossoms. That said, I never minded waiting on them to fruit, because green peppers are one of the fruits I freeze, and use fresh. They are extremely expensive here, and I use a lot of green peppers, along with the others, so it's worth it to me, at least, to grow them.
I would absolutely test your soil for relative levels of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. You may have too much nitrogen and too little phosphorus. I've had very good luck with Hungarian sweet pimentos, pungently flavorful with no heat.
Obviously to late for this year, but for next year.. If any one lives on the front range in CO I highly recommend the Flower Bin in Longmont. Ive been getting a massive amount of plants from them for years. I live an hour away but its worth the drive. This year they had 55 variety's of peppers!! I get a craving for a good old watery bell once in a while, so I grow a hand full of them. Because of the lack production I plant them really close. Like 7-8 inches apart and use stakes to get them to spread out a little. Still get the same 3-4 peppers per plant but in less space... Grow On!!
you need to cross pollen the bells with Jalepeno plants. it will make the bell produce a larger amount of peppers like the jalepeno. easy to do use a paintbrush and grab some pollen from the jalepeno and lightly dust the flowers on the bell pepper plant. it will induce massive flowers and you will reap the benefits!!!
+Steve Laubach we do put a lot of time and effort into our plants.;) and the best ganja farmers also grow vegetables and other things. so we tend to have a lot of general gardening knowledge.
+Steve Laubach cannabis is a natural herb..we dont like to hear people call a natural plant a "drug". percocet is a drug tylenol is a drug..cannabis is not a drug..THC is a natural medicinal drug found in some cannabis plants..other contain CBD or CBG CBN and so on and some contain all of these.
I just Hickory smoked the simple Jalapeno Pepper (5 green, and 4 ripe red). Ate them with my Angus Beef Roast (also slow smoked almost 3 hours). Peppers are Awesome smoked! TY for the video and advice on varieties to try.
I never saw powdery mildew on pepper lol. It hit my squash but never the peppers.
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I like the biggest bells to make stuffed peppers. I generally don’t like to grow long narrow peppers , but Numex Big Jim is the exception. It’s both large and long and goes well on pizza with great flavors. I also grow the super hots like Ghost, Trinidad Scorpion, Carolina Reaper , and Scorpion Reaper. The larger the pepper, the easier they are to find on the plant, so in general I prefer large types. Unfortunately most of the super hots are small. Another issue with them is that they tend to grow slower and you may need to wear gloves to harvest.
I saw that your plant tags that weren't fruiting looked like Bonnie's. The plant starts I bought from them didn't do well at all either. Having the same issue. The starts I bought at a local nursery that they grow and the seeds I sprouted are giving me fruit. I'm not buying Bonnie starts anymore.
All my plants are doing really well this year - after adding Azomite. My bell pepper plant is producing a lot of peppers! My husband likes to just munch on peppers and the other day he accidentally grabbed a jalapeño... I also ordered all my pepper plants from the tasteful garden - an organic source I found online last year. But with the addition of rock dust everything is growing prolifically! Thanks Jon - your videos got me through the winter...
You're crazy, my bell peppers are loaded to the gills with peppers.. They also dont produce too much if the soil is nitrogen rich or yhe temp is over 85
Yeah. The one bell pepper plant I overwintered last year had produced me more than 30 bell peppers this year. This is just one plant and right now it is still just August.
I grow bell's every year and they produce well. The problem is you have too much nitrogen in your soil. When your plants don't produce and are all vegetative its a nitrogen problem. When peppers get too much nitrogen they do this. It's not the variety it's the grower.
John, the problem is, bell peppers are very jealous. When you grow them near jalapenos and other exotic peppers, they will tell you to go take a hike. After all, they are pretty ugly. I mean come on, wouldn't you fail being next to all those hotties? JK. Seriously, you got Jalapenos BEFORE bell? Something ain't right :-( Mine are doing fine just a few hours north of you.
I also planted Sweet Bell Peppers, and my plants are only about 8 inches or so high and producing peppers already. I already picked the first one that grew and gave it to my parents to try. And there are many others growing on the other 5 plants and they are not any bigger then the first one that I have picked from already.
Bells are my favorite. I grow them every year and will continue to do so. I also grow other varieties, which I change from year to year, but I always have great success with my bells.
I planted bell peppers in April of this year and just now( September) i have flowers and fruit. At first it was just flowering…. I almost trashed the plant… but I am glade I waited. Thanks for your videos
I wonder if Pink Floyd got the name "Tangerine Dream" from that pepper variety name?!?!? It's a GREAT album! I NEVER had any luck growing Bell Peppers either! I love most varieties, Great video John, thanks!
TheThermalboy5 You know, You're RIGHT!! It was a LONG time ago... Tangerine Dream is a group that sounds LOTS like Pink Floyd... I guess I did too many drugs in the 70's.... :) LOL Just kidding, I've been high on life mostly! Anyway.... check 'um out, you might REALLY like them if you enjoy Pink Floyd's trippy music~ I bet you can find them on You-Tube... Peace Brother, itsy
Just ordered three new kinds of pepper seeds to grow next year. Yay. That will nearly double my varieties. Neighbors (who get most of my peppers) will be thrilled.
Hey John - have you ever tried pushing farmer matches - head first down into the ground into the roots of the bell pepper plants? They need more sulfur than most plants and I learned from youth... and I am now like 54 years old - so I been doing this for around 48 years and it does work well on bell peppers, but I didn't seem much difference using them with other types of peppers - just the bell... AND HEY! Have you ever grown or tried the BLACK PEARL Peppers? The plants grow black leaves and the fruit when ripe is jet black as well - hotter than Gehenna... but it has such a wonderful flavor that the heat becomes really welcome to the tongue. They grow so many peppers too - they are smaller peppers - big ones get to be around the size of a nickle in diameter... but if you haven't tried them - I highly recommend that you do. Peace~
LL Mcbee You bet... I am going to go toward the aquaphonics now - found out this was a Sabbatical year and I should not have planted anything in the ground... so I am just letting it go and if it survives - it does, but I won't water it or tend to it - as it was to rest... my sin and I have repented - so then, I need to get aquaphonics going right away... Peace~
do you have much trouble with cross pollination by planting different varieties close together? i thought the hot needed to be separated from the sweet...
I use to have the same issue. So what I did I ended up pruning them when they were about 5 in. tall and now I have about a dozen peppers per plant per grow. I also added more phosphorus and potassium.
my green peppers have done well this year.I love the green leaves....But I want to WARN people about the RED HOT Peppers. I don't how it got in my garden, but I had a terrible reaction to it. BE CAREFUL.......
John, I always enjoy your videos. But have you ever thought that not all plants love the hugs and kiss's that you give them.. Some plants enjoy a little tough love every now and then.. Not all peppers do great in perfect soil, water and environment. Next year put some nasty red clay soil in your bell pepper planter box and you will change your mind about bell peppers, a stuffed bell is a wonderful thing. Here in the gold country" the Mother Lode" of Nor Cal, the #1 pepper is the "Italian White Wax". It arrived here in the 1850's, brought here by from Peruvian gold miners. Eat fresh green, red or the best way is to pickle.... :) my favorite .. Thank you for your videos, I learn so much..
