@@paulsoutbackgardenaustrali7674 Chicken manure and compost are great amendments for jalapeños! Work both into the soil in advance of planting, or top-dress mid-season to boost your productivity. If you're buying bagged ingredients, just check the nitrogen level to avoid over-feeding nitrogen.
@@JayEllJayToo I might start a few weeks earlier, but plan for them to be indoors longer. You'll need more space indoors to allow them to keep getting bigger without getting root bound in small pots. Make sure to transplant into even bigger pots when they're ready!
Love these "start to finish tutorials". They make it so much easier than trying to follow a series of videos that post months apart. I have a bit of an adventure, ahead, for my pepper growing. For some giggles, I bought a pack of Burpee "Hot Pepper Salsa Blend" seeds. It contains Hungarian Wax, Anaheim Chili, Long Slim Red Cayenne, Ancho (Poblano) and Jalapeno M, in assorted amounts, so I won't actually know what many of the plants actually are until they fruit.
Would it be possible to let me know where you purchased your seeds from? I am totally blind. I have no vision whatsoever so the more details or the more specific would be better for me. Thank you very much.
I have loved growing peppers for my jams. My strawberry jalapeño is a huge hit. Last year my habanero plants went crazy. I harvested more than 200 off of three plants. I have an amazing peach habanero jam and pineapple habanero jam that are incredible with soft cheeses.
Here in Florida I use the drink cups from fast food places that have a hole in the top for the straw,they make an excellent mini greenhouse for lots of plants, also I've had the same jalapeno and Tabasco pepper plants for several years now, use a sharp set of small pruning sheers to harvest the peppers, got this tip from a Mexican lady in Santa Fe Springs CA years ago
@@ktop4u These are clear plastic cups used to serve milk shakes and stuff like that, they have a hole in the lid for a straw, I find these make a great mini greenhouse just try not to leave them in full sun very long as they get way too hot inside !!
Greetings from Brooklyn, NY. I’ve been an apartment dweller for over twenty years. I can honestly say that whatever plants my wife brings home don’t fair well except a bamboo one. My sun exposure is blocked by our courtyard. I have decided to move the plants to our bedroom window sill as an experiment. I hope that helps. I watch other RUclips gardening videos but you’re very welcoming and informative. Cheers.
We grew in our apartment for many years, so I'm familiar with the limitations. Hope you can find the right spot for your plants, and thanks for the kind words!
Moisten a coffee filter, put seeds on it, fold it over once or twice and place in a ziplock baggie until the seeds germinate. Usually about a week. Plant them in cells and you’ll have one plant per cell.
POTTING SOIL PROBLEMS: Im on Long Island (Zone 7). This past nov, i started several jalapeno plants indoors, but just a couple weeks after up-potting to 5 gal pails, they all slowly died. After some extended reading, I think I know why: probably root rot, due to several convergent factors. 1) Straight potting mix follies (ex: miraclegro moisture retaining potting mix) seems to lack the degree of drainage that peppers prefer, and also tends to overcompact after several months of regular watering. My solution was to recycle the semi-used potting mix, albeit with some ammendments - after blending in an extra 10% perlite, I blended in about 1/3rd 70:30 coco coir & perlite blend. The coco coir & perlite should help improve the drainage of the potting soil, and resistance to both under & over watering as well as excessive compaction. 2) Watering wrong: i had a tendency to overwater, and to water directly at the base of my potted plants. Ive since switched to watering less, and watering in a pattern (around the outer 1/3 of a pail) to encourage the roots to spread laterally, rather than just downwards. I also drilled four 3/8" drain holes about 1/2" above the bottom of my 5 gal pails, to prevent any standing water in the bottoms. I also switched varieties from Jalapeno to Jalafuego, which is somewhat more resistant to common types of blight. Remember mantra: peppers dont like wet daipers. Hope that helps others.
Interesting but then the edges will be cooler than the outside so I don't see the point of going either way unless your trays are very small 3/4"/1" types to go somewhere in the "middle".
Good growing tutorial. For those varieties that take longer to germinate I highly recommend some kind of covering to keep the soil from drying out. I used to cover with saran wrap but now I use those little plastic jello shot cups which fits over the cells really well and keeps the soil nice and moist until they germinate.
I am totally blind I have no vision, would it be possible to let me know where I can purchase my seeds from? And the more detail the better for me it’ll help me find the sites or it’ll help whoever will be help me find the sites easier. Thank you so much.
@@stevemendez3535 Here are a couple links to some great jalapeño varieties: Jedi jalapeño: www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/peppers/hot-peppers/jedi-f1-jalapeno-pepper-seed-3528.html Goliath jalapeño: www.totallytomato.com/product/T00006/59 Jalafuego: www.botanicalinterests.com/product/Jalapeno-Jalafuego-Chile-Pepper-Seeds Enjoy!
