5 Pepper Seedlings Mistakes You Don't Want To Make - Pepper Geek
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In this video, learn 5 important mistakes you shouldn't make while your pepper plants are young. Seedlings are tender and need attention and care before moving outdoors. Learn from our past mistakes and have a better growing season!
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Table of contents
0:00 Intro
0:17 Air circulation
1:24 Fertilizing
3:08 Lighting
4:28 Pruning
5:56 Hardening off
6:39 Quick seedling tips!
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I just can't thin out and discard a healthy seedling. I gently separate them when I upsize the pot. I have co-workers who are happy to take my extra seedlings. I gave away about 20-25 pepper and tomato seedlings last spring.
i'm the same and I collect every seed I can.
I did the same with my tomatoes this year. Now I have almost 90 tomato plants going. I plan to do the same with my peppers
Lol I'm prochoice with humans but I'm pro life with my seedlings 😅 every seed life matters 😂😂
@C L you can't say that to those people, it hurts when you say the truth. Hahaha
Peppers, for some reason, do better when planted in pairs in the same hole. It keeps from discarding all those seedling and get more produce. I've talked to the seed companies about starting a mini-size, say .35 / seed. Most folks only want a few and they could make a lot more. Zero response.
I do the same with all seedlings. Gave some to my neighbors and now I've made friends for life😂
I don't have a fancy setup and anything I start indoors dies of fungus damping off. My cheaap solution: I put my starter pots outside in the sun during the day when it is warm enough and take them in at night or when it is too cold or rainy. The sun disinfects the soil and prevents damping off before the plants sprout and helps keep the plants stout and green and healthy and prevent legginess after they sprout. It also means my starts are pretty well hardened off even to start with.
Another big advantage of a fan is that it makes it a lot harder on fungus gnats to maneuver and infest your pots (as well as drying the top of the soil to make it less attractive to fungus gnats).
I put my seedling mix in a bucket and pour boiling water in it to kill the fungus gnat eggs and larvae. Once it has cooled I plant my seeds as usual. No fungus gnats!
Interestingly this year the fungus gnats don't seem to be sustaining themselves. The adults emerging from the soil either are too few, or my fans and top-dressing with non-fungus-gnat-friendly soil mixed with cinnamon powder, seem to be preventing them from maintaining a population. I was concerned a couple of weeks ago, but I keep potting soil in closed containers and it seems the emergence of fungus gnats from that soil was a short-term problem. Or maybe the combination of several techniques makes their population dwindle faster than it can grow (covered soil, top dressing, yellow stickies, fans, watering schedule with weighing the pots).
Been planting peppers for decades. Never add fertilizer to starting seed mix, plant two to a unit (for some reason peppers excel when planted in pairs), start hardening when the seeds are tiny and strongest. I take those large aluminum pans, place my "Bootstrap" pods in 1/2 inch of water and start. Far easier and quicker than waiting until they are blooming before going through the process. Love the channel.
Very helpful information. Thank you. The two to a unit is only while starting them out or also transplanting them? I.e. do you thin down to one?
@@lmlmlmlm7627 I usually plant in pairs for peppers but then always against a wall where I stake out the stems. I keep the insides clean to avoid damp problem and occasionally add a front stake. It also depends on the type. SHishito, jalapeno, etc are singular.
@@smb123211 thank you
When I learned to snip my seedlings down it was just that, to snip them. Lifting the plant out as you show disrupts the root structures, so just snip them with scissors. Kinda like how you do in your garden, trim the top; leave the roots as food for others.
Now I know why my pepper starts died last year!! Too much fertilizer!! Thanks so much!! I had no idea!!
So glad I stumbled across y'all's channel. We have been gardening for a few years now and have always had mixed results when it came to our pepper plants. We look forward to learning more.
I was actually planning on buying seed starters today, but the nursery was closed when I got there. Glad I ended up seeing this video first, great tips, and hopefully great stuff from the bootstrap farmer. I’m going to try out their grow bags, and seed starters
I've been using a lot of these tricks and they do work! I was able to grow pepper seedling for grocery store bell pepper seeds!
Great to see you pop into my feed again! Still waiting for the sunshine in the UK, though day time temperatures are moving up now at last. Had my mixed batch of seedlings outside during daylight hours since Thursday and only one from about 30 looked a bit poorly. It bounced back OK under the lamp. Still too cold to leave out overnight, but it's not going to be before long now. Mustn't forget to bring them in, that'd be a disaster with 70kph winds predicted for tonight. All the best everyone 💪
As always, VERY HELPFUL. Thanks.
