Make Peppers Grow Faster! (Improve Growth & Ripening Rates) - Pepper Geek
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In this video, we'll share several tips to help your pepper plants grow faster. There are many techniques you can use to help speed up the growth of your plants, leading to bigger, healthier-looking, and more productive plants.
We'll also share some tips to help get more ripe peppers within a limited growing season (like ours in New England). Timing is a lot of it, but some changes to environment or feeding can also make a big difference.
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That big pepper plant is beautiful.
I have over 60 pepper plants in the ground right now. Only hot one are jalapeños. All of mine were started from seed and are of an heirloom variety. I love my peppers! 😃
Can you take seeds from the peppers you grow from year to year and get good yields.
@@catfishsnagger3284I do but I make sure to separate the hot ones in a different garden. Otherwise you can end up with all hot peppers the next year. Lol
60 is a lot! Do you sell the peppers?
@@rfui7675 No. I eat them and we freeze a lot to save. Our plan is to start canning. BTW I put 15 more sweet peepers in late that a friend bought and had no room for. Haha
I just bought a 150 heirloom pepper seeds, to test a couple different fertilizing methods!
you guys are very well spoken and knowledgeable
Living in Florida I start whenever I wish.
Thanks to you guys I have about 10 super healthy plants ranging from bell peppers to reapers. As always I appreciate all the advice
☺️ That makes us super happy to hear!
I come looking for some help for a few pepper plants i've have, and the first thing i see is that marvelous well cared plant, heck, you've earned my subscription, you're almost 100k! Congratulations!
Now, this is some great information and tips. How come there are 10 idiots that doesnt like this kind of content?? The word is lost...greeetings from Lisbon, Portugal!!! PS- thanks for passing on the wisdom ;)
Thanks so much for watching!
Maybe the chemical fertilizer recommendation. 🤷
Many years an old guy said that peppers liked "dirty soil" by what he meant was sulfur type soil don't know how he found this out, but he said to put a couple books of matches around each plant, and I can tell you it works. Good video.
Thank will try it.
Cheaper than black strap molasses.
Hey thanks for that tip
I can’t believe that “monster” is only one plant!! Wow!🤩
On a whim at the beginning of the year, I saved and planted some seeds from peppers I had bought at my local farmer's market. They have... well, survived. :P I found your channel a week ago, and since then I have learned the multitude of things I've been doing wrong, and found SO much inspiration for the future. I've even ordered some seeds of less common varieties to start next year. Thank you for everything!
Grow bags are great to use, especially if your aching to grow chillies and your a renter..😁
Absolutely excellent. Thank you for taking the time to share. I send you both much love and positive energy. Regards as always
Our pleasure! Thanks for stopping by and watching :)
Lot of CZcamsrs show their knowledge but Laura shows how to keep it clean after planting. Thank you Laura
Who’s Laura? The female half of the PepperGeeks is Crystalyn.
I don't recall any Laura in the video or a clean-up after planting. But I do hope your peppers are growing nicely :)
Wow you guys are awesome! Incredible way of presenting information.
Dried cow dung works best then adding couple of live earthworms on adult pepper plant for aeration.
And then I would collect banana peels or any scrap vegetables in the kitchen then ferment them in water with brown sugar for like a month then I dilute it like a teaspoon per Gallon and use it for my watering.
Then when it's fruiting season I do collect egg shells, crush them into like a fine grain then I soak them in vinegar for like also a month and same method with the teaspoon to gallon method.
My reapers grew tall and healthy and there is like a hundred of fruit per plant and surprisingly it got a lot of attention from my fellow pepper keepers and I'm not even aware that I'm doing less than they usually do to make their peppers to have a lot of fruit.
And it's all organic.
Great video guys! This year I can really tell what was done right and what I had no idea what I was doing at the beginning of the year (same as last year). My last pepper plant planted, which I bought at the beginning of June, is my largest plant with the most fruit. Thanks guys for all the knowledge and tips.
I’ll be trying some pepper plants in a can this winter to prep for next season.
So glad to hear and thank you for your support. Have fun!