I don't know John, last year I grew red bell for the first time and got a bumper crop. I got so many red bells that my wife started to throw them away until it taught her to can them or freeze them. I live in California where the sun is very strong. Maybe that is what you need, more sunlight. Love your suggestions and I will try them out. Thank-You.
Hi here from Puerto Rico. I plant my bell peppers and my purple beauty in 4 gal containers, they grow 18in in almost 3 weeks with direct sun and I get almost 12 peppers from feb thru july per plant. They get really tasty better than the ones in supermarket.
First and foremost...Give those Bell peppers room to breathe.They are way to closed in and overfed with nitrogen.Find the best dominant plants out of the sowing ,and space them at least a foot in a half from each other if not 2 feet...duh?
@@casualearth-dandavis There are a lot of varieties of bell peppers with actual flavor, I like to think of it more as a type than variety considering how many there are
I usially get 8 or so bell peppers per plant and love growing them. They are great for making stuffed peppers and necessary for many recipes we commonly make. I will never stop growing green bell peppers.
My bell peppers have always done very well. While they aren't as high-yield as some other peppers, such as jalapeño or cayenne, I definitely have never experienced a lack of bell peppers. I'm sure my soil isn't nearly as good as yours, because I'm not very scientific about my soil; I just add my compost and little else. Perhaps the climate has something to do with it? I'm in southern Pennsylvania, where it is very humid during the summer.
We heavily amend our entire garden, but our bells don't produce without the epson salt in water. I used to spend a ton of time spraying them with my little spray bottle. Now I mix up huge mop buckets of it and slosh it on the plants. Works great. I live in Dallas Ft Worth and I sprayed the plants at planting and then again in July and then again at the end of September. They sort of go dormant here in the heat and only produce little peppers, but after it cools down I treat them again and it picks up into full swing again.
This video is 4 years old. Do you still believe that we should not grow Bell Peppers? I agree with you not because of the growing experience, but there are way too many other peppers out there that we need to get out into the community. This is my second year of growing vegetables and I am excited!
i grow bells and they are my favorite, lots of flavor, your doing something wrong. i get so many i give them to my neighbors and family. disagreement with you
Agreed. I personally think he's strangling his pepper plants. Peppers need plenty of room to breath and they don't like to be planted too close together, which is how he has planted them.
I have historically had issues with bell peppers - I rarely got many fruit, and what I got was undersized. This year, I decided I'd give them one more crack, and tried the following: -Planted late (like, early June in the Midwest), variety California Wonder and Big Bertha. -Gave greater attention to amending soil with compost and manure at planting time; -Fertilized with extra phosphorous and trace mineral-bearing stuff, including kelp meal; -Also liquid fertilized with fish emulsion (early), later switching to a balanced fertilizer with added kelp emulsion. From three plants I wound up getting about 2.5 dozen peppers in a range of sizes, but none smaller than a tennis ball and most bigger than a baseball, all with great flavor. I wound up roasting and pressure-canning them.
This guy promotes himself as a professional but what professional can’t grow bell peppers 🫑 and doesn’t properly space his plants to get optimal sunlight for proper growing conditions. This man is an obvious newb. Thumbs down for this video and channel blocked.
I grow jalapeños, seranos, poblanos, cayennes, bananas and bells. My bells have done well this year. I have had trouble with them in the past, but I’m getting big blocky bells this year. My cayennes were difficult to germinate and are growing very slowly. Jalapeños are about as easy as it gets. I get tons of jalapeños from a few plants and love to pickle them and give them away as Christmas presents.
Haha bell peppers in general. He says the bush itself is flourishing, but not many bell peppers are budding. I know he talks a lot, but i like it. :) cuz im new to gardening and im learning a lot.
momma mamma well that was easy to know in less than a min. I agree with you hes vid's are great but it got my nerves when to read a title and expect something to hear like a name of paper, but i couldn't :D Thank you Cheers,
Anaheim are awesome if you like the thick walled peppers with a slight zip of heat!! i actually use them for stuffing! those and golden cayenne are my tops for flavor and production in my garden.. happy gardening! :P
I had a similar experience as him, in 2016, both with Red Mini Bell (which I believe is the pepper the title is about) and Corbaci. Red Mini Bell did produce for me; it just didn't produce much, and didn't excite me. Corbaci did great, the same year, but yeah, I concur on the taste. I didn't grow hydroponically. Anyway, in 2018, we grew a Mini Belle Mix (probably Ferry Morse brand) against my recommendation, and it did great! Nice little red peppers in abundance. The difference? Well, there were several. 1. We stored the seeds in the freezer. 2. We planted them in the ground instead of a wooden raised bed with black plastic underneath. 3. We mulched them with a bark or shredded wood mulch (unmulched, they probably wouldn't have done much in the ground). 4. They came from different companies. I noticed that the pepper seeds we stored in the freezer grew more vigorous plants than our other peppers as seedlings. Anyway, yeah, try mulch. Try freezing your seeds. See if it makes a difference. I plan to experiment! I tried many peppers with mulch, this year (without having frozen any seeds), and most of them did great. The Habaneros are struggling, though.
Just because you can't grow a bell pepper or don't like them doesn't mean others should never grow it. I've never had the poor yield issues with bell peppers that you are experiencing. I've grown the mind numbing Carolina Reaper to sweetest Bell pepper and over 100 varieties in between, and while there are some I like more than others, I would never be so egotistical as to tell someone else what they should never grow just because I couldn't grow it or didn't like it. I usually enjoy your videos, but I consider this video one of the stereotypical CA mindset, and a major fail. :(
+Regency Lass do you think I could still get decent yield by planting pepper plants about 14 inches apart rather than 24 like whats typically recommended?
There's an old saying my grandfather always quoted that "Peppers like to hold hands." He said to make sure they are close enough that the leaves of each plant closely touching each other. So I tend to plant mine about a foot apart (and often closer) and have always had a decent harvest. Right now I have two bell peppers together in a 6 gal nursery pot on the patio and they are both already covered in blooms and tiny peppers.
I second that thanks. I am just planting out some new peppers and wondered about growing them closer, since my space is limited. Can you plant different varieties close as long as they're all sweet or all hot? BTW, I live in TX, we have a LONG growing season!
Jump to 3:10 if you just want to know what pepper he thinks you shouldn't grow.
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William M I enjoy his rambles.
Ted - That's all well and good. I posted the time stamp for the people who (like myself) were just curious to know what the pepper was - not to discourage people from watching the whole video.
Thank you Teri; that is exactly why I clicked on the video, and fast forwarded through it; but, did not catch the spot. So, your tip greatly appreciated.
The one thing that bell peppers have going for them is that they are great for stuffing with rice and other goodies. The other varieties tend to be too small for that purpose.
This is the best comment on the whole dang thread!!!
+William Albert I agree. I see no point in growing peppers that I have little use for. I love stuffed bell peppers.
Yeah, except now I want a stuffed pepper. :-)
William Albert anchovies,etc
I make a LOT with red bell peppers :)
My experience teaches me that bell peppers need more sun, more space between them and you need to prune them to get huge yields. Another fact is lower the mineral feed and lower nitrogen feed after the plant and root system are established and the plant is two to three feet tall. High nitrogen and mineral is good to start the plant growing strong but drop down to a thirteen or lower number after plant is established. I strongly recommend adding a balanced feed and a good mineral blend of sixteen to ninety minerals whether dry or liquid form.
