Container Size for Pepper Plants - Ideal Pot Size - Pepper Geek
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- In this video, I discuss the ideal container size for growing pepper plants. The topic is pretty basic, but we get asked this question A LOT, so we thought a video may be helpful to some newer growers.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:13 - What size pot for peppers?
0:48 - Container size by pepper species
3:28 - Fabric pots & container volume
4:29 - Tiny pots?
5:01 - Summary
6:02 - About the purple pepper plant
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Offering the plain answer within the first seconds of a video is such a refreshing thing to witness. Thanks for refraining from cliffhangers! Stayed for the rest of the video as well of course!
:) Thanks!!
YES, THANK YOU!!!
Thank you!!!!!
Absolutely! Thanks for not making this an infomercial. Great information. Just got a new subscriber
I respect that he gave the answer within 20 seconds
Am I the only one that thought the orange peppers were hanging from the plant on the desk until he cut to a closeup?
Lol. Yes, I thought the same.
Exactly what I was just going to say 🤣
Same
I did too and was very impressed hahahah
I literally came down to the comment section to tell him to turn that monitor off!! The whole time I thought that plant was producing orange peppers. Nice clarity on the monitor!! LOL
Great information! Key Phrase: "as long as you have a growing season long enough to achieve that size" :) Very true for northern climates!
I never thought there were so many people who love pepper plants and grow them almost exclusively, I thought I was alone. Awesome channel
What type of soil do you use?
@@Chichilovee I use a mix of 50% store bought soil with 25% of perlite and 25% vermiculite, for pots it works nicely, in grow bags it's not a good idea (have to water too often).
Tons of pepper heads! We have a chili pepper festival in our hometown every year
@@foxguyday that's so great, where I live, there is nothing like that. People keep asking me, why do I plant peppers only and why peppers of all things lol
Favorite pepper channel on RUclips 🥺
Awesome! Glad you enjoy :)
I’m just starting to grow peppers for the first time. I cannot thank you enough for the videos to help me with this!
Absolutely, glad you're growing them, its fun!
welcome🌶
How did it go?
Hey Pepper Geek, thanks for all your pepper videos, very informative.
Only drawback of grow bags is they often produce very large plants, and when they get too big the fabric pots sometimes slump or fall over easy. Obviously easy to control with some supports, but it is a thing to be aware of. I've also found by clustering grow bags together they take slightly longer to dry out, so if you're soil is staying too moist, add some space between bags, and if your soil is drying out fast, push them right up against each other to help slow the process.
Growing peppers for the first time this year and this channel has helped me so much already, big thanks 🤙
Glad to hear that!
I can tell you from experience that those fabric grow bags are fantastic for zucchini and yellow squash. They drain amazingly well so I would imagine they'd be great for peppers that require good drainage.
Great, that you're giving the short answer at the start
:)
I’ve used grow bags for years. They are amazing, just really have to watch they don’t dry out.
How do you check? I watered my 10 gal grow bags every day and yet the tomatoes did poorly in comparison to the ones in the ground in growth and yields. They looked sick and not bushy at all. I have so many growbags and hesitating to use them this year.
THANK YOU,do you know how many videos by other youtubers I've watched to finally get the correct answers from you! Wish yours came up first!
Happy that we could help ☺️
Don’t forget to add the fact that fabric pots air prune roots, for more root capacity.
I'll also add if you grow with fabric pots on top of grass or soil they will grow through the bottom of the bag into the ground and get massive... So once they get settled you don't want to move them if that's the case. You can move them a bunch when they're smaller tho
I think this depends on the type of fabric, the non-woven fabrics don't really let roots get through
I grew that pepper you showed on screen. Here in Canada, I'm north of Toronto, Zone 5 close to zone 4, our nursery had a little purple plant called "Purple Peach Ghost Pepper". I bought it for it's unique colour to add to my garden, and was trying super hot peppers for the first time (3 Carolina Reapers). It was gorgeous, fruitful and hot. Want to plant again! I pruned it, and 2 of the Reapers, leaving 1 reaper not pruned to 'experiment' with results. I like results from pruning. One pruned Reaper I put right into my garden bed, and it was extra prolific, although the others were phenomenal -grown in very large pots, outdoors. We can't buy seeds here, and to ship from the USA is very costly, but my local nursery brought some seedlings in. This year I'll try saving the seeds.
Yay! So excited! I was one that had asked for some help on container size based on different peppers. I have 30 pepper plants growing and this helps so much!
Awesome! Glad we could help. That's a lot of peppers, would love to see the plants!
