Your Pepper Pruning 101 video convinced me to prune my Poblano (Ancho), Cornos Red, Padron and Bell Peppers this year. They'll be planted out in a couple of weeks as our New Zealand summer heats up. Got overwintered Serrano and Jalapeno just coming to live too so might give them a prune soon too. Thanks for the inspiration, you've got the beginnings of a great channel here, keep going.
Thanks for pepper pruning videos. I live in Jacksonville Florida. Started planting in early March. Will start pruning today on peppers and tomatoes April 7, 2020.
I'm gonna trust you and try pruning my bell peppers this year. I start my seeds in my basement (Pennsylvania) and they do well but get very leggy and need to be staked. I never did well with the peppers until I started my own plants and used Gurney's pepper fertilizer. Now I get a couple bushels a year. We can't get our plants out until June so the healthier the plant the better our chances of a good crop are. Thanks for the great videos.
Let me know how they turn out this year! Depending on when you start them, I'd probably prune them a few weeks to a month before you set them out- that way they have ample time to recover before being "disturbed" again, and you'll still get lots of flowers setting quickly after planting.
Your vids are very good . Can't wait to try your bell pepper pruning . I live about as far north as you can get ''Indiana'' without being in Michigan . I have a while to wait .thanks,rudy
Was wrapped to see this! Watched your previous 101 vid and pruned my peppers accordingly. Just planted them out (Australia) so it's great to see what they'll turn into soon!
Awesome. Way to be! Thank you. I have a few videos as well. My garden beginnings. And a little humor. It would be appreciated to have a little feed back from you if that's cool..? Thanks for having a green thumb!
Thanks for the update! What did you make your plant tags out of? I've been cutting up soda cans with tin snips (or even sturdy scissors), and marking them with a ball point pen. It leaves a permanent indent that won't fade in the rain and sun.
Soda can is perfect- we bought these pre-made from maybe Amazon, and have a little metal stamp set with a hammer. The copper ones are kind of pricey, but I like them for plants we'll get a few years out of! (The silver tone ones are much more affordable, but free is always best!)
Can I prune a pepper plant twice? I pruned the main stem and the secondary stems on both sides of the main stem took off! I want to prune it to have a bushier plant, but I'm afraid of damaging the plant. There is some very small fruit on the two secondary stems , smaller than a pencil eraser. I'm a novice growing these peppers in 5 gallon fabric pots on my terrace. Any help I would truly appreciate. Thank you in advance.
A little of each- we eat a lot of the sweet and mediums straight up (or grilled), and pickle or ferment others, and then I dry a fair amount to use in spice blends and rubs as well. About half of the peppers were grown from seed last year and the other half purchased as seedlings. Looking to grow all from seed this season! (Minus what's over-wintering in pots at the moment.)
We're doing a mixed bag here, too. 7 Pot, Black Panther, Big Red Riot, Chocolate Bhuts, Pimenta Puma, Wild Brazilians, Satan's Kiss Cherry, Scotch Bonnets, Shishito, Tommy Gum, and Jalepeno's (of course). Now just need to get rid of winter! Man, I love shishitos on the grill!
Veronica Flores please consider making a video about how you ferment your peppers. I love hot peppers and fermenting, yet I don't know about fermenting peppers. lol
My bell peppers have been in my raised bed for about a month now and there is very little growth. Should I prune them now? I did pull off some buds last week and I do see a little new growth, but wondering if I should prune more - or is that too stressful for the plant? TIA!
Question, when you prune will they stay short and bushy or will they become tall? I just bought some from a nursery and you inspired me to prune but will they get tall? I have serano, jalapeño and poblano
I'm looking forward to trying my hand at pruning plants next year- our growing season is over. They simply get too tall and staking isn't always a great thing. One strong storm and they're all laying on the ground. :(
Woah those turned out great. Thank you for the pruning technique. I have a question if you happen to know (or anyone scanning comments right now) I planted bell peppers late last summer. The plants did ok but never really took off. I'd say they reached 18 inches and produced maybe 15 small to medium peppers. Being in Florida, they actually survived the winter and currently have some red peppers on them. Can peppers fruit a second season and would pruning the tops get some new growth? Thanks in advance to anyone who took the time to read/answer this and thanks again for the content!
Yes as Veronica said. I have several Poblano Pepper plants that I put in my garage/green house that lasted 3 years getting better every year. Putting out incredible amount of peppers each year until a super Cold snap got them. They don't have to build the pepper generating infrastructure every year. It is already in place and you have peppers in April or May.
