EVERYONE I AM WRONG about the crossing...I anecdotally noticed this in a batch of my beds then didn't completely research. You are generally OK to mix sweet and hot, unless you want to save the seeds and replant, THEN you should definitely space them very far apart.
@@epicgardening yes it does and I sure didnt follow it. My bell peppers and my reapers are touching leaves right now. Should make for an interesting flavor on those bells lol
@@epicgardening I grow Bell, Banana, and Jalapeno with the Square Foot Gardening method - one per square foot. They grow beautifully, and produce lots of peppers.
I once overwintered a jalapeno plant for several years. I live in Wisconsin, so that meant keeping it inside for the hard winter months. After three years or so, the plant was huge, and had to be overwintered in a big, ugly plastic pot, so I decided to just leave it outside and let it go. It was out there all fall, with weather getting into the twenties, but refused to die. I kept seeing the temps going down and down, and on several mornings thought I'd go out and find out my little jalapeno had moved on to spice the food of the angels. But nope, it refused to die. Finally, one day in early December, it got down to twenty and the plant still didn't die. I gave up in sheer admiration and brought that hulking pepper and its ugly plastic pot back in the house for the rest of the winter. It made a ton of peppers the next year.
I overwintered my peppers this year. I'm excited. I usually get good amounts of peppers but late in the season, it will be nice to see how quickly they fruit this year. I completely cut all the stem to a single stem, and kept in a cool but not freezing garage, and they're starting to throw off leaves and tiny stems already.
My dad once told me once you’re getting ready to pick the plant if you skip one day of watering it will scar the jalapeños and what he called “pissing them off” which made them really spicy
It is true. I deliberately let mine droop before watering again. Not just increased heat, but more flavor as well. Only do this once the plants are well established and setting fruit, young plants that still need to grow won't be benefited by this stressing.
Thank you! I’ve heard this about some plants as it increases the oil production when you stress them. Any idea if ice shock has the same effect? Edited to add: I know this is only done once right before harvest.
They cross pollinate but that flavor profile he was talking about should really only affect the peppers that those seeds grow into, not the fruit itself. The fruit itself should contain the cells with DNA from the parent plant and have the profile given to it by the climate and conditions it’s growing under. I don’t see any reason why growing a sweet pepper next to a hot pepper would somehow make their fruits taste different, other than them competing for nutrients if they were in the ground together. But say they were in separate pots they would be totally separate, and they wouldn’t affect the flavor of each other at all. One random guys two cents
I’m on year two of a cayenne pepper plant that I put in a grow tent during the winter. It literally has bark on the stem and I’ve gotten pounds of peppers off that beast already
Overwintering is a new concept to me and this year is my first garden. So if my peppers survive I can move them to the basement that has windows, through the winter and put back out in spring? Do you water them over the winter or do they go into a dormancy? So interesting
@@trueblonde316 if they get decent sunlight and start growing leaves you can water them once a week with just a little bit of water. if they don't grow back indoor then maybe once every 3 weeks just so the soil doesn't dry up completely.Another thing I usually do is wrapping the pot in a plastic bag leaving the top part of the plant out and poke a whole in the bag. That way the soil doesn't dry out completely and I don't have to water as frequently. My plant produces peppers even in winter. But they can go into dormancy if the temperature in the room is low and if they don't get enough sunlight.
I accidentally "overwintered" my chili pepper plant and it literally grew three times as big the second year. I was in complete shock. Went from a small little 3" plant that produced one pepper, died, then shed all its leaves 😂. I thought it died for good but didn't bother taking it out and throwing it away. Literally just kept the stem in the pot. I now have a 5' pepper plant that is a powerhouse of fruit. help. EDIT: Don't throw then away if they "die". Just cut it back all the way to stem and leave maybe a 5" stem and watch it grow twice as big the next season. Crazy.
Can I ask what zone you're in? It's how cold your winters are? I just learned the concept of overwintering peppers and I'm wanting to do it in as easy a way as possible 😆
@@potatopotatoeOG what zone are you in? Lavender is a perennial where I am. I’m in zone 8a. I loved my lavender and then my fiancé decided to just mow them over. We lived next door to where we are now so maybe the guy living there now will get some lavender but I’m sure it’s probably gone. I also had a baby fig tree he mowed over as well 🤦🏻♀️
It’s funny because where I live, I don’t worry about overwintering since it never drops below 32. Instead, I “oversummer” and bring my peppers indoors during the heat because it gets to 115+.
