In this organic gardening video, Brian with Next Level Gardening covers 10 mistakes you might be making and how to avoid them or fix them to grow a ton of peppers. Whether you are growing peppers in pots on a balcony, growing peppers in raised beds, or you have a homestead, these tips will help you with planting peppers, pruning peppers, pepper pests and diseases, watering peppers and so much more!
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01:27 – When do you plant pepper plants?
02:51 – How much sun do pepper plants need?
06:23 – How far do you space pepper plants?
10:00 – How much water do pepper plants need?
11:59 – What is the best fertilizer for peppers?
13:27 – Should you prune or pinch back your pepper plants?
14:44 – Should you stake pepper plants?
15:26 – Harvesting peppers
16:24 – Pepper plant pests and disease
20:20 – Can you overwinter peppers?
37 Comments
Could BC powder count as aspirin powder?
I'm in Boise, 7a, pretty far north and even here, because of the intensity of the sun now, you can't grow any veg in a true "full sun" location. A mistake I made in the beginning and believe seed packets need to change their verbage.
Do I get extra points for using a rare term?
Sun shade works miracles with Pepper's…..when the afternoon sun hits them, that's when I cover them!😊
I call them saddle clamps.
I only have a wire fence set up for my indeterminate tomatoes. Do you think if I plant the hot peppers on the other side of the fence that they'll affect the taste of the tomatoes? What can I plant the hot peppers next to that won't affect the taste of the other veg?
My over wintered hot peppers have fruits already. Zone 9a. I will shade them from afternoon 100 degree direct sun. Last summer we had 45 100 degree days and it was brutal.
Peppers are great to grow.
What is a great companion plant for peppers?
Fantastic video! Jam packed with great information, explanations, and tips that are actually useful and doable. Thanks so much, from the Deep South.
❤️👍
I have 2 types of hot peppers in one pot. The pot is LAST years plants. I have kept them alive in my livingroom big winfow.
When Spring officially hit, I pinched back ALL the branch tips, hoping to stimulate flowers. It worked! I have lots of tiny flowers buds on the stalks.
**PS the NEW Windows have glass that does NOT ALLOW plants to Grow. The seeds start and then the plants die….
Full plants you buy, die. Many long time gardeners are having this problem! One lady figured it out, because they had new windows installed, except for the sliding glass doors. She can ONLY keep plants Alive if they are near those doors now.
I have tried all kinds of plants in my kitchen window and ALL die. It was replaced with a new Dell Window about 3 years ago! 😢
I've over wintered mine. They go dormant I found the over wintered plants to produce just fine the second year as well. I never tried over wintering twice.
Thank you for your awesome v😢
You always have such great gardening tips! One that I tried last fall was to overwinter my pepper plants. I pruned them just like you recommended and put them in a cool room in my basement.
A few weeks ago, I hardened them and then placed them back in the garden. Within one week, they started flowering! I actually should get some peppers this year, thanks to your great advice! We live in north central Oregon(zone 7a), and summers are short here.
I'm in my Gma's former home where she had a ton of Miracle Gro. I've always bought organic but at the same time I couldn't just throw it away. My bad. Should I just limit that brand for using on the flowers and not the veg?
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Im putting more peppers today. My son in law and I want to make hot sauce this year and I can and pickle different ways. Plus I make 2 killer jellies out of them.
Where I am, the only mulch available is the packaged black, brown mulch, or cedar mulch. Will that affect my plants? Will the dyed mulch be harmful to the plants or my consumption of the vegetables?
About the rain, here in Germany we grow tomatoes under simple roofs. That keeps most of the rain away, but also gives full air flow. And is cheap…
I have fruit on! This is my 1st year growing them in pots. I'm in Central CA 9b and I have dealt with sun scald but I have a an This year. I can move them so they get afternoon shade when it gets hot in June on. Thank you for the tips Brian! 6:22
So much less expensive than using rebar to secure PVC for shade!
Thanks Brian. I live in Zone 5B-6A Ontario Canada and I over winter my hot peppers indoors, and they do well.
It is May 24 and night time temperature is still in upper 30's 🥶❄️😬 low 40's. My area is experiencing a 60 year old cold spell. Looks like my vegetables will have to wait until second week of June to be planted outside.
I had a bad leaf miner problem with my grapes and planting tarragon (the esssential herb for bernaise sauce) took care of it by also attracting the beneficial bugs. Thank you for more options. 👍……a person only needs so much tarragon.