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Yes a 6-2-2 is great for before it produces flowers, and one plant per five gal bucket. Once it flowers switch to a 2-4-4 or 2-4-2. Bells grow big which means they need a lot of root space to draw nurtrients from and a lot of sun and water to sustain that growth.
I followed my dads advice this year for planting three per bucket, but by late june i realised thst was too crowded as the roots are growing upward which means the buckets are root bound so they will not produce any more or any bigger without early picking.
@@nunyabisnass1141 I used 3 gallon pots on my first try successfully. I used alfalfa meal, dried coffee grounds, powdered egg shell and then used nutrient sticks for bloom from the dollar store. Maybe lucked out but it was a hot hot year zone 4 lol
@@dana102083 I prefer organic gardening too, but we didn't get our manure in time. I'm zone 6 so letting it compost from the end of August is fine if you plant in April.
Anyway, yes last year was brutal. It was perfect for my peppers but with the root bound pots I had to water everyday instead of the every other day that's typically better here to prevent other problems.
@@nunyabisnass1141 oh gosh..two summers ago i was watering four times a day thru the crazy heat we had! My neighbour kept saying he watered too and we both didnt believe we watered ha ha.. :) organic is so easy, I wish everyone understood some soil ecology and WHY diversity is important. Hope you have a great growing year! 🙏🌿
Bell Peppers grow great in my zone, 7b. If you have no fruit, that is a problem with sunlight, soil, etc. I'm not sure why someone would say not to grow Bell peppers. If they don't produce for you, it's either a problem with your zone or a problem with the gardener. Sorry, but that's the truth. Bells don't have a lot of flavor? That's a matter of opinion. I use them in sandwiches, chili and salads. I think they're great.
Yeah I do think it’s his zone, the leaves looked a lil sun burnt so the plant was probably scared to produce thinking it was to hot he said he was in the desert after all.
I have a problem with bell peppers too, I get them but hardly 1 or 2 per plant
My favorite is bell so I’m shocked by this they are my go to for stuffed peppers, peppers an eggs, sausage & papers etc..
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Yeah really. Bell peppers🫑are awesome in so many things! Especially spaghetti. Love it!
@@vsk6549 same here.
John, they're too damn close to each other! Should be at least 2 1/2 ft apart. Not getting enough light for flowering.
@@fluffy_0211 I have learned this, too. Bell peppers love magnesium and if there isn't enough of it available to them, they don't produce much or they produce smaller peppers.
@@fluffy_0211 You can give them 1/4 cup every other week per plant with bells they are monster magnesium consumers. Also doing foliars weekly in the early morning with a solution of 1 teaspoon/quart gives them an immediate boost of mag and the plant doesn't have to transport it far from the under leaf pores to the blooms and fruit.
Pruning some leaves should help
maybe u should grow peppers before u judge him... i actually plant mine 8" apart in a five star pattern..... wow amazing production and they support themselves even when loaded with fruit.... happy gardening! epsom salt and egg shells in the planting hole ;)
@@tfrank1326 all plants love magnesium , and all will benefit from a dose of Epsom salts. It's how they produce chlorophyll and what makes them green ;-)
I've grown peppers for years and one thing I learned with them (and all my plants) is space them so that there is room between for air movement and sunlight to reach all of the plant. Air movement will let them stay dry enough that fungus and mold don't take hold. Sunlight will help with that also. I have so many peppers on my plants I had to use larger stakes to hold them up. Also, I get just as many peppers with fewer plants.
He said they produce but the number of ounces is not as high as other varieties that he grow. So the question is how many good sized bell peppers do you actually get in a season? That's what's critical AND also he said the flavor is not that great.
@@beverlycharles6534 Well, to be honest, I can't remember ever having been disappointed by the size of my peppers. I do agree that a lot has to do with the variety of vegetables that are grown. But all in all, I always had a very successful garden.
@@stevedotson1263 What about the total number of peppers per tree? This guy on the vid is saying he only gets like 7 total per plant.
@@beverlycharles6534 I never planted a garden with the number of fruit on each plant in mind. I just planted it and harvested it using the tried-and-true methods that time and experience had taught me. A good farmer is always tweaking his work to make it better. I always learned from my mistakes and tried to not make them a second time. I am after all a bean planter not a bean counter.
are you pruning your bell pepper plants? if you prune them back when they are small theyll put energy into fruit and not leaves. Im in WV and peppers grow great here. I dont know why you think bell peppers have no flavor. Thats strange. A bell pepper from the garden here is delicious and full of flavor.
Just because you had a bad year with bells doesn't mean people shouldn't grow them. My goodness!!!
+Louisa Capell do you think I could still get decent yield by planting pepper plants about 14 inches apart rather than 24 like whats typically recommended?
Yes. I think so.
i have trouble getting bells to mature in WV. What is your secret? the only pepper i get to produce well are sweet banana
+zepguwl thistle starting them inside, obviously, but I sprout the seeds on a heating mat.
I put them out late late late too.
I do use a deep mulch method. kind of like thr back to eden thing. that keeps the ground very very warm.
if you container grow, black pots really absorb the heat well.
and if needed, as a cheat, I feed them miracle grow every great once in a while.
but they always end up giving me peppers so far.
now that I've said that, watch me get no peppers this year. lol.
thanks. I have been getting more peppers lately and hopefully even more this year. I do organic growing but will do more with peppers. I pray we both get a lot of peppers this year :)
True about the bells. I don't bother. I grow the TAM jalapenos, the bananas, poblanos, and a trinidad scorpion this year. Tons of fruit on all of them.
My kid got nervous in the spring of 2020 and harvested seeds from grocery store produce, worked up some plant beds and started a very sizeable garden. Unbelievably, this worked. The peppers were slow growing but produced enough peppers for weekly fajitas. We are just about out now. Very proud of her. Not everything did well, but she got at least a little of everything she tried. Good to know you can't grow chickpeas very well in zone 7. Plant 10 chickpeas, harvest 30.
This year, we planned out her garden together and bought her some good quality seeds. Excited to see what she can do with better quality beds, seeds and equipment.
Bell Peppers are my main pepper staple.....why ? Because I use them in everything from chili, soup, meatloaf, etc and can chop freeze enough to use until the next harvest. They are also great stuffed.
Never had family, friends or neighbors turn them down.
Three pickings from August to frost.
Agree, my Bell Peppers have been in the barrels now since 4/3/17 great looking stalk, a few buds but still no peppers. I am thinking it is because of the pollination issue i'm having, i had to research why my tomatoes haven't popped out yet, i have tons of buds but they turn brown and die off, plants are 4 foot tall easily, so i learned that its possible that they were not getting pollinated, hasn't rained here since may so with the heavy winds and no rain there hasn't been much on pollinating. I had to really look into what i could do. it turns out we can hand pollinate i did the Que tip idea, now its been 4 days and the buds are opening and i think I am seeing a continued growth on the buds/flowers. X my fingers. this was my first year for a garden. great learning experience. Keeping it green here in Red Bud Illinois. Cheers.
I had given up hope for my bell peppers this year too, and about two weeks ago I suddenly noticed dozens of them all around my garden-what a shock! I have already harvested two of the purple bell peppers, and the rest are nearly ready-can't tell you how thrilled I am! Just for some reason they didn't produce until much later this year-who know why?!
