This video helped me out so much! I was doing so many things wrong and I am so excited this year to try these tips you taught us. This video was perfect timing. Thanks so much! I feel so confident now! You are a great teacher!
Awesome video!!! You're doing a fantastic job teaching us. Slow, calm, informative, it's all just perfect. I can even start and stop to take notes. TkU TkU TkU
And it's a tremendous help to summarize on the the screen. I actually photo the teachings along the way of the vid and photo the final summary to write in my notes on Sweet Peppers. Obviously, I was a researcher for income in grad school and learned how to keep organized records for the Faculty :):):) It still helps me progress w my gardening at 80 yrs (75 yrs gardening; started at 5 yrs alongside my Mom) :):):)..... VERY fruitful life LOL
Great info, Jeff!! Fertilizing is so important, but knowing the correct way is the real key. Thanks for helping us get the most from our gardens! Happy gardening and have a wonderful day!!
Now I know how to fertilize. I've tried peppers in containers (easier to follow the sun during the day) but often ran into the blossom end rot issue and couldn't fine consistent info on why - now I know. Love your videos.
👏 Bravo the production level it took to make this video deserves an award ...I'd guess it was months in the making...The Yardie Award has a nice ring to it 🎯 🏆 live from Zone 9B to you!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Oh same here Jeff ! I tend to use them in almost every ground beef recipe I make. They freeze well too once you dice them up so having them all winter long is no problem
This is going to help quite a bit with my production of my pepper plants. I had some great peppers this year but they were stunted so I will pay more attention to more regular fertilizing. Thanks again!
Right on Vicky. For me, I'm going to fertilize a TON this year... But with homemade weed and seaweed fertilizers..... So low dose, but lots of it! See if there's any boost in harvests!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms When I say peppers I meant my few bell pepper plants, my hot ones were off the charts. That sounds amazing! I bet you will see a boost. I have been wanting to do the fermented stinging nettle. I need to learn better how to find them so I actually got a pack of seeds coming in a shipment so I can learn to decipher them in the wild. I can't wait to see your garden next season!
Mid Ohio and yesterday I believe I total my bell peppers for this season as 94 from the 27 plants seem like more per plant for Early August and I'll have 7 more big enough for stuffing waiting for my cook. Probably mostly adding mulch in fall and compose in spring I add half cup both blood meal and bone meal at planting and hopefully going to make fish fertilizer in my near future Thanks for helping my best peppers season ever.
thanks great job as usual . peppers are becoming the star of my gardening. Enjoy them very much. I have 1 red cayenne right now that is just over 5 ft tall and unknown amount of peppers on it.
Thank you for providing this info - in such a complete and yet concise manner (especially the summation at end). I'm now hopeful this year my pepper harvest will be successful for a change.
Wonderful tutorial and love your passion! I use Neptune's Harvest fish fertilizer for when my pepper plants start to flower as higher in phosphate and potassium than nitrogen. So far working great with many peppers on the way!
Great informative video. I’ve been growing peppers forever and learned how and when to fertilize. Interesting about epsome salts. Will try on the tomatoes. Do we cut back our peppers at end of season for perennial growing? We are in Savannah GA zone 8B.
I just planted my fall peppers, yesterday. And, I already had fertilizer in the ground.. Well, we shall see! I had just planned on watering until I see flowers, and then switch to the liquid. Nothing else has worked for me. I will keep on hoping for a harvest. 😃
That's my routine KP. Slow release granular fertilizer for the original planting, then when the flowers appear switch to liquid fertilizer. Has been working for me on the SW coast of Canada. Of course this is for spring/summer growing. To darn wet here for fall planting of most crops.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I do mulch them. I also use a larger 5 gal container. More soil is better. Not much info on container size. I have gost and reapers. Healthy plants. Flowers drop off. No peppers. Maybe next year
@@frankwerner9698 we row garden 2 large plots. I dedicated an entire row to hot peppers. We make our own chili powder, hot sauces, salsas, freeze peppers, pickle peppers, and eat a whole buch of every kind. I plant my hot pepper plants in "like" groups of three about four inches apart and a foot from the next group of three. This resulted in an amazing daily crop harvest that didn't die down until the first frost was about to hit when we took what we could off of them and pulled the plants out. Pinching flower buds off of your plants for the first two weeks after transplanting into the garden also stimulates more growth to the plant itself. Hope any of this is useful, and if it isn't oopsies. haha. Be well.
