Pepper Geek Q&A - Answering Your Questions! - Episode# 1
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
- In today's video, we're answering a few of your general questions about growing peppers. A few of these questions are also just best practice for all vegetable gardens, so we hope you find some use out of our answers!
Favorite pepper seed sellers:
peppergeek.com/buy-pepper-see...
Crossbreeding peppers:
peppergeek.com/how-to-crossbr...
"Fresh India" cookbook (affiliate links):
amzn.to/3FDhPNO (Vegetarian)
amzn.to/3sxKoZo (Non-Vegetarian)
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:20 What do you do to the soil before planting?
1:33 What are your favorite pepper seed retailers?
2:39 Are crosses more likely to inherit traits from the male or female plant?
3:30 What is your favorite spicy recipe?
4:31 How to attract beneficial insects
6:31 What are some good low-heat pepper varieties?
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Thanks for watching Pepper Geek!
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Yeah it was pretty darn cold here today too... 76f was the high here on the Flo rida/Abalama border,BRRRRRRRRR!!! Gotta dig out my fur lined parka,boots and gloves if this keeps up..
Looks like there is a lot of Mexican recipes to look forward to! Cant wait
How long have the 2 of you been growing peppers? Y'all make a good team. Each one of you bring something to channel to keep things interesting. Keep up the good work.
Appreciate that! We've been growing casually for about 9 years or so, but really ramped up in the last 3-4 years
It is the perfect time to start Rocoto Manzano peppers in Northern clinates! 😉
Haha, that is some sound advice.
I’ve been growing my peppers indoors and they are doing well
Best pick for Zone 6 Columbus Ohio as for bells for stuffing
As a grower from the southern hemisphere, Baker Creek Seeds have done only good things by me.
#1 Keep the beard. #2. (#1) was for the Mr., not the Mrs. (ha). #3 Your videos are Great, and a great help. Thanks for the over wintering information, zone 4a-5b here with a shorter growing season and starting with over wintered plants is going to be a big success story. Thanks again for your knowledge on peppers.
Two years in...Thanks for the education and entertainment. I've gleaned enough to be dangerous with my incipient pepper operation.
Thanks for watching! It is worth all the danger :)
Happy new years to everyone, May this year be a turnpoint for the better.!.
Great video!!! Ty
I'm also a huge fan of hot sauces so I can definitely see myself expanding on the amount of pepper varieties I have growing. Thanks for this Q&A! 😎🪴🌶️🔥
Great video guys. I’ve just received my bottles of neem oil for next years pest control. I find by spraying weekly it helps control the pests and thankfully it’s a natural product as I refuse to use chemicals on my vegetables and peppers. I look forward to your next video, whatever it may be.
Stay safe.
I just wanted to say thank you very much for this channel. I live in Missouri just east of Kansas City, and discovering this channel inspired my 13 year old son and I to build our own pepper garden last year! We built some raised beds and were able to grow jalapenos, Caribbean red habaneros, and ghost peppers (along with some tomatoes, okra, cucumbers, and onions) and, with this channel's help, they were all very successful. I was even able to make some delicious varieties of hot sauce adding mango, pineapple, and/or onion using your habanero hot sauce recipe!
This year we are going to build more beds and double the size of our garden, and we have purchased seed from Baker Creek, specifically chocolate habanero, jigsaw, sugar rush cream, Chinese 5 color, and habanada peppers.
It has been an incredibly rewarding and enjoyable hobby for both my son and I, and we have bonded over it and been able to give away peppers, seed, and hot sauce to friends and family over the holidays. Thank you for putting so much work into your content, and providing info on relevant, helpful topics. We couldn't have done this without you. 👍
That is a great story, so happy to hear you had a successful year and were able to include your son! We're honored to have been a help and wish you the best of luck for years to come ☺️
@@PepperGeek you too! Can't wait to follow you this year and happy to be a part of this community!
Great video guys. In Australia my reapers and scorpions are growing well although I do have to protect them from the possums or they would be gone overnight. I lost half a dozen habaneros one night when I forgot to cover them. They are big pest problem here in the Dandenongs.
Great video y’all. What are some newer breeds of peppers that your really pumped for next year???
Good video! Appreciated hearing your approach to attracting good insects to the garden.
Thank you! Yep, it is always easier to let nature take care of your problems for you :)
Happy New Year C&C, stay happy healthy and safe.
Thanks, happy new year to you too!
32 degrees celsius sounds hot ;)
Jimmy Pickles and Refining Fire have been my go-to for for seeds. May try those others but Jimmy ships so fast haha
We have ordered from both of those as well with good results
Thank you for the video, some really good advice there.