Patience! I cannot stress this one enough. I am in my 5th pepper growing year. It took me my first two years to learn that Tiny Pepper seedlings are slow growers. I know we're supposed to view each of our seedlings the same, but I spent my first couple years, comparing them to their Tomato Seedling Cousins... and sure, I am a bad Gardening Parent! To my utter shame, I asked them, many a time, "Why can't you grow like your tomato cousins do?"
Great point - exactly why we start tomato seeds 2-3 weeks _after_ all the peppers!
@@PepperGeek I started my Peppers Feb 15th, and today Mar12th is Tomato Seed starting day. What a difference 3 years of learning can make. Shame I didn't find you guys then.
I have a spot I've set aside for the "perpetual volunteer tomato" plant. Several years ago, I planted a single cherry tomato from the garden center. It grew well, although I didn't do much to care for it. I enjoyed the tomatoes, but also let many fall and rot in the soil. The following year, some tomatoes started growing there without any help from me. Got the same treatment. I am now deliberately letting some tomatoes fall and rot, and I get new plants every year. This year, I'm tending it a bit more. I started by turning a bag of compost into the soil there over the winter, and the volunteers have come up again. They're already 2 feet tall and over the top of the tomato cage. Even transplanted one volunteer into a new spot - although I plan to keep fallen tomatoes picked up there. By contrast, my pepper seedlings are still getting hardened off. Hope to get some outdoors permanently next weekend. I'll put a couple into pots and keep the rest going in and out. Our weather is unusually cool this year, so I've got peppers ready to go out, but I don't want to put them out quite yet. Still have some low temps in the high 40s this week.
As a first year pepper grower thanks for the heads up. I'll be patient with our pepper seedlings 👍
I always had a problem with growth on the soil's surface but would have never thought to get a fan. Thanks man! Really helpful.
Glad I could help!
I bought that EXACT same grow light with the clip on as in this video. I also bought it on Amazon last year. Good price, around €25 in Germany, where I live. I love this grow light, for it has a timer that can be set which turns it on and off at the same time every day. Set it once and forget it. A very cost effective way to grow on a tabletop or shelf. Love it. Have also used it for growing tomatoes and overwintering peppers. I found 5 to 6 inches is the perfect distance for plants. More and they get leggy; less and they burn.
I found that as soon as the cotyledon pops out of the ground, take them out of the heated area and put them under the grow light.
Glad to hear you've enjoyed it as well - who knows how long it will last, but the design is useful and simple
I like to use last years potting soil, sifted through a small mesh and then saturated with boiling water for my seed mix. The boiling water kills off pests and most pathogens and it has just a little bit of nutrition left in it so its good to feed seedlings while not being too rich for them.
You should bake the soil on a baking sheet in an oven instead. Watering with boiling water wont do much. It cools too fast. Baking soil in the oven on the other hand will kill anything and everything living in your soil.
@@CBe-ot8vu can I use the microwave?
Thanks Geek couple you guys are crazy pepper lovers like me. Got my crop going in the house transition to greenhouse tomorrow.
I over wintered the best of my pepper plants in fall of last year. They're coming out of dormancy now and sprouting all over the stems like a bush. I'm pretty excited to have such a huge big start this year with peppers
Very informative, especially on increasing air circulation even if your seedlings are leggy ahead of you knowing if they are already.
This was really helpful, thank you! I appreciate the reminder to harden off. Congratulations on getting a sponsor and good luck with this year's peppers!
Glad it was helpful and thank you ☺️
Thanks Pepper Geek, trying my neon green thumb at guajillo pepper plants and your tips and caution's to be aware of are a nice help.
They should enjoy the company of my pineapple plants...
Big fan of Bootstrap farmer as well. Have been using their products for 3 years now. They are durable and don't break like the other brands.
Hey, a sponsored segment! Good on you guys, you deserved it. This is the first year that I bought some growth lights and a fan, can't wait to see the results.
Thank you! That’s great, I’m sure you will see better growth with the new gear
@@PepperGeek hey do you think i can grow peppers in the baltics?
@@tomosike1378I know this is a very late answer but ... I grow peppers here in northwest England, so I think you could be equally or more successful in the Baltic region, with careful management. You might have left it a bit late (mid-February) to start this year, but it's worth trying!
That great advice holds true for pretty much all indoor seed starting!
Thanks :)
Good timing , we are planting our pepper seeds today down stairs.
Your good advice will be helpful.
Perfect! Hope you have good results this year.