Hello from zone 9B Florida . I really enjoyed this presentation . Most growers on face book don't take us thru the fertilizing schedule . This was very helpful . Thank you . I'd like to see more like this for each vegetable .
@@patriciatinkey2677 I grew the best onions ever with his advice and I had so much fun experimenting along with him on pieces of cut onions and they grew like they were on steroids . Follow him look up his other videos because he is such a good teacher .
@@carmellayates2503 Yes! I followed Jeff ever since i watched his Green Onion video. My crazy green onions grew 3 foot long leafshoots! Instead of lopping off all the green parts at once, I just harvested the outer pieces, one at a time. Got a years worth of green onions from one little bunch. Jeff's the best, & I've learned so much from his other subscribers, (like yourself), too! Happy Harvests!
Great info, thanks Jeff. Does this info apply to chilli peppers too?🤔 You could fit another one or two plants in that bed if you zig zag plant them 😉😁🌱☀️
I take it you're to far north to over winter your pepper plants. I would have thought you would have at least mentioned it. Fruiting happens so much sooner with an over wintered pepper. Saving a month in the pepper patch is very handy. Try it sometime.
Yeah, peppers are annuals here in Canada. I mentioned that in the first minute or so of the video. I could try it, but my pepper plants would die under 2 feet of snow. LOL
I have 4 pepper plants that I grew from seed. There are many flowers; but, so far only one pepper. It's still small; but, it is bigger than it was the first time I wrote about its size. Have you ever had your bell peppers get sunburned? In 2019 which was the last time I grew peppers, I had fewer plants; but, more peppers. The peppers that were directly in the sun, had problems with the skin getting burned. The only pepper that did not have that problem was the one that was shaded by the sunflowers.
Yup, many times. When they outgrow the foliage and it gets really intense direct sun, for sure. Now I keep an eye on things and pick early any that I know are going to be problematic.
Still going strong! Last video showed the epic radish harvest, plus planting a stop-gap crop of zukes and cherry tomatoes. We're about 2 weeks away from planting out the Brussels Sprouts!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms do you have another channel that I didn't know about?? I don't remember you harvesting radishes, or planting zukes and cherry tomatos in this one. Would love to follow it if you have another one. Thanks!!
@@eileenbartnick7202 Hi Eileen, Toda was referring to the Community Garden Bed Project....still on this channel. Phase two was a few weeks ago: ruclips.net/video/25M901puwnk/видео.html
Very informative video as always. I grew peppers in containers for the first time. I hand water and fertilize every two weeks. The fruit in the containers are small and ripen before getting larger. Any suggestions? Also when you fertilize are you just adding to soil is saturated?
I have quite a few pepper and tomato varieties, and I've barely gotten any fruit because the last two months here in Alaska have been nonstop rainy and gloomy, also a cooler than normal summer (which has really messed some of my plants up). My banana pepper and Hungarian Wax plants are pretty much the only ones I've gotten peppers from so far unfortunately. Our first frost is likely looming overhead in the near future as well. I guess I've learned that peppers and tomatoes should probably be started earlier than the beginning of April too, so there's more hope of maturing in time. 😂😭
This was my first year growing peppers (TLDR - skip to the last paragraph). I missed the window completely, zone 5a (southern VT), but decided to plant them in late June, regardless. Sprouted the seeds directly in an EarthBox (EB) filled with Coast of Main Raised Bed Mix ($5/cf), my worm castings with worms (basically free), and Aloe flakes from BAS (stupid expensive); I do not use EB's nutrient mix, and I wait for the reservoir to empty before adding more water (only). Nonetheless, all six seeds sprouted, produced flowers, and peppers. Predictably cold weather began creeping in; so, I brought the EB indoors and placed it in an unused 2x4 grow tent... along with the Whiteflies, which were easy to manage. In the last week of October I harvested 6-8 peppers per plant and chopped, leaving a few inches of each stalk, and shut the tent down. Forward to the third week in November; about a month later, and I see sprouts coming from the stalks...? So, I moved the EB to my grow room, gave it a top-water, more castings and worms, and interplanted garlic. Both are doing fine as of 12/12/22. My question, will these pepper plants produce if the environment is to their liking? Note: They are under 18/6 with a VPD, DLI, favorable for cannabis (Cannabaceae), which is not a Nightshade.
