How to Grow Peppers In Containers and Get a HUGE HARVEST!
In this video, I dive into the 4 biggest pepper growing fundamentals that are key to achieving huge harvests when growing peppers in containers. Whether you’re new to gardening or looking to boost your pepper yields, this guide is for you!
What You’ll Learn:
Light – The importance of sunlight exposure.
Container Size – Why I recommend using 15-100 gallon root pruning containers for optimal growth.
Nutrient Availability – How to ensure your peppers get the nutrients they need.
Temperatures – Managing the perfect climate for pepper plants.
All five domesticated species of Capsicum are perfect for container gardening!
I also bust some common myths and misunderstandings in the pepper cultivation community to set you on the right path to success.
Discover how focusing on these four fundamentals can lead to plants and yields like mine!
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00:00-01:12 Intro
01:12-02:19 Pepper Growing Fundamental 1
02:19-03:29 Pepper Growing Fundamental 2
03:29-04:51 Pepper Growing Fundamental 2.1
04:51-06:06 Pepper Growing Fundamental 3
06:06-07:15 Pepper Growing Fundamental 3.1
07:16-07:40 Beware of Bad Pepper Growing Advice!
07:41-08:15 Pepper Growing Fundamental 4
08:15-09:43 You CAN DO THIS!
09:43-11:16 Let’s Make Some Pepper Powder!
11:16-13:05 Recap, Closing Statements, Inspiration
42 Comments
You are the most knowledgeable pepper grower I know, truly a guru. More people need to see this video!
Excellent video. Now I want pizza 🍕
That 3-1-2 nutrient ratio is great information. I'm looking into starting hydroponic food production for my home
when do you recommend starting pepper seeds ?
Yet again another amazing video! Looking forward to your upcoming videos with your new partnership!!
What about planting in the ground? Can I grow them as big as in pots? In your opinion, which is better: planting in the ground or in pots?
Thank you for sharing. This video demonstrates the concept of real expert knowledge versus the people that claim to have experience of going through the motion. Just because someone can't do it, it doesn't mean that it can't be done. They only lack the true understanding.
Great video. Please give more info on supports. Thank you
Racking up those views !!!!!😊
How to make the fertilizer you mentioned in video?
I think I saw a Chiltepin in the intro
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This was great, thank you. After graduating from horticultural course with strict potting mix ingredients and instructions. To hear advice of using live compost in potting mix (With better results ), is a good reminder of doing things “naturally”.
Very misleading. Not everyone lives and grows in hardiness zones 10, 11, 12, like you do.
Question?
The Peppers in this video are perennial? Or you regrow it each season?
Where are you growing at, location is a key factor
How many pepper plants have each container?
light, growing medium/container allowing root penetration – compost being best, nutrient availability – fish hydrolysate, and temperature range – 65-95 degrees F…wonderful…wondering though about the compost medium having to be supplemented by fish hydrolysate – within 3 months! but then again, you are pushing the plant to hyper-performance…mygreathanks and blessings👌
Have you done another comparison to the double cup you did 3 years ago? That looked like a great yield, but now you're saying compost, not peat moss and vermiculite, and wide not deep. These do look like bigger plants, I'm just wondering if you've done a comparison.
New to Channel. Thank you about people supporting you. Knowing you want the same thing. Big mama harvest. 😅 2. Can I use Hummest with peatmoss and sand. I see that your soil had sand in it. I believe. 3. The same fertilizer like Neptune or your home made fish fertilizer, can I use on other vegetables. Like tomatoes, Cucumber ect… lastly growing in zone 6 Chicago Northern part. Now I know why that I'm having a hard time. I need wider and shallow grow bag vs black containers. Thanks oh stared to make home hot sauce. Folks at work really like the hot sauce too. ❤ Chicago
Oh love the music selection. Yes sir. Getting real as u say 😅
Where are you growing?
This has to be the It video for growing peppers. Knowing my husband and I and including the young daughters can't eat anything without some sort of hot pepper added. THANK YOU!
I've found two year old composted chicken poo tested out at 3-3-3. I have a constant supply and it is my standby. Dried, ground very fine and applied weekly. It's what works for me.
