In this video, I share a few tips for growing pepper plants. If you want abundant peppers, these are some of the basic concepts to focus on first! There’s more to it of course, but container gardening can be one of the easiest ways to get started and have massive pepper plants in a single season. This ghost pepper plant was planted in mid March, and has produced hundreds of peppers so far (in September). If you live in a warmer climate, you can go even bigger! Hope this helps 🌶️
Here are three things I did this year to get this pepper plant to grow so abundantly this season. First, I chose a highly productive variety. Ghost peppers like this yellow ghost tend to be large plants with heavy yields. However, the number of peppers isn’t the whole story. You would never expect a bell pepper plant to produce this many bells because one bell pepper is about as heavy as 20 of these ghost peppers. So, when you’re growing smaller pepper varieties, you can expect each plant to produce more of them. Next, I grew this plant in a big pot. This grow bag is a 10gallon size and gives the plant enough space to grow a substantial root system. The larger the root system, the bigger the potential harvest is. You can scale up even more like this 23gal halfbarrel pot growing an even bigger pepper plant. And the last thing I did is allow the plant enough time to reach maturity. For hot peppers, I always plant seeds at least 8 weeks before transplanting outdoors in the spring. So, the longer your growing season, the more time in the warmth and sun for your plants to grow into monsters.
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So, choose a prolific species, give it space, and wait? Doesn’t really sound like anything special… I was expecting something more interesting
You can eat 100 bell peppers to 1 ghost 😂
can white people eat spicy food?
My Hot Cherry are 4 feet tall growing in the ground.
Fun fact, peppers are perennials in their native habitat. If you have the room, trim them back and bring them inside every winter. The older they are, the more they'll produce. Mine was 5 before it died. But the oldest I've heard was 12.
that's a yellow ghost? I have the same thing in my backyard and I've been calling them "orange haberneros" thats what they were labelled at home depot
and yeah, they're so spicy that they're basically inedible
That is an amazing plant my goodness ❤
I grow habaneros, it doesn't look anything like yours😂 how often should I fertilize in ground to look as good as yours?
Orange/ yellow Bhut jolokia pepper.
Aphids attack them 😢
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I love this 🎉
Some of my peppers could have done better but my Sugar Rush Peach produced over 3lbs.
Wow 😍😍🌶️🌶️🌶️
You really do not need 10 gallons to grow peppers. If you put that in a 5 or even 3 gallon bag you'd get pretty much the exact same number of peppers.
How many seedlings did you put in a grow bag?
Also don’t have cats that think they were designed for play
This was indeed a good year for pepper production.
My ghost pepper plants got HUGE but never produced fruit at all. I had a lot of bloom, but that was it. Going to try it again next season.
Big pots are so key! I transferred my trinidadian pimento peppers from a 10 inch pot to a 5 gallon pot and it exploded with growth and new flowers almost immediately!
you ever grow ur peppers in coco
I grew some scorpions you can’t touch them with your hands
Last year none of my peppers grew. I was sad. There is always next year God willing.
I grow peppers to
fatalii peppers look same smell like citrus
How did you get all the peppers to ripen at the same time without falling off or getting eaten by pests!?😮
love gardening ❤
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I just use a one million gallon bucket to grow the world's largest pepper plant ever!
Uh oh. I germinated 30 ghost seeds.