Pepper geek is the king! I started growing peppers this year and he helped me figure some things out when my leaves were turning yellow. My peppers are thriving right now.
This year I put my very slow ripening hot peppers in grow bags, so that I can bring them into the greenhouse at the end of the season to finish ripening up. It also allowed me to start those earlier, so I kept them in grow bags in the greenhouse until early June. They were already a pretty good size by the time I brought them outside, and they are flourishing!
Yo, pepper geek. Since you taught us about bottom pruning, my peppers have absolutely exploded. The tomatoes and a couple squash got the treatment too, and now my garden is properly bonsai'd. Thank you!
If you're dealing with cold, throw a gallon jug of hot water in between the plants and cover. The colder it is, the more hot water to use. Got me an extra month of growing in Canada
Yeah good idea, will try next season. Also good reminder that hardening is crucial. In Iowa here, usually have to wait til the end of May to plant in ground
Different pepper plants like different amounts of water. I've found some plants need water daily, or twice a day, and others don't like to be watered a lot. I would pay attention to each plant to see what each prefers.
No matter what I do my pepper plants always get yellow leaves. I use good soil and fertilise properly, have no pest issues, weather conditions are pretty spot on. I get a decent amount of peppers, it just always makes me feel like a bit failure not having lush, deep green leaves on my plants.
Idk where to post this question so I’m posting here; my ONLY problem in my first & now second year of growing banana peppers in containers ( I have very small patio space), which I adore, is BER!!!! I’ve looked through your entire list of videos, & don’t see a single one about this issue; you SEEM to be the expert here, on peppers, so I follow you. I KNOW this cant just be an issue for me, so why wouldn’t you address this problem??? I do know about consistent watering but perhaps need MORE clarification on fertilizing or adding Ca++??? Please help!!!!
Hey peppergeek, I was hoping you guys could give me some advice. I recently saw a pepper maggot fly on my peppers and I’m not sure what to do. I had a similar issue last year a lost so many peppers. Any advice?
Awesome! I always admire your bushy green pepper seedlings. Could you please oblige me with the secret of how to nurse pepper seeds to fantastically grow like your? My pepper seedlings hardly grow this way and some will die or get stunt at barely 3 inches. Your response will be highly appreciated!
If the plants are mulched, you may only need to water once or twice a week. Check the soil for moisture and don’t water unless it’s bone dry, 3-4 inches down
I put in a new raised bed this spring. Filled 70% with wood chips in the bottom and organic compost on the top. I've planted several jalapeno plants in it. Most of them are pretty yellow. I've added some ammonium sulphate to offset the nitrogen deficiency this week. I'm not sure if that is a good idea or not. We are hitting 100+ degrees now. I'm watering twice a day that bed plus my grow bags to keep up with the heat. Am I on the wrong track?
I'm in Zone 3 and we've had a few nights this summer where it dipped to about 4C (39F) and there was no yellowing of the leaves whatsoever. Not sure if my sweet peppers and chilis were just supremely lucky but up here we can have really wild temp swings and I've never see this yellowing issue you've pointed out. Chilis have always thrived for me and I think this is the first year where my sweet peppers will take off. Love your channel!
I’m in zone 5, we’ve had a few nights like that. Last week I had to bring them inside because it got to 30 degrees two nights in a row. Stupid Idaho 🙄 when they were young they got a cold injury from it getting to cold over night. Last week there was a night I forgot to bring them inside and I was terrified they were going to die but they seem to be doing great. I think the save a tree fertilizer I’m using has made them really strong tho
Before I watch, let me take some guesses. dying older leaves at the bottom; not enough nitrogen, too much watering...that's all I can think of. Now let me watch and see if any are right!
i know this is not a topik of the video but i was wonder about if the are any chilli plants or sweet pepper so grow/fruit underneath 15 C and on growing light. because i live in Norway and i want to grow someting i can harvest in winter time when it dark
You will probably not read this but I will try nonetheless. In order to get rid of fungus gnats I let the soil of my pepper plants dry out. The gnats are gone, but when I try bottom watering, the soil won't soak up water. Are there any tricks to solve the hydrophobic soil issue?
Hiiii I'm trying to grow the adjuma pepper at the moment (because it it's BRILLIANT taste) but it seems like it something that's mostly known in the netherlands, other countries use habeneros but it seems as they are not the same. Have you ever had Adjuma peppers and do you have more information for me?