Here's my mistake for '22/'23: Since I start my peppers and tomatoes in mid October, I decided to experiment with cutting back this year. I planted everything three to a pot, and pruned back at the FIRST set of true leaves. The idea was that I had plenty of time for them to recuperate if I cut too soon. My big mistake was doing this to every plant and not leaving at least a third as control subjects. What I learned is that the Big Berthas loved it and bushed out like I wanted. Well they all did, but the BB also grew vigorously. The Cubanelles are half and half; some taller, some not really. The Chocolate Beauties I learned, do not like to be pruned AT ALL!!! Even the one I wintered over, is not really growing back with much vigor.
Bottom line is: Experiment with only a certain percentage, in the event something goes horribly wrong. They are all fruiting immensely; I've been pinching the pearls off for the past two months, but the Chocolates are going to be very dwarf in size now. I will not prune those again. Now, once everything goes in the ground this weekend, they may take off. They may be confined in the pots, and I have not fertilized them at all since I planted them into my pure compost.
Very informative! Thanks a lot, a great job!
That's very interesting about not pruning. I have pruned in the past, but like you, I didn't really notice an increase in yield when I did.
wonderful tips for us "budding" gardeners ... thanks
This helps alot!
Thank you
Thank you 🙏🏼 ❤
Wonderful video and thank you so much! I needed this info as I am growing peppers from seed for the first time. New sub here.
Great video!
Good idea that fan. I bought two, that was time growing in the soil. After the surface got dry plants grew great ! But when it got dry the small small dirt started to fly on the air and i was inside eyes red, full of that tiny tiny dirt.
Lesson learned.
Now all my plants are grown in the water.
Very good tips 👊🏻💥👊🏻
Thank you ♡♡♡
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If purchasing plants(all plants not just chiles) from any hardware store and most nurseries, immediately give them a dose of soluble high phosphate fertilizer. One of the tricks used by commercial producers to prevent stretching during periods of cloudy weather is to make them deficient in P after achieving the desired initial growth. Which makes a plant that looks compact and healthy but if not corrected it will have slow growth.
I think I see some Bootstrap farmer trays in the background. I like the look of their stuff but I can't decide what specifically to get. It would be awesome if you guys could come up with a few lists of products to make "kits" for various scenarios or use cases like "seed starter starter kit" and "I live in a shoebox" or even "go big or go home".
Even something as simple as showing us your favorite products of theirs would be cool.
OMG I should really wait to finish the video before commenting.
🤣 they are great, and good idea on sharing what we use..we're thinking of something similar for the future.
Don't put your FOOD in plastic - get cow Pots ... or use cardboard or come with something to grow up seedlings until they go outside
@@bookswithatwist-vanvelzerp9262 Don’t be silly. Those are reusable containers, and they are not leaking. Harmful chemicals into your “food,” nor are they putting chemicals and poisons into your plants in any appreciable quantity.
I have an electric door opener in my garage. My seedlings go on a shelving unit with the grow lights (using an extension cord) near the door at hardening off time. I simply open the door for the time needed for each day for outdoor exposure and then close the door and turn on the lights. That way I'm not carrying all the trays in and out and in and out and in and out . . .
love the kratky bottle experiment!!! mabey show more on that if you have time 🤪
4th year successfully growing Goria and Paprika peppers and yet I always watch your videos, just to be sure... ;)
Haha, many of the things you mentioned here are things that I had to learn on my own through trial and error and got lucky that I experimented with some of these techniques and found they worked, and some other things you mentioned are things that I in fact learned from other experienced pepper Growers on CZcams.
One thing that I found out this year that I had never heard anybody mention before that goes along with using a fan in my grow box, is that I found that my plants seem to breathe much better when I not only have a small fan blowing down from an angle from overhead, but I have another small fan that I integrated on the opposite side of my grow box down low at container level allowing the air to also exit the grow box so there is circulation fresh air that is going through the top middle and bottoms of the plants because before I did this, my plants were beginning to lose a lot of foliage, and I honestly did not actually know why but my suspicion was that the old air and carbon dioxide was not getting circulated out towards the bottoms of the plants which is where I began to lose a lot of leaves, so I thought maybe the leaf drop it was from them suffocating in their own waste, but as soon as I put that extra fan at the opposite side at the bottom, Leaf Dropage immediately slow down to a halt, and it has not been a problem since.
Thanks for sharing that, great advice for anyone growing in an enclosed space like a grow tent!
Hi, thanks for sharing this info.
How long do you keep the fan on in your grow bawx per day? I have a 3 rack grow tent, do i need one fan for each of the racks, or maybe just one fan at the bottom pulling air in and one at the top pushing air out?