I always add pk 13 14 when flowering works like a charm
Iowa mid Ohio zone 6 and have picked 34 nice stuffing size bell peppers and at least 16 more on my 37 plants partly from listening to you about spring temperatures as I could see growth from 3th day in ground and listening to your many tips.
I started my seedlings in a 16 oz. beverage containers and raised them in it until 18 inches high and moved directly outside and best peppers I've ever had had several stuffing size before July so Yeah I'm learning plenty as normal not getting peppers by August.
Keep teaching and I'm hoping to learn more.
QUESTION what cover crops should I plant in my pepper bed for next season.
Thanks 😊
Love this channel and all the information and pics. And sure most of this information pertains to most veg. Love that that even though not a complete control with same breed and seeds from same pod, but at least focuses only on peppers
My plants are so small compared to others in my community garden and I get why now. Timing is everything! Really wish I hadn’t waited so long! I live in NH and we have a relatively short growing season so I will make sure to get them out in the ground ASAP next year. Thank you!
I live in NH too (seacoast area) and just started my pepper seedlings (mid Feb.) I'm supposed to wait until March mid March but I'm tired of waiting, lol. I'm finding it takes my seeds a few weeks anyway to sprout and they grow slow anyway. I may top some just as and experiment and that will slow them down if I need to. Good luck this year but I think we'll do just fine.👍🏻
Hey I’m in VT!! It’s going to be an El Niño year so our growing season might be longer this year. I just bought my peppers from the nursery and am putting them in tonight! Good luck, neighbor!
This video was so informational honestly best pepper CZcamsr
This is such a useful tutorial vid, great tips and helpful advice 👍👌
Almost everything U suggest I already do BUT what I like most about your videos is U R short sweet simple direct & honest.
Thank you for all the great tips and information. Glad I have friends like you that can help me with my peppers. ;)
:) you bet, glad we can help!
Great info, thanks again.
Gotta love these pepper socks
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The socks and the Hugh Hefner slippers doing it!!!
Aero garden with the seedling starter kit is working great for me.
The proof is in the putting. Those plants look amazing. This year I planted my peppers where they will get mid day shade as an experiment
Such good information thank y'all so much!!!!
Great info as always. Thank you guys!
Thanks for watching!
Great information. Thanks for sharing!
Great, great video! Thank you so much!
Love the video guys.
Keep them videos coming, !!!!
Thank you so much for sharing your time and All your information thank you
It is our pleasure :)
Thanks for the information.
Thanks for Tips!!🌶🌶🌶👊👍
Thanks guys❤️❤️
Can’t wait to grow them!
Great stuff as ALWAYS! Thank you so much! 💓
Glad you enjoyed it!
Sending love from the Philippines!
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Very interested in the progress of the Make Peppers Grow Faster!
Thank you so much for such great info.
I've been growing Gator Jigsaw peppers in my garden I'm excited to see them bloom and I'll definitely use some of these tips
Nice! We’ve got our first gator jigsaw growing this season as well. There are a few small pods coming in and they look amazing
Awesome video 💪🏽
Plants in me and my dad's garden grow to 5 to 6ft. All the kinda that we grew did
Forgot to take any pictures of the garden but this is the final yield of my ghost pepper plant before first frost.
Sorry thought I could send a picture but couldn't figure out how. It was about 100 ghost peppers I picked on my last harvest
I've been waiting for this since your last vid!
That's great - hope you enjoyed it!
Just new adds sucks!
Very informative video.
Just watched your video for the first time. I use the same 3 Gal bags, Happy Frog soil and grow lights as you do. However, I prefer the Fertilome Veg and Bloom granular fertilizers.
Yall are amazing
☺️ thanks!
Thank you 😊
Another amazing video just started growing pepper plants indoors these have been very helpful
Question is, can we get some information on that vintage lawn chair? Lol!! Awesome video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Isn’t it lovely? 😃 they’re from the 70’s 🌸💛 thanks for watching!
Worm castings and worm tea are amazing for peppers
I use a granular fertilizer that I mix with water, still has worked great for me.