@peppergeek If I have only two not great options. The weather outside is bad and the sun is not out many minutes for the whole week ahead and its raining are my container plants doing better outside in 17 degrees or indoors on the floor in my kitchen with no sunlight in 20 degrees. ?? I live in Sweden so celcius.
I had aphids really bad on my tomatoes year. I had to rinse them daily until I got the infestation under control. Now I am spraying with neem oil/castile/water mix.
I have twelve pepper plants potted up from June, all but one grew okay but one has been yellow sense transplant, through and through, stem to leaf. I sparingly water. But the yellow plant has produced peppers similar to its sister plants, about half as much. I have added nutrients only twice but have not noticed any changes. What could be causing this? I plan on overwintering all of my pepper plants.
Hey Im new to the pepper breeding world and Im wondering if I can cross a capsicum frutescens with a capsicum annuum? at least that's what I think they are. I have a tiny red pepper that grows wild on some parts of the south pacific that I think is a frutescens, the plant gets quite large though, 6ft. Thank you!
i have a bell pepper plant it was doing good at first and i got my first bell pepper it has not finished growing yet. But the entire plant stopped growing and all of the flowers fell off. The bottom of the plant is white. What should i do.
for some reason i got many really small flying bugs around my plants.. they look like mini Mosquitos...... gonna buy some fly catcher sticky tape tomorrow and place around the plants.
Definitely fungus gnats. Might be due to frequent watering. Nematodes are the best thing against them. Mulching works somewhat. An alternative solution that I enjoy quite a lot are carnivorous plant. I have some drosera capensis and a saracenia and they are eating everything.
If your plants are in pots try bottom watering only and allow the top of the soil to dry, this will make it an unsuitable habitat for the fungus gnats.
hi, hopefully someone can help me. I've grown Bangladeshi Naga chilli plants which looks very healthy and are around 60cm in height and have started producing flowers now but I've noticed the base of the plants are a lot thinner then top Half on all my plants. is there any way to get the base of the plant to match the top half of the plant ? as when it starts to produces pods it would get heavier on the top and may topple the plants over. any advice would be most appreciated.
Bravo! Very good diagnostics! Chilis / peppers are Fire vibration. Given this, the most common diseases will be Water vibration bacteria or fungi (mnemonic: Water extinguishes Fire). For these cases, Earth vibration remedies will solve the problem (mnemonic: Earth dams Water). So, please feel free to ask for these plant-based remedies, if needed!♥♥
what do I do if my peppers are maturing without reaching full size, and there isn't a large number of peppers growing on the plant simultaneously??????
I have 24 plants in 5 gal. buckets with (8) 1/2" holes and Happy Frog soil Planted from nursery plants May 5th.. Buckets are on carts to move them out of the rain. 40% shade cloth is used between high UV hours from 1pm to 5pm. Each bucket has received less than 1gal. of water since May 5th. Over watering symptoms persist, and after transplanting {8) plants into other buckets with Promix HP, the Happy Frog soil in those buckets contained saturated soil in the bottom third of the buckets. The plants receive 8oz. water with recommended mixture of Miracle Grow Performance Organics about once per week only. All plants are stunted to about 12-14 inches and bearing fruit, finally. Growing in Kentucky. Why is soil still wet? Why are they stunted?
I am new at this. I have the new mini peppers growing in 5 gallon buckets. I have peppers about 1to 2 inches long growing. However, today I saw black dots on leaves and to blooms fell off, One was starting to grow a ting pepper and the other still had pedals opening up. What is wrong, what can I do for my plants?
It's normal for some flowers/fruits to fall off, but not all of them. If none of the flowers are setting and turning to fruits it may be from high temperatures, over-fertilizing, or maybe disease. I would just make sure their basic needs are being met (plenty of sunshine, even watering with drainage, fertilizing on a regular basis) and try not to over-care for them
@@PepperGeek Thank you for the help. I also now have some black spots and some pest is eating up some of the leaves. What can I do that is organic and safe?
@@PepperGeek Thanks a lot. I was told they could only have morning light and that they only need 5 or 6 hours of sunlight. Maybe I am not giving it enough light. I am trying not to mess with them much like you said.
