Here’s a complete guide on how to grow peppers from seed to harvest and everything in between! I’ve compiled my past videos on growing peppers this long format episode – all the tips and tricks you need to grow them successfully in one place. This video covers every step of growing peppers including how to start from seed indoors, grow lights, transplanting, planting outdoors, watering, fertilizing, trellising, pruning, overwintering, harvesting, freezing, and preserving. Use the digital table of contents (BELOW) to click and watch the section you are most interested in. Supplies used in this video are also linked below.
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Digital table of contents:
1:34 Section 1: Planting Peppers from Seed
1:39 Why start from seed?
1:54 Choosing seeds – my favorite varieties
2:58 How to plant seeds
4:39 When to plant seeds
5:06 Germination tip – bottom heat – heat mat
6:16 Section 2: Three EZ Grow Light Set Ups for Indoor Seedlings & Lumens and Kelvin Explained.
6:53 Why grow lights, not a sunny windowsill?
7:53 Why a special grow light?
8:19 Lumens explained
9:09 Kelvin explained
10:07 Set up #1: Clamp light
11:07 How to avoid leggy seedlings
11:31 Grow light box with clamp light
12:05 Set up #2: Shop lights
13:56 Set up #3: Table top light
15:22 Using a timer
15:39 How many hours to leave grow lights on
16:31 Section 3: Transplanting indoor pepper seedlings into larger containers
16:54 How to plant pepper seedlings from peat pellets in to cups
19:52 Favorite pepper varieties
21:02 Section 4 Planting Peppers in the garden
21:27 Warm weather veggie – sunlight for peppers
22:00 When to plant peppers outside
22:34 How to plant peppers in the garden
22:47 What nutrients to add to the soil when planting
24:08 Spacing for peppers
25:37 How to water peppers
26:08 Support for peppers – 2 ways
27:38 Section 5: You can’t push the peppers, Pruning Tips for Bushier Plants
27:38 My mistake – planting outside too early
28:28 How I fixed it
29:16 Why and how to pinch growing tip for bushier growth
30:06 Section 6: Cheap,Easy, Pepper Boost, Pruning results, EZ Supports
30:55 Pruning results – benefit of pruning the growing tip for bushier growth
32:15 Easy, inexpensive pepper supports
35:04 Pepper boost
35:34: Section 7: Pepper Pruning to Overwinter Peppers
35:34 Pepper harvest
37:25 How to prune
38:48 Mulching peppers-why & how
39:37 Section 8 Planting a Salsa Garden
39:45 Themed garden – easy for beginners
40:54 What to plant in a salsa garden
42:25 Pepper varieties in my salsa garden
44:29 Planting peppers in a container
47:55 Section 9 Pepper Freezing Tips – Quick and Easy
48:12 Pepper harvest
49:12 Washing the peppers w vinegar
49:43 How to freeze peppers whole
50:44 The amazing straw trick
52:04 Section 10 Organic Pepper Harvest and Pepper Tips
52:20 Feel like you’re in summer again
53:06 Tip: where to plant sweet and hot
53:50 Tip: leave peppers on the plant to save seeds
54:24 Tip: staking
55:03 Tip: Sunscald
59:23 Section 11 How to Make Pepper Jelly – Low Sugar- with No Special Equipment
1:00:18 Ingredients needed
1:01:13 How to make a stock pot double as a canner
1:01:20 How prepare the jars
1:02:52 How to easily chop, core and seed peppers
1:04:11 Preparing the pectin
1:05:26 Preparing the pepper mixture
1:07:18 Filling the jars & processing
1:10:23 Taste test
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