I'd like to see 👀
This was super helpful, my Bell Peppers are ready to go into their final pots and I was very confused about what size pot to buy! Thanks from the UK (and our ridiculously short growing season 🤣) 🇬🇧
Love your videos! I'm coming to you for all my pepper growing questions
Great video. I watched a couple others, they were great. But what really sold me on subbing is your delivery upfront with no bs. So refreshing I stayed to the end
I’ve been using fabric pots for years. Air pruning is wonderful.
So happy, literally just purchased those very pots , great star to my first pepper growing season . Thank you for all your info it's been great help in my pepper growing adventure
I used fabric pots last year, I have 40 of them and they were fantastic! Great success, you just have to water them more as they lose moisture in sun fast but the roots breathe better... I will have 70 plants this year and 46 of 70 will be fabric. Cheers from Canada
Nice! 70 plants, wow, you have more than us this year! Excited to see how our fabric pots will perform, most comments about them seem positive :)
Very much agree on them losing more water to evaporation! Plants seem to love them though
(surface dress) them with peat or Coco. They hold water better. When you water them, let the water come out the bottom.
always love the info, thanks guys!
I’ve been working my way through your library of pepper videos. Excellent videos.
Much appreciated 😊
Got my grow bags ready! 🤘 Can't wait to transplant. Pot size really does make a difference. Keep up the great information. Followed some of your advice with great success.
Awesome! Thank you! Super excited to try the grow bags out and see how well they clean up after a season of growth.
Great point about grow bags shipping small, inexpensively, and with minimal packaging!
I’ve always used 5 gallons and produced tons of peppers that lasted in my freezer for up to 1 year even after I have some away!
By the way the variety I had was habernero and scotch bonnet.
Sounds great! Those are some great varieties to have tucked away all year.
I definitely love this video. Unfortunately being on a very very small budget i got some decent sized pots but had to settle with dirt, not soil, not even close, but dirt from my yard for all of my plants. Most of them are doing great despite that but im bargain shopping for soil. Anyway i always appreciate ur videos man and keep em comin
wait i thought dirt and soil were the same thing?
@@mrprince5934 Kinda, depends on the ground where you live, it might contain more sand than a soil mix for example, and soil mixes are usually pre-fertilized, but that you can fix on your own.
I even avoid clay pots in my area because they dry out so fast, I don't think I could keep up with fabric. During peak summer I often resort to putting all of my pots into 5ft kiddy pools and fill them with 3-4 inches of water which gets me 2-3 days depending on how many pots I have packed into each pool.
1:35 I have 3 sizes of that exact pot, and after one growing season I've found that you were right about the 10 inch pots. You could do 8, but it has a massive effect on your plant size and harvest.
This was helpful information! I am partial to fabric grow bags, so this video helping me determine which size bags to use was valuable. I plan to grow cayenne peppers in a couple of different style grow bags as soon as the weather warms up.
Thank you thank you, this is SO useful, and so clear! 🙏🙏
No problem, glad it was helpful :)
More awesome advice. Thank you
What a coincidence I have been wondering how to transplant my capsicum seedlings and what size pots I need because I don't have many big pots Thanks a lot for your great suggestions👍👍👍😄😄😄
Good luck!
Great video,
I gave away some plants to friends last spring and it was obvious by the yields who cheated out on both soil and pots.
This year since I’ll be doubling my plants I ordered a skid (100) of the Home Depot 5 gallon buckets. I find not only are they way cheaper than most pots but they provide a more stable base for windy days when plants are top heavy with fruit.
Once I have them all set up in my driveway I’ll send a pic to HD head office to let them see all the free advertising they’re receiving lol.
All the best with your grow season and I look forward to your next video.
Hah! Yeah, buckets are definitely an ultra cheap way to go for potted plants. I'd like to see a picture of all those HD pots too, if you have insta use #peppergeek so we can check it out. Good luck growing!
OH MY GOD, THIS VIDEO IS A LIFE SAVER
So glad I discovered your channel. I have a black cobra pepper plant, and I wasnt sure if I needed to increase the pot size again, so I'm glad to know I shouldn't lol. I have some bell pepper seedlings waiting for a transfer and I might just invest in grow bags and cheat the space lol
My go too channel, starting seeds in a month
Can’t wait!