Thanks
I have the same set 😊
Great video! Looks like all the rain we’ve had here in Ct. hasn’t hurt your plants. Mine could use a little help but this year and last I’m going chem free. Lots of vermicompost tea and fish/seaweed liquid and they’re starting to come around. Thanks, from around the corner in Manchester. 🌶
Im thinking of getting a truck load of seaweed and horse manure in the fall. Despite what many think, its not necessary to compost it for two years. If using as an amendment you can use it the same season. Plus mixing in your yard clippings with fall leaves shredded in the mowing works very well too, but you will likely have a problem with weed seeds getting in there too. With that said you will have a very healthy nutrient balance and soil ecology where you may not need to fertilise or rotate for a few years.
@Dale do you make your own vermicompost tea and fish liquid? Mind sharing how? 😃
@@WS-by5cl sure! I do 5 gallons at a time in a 7 gallon bucket. I use an air pump with 2 hoses and a small aquarium pump to keep things moving around. In the water I put about an ounce of liquid kelp, same of fish hydrolysate, organic gem brand, and some humic acid. In my cloth bag I put home made worm castings, a handful or two of some good compost and a little azomite for minerals. I don’t use molasses anymore so I let it run for about 48 hours. With molasses I did 24 hours. When done I dilute 50/50 with saved rain water. I stopped using all chemical fertilizer about 4 years ago and everything is doing great. Good luck to you!!
Dale
Thank you!! I have been researching making my own fertilizers so this helps!!
Thank you!! I have been researching making my own fertilizers so this helps!!
Start your peppers at the right time... Gee thanks. It's July!! I kid. Love your content!
Heheh, well, you would be surprised ;) Thanks for watching!
I have used a child light that fits directly into an electrical socket as a grow light next to a pepper plant growing inside. It automatically turns on when it goes dark and switches itself off during the day. It worked great on birds eye peppers but not on bell peppers. I grew some Naga peppers this year which grew very big with a lot of foliage but very few peppers even though it grew a lot of flowers which it kept shedding. I think I may have used a too high nitrogen fertiliser. I used Baby bio indoor plant and Tomorite.
Peppers grew well in my Aquaponic system also.
Thank you Mexico and MesoAmerica for such amazing staple crops! Not to mention Maize/Corn! Jitomate and Tomatillos as well! The Maguey/Agave!
Yes. I get my asparagus in my local store. So good. I have to look for corn now.
Video should be titled: tips to grow all plants faster.
FoxFarm really is GOAT'ed
I have a tip concerning cloning peppers. I have apparently been conceding defeat prematurely. I have now had several cuttings drop all their leaves. I had them in small cups of potting mix inside a clear plastic container covered in plastic to keep the humidity high and they'd been dipped in rooting powder. Several of the denuded twigs have now gone on to grow new leaves and roots and are leading their merry lives. So don't assume they are dead just because they dropped all their leaves. I was surprised. I'd been sure they were toast, but I was wrong.
I've cloned a tiny piece of Cayenne, and it has TONS of peppers now. Every single node (arm pit) has either a fruit or bud. There's no greater satisfaction than knowing, "I did that!" 😂 The clones do take a very long time to root!
The key to successful cuttings is maintaining the temperature in the sweet spot. Do Not go BELOW 75*f or ABOVE 79*f EVER .,. INCLUDING if U allow a dark period which I do for 4 hours a day.
@@StationRussification Optimal is not practical or affordable during the winter in my circumstances here in Northern Wisconsin. I nevertheless managed to breed and clone my ghost and scorpion and have ghost scorpion seedlings coming up. They also don't set fruit well in the dead of winter due to the temperature. But they've survived the winter and I never ran out of dried pepper. My large plants will get transplanted into the garden eventually and clones will be retained for future breeding experiments. Ditto for tomatoes. I'd never tried breeding either until this past year. I have saved tomato cuttings from the garden and then used them to start next years crop, but I didn't try breeding them- they just self pollinated. I have a sungold that's fruiting well right now and it's so huge it's going to have to be severely dismembered just to get it out of the house and into the garden. Hopefully I can give some of the parts away to others as clones.
