We have grown peppers for 10+ years. Let’s talk about some mistakes you should avoid if you’re new to growing peppers in your garden! Avoiding these errors will save you time and headaches with your pepper plants.
Good advice but i hate seeing PW pots. Proven Winners rugged independent bedding plant growers by promising exclusivity and inserted themselves as a marketing middleman in the green industry and now mostly cater to box stores while making independents PAY to have their plants.
If you add nutrients (compost and mineral material ) soaked in water, and enough water it will absorb better and not be in excess amounts around the roots and cause rot. A healthy plant has healthy roots , and that requires enough air and nitrogen at the same time to not get fungal growth and bacterial infections.. if it has air and water and too little nitrogen you need coffee or something similar but only the «tea» or second hand brew u get and let it sit and age and then feed it to your plants . It will have everything it needs to kill the excess amounts burning roots or lowering ph over a sustained time. The bacteria and microorganisms will produce nitrate and ammonia and co2 which a healthy environment is made of . Aged water and to properly dilute is making it stronger and safer !
My peppers were bushy till winter and I brought them indoors. Leaves dried up (with water) and began to fall off. Now they're skinny, peppers fell off before ready. Most stems shriveled up withered away. 😢 but found a few new sprouts today after giving the soil green tea with egg shells.
Just don't use fertilizers in the ground it's absolutely useless. Compost and mulch are all you need, and it's impossible to overdo it… Some modern techniques go even further : once the compost/mulch made a fertile soil, you sow a perennial cover crop like white clover, mint or a small grass, and you mow it once in a while, especially right before planting your veggies. The principle is that cover crop will maintain the fertility, keep the soil aerated, and snuff out more problematic weeds like quack grass, bindweed or buttercup. I will try this year. Just sown a bed full of white clover.
You prune the plants that produce small fruit, and it does indeed increase yield. Big fruit plants such as bell peppers do not get pruned. It works best if you have a longer growing period because it does increase the time before you start getting fruit. I live in central Florida, so I've had peppers and tomatoes literally all year, even during winter. The rest is top-tier information
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Good advice but i hate seeing PW pots. Proven Winners rugged independent bedding plant growers by promising exclusivity and inserted themselves as a marketing middleman in the green industry and now mostly cater to box stores while making independents PAY to have their plants.
If you add nutrients (compost and mineral material ) soaked in water, and enough water it will absorb better and not be in excess amounts around the roots and cause rot. A healthy plant has healthy roots , and that requires enough air and nitrogen at the same time to not get fungal growth and bacterial infections.. if it has air and water and too little nitrogen you need coffee or something similar but only the «tea» or second hand brew u get and let it sit and age and then feed it to your plants . It will have everything it needs to kill the excess amounts burning roots or lowering ph over a sustained time. The bacteria and microorganisms will produce nitrate and ammonia and co2 which a healthy environment is made of . Aged water and to properly dilute is making it stronger and safer !
Thank you I didn't know that from South Africa
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My peppers were bushy till winter and I brought them indoors. Leaves dried up (with water) and began to fall off. Now they're skinny, peppers fell off before ready. Most stems shriveled up withered away. 😢 but found a few new sprouts today after giving the soil green tea with egg shells.
Is it too late to start peppers in zone 10a?
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Awesome thank you
Ive sown over 70 chilli and pepper plants and not one has come up, i have done same as ever other year, and usually have amazing germination😪
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Do you recommend for your fertilizer for the pepper plants to be a 333Do you recommend for your fertilizer for the pepper plants to be a 333😊
Topping is probably the worst gardening fad to boot.
I always find your videos for anything "pepper" thanks for making these
I’ve never topped my pepper plants and they never grow bushy. They always end up way too tall
Always great content. Also I love the app. Top 5 peppers to grow videos are great.
Harden them under shade cloth and be done with it in 3 days.
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I top my scotch bonnet plants every year. I get about 5X the yield.
Those red peppers look gorgeous
So how often do we fertilize them? 😂
Just don't use fertilizers in the ground it's absolutely useless. Compost and mulch are all you need, and it's impossible to overdo it… Some modern techniques go even further : once the compost/mulch made a fertile soil, you sow a perennial cover crop like white clover, mint or a small grass, and you mow it once in a while, especially right before planting your veggies. The principle is that cover crop will maintain the fertility, keep the soil aerated, and snuff out more problematic weeds like quack grass, bindweed or buttercup. I will try this year. Just sown a bed full of white clover.
You prune the plants that produce small fruit, and it does indeed increase yield. Big fruit plants such as bell peppers do not get pruned. It works best if you have a longer growing period because it does increase the time before you start getting fruit. I live in central Florida, so I've had peppers and tomatoes literally all year, even during winter. The rest is top-tier information
how to add potasium naturally?
Im brand new to growing peppers. I definitely need to reduce the sunlight im giving the seedlings.
Hey how much banana peels should I put in the soil?
Oh great I just topped mine yesterday. Thankfully I only did half just as an experiment
Too much nitrogen leads to aphid infestations. Peppers are a magnet for those squishy little suckers.