Oh yes, they are perennial by nature. As long as the conditions stay warm with lots of light, they will keep growing. Playing with the light cycles as well as the phosphorus levels can stimulate new flowering and fruiting cycles as well. :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms After watching this: ruclips.net/video/VvBTsl_gScw/видео.html (at around 54 minutes in a vlog with Shane at MIGRO and Dr. Bugbee) I learned why these pepper plants, which is why I asked you about them, are struggling at an 18/6 light schedule. They need more sleep than I provide for them.
When do you put your peppers out in the garden? Being in the same environment as me (Sooke her) I don't want to put my plants out until the nighttime temps are near 10 degrees.
Our Bell Peppers were producing so many peppers but after our 2nd harvest they shut down their production stopped blooming. No new flowers or blooms nothing. After waiting for almost 2 weeks I pulled them out and decide to plant some cool weather crops in place of them.
I'm looking for a link to the fertilizers you use but don't see one... also, is there any chance you can print out below the feeding schedule? I tried to copy what was on the video screen and could not... thanks in advance- this was the most comprehensive video i have seen on growing peppers !
I thought I have had good luck with composted chicken manure or leaf mulch compost during transplanting. What is the reason for waiting 2 weeks to feed? Or is this fertilizer low enough strength to be ok right away?
I like your slow thorough instruction. Ive neglected my peppers by not following some simple steps. Where I lived before I had no problems, but the last few years my peppers are small and stunted. I trypically will spray them with epsom salt solution -- but I realize now the nitrogen calculation is essential.
Thanks Tom. Its so true, location matters. One feeding schedule might be great in one spot, or even one bed in the same garden, then totally not enough in another. Best of luck man!
Great video, my peppers are just coming through. So far no blossom end rot. I have 7 tubs of tomatoes..All the same soil, watering schedule. One pot has developed blossom end rot on some of the tomatoes. Sigh.
Hey Jeff, have you produced anything on growing onions? I have tried to search the site, but I find YT search is not very discerning. Growing my first crop of onions, and thinking I should be harvesting soon. Need some direction. Thanks.
Both are perennials....and I've always understood that its the apical meristems that dictate longevity, and not the root system. I think it could still be overwintered....
I know this is old but just to clarify the reason people fertilize at the time of planting is because they use non water soluble organic fertilizers that will take weeks to breakdown and require the soil microbacteria to digest and convert that substance into a form that the roots can uptake. So imo it is perfectly fine to do so since the plant won't have access to that fertilizer until weeks later once the roots are already established and it ends up getting a well timed boost to grow post transplant.
If i cut my peppers when they're start turning red they rot before they fully ripen. If i leave them on the plant the same thing happens. Is it a calicium issue?
Just as a precaution I mix crushed egg shells into the soil when I transplant peppers and tomatoes. Keep in mind that it will take some time for the shells to break down, so it is not for an instant fix for b.e.r if your soil has low calcium.
Good stuff! Additionally, adding clean and crushed egg shells to a compost or worm bin will begin the process, and the shell powder provides grit for worms' digestive process; win/win.
Except, newer red peppers in boxes seem to be doing better? On one side of ground garden a bought pepper getting bigger, lotsa blossom, little produce. Other side off garden all pepper plants, planted same way, a little later, truly struggling, even though fed& shored up more?? Greenhouse peppers did better, until hard freeze with wind exposing, despite heater last winter??
Can i use vermicast and organic compost for young seedlings so it don't burn them cause I'm new at fertilizing plant 😅 also I'm not good at chemical fertilizers
I knowwww Timothy! I've had this video on the back burner since December. Only after I had a couple large peppers pots underperform, I was like, oh yeah, the fertilizer video!
I have 7 pepper plants in my garden and have harvested a total of 9 peppers from 8 plants. One plant still has not produced even one pepper yet. I fed with a balanced NPK, then when flowering began I switched to Tiger Bloom which is higher in P than N. At this point in time, the plants are large and leafy but those leaves have started turning yellow and many are dropping. Anyone have any ideas what I’ve done wrong?
@@aquaseahorselove3939 my problem is I'm in the same zone as you and I have been having heat wilt , I try shading them but it's so windy in my planting area that everything blows off . And I can't t construct a barrier here due to deed restrictions .