When the flowers on a red pepper plant turns brown, does that mean you won't get a pepper from that flower ❓ I had multiple flowers and one by one they started turning brown 😢 I do have 4 peppers that have already emerged
Hi pepper Geek i saw a channel called ( gardening recipes) and it looks fake could you look at this guy growing peppers and tell me whether you think its real or not thanks i love your channel
Took a peek, looks like some of the plants are fake (there isn’t a plant that can produce both yellow and red bells simultaneously). Gotta keep an eye out for phony content more than ever these days!
@@PepperGeek thank you so much for replying I love your content and have some nice jalapeno and bell peppers growing now I thought something looked off but I wanted to consult the experts thanks again
what about raised beds on concrete that drains as the water is given? My beds are 4x8 but again on concrete irrigated with a slow drip every three days yet what can I do? I think the nutrients are being washed out. HELP PLEASE
I would treat this more like a container garden since the soil only goes so deep. Fertilizer a few times throughout the season to keep the plants well-fed
Pepper geek is the king! I started growing peppers this year and he helped me figure some things out when my leaves were turning yellow. My peppers are thriving right now.
This year I put my very slow ripening hot peppers in grow bags, so that I can bring them into the greenhouse at the end of the season to finish ripening up. It also allowed me to start those earlier, so I kept them in grow bags in the greenhouse until early June. They were already a pretty good size by the time I brought them outside, and they are flourishing!
Yo, pepper geek. Since you taught us about bottom pruning, my peppers have absolutely exploded. The tomatoes and a couple squash got the treatment too, and now my garden is properly bonsai'd. Thank you!
If you're dealing with cold, throw a gallon jug of hot water in between the plants and cover. The colder it is, the more hot water to use. Got me an extra month of growing in Canada
Awesome idea!!
Yeah good idea, will try next season. Also good reminder that hardening is crucial. In Iowa here, usually have to wait til the end of May to plant in ground
Different pepper plants like different amounts of water. I've found some plants need water daily, or twice a day, and others don't like to be watered a lot. I would pay attention to each plant to see what each prefers.
New subscriber. Love "PEPPER GEEK". Peppers are one of my favorite plants to grow. 🤩
No matter what I do my pepper plants always get yellow leaves. I use good soil and fertilise properly, have no pest issues, weather conditions are pretty spot on. I get a decent amount of peppers, it just always makes me feel like a bit failure not having lush, deep green leaves on my plants.
if jt’s not over-watering or under-feeding, I’ve had success spraying the leaves with an epsom salt solution every other week.
Thanks Calvin
Thanks for watching!
Hey PepperGeek are you going to continue the "This is what our peppers look like in _____ " series? Id love to see the progress!
Good idea, maybe we can do that for this season ☺️
@@PepperGeek I think people would love that! I love following my progress and comparing it to yours
Idk where to post this question so I’m posting here; my ONLY problem in my first & now second year of growing banana peppers in containers ( I have very small patio space), which I adore, is BER!!!! I’ve looked through your entire list of videos, & don’t see a single one about this issue; you SEEM to be the expert here, on peppers, so I follow you. I KNOW this cant just be an issue for me, so why wouldn’t you address this problem??? I do know about consistent watering but perhaps need MORE clarification on fertilizing or adding Ca++??? Please help!!!!
Hey peppergeek, I was hoping you guys could give me some advice. I recently saw a pepper maggot fly on my peppers and I’m not sure what to do. I had a similar issue last year a lost so many peppers. Any advice?
Awesome!
I always admire your bushy green pepper seedlings.
Could you please oblige me with the secret of how to nurse pepper seeds to fantastically grow like your?
My pepper seedlings hardly grow this way and some will die or get stunt at barely 3 inches. Your response will be highly appreciated!
Great video! Can water with too much chlorine cause yellow leaves?
Absolutely. Put water in a 5 gallon bucket and let it sit in the sun for the day. By the next day the chlorine will bun off naturally.
Question: On a dry ~85 degree week with no clouds, peppers planted in raised bed. How often would you water? (habneros, thai chili, and greek peppers)
If the plants are mulched, you may only need to water once or twice a week. Check the soil for moisture and don’t water unless it’s bone dry, 3-4 inches down
I put in a new raised bed this spring. Filled 70% with wood chips in the bottom and organic compost on the top. I've planted several jalapeno plants in it. Most of them are pretty yellow. I've added some ammonium sulphate to offset the nitrogen deficiency this week. I'm not sure if that is a good idea or not. We are hitting 100+ degrees now. I'm watering twice a day that bed plus my grow bags to keep up with the heat. Am I on the wrong track?