Great info I grow mines in 5 and 7 gal grow bags and get really great harvest. I think the key to the grow bags are keeping like a inch of water in the bottom. I actually keep mines in a kiddie pool or a modified kiddie pool and it works but watering grow bags from the top you just don't get a good watering b cuz the water leaks out the sides before it can get down to the roots using more water. Imo your grow bags will do awesome if you water from the bottom making sure you start off with 2 inches of really wet soil on the bottom so it can wick up and potting mix is a must. Sorry so long but I've tested it and I wanted others to know why some ppl are not getting the best results in their grow bags. Ive learn alot about peppers from you guys so keep up the great work. Thank you
Thanks for the info, that does make a lot of sense. We will experiment with this sort of thing this year and see if it helps with water retention.
Good thing i came across this video.
We love fabric pots, but haven't tried them for peppers yet! We found last year that we really could pack in the peppers in our raised beds, but we have so many starts this year we might need to use fabric pots too! 💚🫑🌶
First off, I tried the grow bags last year and I absolutely love them. So much in fact I have been cycling out my plastics and replacing them with various sizes of the bags. I am in love with the concept that the roots get airflow and thus it lowers the chance of root rot ( or so they said). I even just directly seed start in them and have had huge success. I have had more tomatoes and bell peppers than my family could eat, plus I didn't want my canning shelf to just be peppers, and have had to give some away to avoid waste. I live on 7 acres, 6 of which is all wooded, so I can just grab my garden cart and move them if i see some aren't getting the sun they should. No more digging, it's so much less work and more time to enjoy my plants and of course sit back and watch nature happen. Yes I have even grown root veggies and watermelons (vertically) in them! Think trellis + pantyhose. Secondly, I spotted the mistake I probably have made. I planted jalapeños and put the bags in my greenhouse for the winter. It is not quite completely set up with a heating system ( yes I got excited and impatient) so I "jimmy rigged" some heat in there but we had a chill I believe out-powered the heat, so I may have lost them, but I am waiting to see. This video made me say "ahhh okay", so let's try this again...
I love the grow bags! They’re easy move.
You two grow beautiful peppers. 🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾
Much appreciated
Ive become a pepper creek!!! Ill have 20 different varieties this year. Containers is what ill be using containers for most of them.
Awesome! Glad to have you on board :)
lovely video again, with very good information.
Thank you!
Thanks for metric system values!
No problem!
I am trying them this year also. I heard a great benefit is air pruning with the fabric pots. Stronger roots equal stronger plants
I’m buying up all the stuff to grow a Thai Chili plant on my desk at work. I can’t wait.
Nice! The only challenge may be adequate lighting indoors. Your desk neighbors may need sunglasses 😁
@@PepperGeek Found a pretty decent grow lamp on Amazon. High walled cubicles, should be ok. It’ll be the 5th plant on my desk alongside a Philodendron, Aloe Vera, Golden Pothos, and Lucky Bamboo.
Thanks, you saved me from planting a jalapeno in a large container (just because it's pretty and I wanted it by my front door). The seedling I bought can hardly be called a seedling anymore, and while it has lots of flowers on it, I don't have much time left for it to start to produce before winter comes around.
thank you for annotations with normal units
I look forward to seeing your fabric pot plants progress. I have used fabric pots for several seasons and the root mass is unbelievable. More roots equals more fruits. I hope that will be your experience as well. Happy growing.
Good to hear that! We will be sharing many updates here on the channel as thing progress.
Thanks for your comment. I'm going to try a few in fabric pots to see how they go.
@@PepperGeek and Craig
One thing to keep in mind with the fabric pots is that they do tend to dry out quicker because they are able to breathe so the moisture does tend to evaporate more quickly. Mulching can slow this down a little bit, but definitely keep an eye on that.
I grew santaka pepper's last year ❤️ I grew them in grow bags and they did wonderful.
Awesome, tasty little peppers!
Great info, thank you! Really good point about larger pot = longer time to maturity = longer season needed. I live in WA State (zone 7b) and always hear people say they cannot grow hot peppers. We can still very much grow most varieties, you just have to start them inside and know the season is short!
Right! It is amazing how much time they can take if you let them get huge. You really need a spot inside to help them get a strong start. Good luck this year and thanks for watching :)
THANK U THANK U THANK U...... U have a new subscriber.
Ive been using the bags for a while now. A few things to know about the bags - Need to water a little more often or longer to ensure even watering due to them drying out faster than other style pots - The roots will not go thru the bags - its good to put them on something that puts air around the entire bag to allow for good drainage and air flow, an upside-down crate is perfect - they are easy to move and I use a few indoors for year round tomatoes.
Great video, earned a new subscriber.
Awesome, thank you!