I've got 52 pepper plants in a 4x8 bed, sweet peppers, peperoncini, jalapeno, cayenne, and about 16 various bell pepper plants too. They're all doing great and all producing, thanks for the idea on closely planting them together.
Where did you find your pepperoncini seeds?
@@slowpoke4557 I wish I remembered, 9 years ago lol
@Sindy666 well darn, thanks
@@slowpoke4557I'm growing some as well. Got mine from Papa John's Pizza😁😆 I wanted to experiment and see if you could grow from the seeds of those peppers they give you with your pizza. I had like, 18 but a STUPID CATERPILLAR ate 10 plants 😕 I lost the others within the rest of my peppers because I moved them and forgot to label from being upset with the CATERPILLAR 😬😬😬😬
@@Charm-313 I heard that you could use those seeds, but kinda iffy if they'll even sprout. I saved some seeds from them too, but got busy and don't remember where I put them
I topped all my peppers early on this year and my bells are still fairly small in height but yet have a good dozen big peppers on each plant
Just a pheno issue. It happens bro...
I have a suggestion for a pepper you should try. The lemon drop pepper, it is one of the most flavorful peppers I have ever eaten. The aji lemon drop pepper. It has a citrus flavorful to it, By far better tasting than just regular hot peppers. The species of peppers the lemon drop is, is baccatum
My favorite pepper is Aji Habanero, which is C. baccatum (not C. chinense like actual Habaneros). It's one of my hardiest peppers, and the earliest and most prolific C. baccatum I've tried. One of my favorites for taste. The fruits dry on the vine if you let them. The fruits grow and ripen fast.
Too hot 🥵 for me
I love hot banana peppers. I planted one in a container and it lasted 4 years until I let the frost kill it.some of the best peppers I ever ate and it was a big producer.thank you John for another great video.
We only grow the bells (although I didn't garden this year), we plant them farther apart than what you have there. We never have a problem with getting a good harvest.
How do you fertilize your peppers and/or amend the soil? What varieties do you grow? Do you buy plants or grow from seed? Buying plants is nice since it takes quite a while to get them that large/mature from seed.
But yeah, I grow my peppers from seed. So, I try for early kinds, usually.
I tried those peppers too (Las Vegas) the plant is beautiful got the seeds from supermarket fruit but, slow to harvest. I did get ALOT of peppers (many more than you are describing) they are just REAL slow in ripening. I bought a packet of peppers it said Tobasco peppers... they grow like weeds and are HOT - HOT. so fun to grow.
Look for small peppers on the Bells and go ahead and pick them off. This will encourage production. It can be very hard to see the small green bells. Get down at the base of the plant and look up, especially where it is facing the interior of the bed. I bet you'll find some small ones. Go ahead and pick them.
Can you eat them that small or is it just to produce better growth later?
@@malkizadek3258 Peppers can be eaten at any stage
Bell peppers aren't fun to grow. I got a plant from a nursery and it grew a few peppers but they grew super slow and the plant really struggled. And most of the flowers fell off. I did put it in new soil and kept amending soil so it's not like it had no nutrients. Just never did well. But it's starting to recover now that the two peppers growing where done. It's starting to grow more now that the seasons is nearly over and get green again now. The plant went a lime yellow green. Didn't look good at all. So it sucks its now only doing something. Maybe results are better if you grow it from seed yourself and you get it acclimatized to your own garden sooner. I have no idea. I have been enjoying growing Piquante peppers and Jalapeños from seed even baby peppers. Waiting for the Piquante peppers though because we've had bad weather so much rain and not enough sun sigh. It delayed everything. But they have buds the jalapeños are very busy already with lots of peppers on so at least one pepper I grew outdid itself or my expectation. And I want to save seeds from the Piquante peppers to see if I can get better quality seeds because I really struggled to get them going where as the Jalapeños needed no encouragement. It's fun growing Peppers they all perform differently and keeping the bugs at bay is a mission too.. The jalapeños are just a lot less fussy to get to produce and I have grown habenero chillis before where they weren't too bad, but I learned a lot growing bell peppers and the failures I had with the snack peppers I got too so its definitely better to grow from seed as the plant adapts better to its surroundings if it's been there all its growing life. Taking a plant out of a green house to a nursery to someone's home, the plant sometimes doesn't recover well in my experience with pepper plants. I got the plant before it started making flowers or fruit. Not 100 percent sure what I did wrong with the bell pepper or even the snacking peppers.
I agree with a previous reply, leafs too green tells me way too much nitrogen. Large foliage also say that. I really love your videos!
How do you balance the nitrogen out?
I have a big bell bottom pepper plant I picked up at Woodstock. It has a kaleidoscope of flavor and tastes out of this world.
Do you have seeds? I'd like some, and id keep them "true", if you sent me some!
You may stutter allot. But you are one kool kat in my eye's brotha. I have been secretly watching you since you had 5 thousand subs. Your one determined guy with a good meaning and intentions. I love (over the years) watching you grow along side your garden. I have a big one myself, but not exactly the same type of "fruits" -if you would. hehe(legal of course) The wife has a half acre tho dedicated to our garden. It's defiantly eye catching.. Anywho, just wanted to say brotha your devotion and mentality is something others need to learn from. Keep up the good work meng. I've been watching since the beginning and I'll watch to the very end. Life sub here brotha. Nice peppers by the way. Also if you ever want to take a trip to beautiful British Columbia Canada. I also live in the deserts, mountain deserts. I have 40 acres of land tucked far away from the city. My wife is thinking of devoting 5 whole acres of it for her garden this spring. (which is 4.5 acres more then now) We are importing allot of fruit trees. And have allot of cherry trees already around the property. We're planting allot of peppers, tomato's, patato's ext ext.. IF your ever around or want to make a video of it, I'm sure we can work something out. It beautiful now. But by mid summer it will be a oasis, so she says'. lol Anywo Keep on kepp'n on brotha.
+KidGrow Mahali Stutter a lot? That`s an odd comment, after watching hundreds of John`s videos, I have never heard him stutter at all, just a slight lisp and an occasional mispronunciation of words.
res7itzt Your obviously lying about watching hundreds of videos then... Because I have, and let me tell you, almost every video he makes he stutters at some point or another.
+KidGrow Mahali No need to get your panties in a bunch, maybe I just have`nt noticed. I know if I did I probably would`nt be rude enough to feel the need to point it out.
Lol. Sorry meng Every time I say something here on youtube I get attacked. So I've grown accustom to immediately taking a natural "defense" .. Sending good vibes.. Said that this is what this world has come to eh? I feel the same way brotha..
+KidGrow Mahali cool man
My bells are doing great despite the plants being small from having a rough start. They're pretty loaded for their size. My first year having a real attempt at gardening. I had to amend my soil quite a bit with nutrients, epsom salt water, bone meal, coffee grounds and wood ash.
I think you are feeding your plants with too much nitrogen, which makes the plant grow too much top and no fruit. I think you need more potash which promotes fruit growth.a good example is beans which is a legume. if you use nitrogen you will have great leaves no beans. the pepper plant that is load with peppers has smaller leaves. and the soil will been better suited than the big ones.. I am just an old farm boy.lol
Don Markum exactly...