Please make a video on open farm of Capcicum farming Topic must be on very crucial Problems flowers dropping Problem in high Temperature
I'm in Zone 3 and we've had a few nights this summer where it dipped to about 4C (39F) and there was no yellowing of the leaves whatsoever. Not sure if my sweet peppers and chilis were just supremely lucky but up here we can have really wild temp swings and I've never see this yellowing issue you've pointed out. Chilis have always thrived for me and I think this is the first year where my sweet peppers will take off. Love your channel!
I’m in zone 5, we’ve had a few nights like that. Last week I had to bring them inside because it got to 30 degrees two nights in a row. Stupid Idaho 🙄 when they were young they got a cold injury from it getting to cold over night. Last week there was a night I forgot to bring them inside and I was terrified they were going to die but they seem to be doing great. I think the save a tree fertilizer I’m using has made them really strong tho
I have leaves that are turning yelow and that also has black edges of the leaves. do you think its some fungi?
Before I watch, let me take some guesses. dying older leaves at the bottom; not enough nitrogen, too much watering...that's all I can think of. Now let me watch and see if any are right!
i know this is not a topik of the video but i was wonder about if the are any chilli plants or sweet pepper so grow/fruit underneath 15 C and on growing light. because i live in Norway and i want to grow someting i can harvest in winter time when it dark
You will probably not read this but I will try nonetheless. In order to get rid of fungus gnats I let the soil of my pepper plants dry out. The gnats are gone, but when I try bottom watering, the soil won't soak up water. Are there any tricks to solve the hydrophobic soil issue?
Hiiii I'm trying to grow the adjuma pepper at the moment (because it it's BRILLIANT taste) but it seems like it something that's mostly known in the netherlands, other countries use habeneros but it seems as they are not the same. Have you ever had Adjuma peppers and do you have more information for me?
@peppergeek If I have only two not great options. The weather outside is bad and the sun is not out many minutes for the whole week ahead and its raining are my container plants doing better outside in 17 degrees or indoors on the floor in my kitchen with no sunlight in 20 degrees. ?? I live in Sweden so celcius.
hello, why are my blossoms on my red pepper falling down? they become beige..
i get them on tomatos too
I had aphids really bad on my tomatoes year. I had to rinse them daily until I got the infestation under control. Now I am spraying with neem oil/castile/water mix.
I have twelve pepper plants potted up from June, all but one grew okay but one has been yellow sense transplant, through and through, stem to leaf. I sparingly water. But the yellow plant has produced peppers similar to its sister plants, about half as much. I have added nutrients only twice but have not noticed any changes. What could be causing this? I plan on overwintering all of my pepper plants.
Chillis are awsome
Hey Im new to the pepper breeding world and Im wondering if I can cross a capsicum frutescens with a capsicum annuum? at least that's what I think they are. I have a tiny red pepper that grows wild on some parts of the south pacific that I think is a frutescens, the plant gets quite large though, 6ft. Thank you!
Crows 😆
i have a bell pepper plant it was doing good at first and i got my first bell pepper it has not finished growing yet. But the entire plant stopped growing and all of the flowers fell off. The bottom of the plant is white. What should i do.
So I have some serranos and the leaves aren’t really yellow but a really light green what could it be?
for some reason i got many really small flying bugs around my plants.. they look like mini Mosquitos...... gonna buy some fly catcher sticky tape tomorrow and place around the plants.
They are fungus gnats they wont hurt anything, leave em alone
Grow a tobacco plant In your garden. They’re pretty, you can smoke em, use em for Medicine/pain relief and they’re sticky. Bugs get stuck to them.
Definitely fungus gnats. Might be due to frequent watering. Nematodes are the best thing against them. Mulching works somewhat. An alternative solution that I enjoy quite a lot are carnivorous plant. I have some drosera capensis and a saracenia and they are eating everything.
If your plants are in pots try bottom watering only and allow the top of the soil to dry, this will make it an unsuitable habitat for the fungus gnats.
@@madhat127 ill try this ty :)
hi, hopefully someone can help me.
I've grown Bangladeshi Naga chilli plants which looks very healthy and are around 60cm in height and have started producing flowers now but I've noticed the base of the plants are a lot thinner then top Half on all my plants. is there any way to get the base of the plant to match the top half of the plant ? as when it starts to produces pods it would get heavier on the top and may topple the plants over. any advice would be most appreciated.