Perfect timing finding this video as my Jalapeno ‘M’ have just surfaced in my heated prop. I hadn’t planned on staking them but I sure will and the tip of shading them in the afternoon is really useful to me as I live in a hot climate. Thanks for spending the time to pass on your expertise to those that have never grown Jalapenos.
Awesome! The very first sprouts are exciting - it is amazing to think how big and productive those tiny seedlings will be in a few months. Best of luck!
This is a great video. Thank you. I grow in raised beds so I always plant my peppers deeper than the root ball. I’m in 9A and our summers are really hot and humid. I’ve found that peppers will grow additional roots along the stalk. And by planting them deeper, it protects the root system from heat and sun and it allows the plant to tap into moisture in the bottom of the beds.
Very informing! Zone 4b and planning our 2nd garden season. My pepper seedlings last year were stunted, definitely made a few mistakes. Will be adjusting accordingly this year and already got lots of exciting varieties to try. Thank you for the tips
I've never done any of this. I grow from seeds only exotic kinds (corno di toro red, Sushimi, Candy Cane Chocolate, etc). This year I am also growing several varieties of bells from seed. Most plants have buds by the time I plant.
I'm growing both hot and mild . Thanks for helping me garden 😊 I'm trying both in ground and raise bed as you seem to recommend raise beds 6a mid Ohio here happy gardening
Just started planting my peppers in zone 5a. Every year when I put my transplants in the grow bags or ground I plant them slightly deeper like tomatoes because of the adventitious roots that nightshade crops possess. The peppers usually have grow a lot sturdier of a stem. Thanks for the refresher on the peppers.
We grew these peppers and We got a whole bunch to the point that we gave them away. We season out all of oil in the lemon. Sit in the sun for a month. So they get the nice flavor of them and then we gave mount as christmas gifts.
When I am up-potting seedlings I take an empty pot the same size as the one they are currently in and use it to make a 'mold' of the original one in the soil so the seedling can just pop right into its new home.
I've already started on mine! I'm running Anaheim, Bhut Jolokia, White Lightning Bolt, Sugar Rush Stripey, Hallow's eve, Habanero, Carolina Reaper, and of course... Jalapeño. Good luck!
absolutely loving your videos man. Growing peppers for the first time this year, got a late start but shouldn't be a big issue. Thanks for the content! God bless you guys
Really nice video. 17:45 There is another option. Rather than pruning early fruit and flowers, you can simply add more light, root capacity, and nutrient density. The plant is more than capable of supporting any fruit it produces while also growing exponentially, vegetatively. In northern states likes yours where time is of the essence, you need to be in go mode from the jump. I used to prune because I believed what you believe. Now though, I just give the plant more. It knows what to do. We are talking 14 kilos per plant in under 7 months from seed. Can be done with 100 gallon wide bag. Wider, shallower root zones are better for capsicum as opposed to taller/deeper. Following the growdown between you and ChiliChump! ❤
Thanks for sharing, the flower tip is out there to help avoid those early fruits on tiny plants. I've seen many-a-gardens with an 8" tall bell pepper plant with one tiny, sad fruit on it 😂. However, I've found that if the timing of transplanting is perfect, flower pruning is rarely even necessary. Looking forward to the dorset naga grow as well (hopefully they sprout soon...).
@@PepperGeek Yes, very true. Timing is key and staying ahead of them. I’m truly a fan and I’ve genuinely enjoyed watching your channel grow. What are the requirements for growing along side you guys this year? Same seed source I imagine yes?
I'm in the UK and don't have electricity, so am trying to germinate my chillis over a barrel of composting grass, manure, and woodchip. The light is also an issue. Wish me luck 😅 Thanks for the tips.
Snow is leaving and temperature is getting in the 50s this week. I'm ready to get started. I had very good results on my jalapeno last season but not so much for the bell
I also group seeds by subspecies in the same dome to prevent having a mix of seedlings and unsprouted seeds under one dome. For example one dome with super hots (Chinense) one dome with medium (Baccatum) and a dome with the milder sorts (Annuum) Makes the switch from heating mat to growlight more efficient
We had a birthday party and a couple sheet cakes brought in. I kept the 2 nice clear domes and im using them to cover trays. They are sturdy and work great.
I have learned so much over the last couple of years from watching your tutorials. While watching this video I thought to myself "I'm already doing that" because of the lessons I've learned from your channel. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and presenting it in a way that's easy to understand. Btw, we used your recipe for pickled banana peppers and ran out a few weeks ago but I'm still enjoying the pepper powder almost daily.
I am totally blind out of Fort Worth Texas. Hi am so excited that I found this channel you should put your book on what is called audiobooks for the blind. You can do this at the national library and they will even let you read it yourself. Keep up the good work hopefully this is some thing for you to think about I know myself and other blind folks that garden would love to have this on an audio cartridge they can access.