Exactly what I was thinking, too much nitrogen
Bingo! too much nitrogen, peppers in general like low nitrogen.
Is it generally more P for flowering and K for fruiting?
Nitrogen improves foliage thats why lots of garden centres use 'high nitrogen feed' to encourage flowering and sell more. And you can purchase powder potash which you mix into the soil you use.
I grow my bells indoors, in organic soil under a 400 watt mh, I noticed they need warm dry temps very easy to over water also I have fans running on them I have over 15 peppers per plant, keep up the good work
I agree with you, John. My bell peppers are not big producers. I do like to have a few around, but next year will try some additional varieties. I agree with ***** , the Jimmy Nardello is excellent, a staple my garden year round, and produces prolifically. Excellent, sweet flavor on the grill. I can't be without it!
Tangerine Dream! I used to grow those all the time and absolutely loved them! If anyone has any seeds they'd be willing to pass along, it'd be mighty appreciated. ;)
Ive faild to do well w/my bells also and I wont be planting them again until I can get the full scoop.
You need heat tolerant bell peppers and plant really early and give the bell pepper more space for their roots to spread. The wrong variety will not produce in the hot weather or the fruit will be very small.
thanks Karen.
Please tell me where you buy the Jimmy Nardello seeds. I have only found two retailers who sell them - both are very expensive.
I am not fond of bell peppers. I prefer other varieties of sweet peppers with thinner flesh and more enhanced flavor. Jimmy Nardello is a fantastic Italian grilling pepper.
I agree.
Heirloom Italian frying peppers are the best sweet peppers I have had.
Thanks for the idea. I'm always looking for a good grilling pepper since I can't seem to grow bell peppers for the life of me :-)!
Thanks to Praxxus55712 I am growing Jimmy Nardello Peppers the first time this year. Had to import the seeds from the States as we do not get them in South Africa.
Peppers is the one plant I grow the most, many varieties :-) Trying ghost for the first time this year, already have the seeds. Very excited.
I chose to bring in the Cowhorn pepper plant this year (not a lot of indoor space), it's doing well (mid-January).
Love both these garden guys! GrowYourGreens and Praxxus55712!
Supermarket food stuff is so narrow band. We're sold boring sht tbh
no wonder--you have them sooo crowded they are fighting for sun and nutrients---those need space and NOT clustered together like that.
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Kitchen aid apple peeler
He also didn't prune or top.
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not at all. wide spacing is very old school and for the last 20 years hort programs have taught close spacing on many "fruit bearing" plants can be as close as John did here. The problem he is experiencing likely nutrient deficiency and probably magnesium. Peppers are huge mag hogs and IF he didn't keep the mag going early he will be likely to even harvest enough fruit to justify his efforts. I have been planting close since 1994 and to date, my yields have been great, fruits have been as big IF not bigger than wide spaced and I have fewer problems with invaders.
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I've had the same exact experience for years. Bell pepper plants take too much space for how much they produce. Me personally, I love simple sweet banana peppers, hungarian wax peppers. They grow pretty nice in size, I love their flavor, the plants don't take much space and they yield tons.
I also grow chili peppers, I just checked out that website you mentioned. I'm gonna give them a try this year.
Have you weighed your harvests? Bell pepper might seem like they don't produce that much because they only have a few fruits, but the fruits can get huge. My biggest bell pepper was almost 10 oz. Meanwhile my Biquinhos are
The way you present, the way you speak is so unique....really feel like leave the mobile and go in to my garden and start gardening....i love it . Thanks
My bells take longer to produce but once they do I have tons of them all at once.
Ours (non gmo store bought [idk the brand]) would be kinda random along the way but I found out cayans and habaneros all bloomed at once and probably ended up producing more than the bells, further to note, we got the bells in April, already a foot or 2 tall, and I planted the cayenne and habanero in like June, by seed. BUT now that I think on it, the bells definatly produced less. But i put bells in all my meals. Can use em a lot more, so always a good crop. But the production rate probably wont ever end up saving you money growing at home than buying them from the store. Unless your all self sustained.
@@trevorfichtner3539 hot peppers cross polinating with bell peppers also creates slower growing, smaller peppers, malformed often
My daughter got very very nervous at the start of the pandemic. She went out and created several additional garden beds. No idea why, but rather than going for our garden seeds, she sprouted beans from the pantry, and salvaged grocery store produce.
Without a doubt, those grocery store pepper plants were hearty. 3ft tall, with massive leaves, but didn't produce peppers until late August.
She also regret green onions
And, she got about 3 cups of dried beans.
We had an awesome chili dinner.
I gave her nice quality seeds for her birthday last year and she had her own beds with a lot of fun plants. Portal Jade dried beans, long beans, purple bell pepper. She did great.
Just a quick note John, chilli's can cross pollinate. You may end up with your own distinct species.
Only if you save the seeds.
I had a banana pepper that cross pollinated with a jalapeno. It was pretty spicy.
They'll still be the same species, just different varieties :)
John, your info is very good! I took your advise and made a garden for the first time in containers that I got free from the farmers market. I made my own soil from composted leaves, wood ash, bone meal, and perlite. I have many varieties of peppers, tomatoes, beans, etc. Later, I added some of your recommended rock minerals. I am getting very large plants with lots of fruit. How can I reuse these plants next year? A friend of mine did that with some jalapenos. He cut off the plants 6 inches above the soil and it came back the next growing season. Thanks for sharing your life and vision, John!!
Dude smokes a joint before each video. Blazed. As. Fuk.
ha ha... l think you're right!
Kevin Medici
He never shows that part of the garden...
I planted several green bell seeds last year, germinated just one and had tons of bells. I ate some of them I had frozen last night and today. Delicious! My one hot pepper produced a lot, also. Maybe it's the central Texas weather we had in 2021. My little grandkids loved them and so I am planting quite a few this year.
The Carolina Reaper is a late bloomer but in a month you will have hundreds of pods on your plants. Smokin Ed is from South Carolina (about an hour from my house)
That's good to know, as I am growing four sprouts as of now lol
They're super slow growing as seedlings. It took about a month for mine to get 4 leaves.
I planted 6 bells this year. We use ProMix potting mix and water 10 min with drip irrigation once a day in the morning. Each plant has at least 12 peppers and still pushing out flowers.
"I don't know how to grow these peppers so I think nobody else should grow them"🙄
Haha!
Trippy_g00n thanks cause I thought I was hearing it wrong or I was confused.. my bell peppers are doing amazing my first year growing and I was waiting for him to give a good reason but it felt like the only reason is he can’t grow them so no one else should try ... lol..
"I don't know how to grow these and clearly used WAY too much nitrogen so you shouldn't grow them either."
Give me a break.
He did say that it was just his "opinion". The other peppers were doing well and these just looked like they were taking up space that could be used for a plant that would produce much better.
@@carlschnackel3051 It all looks like it could use less nitrogen and more phosphorus to me.
Hi. Sweet Peppers are actually very sensitive to what soil they are grown in. They like more of a poor soil, lots of sunshine and heat! It looks a tad shady there and maybe even getting some shade from the other plants. I'd try them again, because a homegrown sweet peppers are delicious and beautiful!