I usually don’t plant my peppers until nighttime temps are closer to 70. This year we had a good forecast early. I took a chance and planted, I thought all of them. Turns out I missed a tray 🤣🤦♀️ Then we started to get some 50 degree nights so they’ve been waiting in the greenhouse. I live in Delaware about 15 minutes from Dover Air base. So I guess I will have my first pepper experiment 🤣🤷🏼♀️ I never noticed any leaf miners until 3 years ago when I started growing nasturtium.
Where I live it.s not always hot/ warm but I still have chilli.s from june / september because i put them inside in the winter and paprika.s in a greenhouse in August/September
A problem I had that has never been solved–year before last I planted some mild jalapeno peppers, and they were exactly right, just mildly spicy. Last year, I planted seeds from the very same seed packet to plant more peppers, and they were hotter than any jalapeno I had ever eaten. I read another person had the same problem, but no one ever commented on what could have happened. Any ideas?
Wow! Excellent video, very helpful. Succinct and clear. Thanks so much. 😊
Perfect timing – I'm planning to plant my peppers out this afternoon. I have made the first mistake way too often because I assumed peppers could go out with tomatoes. Well, last night got down to 45F but the 10 day forecast is 55F or higher. Tomato cages are great for supporting peppers. I didn't know the aspirin spray was for peppers, too, so I'll be starting that soon. I tend to not harvest enough of my small hot peppers because I don't use that many. But I'm planning to make more hot sauces this year and will also trim the plant just to keep it smaller. I'm going to try overwintering some this year. I think next year I'll try pruning some and compare production to unpruned ones.
Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea culpa.
I have made mistakes #1 (planted too early here in Canada zone 4), #5 (wrong fertilizer) and #6 (oops I have just pruned). I do not overwinter my peppers, as my husband and I are retired snowbirds who run away from cold and snow and WE overwinter in warmer climates!
Zone 6 Montana above 3000 ft. This year I’m growing my peppers inside my little greenhouse, they have donuts fine outside but this will not only give me more room in my planters but extend the growing season. I will put shade cloth up when it gets further into season as we can get some outrageous high temperatures at times. I have overwintered my peppers inside an unheated shop and they made it fine. There is some light from south facing windows. I water lightly so plants don’t completely dry out. Other than that I don’t do anything.
When you talk about picking the peppers to stimulate more flowering, my problem is that peppers take forever to turn color, from green to red.
Great to see you giving accurate information, such as how the seeds of cross-bred peppers can get hot, but not the flesh that current year – love the analogy to the corn, never thought of that before when trying to explain this to someone and most gardeners do know that you have to separate those corn types to get the best results. I see other gardening influencers insisting that there is no transfer of heat and I know that is false from my own experience. It's like people who insist that pill bugs won't eat live plants when many of us have seen it happen in our own gardens, they read it in a book somewhere and then just regurgitate with no actual experience. Same with pruning peppers – totally depends on your growing season and I wouldn't get many really ripe ones here if I did that. I had already planned to plant peppers in pairs this year and also use alyssum as a ground cover underneath, so more good info. And I have overwintered peppers and eggplants in my greenhouse, even though it can get into the 40's at night during the depth of winter, and they have started flowering early, as soon as the days really start to lengthen and it stays warmer in the greenhouse. My biggest problem has been the pests that are so difficult to control in the greenhouse – aphids, whiteflies, spider mites – in particular, I gave up on the eggplant due to pest pressure, but they are always bug magnets anyways so no surprise there. I often do not plant peppers out until the middle of June because I have seen them get stunted by cool temps while the tomatoes and eggplant seem to do fine. We are still getting night temps mostly in the forties, even low forties, so they are staying in the greenhouse until summer actually arrives. I am in Zone 5b in the foothills of the Rockies in northern Colorado.
It's wild that here in the intense summer of North Carolina, I've never gotten any sun scald on my peppers. Maybe because I always plant them in pairs, about 8 inches apart from each other. Then the next pair is about 18 inches from the previous pair. Maybe they're close enough to provide shade for each other.
Thank you 🎉
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Brian this is left field but I have a question. What was the seed company that you showed the packets of seeds that looked like works of art? I think it was pumpkin varieties. It could have also been shown on your other channel.
I'm a believer in planting peppers on the east side of a tall plant. 3 or 4+ feet high. And mulch. Always
Thank you so very much for your information. Will prune my peppers and use the right fertilizer. My cages are the round ones that should be ok but do like the bamboo stick to prop them up. Hearts and Flowers from Pinon Hills, California. ❤️💐
Does any of this apply to okra @ nextlevelgardening