I love this channel
Thanks so you just realized my morning
Awesome info. I plan on planting 12 pepper plants (Jimmy Nardello and Numex paprika) in five gallon fabric grow bags, trying to get some germination going now mid Feb. in NH. If I have luck and they grow being early I'll try topping them to slow them down until they can go outside. I'm trying 4 seeds or so just to see if I can get them growing and fine tune all that before mid March or so before I'm under the gun. I'm on round two now with no luck and I'm even using a heat mat and humidity dome. they're frustrating for me to get germinated. The growing I'm good at but seeng anything pop up, not so much.
I like to use quite small containers for my pepper breeding program.
This way I get seeds for the next generation earlier. I only need a few fruits for taste testing after all...
Yep! Another great reason to grow in small containers, quick turnaround
Growing last year in zone 5a. I thought the grow bags did well as long as you monitor how much water the plants receive as the soil dries out a little more than plastic pots. Not a problem if you put a hot pepper in a 5 or 10 gallon grow bag and mulch it up. Also, I overwintered a lot of pepper plants hot and sweet pepper inside my house in grow bags and a lot did not make it because the soil dried out. I will try again next winter in plastic pots and see the results.
Great video mate
Thanks!
great video sir
Thank you
Good information thank you. I have a question about my cerano pepper plants,they’re almost third set leaves,should I top them?
A couple years ago, I put 4 jalapeno plants in a 1 liter soda bottle. All 4 produced 1 pepper and they were about an inch long. I can't eat pepper due to rheumatoid, but from what I was told, they were a couple times hotter than a normal jalapeno.
Don't understand the correlation
Thank you for CM :)
Time to pot up some peppers!!
Great video. How did the grow bags work out for you? I am thinking about getting some for this season. Thank you.
I got your Pot right here!
A beginner question: what happens after the actual fruits are produced? Do pepper plants from ordinary seeds (from Walmart and the likes) actually survive and blossom again? Is there a way to predict how long it would take them to get to a second harvest if you keep them indoors 24/7?
I am brand new to pepper growing, and I was wondering if you guys have made or will make a guide for new pepper growers including things like varieties that are easiest, and some of the basic supplies needed. Thanks!
We'll definitely create a full guide to growing peppers at some point, but we will be using this year's plants to gather the footage necessary for it to be complete. Stay tuned, and for now check out this page on our website: peppergeek.com/gardening
Awesome job guys! I was wondering to myself if that was a Thors Thunderbolt
Thanks! We actually have what was *supposed to be* a Thor's Thunderbolt growing in our Aerogarden right now. However, the pods are....questionable. It is basically just a super unstable purple pepper 🤷
We went from "problem" peppers in a raised bed to 5 gallon food grade buckets, and then 7 gallon fabric bags five years ago. We always plant two next to each other even when we were doing it in raised beds. We get high yields from almost all of our pepper plants and they stay healthy until our first frost in zone 4. But I have often wondered if they would do even better one to a bag? We have 50 varieties this year so probably not the time to try it. Thank you for all your informative videos and seed links.
Thanks for sharing, great to hear that you plant 2 to a pot and have good results, lots of people asking about this! We're going to try it this year on a few plants too.
@@PepperGeek I will be excited to hear your results. A really dear old hispanic friend told us to plant them that way 25 years ago and we have never tested his advice.
I thought the peppers on his monitor were on that plant until he moved it! LOL!
Can you do an update on how you liked the fabric pots? I found them hard to water in but I learned from one of the previous videos on your channel I was probably letting the soil get too dry which led to hydrophobic soil. 😂
As always very informative video. Can you make a video on how to trellis or stake pepper plants for better support? Thanks
Thanks! Absolutely, we will be showing how to support peppers in a future video for sure.
I like fabric pots because they greatly reduce the chances of problems with "wet feet." They really do breathe and drain better. Of course that also means that if you're in a hot dry area, you'll have to pay close attention to watering.
Yes, couldn't agree more! Can't wait to see how it works out for us this year.
@@PepperGeek have fun! It's interesting to see how different soil mixes work in grow bags in your specific environment. . You may find you need more water-retaining amendments like coco or vermiculite... or maybe not.
I'm going to give grow bags a try this year. I'm also going to use Blumat classic (Jr.) Automatic watering stakes. I wonder if I will have to water in addition to that? They say they're hard to keep hydrated on the hot days.
Yes, even in our 10" pots we were watering daily during the hottest part of the days here in CT.
So hydroponic or soil/hydro combo, like double cup, would allow much larger plants?
Thanks for the video..Growing jalapeño for first time and got the exact answer from you..question: Can i combine more than 1 plant in a 5 or 7gal grow bag.