Thanks for the great video. I would like to mention that it doesn't matter what zone you are in. We need to know our last frost date to know when to start seeds and be able to plant out
Wow. I learned so much from this video. I've grown two jalapeno plants from seed and they are not providing nearly as much fruit as yours. I will have to use what I've learned from this video on the next go around. Thank you!
When starting seeds, I plant 2-3 seeds in each cell, but space them far apart to make thinning easier. The roots will eventually tangle if seeds are planted in the same hole. I re-plant the culled sprouts in fresh containers to give "spares" to my daughter and my sis-in-law. Waste not... I also found that soaking seeds in warm water for 36-48 hours prior to planting in soil speeds up their germination from weeks to a few days.
I had a Jalapeno pepper plant a while back down here in southern Arizona that I planted in the ground it gave me around 250 peppers the size you picked in your video before it decided to give up it's life. Haven't had any success since then.
Im getting into growing peppers and vine plants. The worst part about gardening is waiting for tomorrow... everyday i cant wait to see how they are doing the next day. Its addictive
Those heat mats work better if the whole affair is encloed in a box. Insulated is best, then add a rack so the pots are an inch or two above the mat. (basically a make shift oven) I also let the freshly planted seeds sit at low temperature 50-60f for 2-3 days while absorbing moisture, then put them in the warming box at 75f, this gets very uniform germination.
Another useful video. I watch them all. Maybe its just me, or jalapeno's are hard to sprout for me. Do they have a lower germination rate than other peppers like cayenne, birds eye or even ajin lemon ?. (all three of latter sprout for me from seed especially fresh pretty quickly). I finally have ONE jalapeno plant (and i treat it like a princess..its growing and branching fine) ... after many failed germinations lol
Howdy, Thanks for the educational shows. I live in south Texas and do quite well growing all kinds of peppers. Would you guys like some seeds from some of my wild chilies?They grow like weeds here in the brush country. I can put some dried peppers in a plastic bag and send em in an envelope. we don't get as cold as ya do up north so the growing season in south Texas is quite long. love the advice and tips ya give. I have learned a thing or too from both of you. take care.
Man, that plant is a solid three feet tall. I can never seem to get mine taller than about 2 feet. This year I tried planting in the ground to get em larger for more fruit. They have grown a little larger, but not as much as I'd hoped.
awesome video! grew some last year for the first time and they stayed short due to overcrowding and not picking the early buds off. We are doing small plants in raise beds instead of seeds with raise bed soil since we had good success last year with that. but now we gave more space and I will look for those early buds so the plants will grow taller thanks to you.
oh wow saving this one so i can have access to those wonderful recipes ..thank you for your information and wisdom .. this will be my first year trying to grow jelapeno .. i hope it works out lol
Have you tried starting your seeds in starter trays and then pricking out to punnets? I hate thinning seedlings in punnets - it always seems like the best two specimens in the whole batch are in the same cell demanding that I sacrifice one. Putting them in punnets after they've germinated means I have a live plant in every cell and no doubles.
Overall a good tutorial I would say. Personally, I grow them to ripe red in order to smoke and dry them as chipotle. I do a crop every couple of years since dried/smoked peppers store very well. I grow them hydroponically indoors during the winter months, takes a good 4 months from seed sprout until harvest.
@@nk-dw2hm most certainly! Hydroponics is just soilless growing where you control everything to optimimun conditions. As a result things grow faster, healthier, and great quality. Just takes some dedication and management.
@@badgermtn haven't tried hydro but might do a dwc setup next time I prep a grow area, just wanted to get your thoughts on the flavor perspective since a lot of people seem to say hydro grows faster but soil can give more flavor. But a lot of people are trying to sell a product so it's good to hear real world results
Our supermarket only sometimes sells those delicious, green jalapenos. So I wanted to grow those on my own so I would never have a shortage of these peppers. I took the seeds of only the biggest of those beautifully green jalapenos, and followed each of your steps, still, not even one seed has germinated.
I love your videos and I have learned a lot, Thank you. I've started a couple of Goliath Jalapenos and they are currently outside in 5 gallon buckets and are 6-7 in. tall & looking strong. The leaves are starting to fade to a whitish color. Is this normal for the Goliaths? If not what can I do to correct this?
I checked it out and it is a great concept, but might be a bit more than we need to organize our relatively small number of plants. Maybe if we expand and have hundreds of plants going at any given time it would be a good tool!
No, we have experimented a bit with "topping" and haven't found any notable difference in yield. We may run a more thorough experiment, but no early pruning has worked well for us for years
I recently began watching your pepper videos and enjoy them very much. I'm in zone 6 and this June is much like last June > COLD nights - many in the mid to low 40s. I've hesitated putting them out this year as last year the June weather seemed to affect the production. I will be planting in a 100 gal Root Pouch. How cold is too cold for pepper plants? (I am growing jalapenos, red fresno, italian/cubanelle and a red bell).