Great tips John. Ironically enough, just a couple of hours ago, I was outside in my garden, checking with frustration, the red bell peppers I grew at the beginning of this year and they took so long to produce a FEW fruit that it is now well into winter and they are useless (not enough heat) and pathetically stunted due to the cold. And I was thinking exactly the same thing. I'm not bothering with them this year!! Personally I love the birdseye chillis. It's the middle of winter here in New Zealand and my bushes are just rocking. I get fresh hot chilli's all year round with these babies:)
My local garden centers are very disappointing when it comes to varieties. It’s always the same old California Wonder and Big Boy tomatoes. The big box stores are sadly lacking in varieties too. I’m ordering seeds online and starting a better selection.
Thanks for the suggestions on peppers, I will try the Fushimi pepper next year, but I gotta say Bell peppers grow really well if you feed them right.
Okay... But what's feeding them right? HELP!!!
All my peppers are growing super well this year. I have Jalapeños, Banana, Poblano's, chili's, and lunchbox peppers. It was quite amazing!
Let me save you 15min.... its bell peppers
I am a peppers fanatic. :-) I have eleven potted Heirloom pots. Seeds from my Uncle. 27 stalks total? Oh some of them are Trinidad Scorpion peppers, too. I just put the peat starters right into the pots. One starter per pot. So some pots have 3 stalks. You are lucky to have so much space to grow!!!!! And optimal growing season and conditions. ~ Cheers from Michigan !!!!! Much love. "One".
You grow peppers in MICHIGAN? Wow. Indoors?
+LL Mcbee Yes, we have to start them indoors for a better plant / crop. I moved my local / "Heirloom" seeded plants outdoors a month ago, and, they are growing well !!!!! 70 * F days, and, ~ 50% Humidity ???? I have many thick stalks, perhaps 11 thick plants? And 5 still small? .... .... Our mint has overtaken the garden, also, and so instead of throwing it out? And we did throw some away. Instead, I learned to dry it and make Tincture !!!!! So that's pretty cool.
What?! I'm getting fruit already. I've gottan flowers 2 weeks after planting from containers from store. And my garden has all 4 types of bell pepper and are all doing great.
I grow yellow bell peppers and i started gardening 3 y ago only, never had issues with them..in my opinion yours are very packed and they dont get enough sun and maybe trim them a little? I plant mine 30cm/50cm apart in full sun area, water every 2-3 days. Is a pitty to give up on them, are great stuffed with meat and rice and boiled.
You have great plants btw, congrats!
Looks like to much nitrogen.. actually in everything your other plants should have more peppers than they are getting..
Just like with cannabis you need to back off N for yield.
+piecartbox yep
+CHILEDOUG KIZERIAN do you think I could still get decent yield by planting pepper plants about 14 inches apart rather than 24 like whats typically recommended?
+Jimmy Spurgeon No it will really piss off the pepper gods.
+Jimmy Spurgeon You'd get about the same yield as you would if you just planted 24 inches apart. Your plants will be smaller and have less fruit. Might as well just grow bigger plants if you can.
"Bell" peppers are a certain shape, which includes a number of varieties. I don't know what variety of bell peppers are proving to be a problem in this video, but I live in northern Illinois (Zone 5) and have had good success growing California Wonder (heirloom bell) peppers with minimal fuss -- in the ground (not raised bed) with average drainage, with small amounts of peat moss and compost worked into the soil, fertilized occasionally with balanced (10-10-10) fertilizer. I even have to cage or stake them because the stems won't hold the plants upright through storms, due to the weight of the peppers. The flavor is wonderful, too. They're great green, or leave them on the vine a while longer and they turn red and very sweet. I encourage anyone interested to try California Wonder, if you haven't already. (If you're sure they haven't been cross-pollinated by another variety, save the seeds from an especially good pepper every year and you'll never lack for great bell peppers!)
By the way, I've had good luck with Chinese Giant red bell peppers in the same garden. The stems seemed sturdier (less need for staking) and the flavor was nice in those, too. Worth s shot for anyone looking to grow large, meaty sweet peppers...
That does it... I'll definitely be planting some fushimi peppers next season. Those look so good! However, still gonna plant bell peppers. I love them, too. :)
Experimenting is SO MUCH FUN!!!!! You have to have the composure to be 'ok' when you have a crash and burn, hehe, but when you find things that are much better than had you not experimented it is WONDERFUL!!!
Learn Organic Gardening at GrowingYourGreens John, I grew a Tabasco plant from Lowes and took it to this guy who said the heat don't bother him. Well, this Tabasco pepper set him on fire, he turned red and had to leave the room. This year, I have some 'Trinidad Scorpion Butch T' seeds to grow LOL There is a way to make any chili pepper hotter then the devils tongue.
John I love your videos. You Sir have inspired me to grow peppers. Currently I have 4 pepper plant, Serrano, Dragon Cayenne, Sweet Banana and Poblano Ancho. Thank you for all the information you provide.
Thank you for this video on peppers, I did enjoy it! I'm new to gardening and have been trying to grow peepers this year that I can use in my chili recipes. Sadly, I have much to learn, lol.
Thanks for the tip on where to order seeds online. I will give this a look for next season and try some different types.
Wow, I was commenting on a TH-cam video, and it posted here. Not a big deal, but not intentional... Is this a setting somewhere?
I rarely comment on videos, usually just reshare them.
TH-cam and Google are combined now. It's probably one reason.
I always grew my green peppers in coffee cans, and they grew very well! Same with eggplant. Maybe they grew so well because I gave them so much attention! They do need a cold treatment to help them set early blossoms. That said, I never minded waiting on them to fruit, because green peppers are one of the fruits I freeze, and use fresh. They are extremely expensive here, and I use a lot of green peppers, along with the others, so it's worth it to me, at least, to grow them.
I would absolutely test your soil for relative levels of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. You may have too much nitrogen and too little phosphorus. I've had very good luck with Hungarian sweet pimentos, pungently flavorful with no heat.
Obviously to late for this year, but for next year.. If any one lives on the front range in CO I highly recommend the Flower Bin in Longmont. Ive been getting a massive amount of plants from them for years. I live an hour away but its worth the drive. This year they had 55 variety's of peppers!!
I get a craving for a good old watery bell once in a while, so I grow a hand full of them. Because of the lack production I plant them really close. Like 7-8 inches apart and use stakes to get them to spread out a little. Still get the same 3-4 peppers per plant but in less space... Grow On!!
you need to cross pollen the bells with Jalepeno plants. it will make the bell produce a larger amount of peppers like the jalepeno. easy to do use a paintbrush and grab some pollen from the jalepeno and lightly dust the flowers on the bell pepper plant. it will induce massive flowers and you will reap the benefits!!!
+Steve Laubach stoners have some crazy but great ideas aha
Steve Laubach I mean weed is a plant just like any other plant. I grow it and makes me want to start growing different plants, like a garden
+Steve Laubach we do put a lot of time and effort into our plants.;) and the best ganja farmers also grow vegetables and other things. so we tend to have a lot of general gardening knowledge.
+Steve Laubach cannabis is a natural herb..we dont like to hear people call a natural plant a "drug". percocet is a drug tylenol is a drug..cannabis is not a drug..THC is a natural medicinal drug found in some cannabis plants..other contain CBD or CBG CBN and so on and some contain all of these.
Kush Farmer is that for real?