@@VeronicaFlores thank you! Yeah they ended up growing like monsters for a couple years. Freeze finally got them late this past winter but they thrived many growing seasons! I still rewatch this video when I plant peppers!
@@Innovisualistic thanks and wow that's awesome (minus the frost part.) A very rare hard freeze finally took out all of mine this winter but they had a decent run. I'm going to plant in my longterm locations in the future instead of seasonal beds.
Looks real dry there, guess you have to water like crazy?? Do you sale your plants and vegetables, and if so do you do well with it? Not trying to get into your business, just looking to do something like that myself.
SUPER dry- we get less than 10" of rain most years. I generally don't sell either, but will frequently trade them with friends and neighbors. There's not a ton of $ in farming, no matter how you slice it.
- dried chili flakes - preserved grilled peppers - chili saus - cross different strains as a hobby - neighbors - friends - family - chili salt. - curry paste use chili daily in almost all of my dishes. just enough. not to fan of spicy ones.
Yep! Pretty much what krutogge said. Sometimes I'll put a few baskets of them in our farmstand, but most of them are for eating, spice blends, and sauces right now.
You can prune top growth to try and get it to bush out a bit. If the blooms and fruit are set on top of the plant, I'd probably stake and wait for harvest, then prune after to encourage a bumper crop (depending on how long your season is.)
Sometimes a second time (fruits and flowers) when planting, unless it's the first pruning (then I'll do all at once), and sometimes later in the season of the plant is lanky and not pushing many blooms or if I'm trying to get a bumper crop
I realize this is a year old, but Puckerbutt Pepper Company sells the Reaper seeds, as well as just about every other pepper variety on the planet. The owner is the guy who created the Reaper, and the seeds are great
Good light and some heat are key, as is airflow. I have a reaper in a big (like 10 gallon) pot in the greenhouse and it's doing well, but you really need at least 6 hours of bright light a day to even get a good crop going! (You can supplement it with artificial light too.)
Very nice plants and fruit - I used the tips from your previous video and the plants are doing great! You may want to check out the "Pepper Lovers" community on Google+ (Google Plus)
Early spring as seedlings in pots- just before or just after transplanting (fruit/flowers for root growth)- after the first full fruiting to stimulate more production- hard prune if transplanting back to pots for winter
@@VeronicaFlores Can you give more detail about hard pruning before transplanting for winter? Do I just chop it down to the first set of leaves? Thanks, great content
I believe it may be- probably just retailers swapping names on them. First year growing those guys! They make some outstanding chili powder. Hoping the plant survives, but I saved a few seeds just in case (I had to pot it up as the gophers chewed it out.)
All of these actually just got a light pruning (flowers and fruit) before planting because I was happy with the way they looked, but nothing after that until this week as I prep them for winter! I try not to fuss about them too much- that's why I prune so drastically when they're younger (although the taller ones that were falling over could've probably used a little more love, but I was out of town half the summer and came back to them at that height.)
Yeah sometimes I'll cut off some of the big leaves if they're blocking ones I want to grow- you mostly want to make sure you don't take ALL the leaves off, esp if you don't see new growth yet. :)
Have you vocally expressed how important her interest in the garden is to you, or do you just silently wish she would appreciate it? Sometimes SO's don't know what you want unless you tell them. (And sometimes they support and appreciate in their own ways that get overlooked, aka cooking, cleaning, etc.)
Veronica Flores I used to go out in the garden and harvest, and even hang out in the Adirondack chairs he built....Prior to getting stung I did....We have five bee hives. A few months back I got stung, on my neck, in our drive way, while I was out washing my car. I had just finished an afternoon of volunteering at the local homeless shelter. It was a beautiful south Florida day. Gene had been out there earlier, in the day to see what was going on in the hives, and he got them a little agitated. ☹️ Ever since then, I’ve been afraid of getting stung again😔 I don’t want him to get rid of the hives because the honey is amazing. I do go out there but... when they buzzz by my head I run back into my studio...I’m Lisa, his wife🤗
Oh no! I love our bees too, but yeah, getting stung is no fun. I recommend sitting with the bees in the garden and seeing how docile they really are most of the time- I love photographing them, but they do seem to be a little more feisty on the days when hive checks happen.
Reapers are listed as about 2x as hot as ghosts, and based on my taste tests, I find this to be pretty true! I still like growing reapers better than ghosts, even if they do melt my face off- I think they have a better flavor, and offer more complexity in fermentation than ghosts do. That being said, my favorite C. chinese is forever Fatalii. I've yet to find anything else that offers that level of heat (on a good day, about 1/4 of what a reaper brings to the table, though they've been known to clock in as hot as some ghosts) while maintaining such an interesting "crave-able" bright citrusy flavor.