Belated Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to both of you, your families, and loved ones 🤗
Thank you for all the great videos in 2021, I learned a lot from watching
Best wishes and keep up the very good work in 2022
Merry Christmas to you too, hope you had a great year! Thanks for watching our channel, and we'll see you in 2022 😁
What are some interesting ways you use your peppers other than adding them to recipes or making them into hot sauce? Our garden will be bigger this year and will have more varieties, and the peppers were so plentiful last year Id like to have a tentative plan on place. I have about two huge gallon bags in the freezer full of ghost peppers all from one plant!
Justin White has some great varieties & the shipping costs aren't restrictive (UK). A great selection on Baker Creek, but the shipping is now $12 which is a little OTT for just a few varieties. I find Germany have some great sites for more bang for your bucks.
Happy New Year!!! Thanks for the Q&A video. What hot peppers do you think produce the most peppers? I am in 9a zone so I'm getting things ready to start indoors and was hoping to plant some peppers that will really produce this year. Thanks again!!!!
Happy New Year! This is a good one we'll include in the next round, but as a quick answer, C. chinense varieties can grow to be massive and highly productive. Any of the naga varieties, habanero, etc.
Great video guys! I’m a pepper grower as well. I grow 34 varieties so far and counting😃
Awesome!
How to get more blossoms and fruit on a pepper tree ?
I was looking for a way to ask questions and you posted this video!! Thank you!! Do you use a particular starting mix and what is a good feeding schedule for peppers in general?Thank you .
Thanks for the video and info, checked the local library and now have a copy of Fresh India coming my way to try out. The pepper issue here is pepper maggots, haven't found terribly much on how to prevent them infesting ruining our peppers. We only grow in pots with fresh soiless potting mix and compost each year, keep it clean under the plants as they grow but still they've come the last couple of years. Any ideas, plan this year is to isolate the plants using tulle/insect netting but i'm open to any non-poison solutions.
Love your channel! Just wondering how many bell peppers would you expect to get per plant?
I'm going to try the lesya next year. Its my favorite color plus I want to try something different
Can you make more hydroponic pepper videos?
My thai chili plants are still producing like crazy outside (I only had to cover them twice from a frost). Dallas Texas is still 80 degrees.
Lucky!
Your photo of the lady bug 🐞 was the Asian ladybug... I have ordered the convergent ladybugs bugs and they are still around.
I live in central Texas and grew peppers for the first time last year. I found that once the temps here got above 95°F the plants basically stalled. Some plants had flowers, some had immature fruit and they pretty much stayed as they were until the temps came down in the fall. Once the temps dropped below 95°F the fruit ripened and the flowers produced pods but I lost about 2 months of production. This year I'm planning on building my container pepper garden under 40% shade cloth and also use a misting system to keep the temps around the plants cooler during the extremely hot months.
Any thoughts on this plan or suggestions?
Any suggestions for habanero types with more of a fruity/citrus flavor rather than floral?
Thank you! Another great video.
Can you please post the names of the mild peppers that you have mentioned?
Thanks! We talked about the *habanada, poblano, bell, and lesya* peppers
@@PepperGeek Awesome, thanks!
Can you recommend any short season peppers? Or methods for getting peppers to fully ripen in cooler climates?
Growlights! I’ve got Trinidad Scorpions & others in fruit at the moment (Christmas 2021). We’re in Orkney so there’s very little natural light. A bought cheapish grow lights from Amazon to keep them ticking over through winter & get a head start in the spring but they’re thriving under them😊
I love the heat from peppers, but I hate the "pepper" after taste. I have been sticking with Cheyenne because I don't detect an aftertaste from it. Is there another hot pepper without the "pepper tastes" I should try out? I hate the taste of jalapeno because it makes me burp which is gross, to begin with, but tasting it the second time makes me barf! Thank you very much!!!
Sugar Rush Peach, sugar rush peach stripey.
Hello, on your website article “Growing Peppers Indoors - Year Round Pepper Harvests “ you say that Piquillo de Lodosa is a great pepper to grow indoors. When clicking the link it takes me to Biquinho Chile Pepper Seeds. Which pepper is the properly suggested indoor pepper plant? Thank you.
Ah, sorry about that. Looks like Botanical Interests stopped selling the variety. Here is another source: www.sandiaseed.com/collections/sweet-pepper-seeds/products/piquillo
Where can you find seeds for that mild habanero pepper you mentioned at 6:45? Thanks!
www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/sweet/habanada-sweet-pepper 👍
Two questions :
How did yall two meet?
And if I live on Maui, will I be able to keep my plants fruiting year round for many many years or will they eventually be "done for".
It never gets below low 60s at night in winter for reference
Thanks so much
I’ve heard of people in South Florida having pepper plants for 8-10 years, so you shouldn’t have an issue in Hawaii. Just protect them from disease and pests, and they should last.