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This video helped me out so much! I was doing so many things wrong and I am so excited this year to try these tips you taught us. This video was perfect timing. Thanks so much! I feel so confident now! You are a great teacher!
Awesome video!!! You're doing a fantastic job teaching us. Slow, calm, informative, it's all just perfect. I can even start and stop to take notes. TkU TkU TkU
And it's a tremendous help to summarize on the the screen. I actually photo the teachings along the way of the vid and photo the final summary to write in my notes on Sweet Peppers. Obviously, I was a researcher for income in grad school and learned how to keep organized records for the Faculty :):):)
It still helps me progress w my gardening at 80 yrs (75 yrs gardening; started at 5 yrs alongside my Mom) :):):)..... VERY fruitful life LOL
Great info, Jeff!! Fertilizing is so important, but knowing the correct way is the real key. Thanks for helping us get the most from our gardens! Happy gardening and have a wonderful day!!
Thanks so much for watching Eileen! Enjoy your Sunday! 🙂
Now I know how to fertilize. I've tried peppers in containers (easier to follow the sun during the day) but often ran into the blossom end rot issue and couldn't fine consistent info on why - now I know. Love your videos.
👏 Bravo the production level it took to make this video deserves an award ...I'd guess it was months in the making...The Yardie Award has a nice ring to it 🎯 🏆 live from Zone 9B to you!
Thanks so much! Yes, it does take a long time, there's no doubt about that! 🙂
Those are great peppers! I hope to grow some as beautiful as these.
Thanks! You definitely can! 🙂
One of my favorite crops to grow !! The fertilizing plan is super helpful Jeff . Thanks for doing this one. 👍👍👍
Cheers Mike! One of my favourites as well... And I'm finding wet eat way more peppers than tomatoes actually!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Oh same here Jeff ! I tend to use them in almost every ground beef recipe I make. They freeze well too once you dice them up so having them all winter long is no problem
@@mikef6948 agreed! Even raw with tzatziki.... All peppers all the time! Lol
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Yum!
This is going to help quite a bit with my production of my pepper plants. I had some great peppers this year but they were stunted so I will pay more attention to more regular fertilizing. Thanks again!
Right on Vicky. For me, I'm going to fertilize a TON this year... But with homemade weed and seaweed fertilizers..... So low dose, but lots of it! See if there's any boost in harvests!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms When I say peppers I meant my few bell pepper plants, my hot ones were off the charts. That sounds amazing! I bet you will see a boost. I have been wanting to do the fermented stinging nettle. I need to learn better how to find them so I actually got a pack of seeds coming in a shipment so I can learn to decipher them in the wild. I can't wait to see your garden next season!
Mid Ohio and yesterday I believe I total my bell peppers for this season as 94 from the 27 plants seem like more per plant for Early August and I'll have 7 more big enough for stuffing waiting for my cook.
Probably mostly adding mulch in fall and compose in spring I add half cup both blood meal and bone meal at planting and hopefully going to make fish fertilizer in my near future
Thanks for helping my best peppers season ever.
Woooaaaa man! Right on! What a bounty!
thanks great job as usual . peppers are becoming the star of my gardening. Enjoy them very much. I have 1 red cayenne right now that is just over 5 ft tall and unknown amount of peppers on it.
Dragon cayenne make so many peppers
Fantastic info Jeff. One stop shop!!! You cover EVERYTHING!!! 🙏🏻
Thanks Jo! Always happy oblige!! :-)
Bless your heart for sharing this knowledge, thanks!
Thanks so much for watching!
Thank you for providing this info - in such a complete and yet concise manner (especially the summation at end). I'm now hopeful this year my pepper harvest will be successful for a change.
Wonderful tutorial and love your passion! I use Neptune's Harvest fish fertilizer for when my pepper plants start to flower as higher in phosphate and potassium than nitrogen. So far working great with many peppers on the way!
Thank you so much for this…first time watching one of your videos and this one deserves a subscribe, like and comment! Thank you!
EXCELLENT video! Thank you so much, Jeff, THE BEST!
Excellent video, as always
Thanks regatta! 🙂
Thanks i am able to over winter peppers in grow bag, learn how to kick start in spring, and fertelize my 2nd year growth.
Great informative video. I’ve been growing peppers forever and learned how and when to fertilize. Interesting about epsome salts. Will try on the tomatoes. Do we cut back our peppers at end of season for perennial growing? We are in Savannah GA zone 8B.