I just Hickory smoked the simple Jalapeno Pepper (5 green, and 4 ripe red). Ate them with my Angus Beef Roast (also slow smoked almost 3 hours). Peppers are Awesome smoked! TY for the video and advice on varieties to try.
i see powdery mildew. and you have N toxicity from how dark they are.
Alas the powder mildew got most of my cucumbers this year.
I never saw powdery mildew on pepper lol. It hit my squash but never the peppers.
I like the biggest bells to make stuffed peppers. I generally don’t like to grow long narrow peppers , but Numex Big Jim is the exception. It’s both large and long and goes well on pizza with great flavors.
I also grow the super hots like Ghost, Trinidad Scorpion, Carolina Reaper , and Scorpion Reaper.
The larger the pepper, the easier they are to find on the plant, so in general I prefer large types. Unfortunately most of the super hots are small. Another issue with them is that they tend to grow slower and you may need to wear gloves to harvest.
I saw that your plant tags that weren't fruiting looked like Bonnie's. The plant starts I bought from them didn't do well at all either. Having the same issue. The starts I bought at a local nursery that they grow and the seeds I sprouted are giving me fruit. I'm not buying Bonnie starts anymore.
All my plants are doing really well this year - after adding Azomite. My bell pepper plant is producing a lot of peppers! My husband likes to just munch on peppers and the other day he accidentally grabbed a jalapeño... I also ordered all my pepper plants from the tasteful garden - an organic source I found online last year. But with the addition of rock dust everything is growing prolifically! Thanks Jon - your videos got me through the winter...
You're crazy, my bell peppers are loaded to the gills with peppers.. They also dont produce too much if the soil is nitrogen rich or yhe temp is over 85
Yeah. The one bell pepper plant I overwintered last year had produced me more than 30 bell peppers this year. This is just one plant and right now it is still just August.
I grow bell's every year and they produce well. The problem is you have too much nitrogen in your soil. When your plants don't produce and are all vegetative its a nitrogen problem. When peppers get too much nitrogen they do this. It's not the variety it's the grower.
John, the problem is, bell peppers are very jealous. When you grow them near jalapenos and other exotic peppers, they will tell you to go take a hike. After all, they are pretty ugly. I mean come on, wouldn't you fail being next to all those hotties? JK. Seriously, you got Jalapenos BEFORE bell? Something ain't right :-( Mine are doing fine just a few hours north of you.
I also planted Sweet Bell Peppers, and my plants are only about 8 inches or so high and producing peppers already. I already picked the first one that grew and gave it to my parents to try. And there are many others growing on the other 5 plants and they are not any bigger then the first one that I have picked from already.
😄BA dum tsss
Bells are my favorite. I grow them every year and will continue to do so. I also grow other varieties, which I change from year to year, but I always have great success with my bells.
Super duper gardening dude can't grow bell peppers what????
All my peppers are huge including the bell peppers
@@justinsegboer922 exactly this guy annoys me and isn't even that good at growing lol
@@smokerofthydookie7379 were you going to post a link to the thousands of videos that you have made to help people new to gardening?
He has super healthy bell pepper plants, he just prefers more prolific peppers. Did you even watch the video or just here for shitty trolling?
Clayton McGlothlin here comes captain save a ho
I planted bell peppers in April of this year and just now( September) i have flowers and fruit. At first it was just flowering…. I almost trashed the plant… but I am glade I waited. Thanks for your videos
I wonder if Pink Floyd got the name "Tangerine Dream"
from that pepper variety name?!?!?
It's a GREAT album!
I NEVER had any luck growing Bell Peppers either!
I love most varieties, Great video John, thanks!
Ummm, Pink Floyd doesn't have an album called "Tangerine Dream"
TheThermalboy5 You know, You're RIGHT!! It was a LONG time ago...
Tangerine Dream is a group that sounds LOTS like Pink Floyd...
I guess I did too many drugs in the 70's.... :) LOL Just kidding, I've been high on life mostly! Anyway.... check 'um out, you might REALLY like them if you enjoy Pink Floyd's trippy music~ I bet you can find them on You-Tube...
Peace Brother, itsy
Zac Towns Wow, I sure am learning a lot from my 1 comment!!
Thanks! :0)
+Zachary Towns crocket farms! DNA!
Leppelin has a song called Tangerine. Pink Floyd has a song called Julia Dream
Just ordered three new kinds of pepper seeds to grow next year. Yay. That will nearly double my varieties. Neighbors (who get most of my peppers) will be thrilled.
I think you give them too much nitrogen, so they grow leaves and stems but no fruit.
Hey John - have you ever tried pushing farmer matches - head first down into the ground into the roots of the bell pepper plants? They need more sulfur than most plants and I learned from youth... and I am now like 54 years old - so I been doing this for around 48 years and it does work well on bell peppers, but I didn't seem much difference using them with other types of peppers - just the bell... AND HEY!
Have you ever grown or tried the BLACK PEARL Peppers? The plants grow black leaves and the fruit when ripe is jet black as well - hotter than Gehenna... but it has such a wonderful flavor that the heat becomes really welcome to the tongue. They grow so many peppers too - they are smaller peppers - big ones get to be around the size of a nickle in diameter... but if you haven't tried them - I highly recommend that you do.
Peace~
Huh. I think I got some of those in a seed swap. Wasn't planning to grow them, but now I might give them a whirl. Thanks. :-)
LL Mcbee
You bet... I am going to go toward the aquaphonics now - found out this was a Sabbatical year and I should not have planted anything in the ground... so I am just letting it go and if it survives - it does, but I won't water it or tend to it - as it was to rest... my sin and I have repented - so then, I need to get aquaphonics going right away...
Peace~
do you have much trouble with cross pollination by planting different varieties close together? i thought the hot needed to be separated from the sweet...
True, if you plan to use the seeds for the next crop.
it seems like he buys plants judging from the tags so should be fine
I use to have the same issue. So what I did I ended up pruning them when they were about 5 in. tall and now I have about a dozen peppers per plant per grow. I also added more phosphorus and potassium.
my green peppers have done well this year.I love the green leaves....But I want to WARN people about the RED HOT Peppers. I don't how it got in my garden, but I had a terrible reaction to it. BE CAREFUL.......
jackie k Vetter if you don’t like the hot ones, I would recommend a pepper one called ‘Carolina Reaper’. They’re nice and sweet.
John, I always enjoy your videos.
But have you ever thought that not all plants love the hugs and kiss's that you give them..
Some plants enjoy a little tough love every now and then..
Not all peppers do great in perfect soil, water and environment.
Next year put some nasty red clay soil in your bell pepper planter box and you will change your mind about bell peppers, a stuffed bell is a wonderful thing.
Here in the gold country" the Mother Lode" of Nor Cal, the #1 pepper is the "Italian White Wax".
It arrived here in the 1850's, brought here by from Peruvian gold miners.
Eat fresh green, red or the best way is to pickle.... :) my favorite ..
Thank you for your videos, I learn so much..
Try the Tabasco pepper, and try hydroponics.
I have a tobasco pepper plants its like a mini tree right now
I don't know John, last year I grew red bell for the first time and got a bumper crop. I got so many red bells that my wife started to throw them away until it taught her to can them or freeze them. I live in California where the sun is very strong. Maybe that is what you need, more sunlight. Love your suggestions and I will try them out. Thank-You.