Cross pollination can change the end result. My banana peppers all got ruined one year due to the ghost near it. They were a hybrid shape of the 2 and way hotter. I mean if you wanna grow peppers that look like genitals then go for it, but it was not my intent. 🤣 Maybe because banana and ghost are closer in type than ghost and bell🤷♀️
Michelle Cross omg your comment made me bust out laughing! I wondered why the jalapeños and habaneros I’ve bought recently were so mild, no kick. Perhaps this is why, they’re growing them to close to mild peppers....hmmm
I found that is can affect the current produce. Several years ago, one of my habanero plants crossed with a green pepper (they were right beside one another) and at the end if the season I had orange-ish green-ish spicy green peppers.
I grow about 30 plants a year and have had one amazing cross pollination. My large Sweet Maroni bred with an Calabrese hot. The result were these huge hot grilling peppers!
That can only happen if you collect seeds from the cross pollinated pepper then grow from the hybrid seeds. If you plant a jalapeño and pollinated with Carolina reaper, it will have zero likeness in look, taste, or heat from the reaper, UNLESS you collect the seeds and then grow from the hybrid seeds. What you’re describing does not happen.
@@CurieBohr you are correct 😊 the DNA of the fruit is specific to the DNA of the plant, the seeds however are a DNA mix from parent plant(s) * can self pollinate too.
I have a piquin pepper plant that I've been growing in a pot for almost twenty years. The poor thing doesn't produce peppers much any more and it looks kind of funny, but it is still growing after all these years. Thanks for the tips. Great show!
Advice from my Indonesian wife: 1) you can eat the leaves of chilli plants; 2) when picking the chilli fruit keep the little stem it grows from attached to the chilli and brake the stem off at the main branch (this allows the chilli plant to produce more chillis than if we leave that little stem attached to the main plant.
The first tip is completely wrong you wouldn’t even notice the difference that generation you wouldn’t notice till the following season if you happen to save seed from a hybridized pod.
The first point you made is partly incorrect. The cross pollination does not effect the fruit on that plant. It's the seeds from that fruit that will create the crossed fruit.
In Canada our pepper plants don’t make it to the tree size. I’m constantly trimming them back to force fruits before the winter hits. But in cold climates I’m completely on board with the idea of containers it’s a game changer. A regular garden bed doesn’t have the same results.
Also in Canada. I'm doing the potted plants shuffle as it is still too cold at night in the Alpine regions and in day the greenhouse even ventilated, is way too hot. What Kevin said about the shade cloth can also stimulate earlier production of flowers and fruit. We had scheduled automated shade cloth application in pointsetia greenhouses to force them to change colour to be ready for the winter sales. Same can happen with other plants by simulating nature's shorter days to get them to reproduce before winter.
Trish Davi that’s awesome what zone are you in? I’m in zone three out nights are still getting super low.. we had 6 Celsius last night... feels like summer is slow this year!
I'm also in Canada and have a north facing balcony overlooking Lake Ontario, but using a grow tent and starting in jan. or feb. I.ve got the best garden on the street! I can even grow cayenne successfully! a head start lets me put big plants out in the start of june, I've already got some jalapenos and purple russian tomatoes are in bloom!
Annaliese A that’s awesome! Does he bring it inside during the winter? I have heard of ppl doing that before and placing them under lights. It’s supposed to work really well.
I swear you have a hidden camera over my garden 👀😕😂 - I was JUST walking out to check my pepper transplants (first year growing, seedlings are from my neighbor). I dont know what variety they are, but I’m excited to learn as I grow. PERFECT timing Kevin - THANK YOU!! 🌱💫
Same! I have three different pepper plants and I can't stand spicy food lol! I love how pepper plants look though. Thankfully I have enough people around me that'll at least eat them.
A mistake i learned last year - I'm not a seasoned gardener and, i live in Las Vegas. I've had some success and fun growing Cayenne peppers in 5 gal buckets. in early Spring i kept them on the south side of my house and, they loved it, the 1st peppers i was getting were huge and wonderful... then summer got here and I didn't move them... I didn't kill the plants but the fruit turned tine and useless. So i learned - too much Las Vegas sun = bad. Moved them to the west side and, they recovered in a big way.