Thanks gayle! If you're growing them as perennials, I'd definitely prune them back. They'll essentially sprout again right away though. 🙂
thank you for this important info bless you. love your channel.
Thanks so much Nancy, appreciate the support! :-)
wow i totally needed this info -- wondering why i was getting such low yield --your step by step process i very helpful --thanks brother --
Great info. Thanks. Shared with our gardening group👍.
Hey Wendy, thanks so much for watching and for the support! 🙂
Thank you Jeff, you really helped me with my peppers, good information as always.
Cheers Naomi, always happy to help! :-)
I just planted my fall peppers, yesterday. And, I already had fertilizer in the ground.. Well, we shall see! I had just planned on watering until I see flowers, and then switch to the liquid. Nothing else has worked for me. I will keep on hoping for a harvest. 😃
Fingers crossed K P, let us know how it works out!
That's my routine KP. Slow release granular fertilizer for the original planting, then when the flowers appear switch to liquid fertilizer. Has been working for me on the SW coast of Canada. Of course this is for spring/summer growing. To darn wet here for fall planting of most crops.
Hi, another grwat video thanks for sharing and take care 🙂
Cheers Christine, thanks for watching! :-)
Heading into the last month of winter here and our peppers not doing very well. My niece suggested I cut them back a bit, so they form a Woody stem
What zone are you in Ral?
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms downsouth bottom of Australia.. I was also wondering where you guys are from? Lovely chillies by the way
@@ralsharp6013 thanks Rai! I'm in Victoria, BC Canada!
Bravo.... Greetings from Wyoming
Fantastically educational video. Thanking you.
Such great info! Thanks my friend!
Our tomatoes and bell peppers haven’t done well this summer due to the high heat and dryness. So hoping cooler weather in fall helps
Yeah, experienced a lot of that this summer myself too.
I have tried moving containers to afternoon shade or using shade cloth. Poor results continue
@@frankwerner9698 more moisture is usually better than water... The plants still need light
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I do mulch them. I also use a larger 5 gal container. More soil is better. Not much info on container size. I have gost and reapers. Healthy plants. Flowers drop off. No peppers. Maybe next year
@@frankwerner9698 we row garden 2 large plots. I dedicated an entire row to hot peppers. We make our own chili powder, hot sauces, salsas, freeze peppers, pickle peppers, and eat a whole buch of every kind. I plant my hot pepper plants in "like" groups of three about four inches apart and a foot from the next group of three. This resulted in an amazing daily crop harvest that didn't die down until the first frost was about to hit when we took what we could off of them and pulled the plants out. Pinching flower buds off of your plants for the first two weeks after transplanting into the garden also stimulates more growth to the plant itself. Hope any of this is useful, and if it isn't oopsies. haha. Be well.
As usual, an excellent video!
Love all the info you gave .. I'm in Florida zone 9a & curious what size fabric pot for bell peppers ??
Thanks Rosemary. Shoot for at least 7 gallons, preferably 10 gallons. :-)
Hello from zone 9B Florida . I really enjoyed this presentation . Most growers on face book don't take us thru the fertilizing schedule . This was very helpful . Thank you . I'd like to see more like this for each vegetable .
Thanks Carmella! Definitely! I did one for peas a couple weeks ago, but for sure need to do one for each plant! 🙂
Hi, fellow Floridian & fan of Jeff! I'm down here in zone 10. His feeding schedule sounds like just what I need to get a lot more out of my peppers!
@@patriciatinkey2677 I grew the best onions ever with his advice and I had so much fun experimenting along with him on pieces of cut onions and they grew like they were on steroids . Follow him look up his other videos because he is such a good teacher .
@@carmellayates2503 Yes! I followed Jeff ever since i watched his Green Onion video. My crazy green onions grew 3 foot long leafshoots! Instead of lopping off all the green parts at once, I just harvested the outer pieces, one at a time. Got a years worth of green onions from one little bunch. Jeff's the best, & I've learned so much from his other subscribers, (like yourself), too!
Happy Harvests!
Very informative , kudos
Thanks, appreciate that! 🙂
Thanks mate! Nice video
Thanks, and thanks for watching!
Excellent video!
Another great video with much needed information. Great job and a big thank you!
Thanks Donna! Kind of you to say. :-)
Tks for sharing this information
Cheers, thanks for watching! 🙂
Hey there, awesome info. wanted to know what is that on top on the soil that looks like mulch?