Thanks! I am just getting started really- I set it up as a place to direct the commonly asked questions I get from family and friends, but since other people are watching, I plan on beefing it up in the coming months! (My background is actually video production, lol.)
Watched both videos back to back, that's some speedy growth from my perspective!
Yeah they were cranking that year!
OMG, just finished the first video on pepper pruning, and this one, with the results, is bloody amazing. Strong plants!
Espellete is among my favorite fresh peppers! David Winsberg grows fabulous Aji Amarillo in East Palo Alto.
Your Pepper Pruning 101 video convinced me to prune my Poblano (Ancho), Cornos Red, Padron and Bell Peppers this year. They'll be planted out in a couple of weeks as our New Zealand summer heats up. Got overwintered Serrano and Jalapeno just coming to live too so might give them a prune soon too. Thanks for the inspiration, you've got the beginnings of a great channel here, keep going.
Thank you! Keep me updated on your progress! :)
Thanks for pepper pruning videos. I live in Jacksonville Florida. Started planting in early March. Will start pruning today on peppers and tomatoes April 7, 2020.
You need to make more garden videos! Good job.
The dog and you ..too cute . Those peppers too. lol =]
I'm gonna trust you and try pruning my bell peppers this year. I start my seeds in my basement (Pennsylvania) and they do well but get very leggy and need to be staked. I never did well with the peppers until I started my own plants and used Gurney's pepper fertilizer. Now I get a couple bushels a year. We can't get our plants out until June so the healthier the plant the better our chances of a good crop are. Thanks for the great videos.
Let me know how they turn out this year! Depending on when you start them, I'd probably prune them a few weeks to a month before you set them out- that way they have ample time to recover before being "disturbed" again, and you'll still get lots of flowers setting quickly after planting.
Your vids are very good . Can't wait to try your bell pepper pruning . I live about as far north as you can get ''Indiana'' without being in Michigan . I have a while to wait .thanks,rudy
Was wrapped to see this! Watched your previous 101 vid and pruned my peppers accordingly. Just planted them out (Australia) so it's great to see what they'll turn into soon!
Nice work thank you for sharing!
Nice work Veronica! I have pepper envy
DAMN SON WHAT'S YOUR ZONE?
thank you for these videos. Did you do any additional pruning after the initial snip 6 months prior?
This was zone 8b- I think I did clean up here and there but no other intentional pruning. (Lots of composted goat manure in this soil though!)
Iv skipped out on growing the passed 2 Years miss it and I miss my peppers..
Sun's your channel. I'm excited to see what you do with it.
Good job Veronica
Awesome. Way to be! Thank you. I have a few videos as well. My garden beginnings. And a little humor. It would be appreciated to have a little feed back from you if that's cool..? Thanks for having a green thumb!
Thanks for the update! What did you make your plant tags out of? I've been cutting up soda cans with tin snips (or even sturdy scissors), and marking them with a ball point pen. It leaves a permanent indent that won't fade in the rain and sun.
Soda can is perfect- we bought these pre-made from maybe Amazon, and have a little metal stamp set with a hammer. The copper ones are kind of pricey, but I like them for plants we'll get a few years out of! (The silver tone ones are much more affordable, but free is always best!)
+Tree Frog - Plus one Internets for you today! What an excellent tip! Great for lots of projects outside of the garden too!
Please make more vids. Your channel has great potential.
Working on it! I've been super busy with work, but have a few stuck in editing that I'll hopefully get a second to post soon. :)
Can I prune a pepper plant twice? I pruned the main stem and the secondary stems on both sides of the main stem took off! I want to prune it to have a bushier plant, but I'm afraid of damaging the plant. There is some very small fruit on the two secondary stems , smaller than a pencil eraser. I'm a novice growing these peppers in 5 gallon fabric pots on my terrace. Any help I would truly appreciate. Thank you in advance.
You can, but I'd hold off if you don't have very many growing days left or you may not get much fruit!
Thanks for posting the follow up vid! So, what do you do with your produce? Eat? Jar? Dry? Sell? All your peppers you grew from seed?
A little of each- we eat a lot of the sweet and mediums straight up (or grilled), and pickle or ferment others, and then I dry a fair amount to use in spice blends and rubs as well. About half of the peppers were grown from seed last year and the other half purchased as seedlings. Looking to grow all from seed this season! (Minus what's over-wintering in pots at the moment.)
