5 Pepper Growing Mistakes to Avoid
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Date: 2022-07-18
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Mardas
I love the mention of cross pollination. I unknowingly planted varieties close together one year and never forgot seeing my neighbor ask for a hungarian wax pepper and i said sure take a few. He bit into one right in front of me and then ran towards his house cursing. I noticed after my habanero plants were close to them. I ended up with very hot hungarian peppers and the habaneros were still very hot as well. I avoid habanero's now as other than chili, i have no use for them. I put my sweet peppers on one end of my garden and my jalapeno's and poblano's on the other. Also put grass clippings and i water them only half as much as other plants. They get huge and i call them pepper trees. It's all about learning what does well with the soil you have and what you need to do. Less is better for me. all organic, no fertilizer other than my own compost with seaweed and fish heads and when i had rabbits i put there droppings in the soil also. I also use straw not hay to surround my tomatoes and watermelons and they grow great. People think melon's wont do well in Maine. You have to keep them warm and water them alot of course. I realize this site is for container growing but i learn from all sites. Carrots, try the cornstarch method. It's amazing! MT
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I love the mention of cross pollination. I unknowingly planted varieties close together one year and never forgot seeing my neighbor ask for a hungarian wax pepper and i said sure take a few. He bit into one right in front of me and then ran towards his house cursing. I noticed after my habanero plants were close to them. I ended up with very hot hungarian peppers and the habaneros were still very hot as well. I avoid habanero's now as other than chili, i have no use for them. I put my sweet peppers on one end of my garden and my jalapeno's and poblano's on the other. Also put grass clippings and i water them only half as much as other plants. They get huge and i call them pepper trees. It's all about learning what does well with the soil you have and what you need to do. Less is better for me. all organic, no fertilizer other than my own compost with seaweed and fish heads and when i had rabbits i put there droppings in the soil also. I also use straw not hay to surround my tomatoes and watermelons and they grow great. People think melon's wont do well in Maine. You have to keep them warm and water them alot of course. I realize this site is for container growing but i learn from all sites. Carrots, try the cornstarch method. It's amazing! MT
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handmade
I decided to try to grow a jalapeno pepper in a pot along with a smoky pepper (that had two plants in one pot so I separated it. With in the 1st two months that I had them, a deer at them down to sticks along with my shrubs. All the plants are growing their leaves back now. The jalapeno plant has one large green jalapeno on it a baby one that refuses to grow. I thought it would have more than just one jalapeno on it. The smoky peppers aren't doing anything but getting taller. All three of the pepper plants aren't bushy at all, they're just one long stem with leaves. I'm in SC where the summer temps get over 100 degrees. I have them in 6in pots I think, should I put them in bigger pots? I used Miracle Gro as my potting soil. Please help
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I decided to try to grow a jalapeno pepper in a pot along with a smoky pepper (that had two plants in one pot so I separated it. With in the 1st two months that I had them, a deer at them down to sticks along with my shrubs. All the plants are growing their leaves back now. The jalapeno plant has one large green jalapeno on it a baby one that refuses to grow. I thought it would have more than just one jalapeno on it. The smoky peppers aren't doing anything but getting taller. All three of the pepper plants aren't bushy at all, they're just one long stem with leaves. I'm in SC where the summer temps get over 100 degrees. I have them in 6in pots I think, should I put them in bigger pots? I used Miracle Gro as my potting soil. Please help
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eQui
Chillihead gardener here. The optimum fertilizer NPK for all stages is 2: 1: 3.
If u want to be perfect u could use 3: 1: 2 for the seedling stage and switch to more Potassium when they get to fruiting size.
If u want to stay organic horse menure is what capsicum loves.
Also additional tip:
When the season ends and your peppers are not ready yet you can do a thing that ripens them faster. If u have a green fruit that is about to get ready (red/yellow spot) u should remove it. This will lead the plant to panic and get the other ones ripen faster.
The second thing is that peppers can ripen indoors after harvest. Just get hole branches of the plant inside before the first frost and wait.
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Chillihead gardener here. The optimum fertilizer NPK for all stages is 2: 1: 3.