👍 @Dizzy Spinner Growing has it's challenges & climates need considerations.... If U have space indoors, lighting, heat mat under the humidity dome then it's doable
@@StationRussification I actually was able to up the heat and humidity for the cuttings. Not so much for my larger plants. My Sungold tomato is over six feet tall with limbs over eight feet long. I'm going to have to severely dismember it to get it out of the house and into the garden. In the meantime, I'm getting lots of fruit and I'm able to give away it's severed limbs as clones. Which are a lot easier and faster than peppers to clone. Snip, plant, water, done. Never needed to enhance humidity. They only wilt and possibly cannibalize the bottom leaves if you do cuttings more than a foot long. And it just gets warmer from here.
The best mixture I have found for in ground growing is Peat, Vermiculite, Cow Manure, and Top soil
Happy frog is AWESOME soil compound, I toss in some organic compost from last year as well as cow manure and my veggies love it. Some of Happy Frog soils I have added vermiculite for better oxygen at the root levels with uptake of water and nutrients for my plants.
I can attest to this. It don't matter if it's tomatos, peppers, Grade A+++ Cannabis, or any regular veggie garden regardless of size Happy frog and Oven Floor Soil will greatly be appreciated by you and your PLANTS!!!
Great video thank you
Glad you enjoyed :)
Just want to say thanks for your channel and all the great info you provide for us amateur growers. Prior to this year, I have just killed every plant I have attempted to grow. This year I have been able to grow 9 variety of peppers with 4 from seeds I collected last year all in huge part to your hugely informative videos. Also, ALL of my plants have produced tons of fruit. Everyone I know has benefitted from this. So thanks again so much for all you do.
Thanks John, that means a lot! Glad you are having some success this year :)
Thanks guys. Me and my fiance have a banana, jalapeno, ghost, & carolina reaper plant. They are growing great and look beautiful. I think here in Myrtle Beach, SC they grow great with the weather. Thanks again.
Thai chili's are awesome too.
@@MrStaybrown ours are doing great dude hope y'all's are as well!
@hunterfowler3559 started a month late but great👍 hagd
I fucking love peppers and I fucking love you guys too
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So Happy Frog soil must be a good mix. Your peppers are looking healthy. Bat guano is great too.
Yes happy frog was amazing - highly recommended if you can find it locally
I make my own potting mix, I fed 20-20-20 at 1/2 strength for seedlings. We have a short growing season and have poor sandy soil so I now grow 2 plants in each large pot. Pots are 1/2 filled with small logs, twigs and oak leaves and the rest is my potting mix. I started feeding them weed tea and am having nice success this year. Last year my plants flowered way too late to mature. I got nice tall plants but late fruit production in ground with synthetic fertilizers. The plants were nice sizes when they were planted and grew big but I think the drought created a need for too much hand watering and washed away nutrients. Growing them in pots is a game changer and we are having another drought. So far we are getting plenty of thick fruits and even earlier. I use a lot of peppers in canning season and my experiment this year is really paying off so far. Who can afford Fox Farm growing products? Might as well just buy the produce. It will be interesting to compare yields this year growing less plants.
Nice looking💚
Looks really good.. I’m in Australia and we are slowly coming up to Spring here so I’m definitely looking forward to trying some of those tips out 👌
When does your spring start?
@@tylerbauer7015 1st of September
🤩🌶️ in Las Vegas are nonprofit therapy Garden had a aquaponic section and we grew our hot peppers in there as well as other places but they did extremely well on nothing but fish waste and ebb and flow aquaponics system extremely easy to make $20 worth of plumbing parts and any kind of large barrel or vessel get yourself a fistful of goldfish Petco and you're well on your way
The ol "non-profit"...quite the oxymoron.
Nice
Imagine the face of the policeman that busts your attic garden 😁
My plant is about 3 foot tall but getting very lopsided with a lot of foliage on one side compared to the other. I want my plant to be shorter and bushier so I can move it around more easily. It is producing a very good yield of peppers so far I've taken off 60+ large peppers and still have approximately 30 peppers still on the plant. I haven't used any fertilizer on the plant for about 4 months. The letting the soil dry and then watering it and the pollination trick both have worked fantastically. This was using a child light to automatically come on at night instead of additional lighting.
Prune and rotate, sounds like you have it potted, the plant will grow towards light but spinning the pot can help even that out
Top it cut it in half
@@juhgfdsapiyhhnnxc3517 I wouldn't top it at this growth stage, as it will most likely stunt the plant. Some considerate pruning would be beneficial though. Just my 2 cents. Cheers!