Hey, love the videos, but there is a major mistake here..., when a pepper flower cross pollinates the resulting fruit is exactly the same as the rest on the plant, the seeds inside will grow out to be a hybrid of the two peppers, but the pepper itself will not change. I'm one of those mad pepper growers, it's also confirmed in David DeWitts book which I double checked. I have a few purposeful crosses myself this year. Thanks for all the great video's in general, I'm looking forward to seeing the new garden develop!
Is this a concept that applies to all fruiting vegetables? Lets say I have several varieties of french beans, but only one I want to grow to seed. Can I grow the ones I don't want to save next to each other and the other further apart?
@@ashelymichael5808 If you are looking for a spicy bell pepper, a really good one already exists called Antep Aci Dolma that is pretty easy to find online. And yes, through crossing a bell with a spicy pepper, saving the seeds, growing them out and selecting for plants that show the signs you want (bell shape and spicy for example) you could create a spicy bell pepper. Once as you have identified some seedlings showing some of those characteristics, continue saving seeds from those ones and growing them out. This cycle of growing a plant out and then saving seeds from desirable plants is how you'd refine a new variety.
@@missmissy2011 was it hot? Mine did the same, shot up then flowered, now it's turning to coriander seeds. I've read where it's more of a fall or cooler weather plant. It got over 100 quickly here in Northern California, everything else is growing.
I've got multiple varieties in pots. My habaneros are starting wave #2 of blossoms. Can't wait. And a Tabasco plant I have went absolutely nuts. It's about as tall as me and covered in peppers. Being near the Gulf in Alabama really helps. Lots of sun. Hot humid weather. Can't wait to try overwintering them too. I first grew a pepper plant in north Georgia and the lack of sun and days of rain ruined my plant. I got maybe 10 peppers all season. 😢
stoked you posted on peppers!! just made my hubby a plant daddy for fathers day by gifting him pobalo, habanero, and a roma tomato plant so we can get our salsa and guac on point this summer!!
I live in zone 6B. Would overwintering be okay? We can get pretty cold temps, but I wonder if maybe mulch or leaves would help keep the roots sufficiently warm.
That would be cool. I'd be interested in that. I live in central Kansas and dig echinasia for extra money. It's commonly called snakeroot around here and sometimes is known as black Samson.
CAUTION: Not all peppers' leaves are safe to eat, and even the ones that are, must be cooked. - Here is one article that discusses it fairly superficially. maddog357.com/blogs/chili-pepper-news/semi-breaking-news-chili-pepper-leaves-are-edible
The text in the link is not correct. All peppers are capsicum, bell peppers specifically capsicum annuum. They are not in the same family as potato, tomato and eggplant. So all pepper leaves qre equally safe to eat.
I don't grow a garden anymore. Nothing grows. I water, fertilize and the garden dies. My potatoes one time got no bigger than cherry tomatoes. Not wasting my time anymore.
Weird tip, but I remember watch a video where a Japanese farmer explained how he fed his chickens spicy peppers to make their yolks richer. The chickens apparently can't detect the spiciness. If I ever get brave enough to raise chickens, i'd like to try!
Yeah, that’s actually the theory behind how Peppers evolved. Peppers want to be eaten by birds but not mammals, because the pepper seeds will pass through a bird’s digestive tract just fine but will get destroyed by mammalian teeth.
Great tips, although I've found my peppers prefer the dry / wet watering method, similar to dry days & rainy. I tried the watering systems but found a lot of rotting in the damp soil & an increase in fungus gnats, maybe this method is better for hydroponics growing. I found they grow best when just at the point where the leaves start to wilt [not too much though] in the heat, that's when I water, & always from the base. This also keeps gnats to a minimum.
I received some alfalfa seeds today and I am super interested in growing alfalfa sprouts in my kitchen. What would be the best thing to put in the bottom of the clear plastic container I am using to sprout them, to keep them evenly moist?
Thanks for pointing out the oversight of overwintering or the "myth" that peppers don't grow back after 1 season. I agree and can attest to pruning it back 2/3 and check for new growth before pulling it all out. So glad I kept my pepper plant, which is now flowering again!