I’ve got 70 peppers going, most are about a inch tall with a couple at 2”, hope I can get my peppers to do well this year
I tried to subscribe , but , CZcams says I have too many subscriptions !!!! Keep making gardening videos and I'll keep watching !!!! Thank you very much !!!!
Too many subscriptions?!?! No such thing!!
I wait until after my last frost date to start the seeds indoors. Once they sprout, it's warm enough outside for them, so I put them in a sunny spot outside.
Once they've grown their true leaves and begin to branch out, I plant them in the ground. Since I put the seedlings outside on day one, they don't require any hardening off.
I’m in central SC and have only been gardening for about 5 years. I’ve found the best pest control for peppers in my area is Neem oil once a week for as long as the pests are relevant. Thanks for the tips!
Neem oil is very bad for honey bees
@@bloodbought1776 which is why you don’t spray the flowers! 😉
thanks to remember us what to take care.
btw, Khang Starr has a nice video on how to separate seedlings usinng whater to prevent roots on being damaged..
Luckily I only made 1 of these mistakes this year - will correct ASAP
Thanks for this. I have started to sow my chilli and peppers this year. They are still so tiny. I hope that will be ok.
Zone 7a, planted first round of peppers 40 days ago. Will need to move them outside in a week or so.
Going to be up under ag-fleece and some plastic sheeting.
I have way too many plants lol
Very helpful! I just have to be patient with peppers lol ! Note taken
Kindly make a video about lumens for every stages of pepper plant.
fan.. I have to get a fan in there.
Here's what I've done so far.
I germinate in 50mm peat pellets. As soon as they sprout, I peal those pellets and put them right in 32 ounce yogurt cups for the duration until they go outside.
I have them first, inside an east facing window (southern windows are all shaded) and under lights.. just recently went to 16 hours since the ones I have, the longest timer setting is 12 hours and that's where I was with them.
The only pruning I've ever done is if a branch gets damaged.
I'm going in grow bags this year.. our hard-pack is just too dense to get plants going in the ground.
Between that and the rhizome grass here.. I'm better off in containers.
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Fans also help to interrupt fungus gnat breeding cycle.
Yes - can't underestimate the harm they can cause too, killed off 2-3 of our plants last spring!
good
The 2 week germination + 2 weeks with seedling leaves really feel like forever
Yours are beautiful.
Q .How much time during the day do you recommend using a fan for pepper seedlings.
Q. What distance from the seedling are yours.
Planted ours on heat mats under grow full spectrum on Feb 26th, 2nd leaves are starting.
Bottom watering w. very weal rain water compost tea.
Thank you for your guidance. You are much appreciated.
Thanks for this video.. Very helpfull..
If you dont mind me asking.. what is kind of pepper the purple pepperplant ?
I have found that pruning generally delays fruiting by a few weeks, but the total production seems similar.
I had about 8 pepper plants that grew like a cucumber plant and were 8 feet long. What would cause this. Your help is always appreciated, thank for all the good info.
Rather than yoinking the seedling out as shown, clipping close to the base is more safe. If the roots are entwined, pulling could hurt the other seedling.
I'm running in to the root bind problem now. Normally I can pot up and move them out to my little poly tunnel by now. This unseasonably cold spring has put things behind schedule.
curious what kind of pepper is in the glass bottle in your vid. thanks for the good pepper advice!
I recommend doing some of your plants pruned and some not pruned to see if there is a difference in yield or growth, when I started to prune my pepper plants they did much better
Scott Head’s pepper pruning guide on CZcams is great
Once in the ground, use Masterblend 4-18-38, Calcium Nitrate, Epson Salt and Sea-90 minerals. I did last year and was AMAZED! Massive quantities and quality was A-1.
I bought a cheap greenhouse and it’s fantastic for hardening off. Protects them from strong winds and something about that plastic tames the sun so it doesn’t hurt them. After a week in the greenhouse they’re ready to go in the ground.
Yes. All these things apply to cannais. Cannabis and peppers grow similar and require similar feeding, watering, and soil.
It’s my first year starting in a tent. Everything looks amazing. My question is when should I discontinue pinching off early flowers to inhibit growth. We’re about 2 weeks from frost free here and my plants are roughly 8-9 inches tall and full of leaves and I even topped the plant to grow branches. But they are budding flowers like crazy. Are they tall and grown enough?
The leaf curl tip is helpful, I think my led light is too close. I using 100w full spectrum, what do you think the height should be in a grow enclosure with reflective walls?