Great info, thanks Jeff. Does this info apply to chilli peppers too?🤔 You could fit another one or two plants in that bed if you zig zag plant them 😉😁🌱☀️
Yes, chilis and hots as well!! Ha ha I wanted to, but I literally only had 8 plants left for this video prior to this one. LOL!
I take it you're to far north to over winter your pepper plants. I would have thought you would have at least mentioned it. Fruiting happens so much sooner with an over wintered pepper. Saving a month in the pepper patch is very handy. Try it sometime.
Yeah, peppers are annuals here in Canada. I mentioned that in the first minute or so of the video. I could try it, but my pepper plants would die under 2 feet of snow. LOL
Greenhouse? 1 or 2 in a big pot?
I have 4 pepper plants that I grew from seed. There are many flowers; but, so far only one pepper. It's still small; but, it is bigger than it was the first time I wrote about its size.
Have you ever had your bell peppers get sunburned? In 2019 which was the last time I grew peppers, I had fewer plants; but, more peppers. The peppers that were directly in the sun, had problems with the skin getting burned. The only pepper that did not have that problem was the one that was shaded by the sunflowers.
Yup, many times. When they outgrow the foliage and it gets really intense direct sun, for sure. Now I keep an eye on things and pick early any that I know are going to be problematic.
What happened to our community garden? I love your videos and how you explain things!
Still going strong! Last video showed the epic radish harvest, plus planting a stop-gap crop of zukes and cherry tomatoes. We're about 2 weeks away from planting out the Brussels Sprouts!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms do you have another channel that I didn't know about?? I don't remember you harvesting radishes, or planting zukes and cherry tomatos in this one. Would love to follow it if you have another one. Thanks!!
@@eileenbartnick7202 Hi Eileen, Toda was referring to the Community Garden Bed Project....still on this channel. Phase two was a few weeks ago: ruclips.net/video/25M901puwnk/видео.html
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Great! Thanks! Guess I missed that one. I'll watch it now!
@@eileenbartnick7202 ha ha no worries... I have a hard time keeping track of them even!
Thank you! Great info!
Usually good teaching
Cheers John! :-)
Very informative video as always. I grew peppers in containers for the first time. I hand water and fertilize every two weeks. The fruit in the containers are small and ripen before getting larger. Any suggestions? Also when you fertilize are you just adding to soil is saturated?
My little pepper plants started flowering before they got moved from 4" pots to my 5 gallon pots. What do I do??? Thanks so much!
I have quite a few pepper and tomato varieties, and I've barely gotten any fruit because the last two months here in Alaska have been nonstop rainy and gloomy, also a cooler than normal summer (which has really messed some of my plants up). My banana pepper and Hungarian Wax plants are pretty much the only ones I've gotten peppers from so far unfortunately. Our first frost is likely looming overhead in the near future as well. I guess I've learned that peppers and tomatoes should probably be started earlier than the beginning of April too, so there's more hope of maturing in time. 😂😭
Best Wishes, Sympathy, & Better Harvests Next Time!
Excellent👍👍
Thank you! Cheers!
This was my first year growing peppers (TLDR - skip to the last paragraph). I missed the window completely, zone 5a (southern VT), but decided to plant them in late June, regardless. Sprouted the seeds directly in an EarthBox (EB) filled with Coast of Main Raised Bed Mix ($5/cf), my worm castings with worms (basically free), and Aloe flakes from BAS (stupid expensive); I do not use EB's nutrient mix, and I wait for the reservoir to empty before adding more water (only). Nonetheless, all six seeds sprouted, produced flowers, and peppers. Predictably cold weather began creeping in; so, I brought the EB indoors and placed it in an unused 2x4 grow tent... along with the Whiteflies, which were easy to manage. In the last week of October I harvested 6-8 peppers per plant and chopped, leaving a few inches of each stalk, and shut the tent down.
Forward to the third week in November; about a month later, and I see sprouts coming from the stalks...? So, I moved the EB to my grow room, gave it a top-water, more castings and worms, and interplanted garlic. Both are doing fine as of 12/12/22.
My question, will these pepper plants produce if the environment is to their liking? Note: They are under 18/6 with a VPD, DLI, favorable for cannabis (Cannabaceae), which is not a Nightshade.