When you're counting back for deciding when to start, do you count from when you plant them outside or from the frost date? For example if my last frost day is May 1st, I usually wait at least 2-3 weeks before planting tomatoes, eggplants & peppers seedlings (from garden stores until this year, hopefully). So would I count back from May 1 or from May 21th? Sorry if this is a silly question
Seedlings or seeds? If seeds, count back from last frost. There's always a suggested range (e.g., 6-8 weeks), so if you want to be safe, use the later date. So if last frost is May 1st, I'd sow _seeds_ 6 weeks before -- around March 20th.
No, we stopped pruning a few years ago since we live in a colder climate, and pruning is a setback in growth. Never seen a big enough gain to harvest after pruning, so no longer bother with it.
I live in northern part of Saudi Arabia our temperature is really good not to hot in summer and our winter is cold and rain.what good time to plant them out doors I’m aiming to go 1000 plants 🪴.
I have been making Texas jalapeño jelly, so good! Also make an oriental condiment using chopped jalapeños, soy sauce and sesame oil, let it pickle in the fridge about 2-3 weeks before using.
The planting date at 1:04 was *March 19th*
What's the best feed to give these...I only have chicken manure and compost available..😫🤔🇦🇺🇦🇺
@@paulsoutbackgardenaustrali7674 Chicken manure and compost are great amendments for jalapeños! Work both into the soil in advance of planting, or top-dress mid-season to boost your productivity. If you're buying bagged ingredients, just check the nitrogen level to avoid over-feeding nitrogen.
Do you think late March is about right to start peppers in 4b?
@@JayEllJayToo I might start a few weeks earlier, but plan for them to be indoors longer. You'll need more space indoors to allow them to keep getting bigger without getting root bound in small pots. Make sure to transplant into even bigger pots when they're ready!
I'm in 5B central Michigan should I start my peppers now?
Love these "start to finish tutorials". They make it so much easier than trying to follow a series of videos that post months apart.
I have a bit of an adventure, ahead, for my pepper growing. For some giggles, I bought a pack of Burpee "Hot Pepper Salsa Blend" seeds. It contains Hungarian Wax, Anaheim Chili, Long Slim Red Cayenne, Ancho (Poblano) and Jalapeno M, in assorted amounts, so I won't actually know what many of the plants actually are until they fruit.
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Would it be possible to let me know where you purchased your seeds from? I am totally blind. I have no vision whatsoever so the more details or the more specific would be better for me. Thank you very much.
@@stevemendez3535 if ur blind how u reading this
@@Spiderjepo through the magic of the iPhone. It has a feature called talkback that you have to manually go in the phone and activate.
@@stevemendez3535 oh
I have loved growing peppers for my jams. My strawberry jalapeño is a huge hit. Last year my habanero plants went crazy. I harvested more than 200 off of three plants. I have an amazing peach habanero jam and pineapple habanero jam that are incredible with soft cheeses.
If you can easily share a recipe, would be appreciated!
Delicious!
those jams sound amazing!
Where can I find your recipes? Growing jalapeños and habaneros this year and would love to try adding them to jams and spreads
About 45 days into my first pepper grows. Thank you for the quality information and tips for the best results :)
Here in Florida I use the drink cups from fast food places that have a hole in the top for the straw,they make an excellent mini greenhouse for lots of plants, also I've had the same jalapeno and Tabasco pepper plants for several years now, use a sharp set of small pruning sheers to harvest the peppers, got this tip from a Mexican lady in Santa Fe Springs CA years ago
Sweet, I need to try that mini green house with a fast food cup
The clear plastic containers that cookies or muffins come in work great also. If you use ellepots or peat pellets/plugs you can fit about 10 at once.
Used this for a couple seedlings has worked out great, thanks.
Plastic or paper cup?
@@ktop4u These are clear plastic cups used to serve milk shakes and stuff like that, they have a hole in the lid for a straw, I find these make a great mini greenhouse just try not to leave them in full sun very long as they get way too hot inside !!
THANK YOU for explaining exactly when to start fertilizing the seedlings!
Greetings from Brooklyn, NY. I’ve been an apartment dweller for over twenty years. I can honestly say that whatever plants my wife brings home don’t fair well except a bamboo one. My sun exposure is blocked by our courtyard. I have decided to move the plants to our bedroom window sill as an experiment. I hope that helps. I watch other RUclips gardening videos but you’re very welcoming and informative. Cheers.
We grew in our apartment for many years, so I'm familiar with the limitations. Hope you can find the right spot for your plants, and thanks for the kind words!
You could buy a grow tent that you can have in any room you want ,and have good lights without getting blinded 😀
Moisten a coffee filter, put seeds on it, fold it over once or twice and place in a ziplock baggie until the seeds germinate. Usually about a week. Plant them in cells and you’ll have one plant per cell.
Is your directive for jalapeño seeds or for others as well?
