On today’s 2 minute garden tip, I share how to pick peppers for maximum pepper production. Pepper plants are sensitive to how you pick them, and the key to huge pepper harvests is frequent picking. Picking peppers like this tricks plants to make more fruit as a biological response to crop loss, and it will revolutionize your pepper growing strategy!
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20 Comments
Can Peppers grow and Central Florida in the summertime
Lol we just picked tons of pepperonchini today
True! The more of us you pick…the more you will get! Just, please, don't pick me. I'm not ripe yet!! 😂🤣😂
If you enjoyed this video, please LIKE it and SHARE it with fellow gardeners! Let us know in the Comments what pepper varieties you're growing this year.
…but i want REDdened bell peppers…..glad u addressed this. thanks!
My red bell peppers changed to red post harvest
Nice tip. What is the pepper variety you have with a lot of fruits?
Yeah this was what my comment on a previous video was about. I am growing a lot of superhots and also Trinidad Pimento. I know the superhots are not hot at all if you pick them green, and I assume the pimentos won't be all that good green. My Jalapenos will be mostly picked green and so will my bell peppers. But the majority of my peppers are going to be superhot varieties or Asian Chilis, both of which need to be ripe to be good.
Your videos have led me down the path this season. Have 70 tomatoes on the vines❤❤. Bought canning supplies this weekend, my next experiment. Needed this one on the peppers, have not been monitoring them as closely as the maters whose growth kept me busy for a minute. Thanks for all the great advice.❤
I grow many plants of bell and Chile peppers and select out one or two plants of each variety to grow to full maturity for color variations and for seed saving.
I missed one day of checking my garden and something happened to all my pepper plants. Leaves dropped. Tomatoes and cucumbers still look fine for the time of the season.
Great info.
i see you with the traps and the capped delts. looking good man. your pepper leaves looks so healthy im jealous. leaf miners keep annihilating mine, have some pyrethrin concentrate coming
The last several years I've been growing a lot of sweet frying peppers (Marconi, Corno de Toro, Cornito, Escamillo … ) – and I have found that with these types, once the pepper "breaks" or starts to turn on the plant – it will continue to "ripen" even after picked. Yes – even this takes waiting and can tie up the plant but not as long as if I waited until full color is reached. But, to your point, I do have multiple plants growing.
If I’m growing peppers in grow bags, how often would you fertilize them??
I've actually had peppers that I picked off the plant change colors but usually it takes so long that the pepper rots before it fully changes. If there was some way to stick the steam of the pepper in water to extend how long the pepper had to mature that might work. It's too bad that a lot of time peppers grow on the main stem or I might suggest cutting more of the plant to stick in water. Hmm, I might give it a try anyway and see if that would work. Seems like it might be really stressful to the plant but it might also encourage new growth.
How are your pepper plants so much bigger? Do you attribute it purely to fertilization?
Last year all my GREEN Jalepenos on the counter definitely turned red while I was waiting to have enough for cowboy candy. It may not be common, but it definitely can happen
And just like that! I learned something new while sipping my morning coffee! Thank you.
Great information and right to the point. Love it! And that is yet another reason why I am subscribed! Good long videos and good "shorts"