We're doing a mixed bag here, too. 7 Pot, Black Panther, Big Red Riot, Chocolate Bhuts, Pimenta Puma, Wild Brazilians, Satan's Kiss Cherry, Scotch Bonnets, Shishito, Tommy Gum, and Jalepeno's (of course). Now just need to get rid of winter! Man, I love shishitos on the grill!
Veronica Flores please consider making a video about how you ferment your peppers.
I love hot peppers and fermenting, yet I don't know about fermenting peppers. lol
realrasher will add it to the list!
My bell peppers have been in my raised bed for about a month now and there is very little growth. Should I prune them now? I did pull off some buds last week and I do see a little new growth, but wondering if I should prune more - or is that too stressful for the plant? TIA!
Thanks I`m going to go out and chop them now :)
Question, when you prune will they stay short and bushy or will they become tall? I just bought some from a nursery and you inspired me to prune but will they get tall?
I have serano, jalapeño and poblano
that's it, i'm pruning my peppers this year!
WE DEMAND MORE VIDEOS!!
They're coming! Gonna start shooting new stuff in about a week and a half when I'm finally back home from winter work and travels. :)
I'm looking forward to trying my hand at pruning plants next year- our growing season is over. They simply get too tall and staking isn't always a great thing. One strong storm and they're all laying on the ground. :(
Ugh I know the feeling! We get crazy high winds almost daily where I'm currently at, so pruning helps a ton.
That light might work too (and probably put off some heat lol)- just hang it high enough so it doesn't melt your plants down!
What does she/you do with so many peppers? Just curious.
Do you ever get cross pollination with them being close together? Love your videos by the way. :)
Not usually! But I try to stack them so that they won't cross as easily, and typically don't notice trait changes in my seeds year to year.
Woah those turned out great. Thank you for the pruning technique. I have a question if you happen to know (or anyone scanning comments right now) I planted bell peppers late last summer. The plants did ok but never really took off. I'd say they reached 18 inches and produced maybe 15 small to medium peppers. Being in Florida, they actually survived the winter and currently have some red peppers on them. Can peppers fruit a second season and would pruning the tops get some new growth? Thanks in advance to anyone who took the time to read/answer this and thanks again for the content!
Yes and yes, provided they don't have disease and don't freeze.
Yes as Veronica said. I have several Poblano Pepper plants that I put in my garage/green house that lasted 3 years getting better every year. Putting out incredible amount of peppers each year until a super Cold snap got them. They don't have to build the pepper generating infrastructure every year. It is already in place and you have peppers in April or May.
@@VeronicaFlores thank you! Yeah they ended up growing like monsters for a couple years. Freeze finally got them late this past winter but they thrived many growing seasons! I still rewatch this video when I plant peppers!
@@Innovisualistic thanks and wow that's awesome (minus the frost part.) A very rare hard freeze finally took out all of mine this winter but they had a decent run. I'm going to plant in my longterm locations in the future instead of seasonal beds.
Hi veronica, thanks for the videos... where did you get the seeds for these peppers?
All over, would have to look back but a combination of catalogs, travels, and friends
Looks real dry there, guess you have to water like crazy?? Do you sale your plants and vegetables, and if so do you do well with it? Not trying to get into your business, just looking to do something like that myself.
SUPER dry- we get less than 10" of rain most years. I generally don't sell either, but will frequently trade them with friends and neighbors. There's not a ton of $ in farming, no matter how you slice it.
thanks
holly-molly. You are gorgeous. And thery great teller =)
how did you get them to grow so tall?
Curious what you do with all your peppers. Preserve them, sell some of them?
- dried chili flakes
- preserved grilled peppers
- chili saus
- cross different strains as a hobby
- neighbors
- friends
- family
- chili salt.
- curry paste
use chili daily in almost all of my dishes. just enough. not to fan of spicy ones.
thanks. Looks like you do a great job at what you do. I'm going to try using your tips next year.
Yep! Pretty much what krutogge said. Sometimes I'll put a few baskets of them in our farmstand, but most of them are for eating, spice blends, and sauces right now.
- spiced alchol /shott ! C:
- sausages.
an you prune once they have peppers? and or blooms? my bell peppers are tall lanky very healthy plants but I want more peppers
You can prune top growth to try and get it to bush out a bit. If the blooms and fruit are set on top of the plant, I'd probably stake and wait for harvest, then prune after to encourage a bumper crop (depending on how long your season is.)
Can I prune more than once
Yes - I encourage it after harvest if you want to maintain a particular shape
Do you prune your peppers a second time? Or just the once as seedlings
Sometimes a second time (fruits and flowers) when planting, unless it's the first pruning (then I'll do all at once), and sometimes later in the season of the plant is lanky and not pushing many blooms or if I'm trying to get a bumper crop
I've been desperately wanting to get some reaper seeds myself. Recommend a reliable source?