@@lisakramer9373others definitely 👍🏽 that’s how I germinate my cannabis seeds
@@YourCommonSinneri called the police on your ass bro. too much information 😅
@@DieEneTiener snitch. Also it’s legal to grow weed where I live 👍🏽
@@YourCommonSinner exactly
POTTING SOIL PROBLEMS: Im on Long Island (Zone 7). This past nov, i started several jalapeno plants indoors, but just a couple weeks after up-potting to 5 gal pails, they all slowly died. After some extended reading, I think I know why: probably root rot, due to several convergent factors.
1) Straight potting mix follies
(ex: miraclegro moisture retaining potting mix) seems to lack the degree of drainage that peppers prefer, and also tends to overcompact after several months of regular watering. My solution was to recycle the semi-used potting mix, albeit with some ammendments - after blending in an extra 10% perlite, I blended in about 1/3rd 70:30 coco coir & perlite blend. The coco coir & perlite should help improve the drainage of the potting soil, and resistance to both under & over watering as well as excessive compaction.
2) Watering wrong: i had a tendency to overwater, and to water directly at the base of my potted plants. Ive since switched to watering less, and watering in a pattern (around the outer 1/3 of a pail) to encourage the roots to spread laterally, rather than just downwards. I also drilled four 3/8" drain holes about 1/2" above the bottom of my 5 gal pails, to prevent any standing water in the bottoms. I also switched varieties from Jalapeno to Jalafuego, which is somewhat more resistant to common types of blight.
Remember mantra: peppers dont like wet daipers.
Hope that helps others.
I recommend placing the heat mat probe in the middle of the tray as heat mats run hotter in the middle vs the edges
Interesting but then the edges will be cooler than the outside so I don't see the point of going either way unless your trays are very small 3/4"/1" types to go somewhere in the "middle".
This is honestly doing the most planting is about using what you can get and have
Good growing tutorial. For those varieties that take longer to germinate I highly recommend some kind of covering to keep the soil from drying out. I used to cover with saran wrap but now I use those little plastic jello shot cups which fits over the cells really well and keeps the soil nice and moist until they germinate.
That's a great idea after the humidity dome comes off, micro humidity domes!
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I am totally blind I have no vision, would it be possible to let me know where I can purchase my seeds from? And the more detail the better for me it’ll help me find the sites or it’ll help whoever will be help me find the sites easier. Thank you so much.
@@stevemendez3535 Here are a couple links to some great jalapeño varieties:
Jedi jalapeño: www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/peppers/hot-peppers/jedi-f1-jalapeno-pepper-seed-3528.html
Goliath jalapeño: www.totallytomato.com/product/T00006/59
Jalafuego: www.botanicalinterests.com/product/Jalapeno-Jalafuego-Chile-Pepper-Seeds
Enjoy!
Had great success with these last year. Thanks for your recent challenge vid with chillichump I've just got started with this year's launch 👍
Jalapeno jam is one of the greatest things ive ever made.
Perfect timing finding this video as my Jalapeno ‘M’ have just surfaced in my heated prop. I hadn’t planned on staking them but I sure will and the tip of shading them in the afternoon is really useful to me as I live in a hot climate. Thanks for spending the time to pass on your expertise to those that have never grown Jalapenos.
Awesome! The very first sprouts are exciting - it is amazing to think how big and productive those tiny seedlings will be in a few months. Best of luck!
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This is a great video. Thank you.
I grow in raised beds so I always plant my peppers deeper than the root ball. I’m in 9A and our summers are really hot and humid. I’ve found that peppers will grow additional roots along the stalk. And by planting them deeper, it protects the root system from heat and sun and it allows the plant to tap into moisture in the bottom of the beds.
This makes zero difference.
I love all the in-depth information you gave! This was just what I needed. Thank you!
Very informing! Zone 4b and planning our 2nd garden season. My pepper seedlings last year were stunted, definitely made a few mistakes. Will be adjusting accordingly this year and already got lots of exciting varieties to try. Thank you for the tips
Awesome! Thanks for watching, and best of luck with this year's garden.
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I've never done any of this. I grow from seeds only exotic kinds (corno di toro red, Sushimi, Candy Cane Chocolate, etc). This year I am also growing several varieties of bells from seed. Most plants have buds by the time I plant.
If you’re using 3.5 in pots to start you can leave a little room and just cover with Saran Wrap ( if you don’t have humidity dome
Thank you, I will try this cause I don’t wanna buy it
I'm growing both hot and mild .
Thanks for helping me garden 😊
I'm trying both in ground and raise bed as you seem to recommend raise beds 6a mid Ohio here happy gardening
Learned a lot of small details that will make a huge difference for me, thanks.
Happy we could help! Good luck this season.
Excellent video, greath length and level of detail just perfect. This helps pepper beginners a lot.
I'm glad you enjoyed, thanks for the support!
Just started planting my peppers in zone 5a. Every year when I put my transplants in the grow bags or ground I plant them slightly deeper like tomatoes because of the adventitious roots that nightshade crops possess. The peppers usually have grow a lot sturdier of a stem. Thanks for the refresher on the peppers.