If u want to be perfect u could use 3: 1: 2 for the seedling stage and switch to more Potassium when they get to fruiting size.
If u want to stay organic horse menure is what capsicum loves.
Also additional tip:
When the season ends and your peppers are not ready yet you can do a thing that ripens them faster. If u have a green fruit that is about to get ready (red/yellow spot) u should remove it. This will lead the plant to panic and get the other ones ripen faster.
The second thing is that peppers can ripen indoors after harvest. Just get hole branches of the plant inside before the first frost and wait.
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sstimac
I don't grow only peppers, but they are about 2/3 of my garden this year. They're great plants with tons of phylogenic variety. They're fun to grow. I do disagree on watering somewhat. I allow my superhot peppers and many of hot peppers to get drier than my other plants. I find the heat is better when the plant only gets water sparingly. I keep quite a few plants through the winter in a grow tent under quantums. I'm in zone 5/6 so I definitely need to keep them inside from Oct-May.
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I don't grow only peppers, but they are about 2/3 of my garden this year. They're great plants with tons of phylogenic variety. They're fun to grow. I do disagree on watering somewhat. I allow my superhot peppers and many of hot peppers to get drier than my other plants. I find the heat is better when the plant only gets water sparingly. I keep quite a few plants through the winter in a grow tent under quantums. I'm in zone 5/6 so I definitely need to keep them inside from Oct-May.
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handmade
So I'm new to gardening and I was told by an older lady that moving plants to the shade or covering with a shade cloth doesn't help because you don't change the temperature. All you need to do is water more. While it's true that temperature won't change, is it true that water depletion is the only problem? I could only find information stating that plants couldn't transpire properly during extreme temps so more water wouldn't help anyway, but that was only one source
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So I'm new to gardening and I was told by an older lady that moving plants to the shade or covering with a shade cloth doesn't help because you don't change the temperature. All you need to do is water more. While it's true that temperature won't change, is it true that water depletion is the only problem? I could only find information stating that plants couldn't transpire properly during extreme temps so more water wouldn't help anyway, but that was only one source
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Ethan
READERS, START W/THIS VIDEO. Ignore anything contradicting it until you finish residency and become boarded as a pepper PhD. I grow a few hundred of variety a year on my dairy farm in a hardy 5-6 zone from seed. These tips above all the billion others got me from leggy 6 fruit plants to chest high growth, 1 dia. bark trunks, and a surplus that I had to donate to a health clinic food bank, and a couple Pittsburgh Eastern Food produce markets.
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READERS, START W/THIS VIDEO. Ignore anything contradicting it until you finish residency and become boarded as a pepper PhD. I grow a few hundred of variety a year on my dairy farm in a hardy 5-6 zone from seed. These tips above all the billion others got me from leggy 6 fruit plants to chest high growth, 1 dia. bark trunks, and a surplus that I had to donate to a health clinic food bank, and a couple Pittsburgh Eastern Food produce markets.
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Salvage
This first year I have had a critter eating my plants before they are producing. Some were just yanked out of the ground and tossed out of the box. Others were eaten to the roots. They did nibble on the tomatoes but not like the peppers. I stayed out in the garage late with the rifle waiting Friday night but now show. Not sure what it is? Even spread that pellet repellent around and some ammonia but nothing is working
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This first year I have had a critter eating my plants before they are producing. Some were just yanked out of the ground and tossed out of the box. Others were eaten to the roots. They did nibble on the tomatoes but not like the peppers. I stayed out in the garage late with the rifle waiting Friday night but now show. Not sure what it is? Even spread that pellet repellent around and some ammonia but nothing is working
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Shep
This was a great video, even with the small mistake about crossing. I live in Central Florida and made the beginner mistake of pulling pepper plants in the winter and planting new plants in the spring. I will definitely give overwintering a go this winter. Can you do that with all pepper varieties? I have about 8 different varieties growing right now. Thanks again for the video, you really sound like you know your stuff.
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This was a great video, even with the small mistake about crossing. I live in Central Florida and made the beginner mistake of pulling pepper plants in the winter and planting new plants in the spring. I will definitely give overwintering a go this winter. Can you do that with all pepper varieties? I have about 8 different varieties growing right now. Thanks again for the video, you really sound like you know your stuff.