Still looking- I got some seeds this spring but haven't been happy with germination so far.
got reaper tree now, but no luck on having it flowering
I realize this is a year old, but Puckerbutt Pepper Company sells the Reaper seeds, as well as just about every other pepper variety on the planet. The owner is the guy who created the Reaper, and the seeds are great
Any tips on growing Reapers indoors for a beginner?
Good light and some heat are key, as is airflow. I have a reaper in a big (like 10 gallon) pot in the greenhouse and it's doing well, but you really need at least 6 hours of bright light a day to even get a good crop going! (You can supplement it with artificial light too.)
Very nice plants and fruit - I used the tips from your previous video and the plants are doing great! You may want to check out the "Pepper Lovers" community on Google+ (Google Plus)
Can pruning be done once the peppers are in flower?
You can, but I'd take less off (and usually wait until I've harvested at least one flush before pruning more.)
do more pepper videos
How often should you prune?
Early spring as seedlings in pots- just before or just after transplanting (fruit/flowers for root growth)- after the first full fruiting to stimulate more production- hard prune if transplanting back to pots for winter
@@VeronicaFlores Can you give more detail about hard pruning before transplanting for winter? Do I just chop it down to the first set of leaves? Thanks, great content
Is a santa fe granda the same as the havasu pepper?
I believe it may be- probably just retailers swapping names on them. First year growing those guys! They make some outstanding chili powder. Hoping the plant survives, but I saved a few seeds just in case (I had to pot it up as the gophers chewed it out.)
I was happy with the one I grew
Do you see those 3.9k subscribers? Well...would you say it's time to reward them with some new material?
HAHAHA YES! Totally agree. :P
how many times did you pruned them after the 1st prune video
All of these actually just got a light pruning (flowers and fruit) before planting because I was happy with the way they looked, but nothing after that until this week as I prep them for winter! I try not to fuss about them too much- that's why I prune so drastically when they're younger (although the taller ones that were falling over could've probably used a little more love, but I was out of town half the summer and came back to them at that height.)
Veronica Flores thank you :)
ow and is it ok if i cut the old big leafs after the side shoots go out of it because its too big it blocks the sunlight to the lowers side shoots
Yeah sometimes I'll cut off some of the big leaves if they're blocking ones I want to grow- you mostly want to make sure you don't take ALL the leaves off, esp if you don't see new growth yet. :)
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Wish I could get my wife interested in the garden. SHe won’t even go out and pick
Have you vocally expressed how important her interest in the garden is to you, or do you just silently wish she would appreciate it? Sometimes SO's don't know what you want unless you tell them. (And sometimes they support and appreciate in their own ways that get overlooked, aka cooking, cleaning, etc.)
Veronica Flores I used to go out in the garden and harvest, and even hang out in the Adirondack chairs he built....Prior to getting stung I did....We have five bee hives. A few months back I got stung, on my neck, in our drive way, while I was out washing my car. I had just finished an afternoon of volunteering at the local homeless shelter. It was a beautiful south Florida day. Gene had been out there earlier, in the day to see what was going on in the hives, and he got them a little agitated. ☹️ Ever since then, I’ve been afraid of getting stung again😔 I don’t want him to get rid of the hives because the honey is amazing. I do go out there but... when they buzzz by my head I run back into my studio...I’m Lisa, his wife🤗
Oh no! I love our bees too, but yeah, getting stung is no fun. I recommend sitting with the bees in the garden and seeing how docile they really are most of the time- I love photographing them, but they do seem to be a little more feisty on the days when hive checks happen.
Are reapers hotter than ghosts?
Reapers are listed as about 2x as hot as ghosts, and based on my taste tests, I find this to be pretty true! I still like growing reapers better than ghosts, even if they do melt my face off- I think they have a better flavor, and offer more complexity in fermentation than ghosts do.
That being said, my favorite C. chinese is forever Fatalii. I've yet to find anything else that offers that level of heat (on a good day, about 1/4 of what a reaper brings to the table, though they've been known to clock in as hot as some ghosts) while maintaining such an interesting "crave-able" bright citrusy flavor.
Work on your editing and filming and you channel could get really big.
Thanks! I am just getting started really- I set it up as a place to direct the commonly asked questions I get from family and friends, but since other people are watching, I plan on beefing it up in the coming months! (My background is actually video production, lol.)
She is definitely easy to watch but not as pretty as you Jeb.
Can you imagine being commented on by Jeb "THE MAN" Gardener? :D
HIs naME's J-eb
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