My pepper plant faces East with a brick wall behind it. Gets very hot 90-100+ deg F every day with the sun bouncing off the below asphalt and the wall. (3 sources of sun = direct, wall, and asphalt underneath). Too hot to grow small pepper plants, but store bought plants work well with planting a few in a 5 gallon bucket. With the plants getting the size of small trees watering becomes the issue. Having the soil exposed to high heat temps can also pose problems = you need the plants to protect the soil from the high heat = a few plants planted together work better than just one.
=You plants are rather small, but look very nice. You need to move to a place with more sun to massively grow peppers. Your pepper production could easily be 8-10x more. You could try growing your peppers against walls (can be moveable) and other reflectors and heat sinks. -Even big rocks underneath the pots. Keep those temps 70-80+ degrees at a minimum.
Agree I germinate my peppers and eggplants with my tomatoes but plant them outside a little later and yeah I always cut off the first few flowers and the plant repays me during the season..I have great success with organics but in a pot sure I also add some dolomite lime in the planting hole for calcium and I have no blossom end rot..Great tips if newcomers see this vid as you have all bases covered f newcomers follow your instructions they will have success..
5:38 that is one beautiful plant.
Great content and I have the same pepper socks 👌
Thanks, and nice 👍
Dude I love those chili socks!
😁 Thanks, me too!
Hi that potting soil in the green bag you used to the big pepper plant, what is that? I Mean what mix? Is it Like soil for a lemon tree or you know its well drained? I come from denmark and we dont have a lot of different potting mixes unless you want to be ripped.
And thanks for the great videos.
Love Green Chef! The garlic-thyme steaks are the absolute best steaks I’ve ever cooked at home! Salmon recipes are also amazing!!! We are prepping the tilapia with mango salsa for dinner tonight, and I’m going to add some sugar rush peach peppers to that. 😎
Nice! We'll have to pick the garlic-thyme steaks next time they come around. And you always gotta add some fresh peppers... ☺️
I used a child light which I plugged into the socket next to my indoor pepper plant. It comes on automatically when it goes dark and switches off when it gets light. It has worked well with my peppers. Also I use a stick to make holes in the soil around my plant when the soil starts to get too hard. This helps getting the water to the roots better.
Try worms they help aerate the soil
I'll have to keep these in mind next year - I'm in Denver and our growing season is pretty short (last frost is usually in April but sometimes May, and our first frost is usually in October, but sometimes September), so growing peppers has proven to be a challenge, because by the time my plants really get going it's late August.
I live in Colorado too, I find that I can put into the ground till around the 20 of may. I remember cuz it’s my birthday and in the last ten or so years we’ve had a frost.
@@pittiesplus4108how's the planting going this year? Only a couple of weeks to go
@@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock we got the root verges in the ground, got seeds growing ready to plop in ground soon!!!
I’m in Denver as well, since it’s been warm I put out some of my early peppers and tomatoes that I could sacrifice if I had too. All this rain lately (5-2023) is scary though! I have many in containers and some in the ground. My super hot peppers are all still being acclimated so we will see how these go.
northern mi, got hungarian wax pepper seeds started, even if its late, picked up s 12 inch cayenne, and tobasco, have a bunch of peat moss and old fox farm soil
🌶🌶🌶 Thanks for the helpful & informative video. 🌶🌶🌶
Our pleasure - thanks for watching :)
@@PepperGeek I look forward to all of your YT & IG posts. 🥵 Aloha, from a farm in Hawai’i.
What would you recommend to help avoiding/preventinf pepper leaf curl virus? Any advice would be great
Great video, thanks. Do you have an EC recommendation for the irrigation solution? I'm growing in XL autopots, which works really well, but I am a little unsure on how strong to make the solution. Tuning to 1.5, N accented at first, switching to PK accented later. It works well, but I am wondering whether I should turn it up a notch.
Only your plants could tell you that...