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Nicolas
wow. I don't often catch you being wrong, but the cross pollination thing? Just no, man, no. You might get cross pollination one year, and then get strange fruits when you actually sow those seeds produced by the cross pollinated fruits in YEAR TWO, but the flavor of those first year fruits WILL NOT CHANGE. I've grown sweep peppers next to carolina reapers there is no issue lol
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wow. I don't often catch you being wrong, but the cross pollination thing? Just no, man, no. You might get cross pollination one year, and then get strange fruits when you actually sow those seeds produced by the cross pollinated fruits in YEAR TWO, but the flavor of those first year fruits WILL NOT CHANGE. I've grown sweep peppers next to carolina reapers there is no issue lol
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JimmyJ17
I've over-wintered a Black Pearl Pepper plant for 2 years now. I just bring it in the house and put it in a full light window (no pruning. It still flowers, but doesn't really produce through the winter. Come spring, when it is warm enough, it goes back outside (just the other day here. Once outside, it starts producing like mad again! I got 5-6 harvests off of it last summer!
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I've over-wintered a Black Pearl Pepper plant for 2 years now. I just bring it in the house and put it in a full light window (no pruning. It still flowers, but doesn't really produce through the winter. Come spring, when it is warm enough, it goes back outside (just the other day here. Once outside, it starts producing like mad again! I got 5-6 harvests off of it last summer!
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Sebastian
You seem like a lovely guy! However the contents of you advise is too unnspecific. giving no advice about how much you water or how much fertiliser you gave to the top of your jalapeno. People who cant grow chilli's as well as you are looking on you tube for more specific advice. so how can they improve their watering or regimen with your video? Kindest regards though X
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You seem like a lovely guy! However the contents of you advise is too unnspecific. giving no advice about how much you water or how much fertiliser you gave to the top of your jalapeno. People who cant grow chilli's as well as you are looking on you tube for more specific advice. so how can they improve their watering or regimen with your video? Kindest regards though X
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Ashley
Honestly this is really helpful. Ive always loved gardening. Last year for the very first time I went full force and started a big garden. There was a lot of successes and a lot of fails. Im growing Bell peppers again and decided to do banana peppers. These arent for me as my family enjoys peppers a lot more than I do. But for me its the experience!
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Honestly this is really helpful. Ive always loved gardening. Last year for the very first time I went full force and started a big garden. There was a lot of successes and a lot of fails. Im growing Bell peppers again and decided to do banana peppers. These arent for me as my family enjoys peppers a lot more than I do. But for me its the experience!
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1931Spanish
Also in San Diego; I had Italian Sweet Peppers that produced for 6 years. Just left them over the winter, cut back in early spring, and then good to go. Only took them out this year because I needed to re-do the whole garden bed, and they were looking too sad. The Ancho chili is still going strong after two years.
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Also in San Diego; I had Italian Sweet Peppers that produced for 6 years. Just left them over the winter, cut back in early spring, and then good to go. Only took them out this year because I needed to re-do the whole garden bed, and they were looking too sad. The Ancho chili is still going strong after two years.
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Robert
I had a friend who planted some jalapenos near his tomatoes. Those tomatoes were hot. I don't know if the roots had intermingled or what caused it. They were good. I enjoy spicy tomatoes but I didn't expect it without something else mixed with them. Thanks for the good information.
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I had a friend who planted some jalapenos near his tomatoes. Those tomatoes were hot. I don't know if the roots had intermingled or what caused it. They were good. I enjoy spicy tomatoes but I didn't expect it without something else mixed with them. Thanks for the good information.
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Soldrakenn
S/o I know grew peppers two years in a row, first year suuuper hot, barely edible, second year, barely any spice at all. He claimed it was the same kind and thought it must be that he used the old soil. Is there any truth to that, or was it prob. cross pollination
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S/o I know grew peppers two years in a row, first year suuuper hot, barely edible, second year, barely any spice at all. He claimed it was the same kind and thought it must be that he used the old soil. Is there any truth to that, or was it prob. cross pollination
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