Peppers are REALLY tough. I have one that was snapped in half by a wind storm. It started growing sideways at the break. I over wintered it, and it’s still alive.
@@D71219ONE That's so cool. Thank you for the knowledge.
Do you know if I can grow a super hot in a smaller pot, let it get old enough to harvest, then transfer it to a larger 5 gallon pot and have it keep growing in size after its already mature?
I have limited space and lots of different varieties that I'm just starting out. I only want to move my favorites into the largest pots if that's possible.
@@reefslug It really depends on the size of the pepper plant. Larger plants will usually need at least 5 gallons to start producing, but average size varieties are fine with 3 gallons. I’ve heard of people using 1 gallon pots, but I’ve never personally used one that small.
I think most super hots would be fine with 3 gallons. There’s no harm in trying one in a 1 gallon container.
@@D71219ONE gotcha. Thanks for that.
Regarding the last pepper you mentioned -- the red heart-shaped (teardrop-shaped) one; it sounded like "lecia" pepper. How do you spell it? I would like to find it. Thanks.
Lesya, rareseeds.com sells seeds
I have a question! I have a pretty small porch garden and in the upcoming year I want to grow some pepper plants that I don't want to cross-pollinate at random (they are an F1 cross from White Hot that I would like to experiment with over a few generations). What is the best way to isolate them from the rest of my crop?
You can put a small bag around a flower before it opens and then hand pollinate the flowers individually and put the bag back until the fruit sets. May wanna use smth like a twist tie or string to keep track of which ones are done this way
I have a few questions about your hydroponics videos. I was hoping to grow habanero plants this way, but all the videos I've watched say not to over water the plants. How do you keep them in water but not have the issues of having too much water? Second question, when it come to container size, will the plant be stunted since it is still a relatively small container, or should I transfer to say a 5 gallon bucket? Thanks.
Thanks for the question. The problem with overwatering comes from the roots inability to access oxygen. As long as part of the root system is above the water line (ie. kratky method), or you supply some air to the water, the roots can breathe. As for size, I'd probably go bigger if you have the space, but know that the plant will get *a lot* bigger in a 5 gal bucket.
@@PepperGeek If I go with the air pump route, should the roots be completely submerged? I'll likely use that method with 5 gallon, buckets. I have a lot of fish tanks so buckets and air pumps are already my life. Thanks!
When did you first discover your love of peppers?
What is a good organic fertilizer for when I transplant my seedlings into their bigger pots?
We liked results from miracle gro organics. Gentle and doesn’t seem to burn if you go too heavy handed. Pretty cheap too!
@@PepperGeek Thank you!
I’m trying to grow chocolate habaneros. I have the seed sowed in Happy Frog potting mix ,in seed trays under a dome placed on top of a heat mat. The temperature is normally around 96F. I planted them on 12/18/21 and I still have seen any signs of growth. Am I doing something wrong or do I just need to be patient. I also keep the trays damp if I see them happen to be getting dry. Thanks in advance.
Hey I'll answer now since you're actively trying to germinate. I have seen some C. chinense seeds take about 3 weeks to sprout in some cases. 96F is pretty warm, I usually shoot for 80-85F for germination. Another possible reason for slower germination is if the seeds are older. This is hard to know unless you saved the seeds yourself. Seeds over 1 year old usually take noticeably longer to come up. Hopefully you'll see them in the next few days!
@@PepperGeek My temperature gun say 96F. but when I touch the surface of my plant tray, its a soothing warmth. A baby can sleep on it without complaining. I placed several towels under it to cut the heat down at the beginning of planting the seeds.
@@scorporsupremacy7948 I grew chocolate habaneros last year (seeds from Baker Creek). They germinated and grew about the same as other habaneros. You should see the seed leaves popping up within 2-3 weeks of starting if all is well. You might just need to wait another week; or your temperature may be too high. Some heating pads are intended for other plants and run too hot -- 96F is way above optimal for pepper seeds or young plants.
My own experimental observation: I like having the heat mat on the same timer you'd use for grow lights, to provide a variation of temperature over the day, like you'd see in nature. I find it gives you germination at least as fast as leaving heat on all the time.
Hi. My Scotch bonnet plants are grown pretty well and the only problem is plants are producing small fruits. Any reason for this?
Not really any reason for this. It most likely is just the plant. We've had some plants produce all small peppers when they were _supposed_ to be larger. Sometimes, the genetics just mutate or vary and the pods come out smaller. However, you could try adjusting the plant to more sunlight and make sure it has enough soil space and nutrients to produce full sized pods.
@@PepperGeek .Thank you..🙏
Keep that beard man. It suits you.
I'd have to do some additions to that books recipes such as adding some chicken,turkey,beef,or goat meat cause ain't nobody meant to live or survive on just veggies and fruits...jus sayin 😁