Most jalapeños can grow to be pretty large/bushy so I wouldn’t recommend more than 2…it might increase overall yield slightly to have 2 if you want to try it
With the idea that bigger must be better my husband planted 2 Bell Pepper plants per 10 gallon grow bags. We live in zone 5a, so a growing season of maybe 4 months. Aftter listening to your video i am wondering if planting in too big a bag negates it's root pruning benefit as the roots are unlikely to grow out that far?
Other disadvantages of too big a bag?
Debbie here from Wa 👩🌾 I’m in need of help,,I have a peach sugar rush pepper I over wintered...it is about 12 in, tall and is sooooo bushy...can you show us how to prune a super bushy pepper? Do I clip the branches in the center? Or any branches going to the center?
Can i use polybag? Are there any difference which better polybag or plastic pots? I have 14"X14" polybags
I will be growing the peachadew pepper this year, however this is stated to be a capsicum baccatum, what kind of container size do I need for this type?
Great videos man! Perhaps a tapered bag would be ideal the straight bags are really hard to remove plants from to transplant!
Thanks! That is a good point. We'll only be using bags for a final planting location so shouldn't be a problem for us personally
Can I use a small 1 gallon container throughout the winter and then plant in the ground without issue or will it be stunted?
Love the video. As always. I have been trying to harden off my pepper seedlings for weeks now in kc. It’s just soo SUNY here After about a half hr to an hr is all they can take before wilting. They are in solo cups or smaller seed cells. They are too big for their homes and need to go out in the ground. Can I bottom water before I put them out to help last longer in the kc sun?
Not sure bottom watering is going to help with the heat. However, you could just try providing some temporary shade by putting them near a tree/bush or something else tall. If your weather gets very hot, the plants may also do best in partial shade (afternoon shade). Best of luck and thanks for watching!
I'm growing all my peppers in 5 gallon buckets being as I'm a painter and have access to lots of free buckets. I'm in zone 8b on the gulf coast of Alabama
Nice! Lots of warm weather there for a nice long season. If it gets *really* hot, you may want to give them some afternoon shade to keep them cool. Good luck!
Just got some habanero peppers it's beginning of May it's hot till September 1so I got 4 months what size pot do you suggest I use
Check out Refining Fire Chili's for some different types. I've been growing stuff from him for 8 years or so, but I'm still interested in learning more about growing peppers.
What do you think about this. Growing peppers in pots. I do put them on my porch from time to time. I got one plant that has five peppers on it. They were growing at a good rate but no they are not growing or growing very slow. Do you think this can be due to the heat. I am in Colorado so are temps are pretty hot at the moment. 90-100 f most days.I do not put them in the sun on those hot days.
Great video. Can you do a potting mix for containers pepper and is it possible if you can show us your garden of pepper plants. Thanks man !!
Would love to! We're experimenting with making some of our own soils this year, but we can recommend FoxFarm's Happy Frog if you're looking for something pre-mixed. We'll definitely share some garden tours later in the season here and on Insta!
What do you think about using worm castings mixed in or on top of soil of my pepper plants, I’ve heard it makes bigger yields?...I also use liquid fertilizer with 7-9-5 NPK....
Worm castings are great
I used to use the fabric pots. Its is too hard getting all the soil moisten when watering. I found 5 gallon buckets to be the best and its not tapered.
What do you think about growing peppers in clay pots? Thanks
Hello pepper geeks, keep up the good work. I have question: how about mud soil for peppers? Do they grow well in that soil too?
Thanks, will do! I assume by mud soil you mean soaking wet soil? If so, no, highly saturated soil is not good for peppers. They like to have evenly moist soil, all the time, but never soaking wet. The roots require oxygen to breathe.
Hello, I'm growing peppers inside with LED grow lights. I first started them on March 3rd, and they are growing very slowly. They're growing their third and fourth set of true leaves but they're skinny (healthy skinny not the white sluggish skinny, but not like yours on the prune video (large)). My temps inside are always between 20-22ºC day and night.
As long as they have enough nutrients, water and light, they will take off in time. We find that the plants really grow exponentially faster as they grow larger and have more leaves photosynthesizing. The only other probably reason for poor growth is in the soil - lousy potting mix can ruin a container garden in a hurry! Keep it up and I'm sure the plants will grow well!
I love and watched all your videos. But I have a question about the shape of the pot instead size, like mine is 3 and 5 gallons rectangle will it grows the same? Thanks
Thanks! Yes rectangle is totally fine we've grown in square pots
🎉❤ they're Soo big