Do you recommend cold stratification for pepper seeds?
I live in North central NC with very high humidity year round. What can I do to protect my plants and how soon should I start my seeds? This is the first time I’m starting my own from seeds. Also spring here is very rainy for about two weeks and then we have the heat starting in the 80’s and rises fast. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Do you keep the fan on 24 hours everyday? Plants are looking great. Thanks for your help because last year was best year because I sub to your channel.
I noticed towards the end of your video, one of the plant has purple-ish cotyledons. Majority of mine are like that. Could it be from lack of nutrients from the seed starting mix? Would fertilizing fix it?
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I grow chillies in pots and have a 1cm thick seramis layer above the soil so that the fungus gnats cannot lay eggs. this also works with sand. the main thing is that it is non-organic and moist
i just throw a bunch of seeds on a 5 gal pot put it out on the sun, and water em, the weak die the strong thrive. i love Aji peppers they're sooo good.
I keep on asking people about my garage, it is still cold in there, maybe below 50 degrees, sometimes. Everyone says to take the pepper seedlings off the heating mat. But like said it is cold. All my seedlings are up, but I think they slow down growing because of it so cold
Hi! new subscriber here and a very specific question. We leave for vacation in early August and return the end of September. I can't leave my peppers to fruit unattended while we are gone so I prune them way back with hopes they will resprout and produce in the fall. I've had spotty success with this. Any tips on how hard I should prune them back?
Can you do a vid.? on Afids and white flys.
Hi I started growing peppers this year, I'm in the UK and my seedlings are struggling, they have only 1set of leaves so far and been up for over a month I don't have access to the lighting or heat mats, I do bottom water and throw unwanted water.
@pepper Greek do you have any videos on cross breeding chillies?
I was told this a long time ago with potted peppers. That you should not prune it until the roots start to become root bound, this will start to cause the branches to turn inward toward the trunk as they grow. Cut those branches off and this will allow the lower growth to start growing. I am not sure if it is beneficial or not, but I have seen the behaviour of the branches growing inward in potted pepper plants.
I understood that the fan just needed a couple hours .
My seedlings get worm casting
I am not going buy $300 lights, but the LED garage/shop is going to work good enough.
I have beverage containers with 6 inches and good growing room.
Great advice, Geeks
I have BT against fungus knats
Thanks
Thanks for sharing, yup shop lights are a good budget option for seedling growth 👍🏻
@@PepperGeek but only if the shop lights are a) LED, not fluorescent; and b) the right color spectrum output of 5,000-6,500 kelvins. I’ve had excellent success using LED shoplights for the past three years.
Worm castings for seedlings pro tip.
When are they ready for there second transplant?
How many hours should the seedlings be exposed to the fan? Also, can I put the fan on seedlings that has not yet grown their 1st true set of leaves?
White LED shoplights and LED bulbs in clamp fixtures work. Should be at least 4000K.
Thank you for this video
Thanks for watching!
I'm overwintering two pepper plants from last year, but one of the plants is splitting? Like the stem is opening up a bit on different places. Do you know what I can do?
This may sound silly, but keep a trap/sentinel plant if you've had pest issues.
I find aphids will preferentially attack borage over just about anything else, so I can keep an eye on it for infestations then subject it to constant leaf handling and neem oil spraying instead of roughing up the plants I care about. Especially seedlings.
Still have to mind the others of course, but it's nice to have something that can take a beating.
Quick question, I just watched another video by a pretty popular youtuber, in which he said he always plants peppers in 2's in each cell, and grows them up as a pair once in the soil. Apparently they will lean on each other for support, and grow better with a bigger root ball shared by both plants. I see you prune to one plant, as I always have; wondering if you have any input on this?
What variety is the pepper with the purple flowers
that's fine with fan tha high instead low power?
My peppers occasionally put out a blossom very early. I've been told that a sign of distress. Is it? And should I pluck the buds?
My seedling station is more scarce than the last two years because I'm only growing what I need instead of growing a little of this and that lol.
Where do y’all get your seeds from? I get you probably harvest a majority from the peppers you grow now but if you start a new breed is there a specific company you get your seeds from?
Is it true that planting pepper seedlings deeper will fix the legginess? Thanks!
Have a question for you, can't find any answer online.
I'm growing cayenne peppers hydroponic with air stone, ppm is right and ph is right, however, the plant keeps dropping the peppers early before ripened. Plant is producing very well but I'm lost on why it's not letting them get ripe. Have other peppers that I'm growing and not having this problem. Please help if you can, or if anyone has any kind of answer would be very much appreciated. 😊