Not the peppers fault, yield is not one size fits all.
Hi here from Puerto Rico. I plant my bell peppers and my purple beauty in 4 gal containers, they grow 18in in almost 3 weeks with direct sun and I get almost 12 peppers from feb thru july per plant. They get really tasty better than the ones in supermarket.
First and foremost...Give those Bell peppers room to breathe.They are way to closed in and overfed with nitrogen.Find the best dominant plants out of the sowing ,and space them at least a foot in a half from each other if not 2 feet...duh?
Do all of that....but do it with a variety other than bell peppers. They are overrated, compared to the diversity of better choices out there.
@@casualearth-dandavis There are a lot of varieties of bell peppers with actual flavor, I like to think of it more as a type than variety considering how many there are
I usially get 8 or so bell peppers per plant and love growing them. They are great for making stuffed peppers and necessary for many recipes we commonly make. I will never stop growing green bell peppers.
My bell peppers have always done very well. While they aren't as high-yield as some other peppers, such as jalapeño or cayenne, I definitely have never experienced a lack of bell peppers. I'm sure my soil isn't nearly as good as yours, because I'm not very scientific about my soil; I just add my compost and little else. Perhaps the climate has something to do with it? I'm in southern Pennsylvania, where it is very humid during the summer.
Defx10 Im in Lancaster and I too have great luck wiith bbells
+Defx10 To much nitrogen..
We heavily amend our entire garden, but our bells don't produce without the epson salt in water. I used to spend a ton of time spraying them with my little spray bottle. Now I mix up huge mop buckets of it and slosh it on the plants. Works great. I live in Dallas Ft Worth and I sprayed the plants at planting and then again in July and then again at the end of September. They sort of go dormant here in the heat and only produce little peppers, but after it cools down I treat them again and it picks up into full swing again.
i really enjoy your videos john!
This video is 4 years old. Do you still believe that we should not grow Bell Peppers? I agree with you not because of the growing experience, but there are way too many other peppers out there that we need to get out into the community. This is my second year of growing vegetables and I am excited!
i grow bells and they are my favorite, lots of flavor, your doing something wrong. i get so many i give them to my neighbors and family. disagreement with you
they only pepper I tried that like is bell do not like hot spicy can only eat a slice.
Agreed. I personally think he's strangling his pepper plants. Peppers need plenty of room to breath and they don't like to be planted too close together, which is how he has planted them.
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I have historically had issues with bell peppers - I rarely got many fruit, and what I got was undersized. This year, I decided I'd give them one more crack, and tried the following:
-Planted late (like, early June in the Midwest), variety California Wonder and Big Bertha.
-Gave greater attention to amending soil with compost and manure at planting time;
-Fertilized with extra phosphorous and trace mineral-bearing stuff, including kelp meal;
-Also liquid fertilized with fish emulsion (early), later switching to a balanced fertilizer with added kelp emulsion.
From three plants I wound up getting about 2.5 dozen peppers in a range of sizes, but none smaller than a tennis ball and most bigger than a baseball, all with great flavor. I wound up roasting and pressure-canning them.
This guy promotes himself as a professional but what professional can’t grow bell peppers 🫑 and doesn’t properly space his plants to get optimal sunlight for proper growing conditions. This man is an obvious newb. Thumbs down for this video and channel blocked.
I grow jalapeños, seranos, poblanos, cayennes, bananas and bells. My bells have done well this year. I have had trouble with them in the past, but I’m getting big blocky bells this year. My cayennes were difficult to germinate and are growing very slowly. Jalapeños are about as easy as it gets. I get tons of jalapeños from a few plants and love to pickle them and give them away as Christmas presents.
why it takes 14min to say what kind we should not grow!!!
still didn't get the name ...
Haha bell peppers in general. He says the bush itself is flourishing, but not many bell peppers are budding. I know he talks a lot, but i like it. :) cuz im new to gardening and im learning a lot.
momma mamma well that was easy to know in less than a min.
I agree with you hes vid's are great but it got my nerves when to read a title and expect something to hear like a name of paper, but i couldn't :D
Thank you
Cheers,
+Al Alkaabi he said it at 3min23, bet you didnt even watch it, you just skipped
@@cosagarden3628 He ment to say LA Times Wha
You know that all Pepper leaf's are Edible right ? they all can be cooked like spinach.
Hello! Would you be so kind to send me a few Anaheim chili seeds? In exchange i can send you other seeds from Europe. Local types.
Anaheim are awesome if you like the thick walled peppers with a slight zip of heat!! i actually use them for stuffing! those and golden cayenne are my tops for flavor and production in my garden.. happy gardening! :P
@@hilow8331 Thank you for the info! Sadly i can't get Anaheim seeds. Nobody can help me.
I had a similar experience as him, in 2016, both with Red Mini Bell (which I believe is the pepper the title is about) and Corbaci. Red Mini Bell did produce for me; it just didn't produce much, and didn't excite me. Corbaci did great, the same year, but yeah, I concur on the taste. I didn't grow hydroponically. Anyway, in 2018, we grew a Mini Belle Mix (probably Ferry Morse brand) against my recommendation, and it did great! Nice little red peppers in abundance. The difference? Well, there were several. 1. We stored the seeds in the freezer. 2. We planted them in the ground instead of a wooden raised bed with black plastic underneath. 3. We mulched them with a bark or shredded wood mulch (unmulched, they probably wouldn't have done much in the ground). 4. They came from different companies. I noticed that the pepper seeds we stored in the freezer grew more vigorous plants than our other peppers as seedlings. Anyway, yeah, try mulch. Try freezing your seeds. See if it makes a difference. I plan to experiment! I tried many peppers with mulch, this year (without having frozen any seeds), and most of them did great. The Habaneros are struggling, though.
Another difference is the peppers in 2018 had more space. That can definitely help.
A good soil works wonders for peppers, too. Our soil isn't great for peppers (but with mulch it doesn't matter as much).
Just because you can't grow a bell pepper or don't like them doesn't mean others should never grow it. I've never had the poor yield issues with bell peppers that you are experiencing. I've grown the mind numbing Carolina Reaper to sweetest Bell pepper and over 100 varieties in between, and while there are some I like more than others, I would never be so egotistical as to tell someone else what they should never grow just because I couldn't grow it or didn't like it. I usually enjoy your videos, but I consider this video one of the stereotypical CA mindset, and a major fail. :(
+Regency Lass do you think I could still get decent yield by planting pepper plants about 14 inches apart rather than 24 like whats typically recommended?
There's an old saying my grandfather always quoted that "Peppers like to hold hands." He said to make sure they are close enough that the leaves of each plant closely touching each other. So I tend to plant mine about a foot apart (and often closer) and have always had a decent harvest. Right now I have two bell peppers together in a 6 gal nursery pot on the patio and they are both already covered in blooms and tiny peppers.
+Regency Lass Thank you!
I second that thanks. I am just planting out some new peppers and wondered about growing them closer, since my space is limited. Can you plant different varieties close as long as they're all sweet or all hot? BTW, I live in TX, we have a LONG growing season!
I am seeing all kinds of veg what about pumpkin beans and romain lettuce
excellent video John, small time gardener here trying to learn the ropes, you are a true inspiration