Oh yes, they are perennial by nature. As long as the conditions stay warm with lots of light, they will keep growing. Playing with the light cycles as well as the phosphorus levels can stimulate new flowering and fruiting cycles as well. :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thank you!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms After watching this: ruclips.net/video/VvBTsl_gScw/видео.html (at around 54 minutes in a vlog with Shane at MIGRO and Dr. Bugbee) I learned why these pepper plants, which is why I asked you about them, are struggling at an 18/6 light schedule. They need more sleep than I provide for them.
@@cuznclive2236 yeah peppers are native to equatorial south/central America.... Photo period is near dead even at 12/12 there
When do you put your peppers out in the garden? Being in the same environment as me (Sooke her) I don't want to put my plants out until the nighttime temps are near 10 degrees.
Jeff, I have 5 gallons of worm compost tea from an earlier worm compost bins. Can I dilute this and add to my peppers also. Thanks.
Our Bell Peppers were producing so many peppers but after our 2nd harvest they shut down their production stopped blooming. No new flowers or blooms nothing. After waiting for almost 2 weeks I pulled them out and decide to plant some cool weather crops in place of them.
At least you got a decent though! :-)
Same happened to mine. But it was full of foliage I cut the foliage back and slowly got some new flowers
OMG your videos are amazing ahah
Thanks for video
I'm looking for a link to the fertilizers you use but don't see one... also, is there any chance you can print out below the feeding schedule? I tried to copy what was on the video screen and could not... thanks in advance- this was the most comprehensive video i have seen on growing peppers !
Thanks Judy! What country are you in. I could send you the links no problem. I'll try to upload the feeding schedule into the description. :-)
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I'm here in Central Florida! Thank you so much for your willingness to share 💚
I thought I have had good luck with composted chicken manure or leaf mulch compost during transplanting. What is the reason for waiting 2 weeks to feed? Or is this fertilizer low enough strength to be ok right away?
I like your slow thorough instruction. Ive neglected my peppers by not following some simple steps. Where I lived before I had no problems, but the last few years my peppers are small and stunted. I trypically will spray them with epsom salt solution -- but I realize now the nitrogen calculation is essential.
Thanks Tom. Its so true, location matters. One feeding schedule might be great in one spot, or even one bed in the same garden, then totally not enough in another. Best of luck man!
Great video, my peppers are just coming through. So far no blossom end rot.
I have 7 tubs of tomatoes..All the same soil, watering schedule. One pot has developed blossom end rot on some of the tomatoes. Sigh.
What is the name of the fertilizer you are using? Great video
Hey Jeff, have you produced anything on growing onions? I have tried to search the site, but I find YT search is not very discerning.
Growing my first crop of onions, and thinking I should be harvesting soon. Need some direction. Thanks.
LOL! just went back and tried again, and it popped up right away!
Never mind!
Hi Isador, I most certainly did! Last summer I did one on bulb onions, check it out if you have time: ruclips.net/video/ht9NOqX5YJw/видео.html
@@isador4784 Ha ha oops, you beat me to it! 🙂
Hey Jeff, great video! Would grafting peppers onto a estamino tomato rootstock affect its lifetime and prevent it from being overwintered?
Both are perennials....and I've always understood that its the apical meristems that dictate longevity, and not the root system. I think it could still be overwintered....
Why do you use bone meal rather than gypsum that other gardeners suggests? Thank you.
As a nightshade, does this same process apply to tomatoes too?
Nice video
Also when should i fertilize my seedlings if it's soil already have nutrients mix like carbonize rice hull and vermicast
I know this is old but just to clarify the reason people fertilize at the time of planting is because they use non water soluble organic fertilizers that will take weeks to breakdown and require the soil microbacteria to digest and convert that substance into a form that the roots can uptake. So imo it is perfectly fine to do so since the plant won't have access to that fertilizer until weeks later once the roots are already established and it ends up getting a well timed boost to grow post transplant.
If i cut my peppers when they're start turning red they rot before they fully ripen. If i leave them on the plant the same thing happens. Is it a calicium issue?
What kind of rot somi? Cutting green peppers and ripening them off the plant should definitely not cause them to rot.
If I use a 10 gallon grow bag, can I grow more than one in it? Struggling with space ha
Can I put miracle gro when I first start from seedlings?