My daughter got nervous at the beginning of the quarantine and planted in a way that wouldn't have been my first choice. She used seeds from grocery store produce. Normally I buy actual seeds. Our results are... interesting. She mixed spaghetti squash, acorn squash and butternut in one bed. Sprinkled about 100 seeds in a 4x4 area in an even layer and covered them. She did a bit of thinning. The acorn and spaghetti squash are recognizable. The butternut squash don't look right. The shapes are weird and they have ridges like the acorn. Shes thrilled so I guess its fine. :)
Yeah using seed from grocery produce can result in strange things lol, since the seed used in mass production is typically hybridized and only meant to produce one harvest worth... Sowing from these seeds basically can produce what I call "inbred" produce. It's totally possible to get plants that fruit off them, but they might not be ideal.
@@pvtstash3139 - so far, the peppers seem fine. The black beans look good. We harvested 1 bucket of potatoes because the dog broke the plant. We got one gigantic potato and small ones. Squash... not a good scene. Tomatoes... I dont have words to describe these weird things. Our second planting of carrots and turnip should help her understand the process better. She salvaged a careot top, regrew it for seed and planted those. The carrots were... hey, the greens made a great pesto
Another way to prevent pepper cross pollination is to cover the flowers with a sachet that protects them against pollination. That's actually what I'm planning on with my peppers. Also peppers can self pollinate. Edit: I'm also overwintering right now actually.
Maybe I’m just getting lucky but over-wintering has never been necessary for me. My jalepeno plant was 5’ tall by 4’ wide and produced roughly 150 jalepenos before reaching mid September and I started from seed in February. This happens every year too. Just monsters that produce well over 100 each year. It’s like I’m doing something different that’s great, and I don’t know what it is lol. (I do use Trifecta +)
Tell me about it... last year planted triple the bell peppers I planned on and none of the jalapenos D: I ended up having to buy transplants. Lesson learned, label EVERY seedling from the start.
Honestly this is really helpful. I’ve always loved gardening. Last year for the very first time I went full force and started a big garden. There was a lot of successes and a lot of fails. I’m growing Bell peppers again and decided to do banana peppers. These aren’t for me as my family enjoys peppers a lot more than I do. But for me it’s the experience!
Here in San Antonio, I have a bunch of 2yo volunteer chiltepin growing along the east wall of the house. Last summer (their first full production year) they just stopped in July and August, then had fruit again for another month or two before stopping for the winter. So yes, a hot summer will prevent flowers and fruit. I finally got around to cutting off the mess of little branches in February or so, leaving just six inches of main branches. In April they had quickly grown back to most of last year's size and put out flowers. It's hard to believe people will just toss their plants after one summer, it's like they're only just getting started. (I guess if you're trying to cross-breed you want more generations, but that's it.)
Great information. What type of soil do you recommend? I’m in south central Texas so sunlight is not an issue but the ground here is limestone caliche. So we will have to put them in containers. And do you recommend collecting seeds from store bought peppers?
Considering he said drip irrigation, and not letting it dry out and flooding, one would assume you just water it a little everyday and not let it dry out.
Great tips. Glad you fixed your first one, mistake. Say... I've made an observation, not sure if this is just random chance or if there is something to this. I plant sweet and hot, and summers that are cooler than usual, the sweet peppers thrive. Hotter summers, sweets barely make it but the hot peppers thrive. Same bed, same spot, same everything else. Oh one more tip to share (learned the hard way.) Banana peppers and hungarian hot look darn near identical. Gave a bunch to a friend, who returned the favor with some stuffed peppers. First one was delish! The next one???? My eyeballs were watering, lips darn near fell off, steam out the ears. Oh yea, if you buy both these types, PLANT IN SEPARATE AREAS or mark the plants so no shocking surprises.
You are a quintessential teacher; very well done! I'm jumping head first into growing Chimayo red chile (New Mexico). I have 55 juveniles and couldn't figure out for the life of me how to gift them to friends/neighbors... and here you go with these grow bags! Keep it up brother!
Great Video-very helpful! I just planted a Serrano pepper over a month ago. While the plant itself is growing, it hasn't produced any peppers yet? How long can I expect until it starts producing? Also, I'm growing it next to a Thai Basil and Cherry Tomato , is this ok? Thanks!