I love to grow hot peppers. I usually grow jalapenos, habaneros, and ghost peppers. I've also grown Carolina Reapers and chocolate bhutlahs. I'm in Mobile, AL so our heat and humidity make for lots of TLC to maintain pepper plants. It's only "cold" for maybe 1-2 accumulative months out of the year. And by cold, I mean like 30 to 50°F. Not growing anything but weeds and algae in my pool this year, but I've got my heart set on a pepper garden next year. There's not enough hours in the day....
Hey brother I hope you read this!!! How's that garden bubba?
Parents lived in Bay Minette but now I'm Spanish Fort, I figured you would have a ideal location there, it's a different kinda hot haha
Nice I have some great ones too🇯🇲
I have no problem growing my super hots in N. Ga mountains.
I have cayenne, giant peach habaneros, Bolivian rainbows which I give away as beautiful gifts to close friends and family, reapers, scotch bonnets and jalapeños.
For some reason I could not get my green bell peppers to do anything.
My seeds may have been bunk but everything else went crazy as I pruned for ultimate fruit growth.
This year I’m going to dehydrate all my super hots and grind them in a small electric herb grinder to make super hot chili powder instead of freezing and using after thawed.
I’m hoping I wont lose much heat by doing this as I’ve acquired a very robust tolerance to super hots.
I always feel so energetic after eating super hots with a meal….there’s gotta be something to that.
I used large pots and set a marigold between each plant this year.
I did not have any issues with aphids or any pests although Ive seen tiny black flies and crickets on the plants I had zero leaf holes or other trouble.
This year I also mixed that nasty smelling fish fertilizer with my rainwater jugs and applied every 10 days which seemed to really energize the plants with no burn.
I’m going to try to overwinter my hardiest plants for the first time and also start some seedlings with a grow light early.
I swear hot peppers are the superfood nobody talk about.
If you can develop a tolerance you can eat them every day and feel great.
I love going to Mexican restaurants and asking for their hottest pepper sauce.
Usually they give me a cup of diced habanero if it’s a mom and pop restaurant and not a chain.
One time the server sent the owner with a cup of what appeared to be ghost and reapers chopped and lightly sautéed in oil.
I spread it all over my meal and went to town.
Yeah baby my lips were on fire but I was used to it.
It was funny cause all the staff kept glancing over to check on me to see if I was gonna live…lol.
My table mates could smell it
And even got irritated just breathing it in…lol.
The manager had to come by and shake my hand and said I was one of the only people that survived his concoction….haha.
The key to not looking like a total dweeb is to keep some white rice nearby to help quell the heat.
Yes milk works but that’s cheating.
Note: Yellow rice won’t help.
In my experience of drying and grinding ghost peppers for a spice it didnt impact the heat what so ever. If the temp of the dehydrator is too high it might do something but i haven't heard of any significant effects from others. This year me and my brother are going to pickle some habeneros with the normal cucumbers and carrots to see if it adds the right amount of spice to the brine. The rest we are going to smoke and grind. My brother a couple years ago had made an habenero sauce with a little vinegar and salt and it did not affect the heat what so ever even after two years. You can feel the heat as it goes all of the way down and it only lasts about ten'ish minutes. The fruity flavour is still there and it goes great on anything chicken, so i might think about using it in a wing sauce.
Now id like to ask you a question if i may, since you have grown reapers, is it normal for them to resemble scoth bonnets at times oe not have that little tail? I ask because i thought i was growing the ghost peppers i ordered until they began fruiting and look nothing like ghosts. At first i thought they migh be some scorpion variety until i sent a picture to pepper joes, and they think they are reapers.
I feel like a pepper baby killer!!! I just picked off about 30 baby peppers and flowers off my peppers since they are just no big enough yet. Planted them in Jan indoors and potted them up 3 times before planting outside, Most are about 10":tall but I don't feel like they are mature enough yet. Same with some of my tomatoes.
Man that first little guy might be my one and only pepper lol
I recommend hello fresh like green chef
I live in the tropics (Dutch Caribbean) when should I start my hot pepper plants? And do i still need grow lamps?>
do you have a link for your cloth pepper pots ? thank you just found your channel .
Good info for beginners. That Fox Farm soil is very expensive. I used Miracle Grow potting soil from Costco. Fifty quarts for $9.
We're doing an informal comparison this year between 5 different potting soils, miracle gro included!