Just as a precaution I mix crushed egg shells into the soil when I transplant peppers and tomatoes. Keep in mind that it will take some time for the shells to break down, so it is not for an instant fix for b.e.r if your soil has low calcium.
Good slow release is always better too!
Good stuff! Additionally, adding clean and crushed egg shells to a compost or worm bin will begin the process, and the shell powder provides grit for worms' digestive process; win/win.
I have heard if you soak in vinegar first it absorbs faster
K, I did fertilize during planting,but, shashitos, bananas, & jalepenos doing great! Red peppers, & pablanos not?
Except, newer red peppers in boxes seem to be doing better? On one side of ground garden a bought pepper getting bigger, lotsa blossom, little produce. Other side off garden all pepper plants, planted same way, a little later, truly struggling, even though fed& shored up more?? Greenhouse peppers did better, until hard freeze with wind exposing, despite heater last winter??
What was the fertilizer that you used that had the high phosphorus. I believe it was 1-4-7
Can i use vermicast and organic compost for young seedlings so it don't burn them cause I'm new at fertilizing plant 😅 also I'm not good at chemical fertilizers
You couldn't of sent this in the spring ugh, been under feeding my peppers are small
I knowwww Timothy! I've had this video on the back burner since December. Only after I had a couple large peppers pots underperform, I was like, oh yeah, the fertilizer video!
Other than the fish food u mention in the video to feed them, wat can I feed them with?
Compost tea, seaweed extract, weed teas......lots of things!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms was hoping u say something familiar or easier to make or find. Thanks though. I'll just use wat I've normally use. Soil itself.
My bell pepper fruit is short and squaty. How can I make them grow like grocery store bell peppers. They are not the seed type of short bell peppers.
Haha thing I need clarity is organic compost … of course only thing not addressed or linked
This fertilizer isn't on amazon. Can someone please recommend one to me?
I have 7 pepper plants in my garden and have harvested a total of 9 peppers from 8 plants. One plant still has not produced even one pepper yet. I fed with a balanced NPK, then when flowering began I switched to Tiger Bloom which is higher in P than N. At this point in time, the plants are large and leafy but those leaves have started turning yellow and many are dropping. Anyone have any ideas what I’ve done wrong?
My peppers are green. Will they change?
Yes. Most definitely. Remove all new flower buds. That seems to speed things up. :-)
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I'm in 8b and I barely have two leaves. It's been over a month. I'm thinking it's because we have been 100+ for weeks.
Yeah, even though they are tropical, relentless heat doesn't seem to help/
My peppers have been flower dropping a lot this year. Almost no harvest. I am scratching my head.
Oh no, I had that once. Turns out it was a mega pH issue. I heard cooler night time temperatures can cause that as well.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thanks for that good sir. I'm in Van BC btw. I like your videos and one of my latest subscriptions. Keep it up!
give them some ogs worm castings and fish fertilizer and the will go crfazy
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My peppers have been green on the plant for sooooo long and just won’t turn red.
What zone? What are the temperatures like?
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Zone 9b Florida
Highs in the mid 80’s to low 90’s
@@aquaseahorselove3939 my problem is I'm in the same zone as you and I have been having heat wilt , I try shading them but it's so windy in my planting area that everything blows off . And I can't t construct a barrier here due to deed restrictions .
@@aquaseahorselove3939 Try nipping off any new flowers...direct all the energy to the existing fruits.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Will do. The peppers look beautiful otherwise.
In one video you say to quit feeding plants, now this. I'm confused.
Perhaps switch up the varieties a bit so you don't end up with hundreds of peppers all at the same time in september.
Yup, I grow around 7 to 9 varieties every year. No such thing as too many peppers.
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I call BS on the size of those pepper plants unless he purchased them at that size.
Damn bro your tears are leaking threw my phone .
Hey jeff can you please accept my group application for the Growing Better group?? I cant post or comment😐 Thanks😁
Will do. I'll check on it ASAP! :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms great thanks alot😁
Why you have to talking inches from ground . kind of uncomfortable ?
Why not. Closer I get to the earth, the better, in my opinion.
Our tomatoes and bell peppers haven’t done well this summer due to the high heat and dryness. So hoping cooler weather in fall helps
I hear you on that. Brutal year for my larger tomatoes. Just relentless heat with no rainfall.
Stink up your house if you use fish emulsion and draw in raccoons in the garden . Cheap 10-10-10 slow release once a month . Worked for60 years .