My leaves on my tabasco plant are not yellowing they are just falling off is this normal
Bravo! Very good diagnostics! Chilis / peppers are Fire vibration. Given this, the most common diseases will be Water vibration bacteria or fungi (mnemonic: Water extinguishes Fire). For these cases, Earth vibration remedies will solve the problem (mnemonic: Earth dams Water). So, please feel free to ask for these plant-based remedies, if needed!♥♥
My pepper stem started to yellow will my pepper never grow now?
what do I do if my peppers are maturing without reaching full size, and there isn't a large number of peppers growing on the plant simultaneously??????
I have 24 plants in 5 gal. buckets with (8) 1/2" holes and Happy Frog soil Planted from nursery plants May 5th.. Buckets are on carts to move them out of the rain. 40% shade cloth is used between high UV hours from 1pm to 5pm. Each bucket has received less than 1gal. of water since May 5th. Over watering symptoms persist, and after transplanting {8) plants into other buckets with Promix HP, the Happy Frog soil in those buckets contained saturated soil in the bottom third of the buckets. The plants receive 8oz. water with recommended mixture of Miracle Grow Performance Organics about once per week only. All plants are stunted to about 12-14 inches and bearing fruit, finally. Growing in Kentucky. Why is soil still wet? Why are they stunted?
I am new at this. I have the new mini peppers growing in 5 gallon buckets. I have peppers about 1to 2 inches long growing. However, today I saw black dots on leaves and to blooms fell off, One was starting to grow a ting pepper and the other still had pedals opening up. What is wrong, what can I do for my plants?
It's normal for some flowers/fruits to fall off, but not all of them. If none of the flowers are setting and turning to fruits it may be from high temperatures, over-fertilizing, or maybe disease. I would just make sure their basic needs are being met (plenty of sunshine, even watering with drainage, fertilizing on a regular basis) and try not to over-care for them
@@PepperGeek Thank you for the help. I also now have some black spots and some pest is eating up some of the leaves. What can I do that is organic and safe?
@@PepperGeek Thanks a lot. I was told they could only have morning light and that they only need 5 or 6 hours of sunlight. Maybe I am not giving it enough light. I am trying not to mess with them much like you said.
I get a lot of Minor leafs , how to stop it ?
When the flowers on a red pepper plant turns brown, does that mean you won't get a pepper from that flower ❓ I had multiple flowers and one by one they started turning brown 😢 I do have 4 peppers that have already emerged
They may have gotten burned up from too much blazing sun and heat.
@@LeslieKaster-j5h so I probably won't get a pepper from them 😔
@@LeslieKaster-j5h I am in the mid West, it's been in the low 80's to mid 90's the last cpl weeks
I hate aphids! They were sent by the devil to annoy me to no end!
This is the time of year they thrive. We have Asiatic beetles now, which are even more annoying (chewing holes in all the plants!)
Hi pepper Geek i saw a channel called ( gardening recipes) and it looks fake could you look at this guy growing peppers and tell me whether you think its real or not thanks i love your channel
Took a peek, looks like some of the plants are fake (there isn’t a plant that can produce both yellow and red bells simultaneously). Gotta keep an eye out for phony content more than ever these days!
@@PepperGeek thank you so much for replying I love your content and have some nice jalapeno and bell peppers growing now I thought something looked off but I wanted to consult the experts thanks again
The care-less crow cares not the important business of the human in yon garden. The human cares not the crow's business.
i have a plant that keeps wilting
Wilting can be from, underwatering, over-watering, heat-stress, and certain diseases
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By the way, the longer hair and beard works. Makes you look a little badass, even though you’re clearly a nice guy.
CAAAW CAW CAW
I love crows, but he was extra-chatty during this filming
@@PepperGeek me too, I usually caw back to them and they fly away from the cringe
The crow appears to disagree
I thought that you should remove damaged leaves so the plant can put energy in the healthy parts
what about raised beds on concrete that drains as the water is given? My beds are 4x8 but again on concrete irrigated with a slow drip every three days yet what can I do? I think the nutrients are being washed out. HELP PLEASE
I would treat this more like a container garden since the soil only goes so deep. Fertilizer a few times throughout the season to keep the plants well-fed