My father from Hungary always grew 2 peppers together. It increases pollination and they hold each other up.
This is exactly what i needed to watch for my first grow from seeds this year. Thanks, very informative!!
Excellent! I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun with it. Good luck!
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any tips on growing peppers indoors all year long?
Just started some of my seeds yesterday and so I’m glad you uploaded this as it’s a great reminder!!
Exciting time of the year!
We grew these peppers and We got a whole bunch to the point that we gave them away. We season out all of oil in the lemon. Sit in the sun for a month. So they get the nice flavor of them and then we gave mount as christmas gifts.
When I am up-potting seedlings I take an empty pot the same size as the one they are currently in and use it to make a 'mold' of the original one in the soil so the seedling can just pop right into its new home.
Great tip
I can’t wait to grow Jalapeño this year so excited!
Awesome video keep up your great work :) 🪴 👩🌾
They're great peppers, thanks for watching 😊
I've already started on mine! I'm running Anaheim, Bhut Jolokia, White Lightning Bolt, Sugar Rush Stripey, Hallow's eve, Habanero, Carolina Reaper, and of course... Jalapeño. Good luck!
@@Kaodite that’s lovely!
This was such a helpful video! I started intentionally gardening this year and peppers have been so easy for me to grow!
Pruning and thinning is the hardest for me. I feel guilty. XD
I wish you’d gone over getting the “vase” shape for yield.
absolutely loving your videos man. Growing peppers for the first time this year, got a late start but shouldn't be a big issue. Thanks for the content! God bless you guys
Really nice video. 17:45 There is another option. Rather than pruning early fruit and flowers, you can simply add more light, root capacity, and nutrient density. The plant is more than capable of supporting any fruit it produces while also growing exponentially, vegetatively. In northern states likes yours where time is of the essence, you need to be in go mode from the jump. I used to prune because I believed what you believe. Now though, I just give the plant more. It knows what to do. We are talking 14 kilos per plant in under 7 months from seed. Can be done with 100 gallon wide bag. Wider, shallower root zones are better for capsicum as opposed to taller/deeper. Following the growdown between you and ChiliChump! ❤
Thanks for sharing, the flower tip is out there to help avoid those early fruits on tiny plants. I've seen many-a-gardens with an 8" tall bell pepper plant with one tiny, sad fruit on it 😂. However, I've found that if the timing of transplanting is perfect, flower pruning is rarely even necessary. Looking forward to the dorset naga grow as well (hopefully they sprout soon...).
@@PepperGeek Yes, very true. Timing is key and staying ahead of them. I’m truly a fan and I’ve genuinely enjoyed watching your channel grow. What are the requirements for growing along side you guys this year? Same seed source I imagine yes?
I'm in the UK and don't have electricity, so am trying to germinate my chillis over a barrel of composting grass, manure, and woodchip. The light is also an issue.
Wish me luck 😅
Thanks for the tips.
You can do it! Sounds like you're already finding some unique solutions to your challenges - good luck!
Snow is leaving and temperature is getting in the 50s this week. I'm ready to get started. I had very good results on my jalapeno last season but not so much for the bell
I'm never growing bells again, they took FOOOORRREEEVVVEERR and I got a pathetic yield. I'm switching to smaller sweet peppers instead
@@IjeomaThePlantMamaMy dad did bells this summer and we got a good amount
I also group seeds by subspecies in the same dome to prevent having a mix of seedlings and unsprouted seeds under one dome. For example one dome with super hots (Chinense) one dome with medium (Baccatum) and a dome with the milder sorts (Annuum)
Makes the switch from heating mat to growlight more efficient
Excellent point - it helps to categorize based on expected germination time, etc. Thanks!
We had a birthday party and a couple sheet cakes brought in. I kept the 2 nice clear domes and im using them to cover trays. They are sturdy and work great.
Love the start to finish tutorial. Thank you for sharing
Our pleasure :)
Thank you! Short growing season here in Alberta, Canada but will give this a go this year.
Nice! You'll be starting very soon :)
I have learned so much over the last couple of years from watching your tutorials. While watching this video I thought to myself "I'm already doing that" because of the lessons I've learned from your channel. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and presenting it in a way that's easy to understand. Btw, we used your recipe for pickled banana peppers and ran out a few weeks ago but I'm still enjoying the pepper powder almost daily.
Thanks for the kind words, brought a smile to my face. That's why we do what we do! Have a great year ❤️🔥
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I am totally blind out of Fort Worth Texas. Hi am so excited that I found this channel you should put your book on what is called audiobooks for the blind. You can do this at the national library and they will even let you read it yourself. Keep up the good work hopefully this is some thing for you to think about I know myself and other blind folks that garden would love to have this on an audio cartridge they can access.
Another excellent video! Thank you both for sharing your knowledge and experience.
It's our pleasure, hope you have a great season ahead!