This is some great knowledge on peppers, I'm so glad I found this channel, I struggle every year and never do good with my peppers. I'm starting from seed soon, follow your recommendations, and see how it goes. I'm excited!! How and why do you cover the bottom of those grow bags, do you have a video???
U should invest in alage like phytoplankton spirulina
Auqatic plants like duckweed
There extremely fast growing phytoplankton and spirulina are culture grown meaning they rapidly grow twice there population in 24 hour
Ur gonna be busy because they are extremely labor because of there growth
Duckweed are just farming a kiddie pool at harvest literally every 3 to 5 days great protein and food source
Ground plants are good in all but u need to have a variety
Alage is great for diesel
Can I start planting seeds indoor now and slowly grown them until spring or should i wait until spring?
What about topping them? Do you have to remove flowers to let them grow big?
in indonesia there are a lot of chili farmers, but what I am confused about is why the chili trees here are not as big and thick as your chili trees when they are fruitful. the type of chili that is quite widely planted here is "cabai rawit" or maybe it is called Tabasco chili pepper or bird's eye chili pepper, it belongs to the species capsicum frutescens, does this species not have a large tree and a lot of fruit, or maybe there are some factors that cause this to happen?
We will be moving up to North idaho. Should we grow peppers outside in the garden or in a greenhouse??
Yup. I think I would have an easier time if I could control the first month of temperature better. Windbreaks and maybe a greenhouse.
I do basically everything here. The one thing I might try is a later transplant date. I tend to get most of my garden in fairly early and before it warms up enough and I notice the peppers get stunted because of it. Overwintering has basically eliminated this for me though. Much hardier plants. The night temperatures are quite low, and paired with the constant 30-40kmh winds every day for the first 3 weeks of summer it's quite harsh on a lot of my plants.
I found your YouTube vids and was impressed with the size. So I'll put extra effort in this year.
I did upgrade my watering system. Fully automatic now. We'll see how much that helps.
I've been gardening for 8 years now and each year I get bigger and bigger plants. 10 foot tomatoes last year, I had 3 foot tall zinnias for pollination. I had sunflowers 10 feet this year.
Only thing that hasn't gotten better is the peppers. And I really want them for all the salsa I make each year.
It's hard to find good advice on lots off plants. I researched tomatoes and most of the advice is just repeated terrible advice. I had to experiment each year to figure out what they really like. I've never seen anyone on YouTube with plants the size that I get. They're always scrawny and pathetic looking lol
Hey @pepperguru I just found you and glad I did! So I’m a new gardener with a small container garden. I have a Red and Green Bell and Banana Pepper plant purchased from Home Depot.
I purchased the Alaska Fish Fertilizer but won’t be using that on my peppers! Gotta find that 3-1-2 👌🏾
Thanks
Im pretty knowledgeable about pepper growing but what I've briefly also looked into before is making homemade fish hydrolysate. Do you have a recipe or video posted somewhere?
Following up on your shade comment, what do you suggest for dealing with sunscald? I'm at the 42nd parallel, high elevation dessert with highs 90F+ and lows 50F or lower most days in July and August. If I don't use shade cloth, most of the fruits on my c. annuuum end up with scald damage (the other species do fine). Are there alternatives to shade cloth, or suggestions for placement/angle that find a sweet spot between maximizing light and protecting from scald? Or should I plant more densely so the plant protect each other? Thanks!
This applies to all of the sweet peppers as well? You should do a start to finish grow out for 2025 to show the plants growing up and what you do when and fertilizing. Would be super coool and helpful
Nice!
Why is this the best gardening cannel and only 8K subs.
Well it's December and I still got peppers on my plants but I make my own soil all my neighbors our I aww of my gardens we use the same idea but different
Live up in northern michigan and dudes right dont think to hard and a good harvest will come
Any tips on bell peppers? I will grow large plants and will get gigantic green peppers. They will either not change color or when they do they will develop a soft brown spot(s).
Do you think the 3-1-2 NPK ratio applies when growing hydroponically, too?