Thanks for the great video. I would like to mention that it doesn't matter what zone you are in. We need to know our last frost date to know when to start seeds and be able to plant out
This has been the best and most informative video ever
Wow. I learned so much from this video. I've grown two jalapeno plants from seed and they are not providing nearly as much fruit as yours. I will have to use what I've learned from this video on the next go around. Thank you!
When starting seeds, I plant 2-3 seeds in each cell, but space them far apart to make thinning easier.
The roots will eventually tangle if seeds are planted in the same hole. I re-plant the culled sprouts in fresh containers to give "spares" to my daughter and my sis-in-law. Waste not...
I also found that soaking seeds in warm water for 36-48 hours prior to planting in soil speeds up their germination
from weeks to a few days.
I had a Jalapeno pepper plant a while back down here in southern Arizona that I planted in the ground it gave me around 250 peppers the size you picked in your video before it decided to give up it's life. Haven't had any success since then.
thanks for the video. this was really helpful
Nice 👍. Looking at elongated stems and bending, looks like there’s a serious light issue.
Good refresher video. Now I'm really excited to get my peppers going. Zone 4A 😱
Nice! You probably start a bit earlier than us to get a good head start - enjoy!
I just started hardening off today. I can't wait to get these babies in their big containers!
This video was very informative! Thank you so much 🙏
Glad it was helpful! Good luck growing 🌶️
I like to transplant up if only to freshen the soil. They seem to be so happy after I do this. :)
Im getting into growing peppers and vine plants. The worst part about gardening is waiting for tomorrow... everyday i cant wait to see how they are doing the next day. Its addictive
Have you folks ever explored a rain gutter grow system for container gardening?
I love these things, they're one of the only crops that go nuts even in the hottest Texas summers.
Those heat mats work better if the whole affair is encloed in a box. Insulated is best, then add a rack so the pots are an inch or two above the mat. (basically a make shift oven)
I also let the freshly planted seeds sit at low temperature 50-60f for 2-3 days while absorbing moisture, then put them in the warming box at 75f, this gets very uniform germination.
Another useful video. I watch them all. Maybe its just me, or jalapeno's are hard to sprout for me. Do they have a lower germination rate than other peppers like cayenne, birds eye or even ajin lemon ?. (all three of latter sprout for me from seed especially fresh pretty quickly). I finally have ONE jalapeno plant (and i treat it like a princess..its growing and branching fine) ... after many failed germinations lol
Thank you for this video!!!! I’m in Texas and want to start growing my own peppers! 🌶️
You can do it!
Howdy,
Thanks for the educational shows. I live in south Texas and do quite well growing all kinds of peppers. Would you guys like some seeds from some of my wild chilies?They grow like weeds here in the brush country. I can put some dried peppers in a plastic bag and send em in an envelope. we don't get as cold as ya do up north so the growing season in south Texas is quite long. love the advice and tips ya give. I have learned a thing or too from both of you.
take care.
Great video. I love jalapenos- love that they are super versatile and add great flavor to most anything you add them :)
Couldn't agree more!
Thank you for sharing this information, this is a great video!
Could you do a video showing the difference between sun scald versus blossom end rot on peppers. I can tell BER on tomatoes, but not peppers.
Man, that plant is a solid three feet tall. I can never seem to get mine taller than about 2 feet. This year I tried planting in the ground to get em larger for more fruit. They have grown a little larger, but not as much as I'd hoped.
Is the book available through Amazon? I would prefer to have the ebook on my Kindle.
Very interesting and informative of doing the indoor transitioning with feeding then transplanting into purpose soil, compost, etc.
For some reason I thought these grew much taller, first time growing mine and they are a similar size to yours, so I'm happy now.
awesome video! grew some last year for the first time and they stayed short due to overcrowding and not picking the early buds off. We are doing small plants in raise beds instead of seeds with raise bed soil since we had good success last year with that. but now we gave more space and I will look for those early buds so the plants will grow taller thanks to you.
Great video excited to grow jalapeño peppers. Thank you!
Very good and informative video (as usual) 👍🏻
Thank you very much
Thanks for watching :)
FIRST time growing this yar, ill stick to twin-partner plants, try it out nyhow, 2 cup method TO 3 or 5 gal cloth bags
I’ll try to grow some jalapeños here in the Philippines.!love your videos.
oh wow saving this one so i can have access to those wonderful recipes ..thank you for your information and wisdom .. this will be my first year trying to grow jelapeno .. i hope it works out lol
Have you tried starting your seeds in starter trays and then pricking out to punnets? I hate thinning seedlings in punnets - it always seems like the best two specimens in the whole batch are in the same cell demanding that I sacrifice one. Putting them in punnets after they've germinated means I have a live plant in every cell and no doubles.
Haha, not really. We just tend to choose the best of each cell and move on, but I can see why that might be irritating
Overall a good tutorial I would say. Personally, I grow them to ripe red in order to smoke and dry them as chipotle. I do a crop every couple of years since dried/smoked peppers store very well.
I grow them hydroponically indoors during the winter months, takes a good 4 months from seed sprout until harvest.
Sounds delicious - I think we'll make some chipotles next year on our smoker. We made some chipotle powder a year ago but it's running low!
Do you get good flavor still from hydro?
@@nk-dw2hm most certainly! Hydroponics is just soilless growing where you control everything to optimimun conditions. As a result things grow faster, healthier, and great quality. Just takes some dedication and management.
@@badgermtn haven't tried hydro but might do a dwc setup next time I prep a grow area, just wanted to get your thoughts on the flavor perspective since a lot of people seem to say hydro grows faster but soil can give more flavor. But a lot of people are trying to sell a product so it's good to hear real world results
i love the 3 ring binder seed saver
Our supermarket only sometimes sells those delicious, green jalapenos. So I wanted to grow those on my own so I would never have a shortage of these peppers. I took the seeds of only the biggest of those beautifully green jalapenos, and followed each of your steps, still, not even one seed has germinated.
Hm, it’s possible the pepper you saved them from wasn’t ripe enough to have viable seeds. Always best to get seeds from a pro seed seller if possible
Hint push seeds the opposite corners..easier to separate
Sensible 👌
I love your videos and I have learned a lot, Thank you. I've started a couple of Goliath Jalapenos and they are currently outside in 5 gallon buckets and are 6-7 in. tall & looking strong. The leaves are starting to fade to a whitish color. Is this normal for the Goliaths? If not what can I do to correct this?
Thanks!
Appreciate the tip!
I've in zone 4 Canada. I started some today.
The mirasol pepper is very good as well
What do you use to secure the plant to the stick? Just a sting or something?
Have you tried using chillichumpa seedsio for your cells? It is a great system to use 😁 will save on the tape and sharpie then
I checked it out and it is a great concept, but might be a bit more than we need to organize our relatively small number of plants. Maybe if we expand and have hundreds of plants going at any given time it would be a good tool!
Do you trim the top of the plant at an early age to bush it out? I'm not sure which method is best, if to trim or not to trim.
No, we have experimented a bit with "topping" and haven't found any notable difference in yield. We may run a more thorough experiment, but no early pruning has worked well for us for years
I recently began watching your pepper videos and enjoy them very much. I'm in zone 6 and this June is much like last June > COLD nights - many in the mid to low 40s. I've hesitated putting them out this year as last year the June weather seemed to affect the production. I will be planting in a 100 gal Root Pouch. How cold is too cold for pepper plants? (I am growing jalapenos, red fresno, italian/cubanelle and a red bell).
When you're counting back for deciding when to start, do you count from when you plant them outside or from the frost date? For example if my last frost day is May 1st, I usually wait at least 2-3 weeks before planting tomatoes, eggplants & peppers seedlings (from garden stores until this year, hopefully). So would I count back from May 1 or from May 21th? Sorry if this is a silly question
Seedlings or seeds? If seeds, count back from last frost. There's always a suggested range (e.g., 6-8 weeks), so if you want to be safe, use the later date. So if last frost is May 1st, I'd sow _seeds_ 6 weeks before -- around March 20th.
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Do you top the plant in the beginning to encourage more foliage and root growth?
No, we stopped pruning a few years ago since we live in a colder climate, and pruning is a setback in growth. Never seen a big enough gain to harvest after pruning, so no longer bother with it.
I like the testing. Saves us from wasting money on junk and manufactures marketing ploys.
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This is excellent. I’m new- and this was helpful. THANK YOU
id go straight from the cell to a bigger fabric pot and reduce waste but do this concept myself under lights full time as most reliable
I used a heat mat with no probe and no dome, seeds germinate just fine.
Fermented Jalapenos are the best :)
Delicious 😋
Thankyou for the video…..its quite informative
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for including those of us with super hot climates!!! (South Texas gardening is quite the challenge)
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@@BLVNC0999 LMAO, the valley or Laredo?
Question...is it easier to transfer seedling to a bigger pot with dry soil or should it be freshly watered?
The new soil should be moist, just like when planting seeds
I live in northern part of Saudi Arabia our temperature is really good not to hot in summer and our winter is cold and rain.what good time to plant them out doors I’m aiming to go 1000 plants 🪴.
I’m excited to see your growing season again rob!
Can you smoke Jalapeños? I saw that you can fry them. I’m growing tons this year I love them! I can’t wait to have them!
Absolutely - here is our recipe for making homemade chipotles/chipotle powder: peppergeek.com/ground-chipotle-powder-recipe
I have been making Texas jalapeño jelly, so good! Also make an oriental condiment using chopped jalapeños, soy sauce and sesame oil, let it pickle in the fridge about 2-3 weeks before using.
@@MsCindyh that’s sounds amazing I’ll have to do that this year! I love that there is so much we can do with homegrown stiff