Great video! I don't think I gave my peppers enough space this year. All of my pepper plants and the fruit so far, are tiny lol! I usually follow a square foot gardening method, but this year I just went a bit crazy with varieties. Oh well, we'll just pretend that I meant to make miniature food😄.
Hey Kevin, thank you for your great videos. Have you, like so many other channels, been considering moving to Rumble? Many of the channels are moving to Rumble because they don't censor and they embrace free speech. Rumble would benefit so much with your presence and amazing content. Something to consider! Thank you again!
Same. I'm zone 9b and my superhots never kept fruit last year. Flower would drop then whole stem right after. I'm guessing in was temp so all my superhots are going greenhouse this year. Best of luck.
Chillihead gardener here. The optimum fertilizer NPK for all stages is 2:1:3. If u want to be perfect u could use 3:1:2 for the seedling stage and switch to more Potassium when they get to fruiting size. If u want to stay organic horse menure is what capsicum loves. Also additional tip: When the season ends and your peppers are not ready yet you can do a thing that ripens them faster. If u have a green fruit that is about to get ready (red/yellow spot) u should remove it. This will lead the plant to panic and get the other ones ripen faster. The second thing is that peppers can ripen indoors after harvest. Just get hole branches of the plant inside before the first frost and wait.
It's my first time growing pepper. I'm a beginner at planting so I'm really confused why the flowers would just fall off. I live in the tropics and I have a local chili variation I guess. They pepper is usually about 2 cm. I hope someone can give me advice what I am doing wrong. I water it everyday in the morning and the plant is exposed to sun.
You may be over watering the plant, or the plant may need a little boost in calcium if it’s like a “blossom end rot” problem, maybe try cutting the watering back to every other day or every few days and see how that helps, maybe even several days between waterings if need be, and just water the soil, try not to drench the whole plant and all the leaves when watering, Hope this helps
me too, mine has like 30 flower buds but there is only one bell pepper growing currently!! :( there was another growing but it disappeared over the weekend idk where it went
Get a Mexibell, they are sweet like a bell but have a kick like a jalapeno but not overly hot and produce fairly well although the peppers are smaller than a standard bell.
When I lived in Costa Rica I had pepper bushes that lived and produced for years. One habanero was up to the eves of the house. Other types were 4 feet tall and years old too. Now I'm back in the states and my peppers are sprouting indoors for the spring.
I found this video a few months ago (winter) when I was considering making my own hot sauce over the summer, and since then your channel has inspired me to start a raised bed garden this summer! I can't wait; I never thought I'd have a green thumb because of my arachnophobia. Thanks for all the knowledge and inspiration 💐
I grow Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers. 30 degree weather brought them down to hard sticks. When summer came back they grew an produced alot of peppers.
I am unable to overwinter my peppers so I always re-seed from the previous years crop as well as from seed stores from my favorite seed providers. That said, some of the crosses like my Calabrese/Marconi hybrid have been wonderful. I do in general have my beds segregated for seed and then have a breeding bed. This year I would like to create a Calabrese round (cherry) that is larger. I use the cherries for making hot sausages and need a lot of them so bigger would be better as long as the flavor profile remains. As for shade there are some growers who believe growing peppers in close pairs prevents them from sun scald as well as making for root competition. I’ve tried it and although it does shade the fruit to some degree, the lack of air circulation can cause lots of problems (Fungal) as well as make it difficult to work with pests.
In English you call them all peppers. We call the spicy ones “chilipepers”. And the not spicy ones are called “paprikas” and I am growing long sweet paprikas (peppers)
Unless you planning to grow again from seed, no need to worry about cross pollination. Esp if intention is to overwinter you top producers. Letting the pepper plants dry out is key!
I live in Florida so I think I can grow peppers well with shade cloth for the extra hot 3 digit days. I’ve never grew anything before with success because golden grass hoppers ate my efforts on tomatoes even though I was growing them in a screened pool deck, so I want to plant peppers. All kinds.
I had a really great cobra pepper plant, I saw a spider on it and all of a sudden a branch turned black and leaves started falling out. Idk why to do. And I have another Serrano plant that I’m growing from seed that have black dots and squiggly lines going through the leaf. I’m scared my plants are going to die. Same dots and discoloring with a habanero plant. I’m new to growing peppers. Any advice?
This first year I have had a critter eating my plants before they are producing. Some were just yanked out of the ground and tossed out of the box. Others were eaten to the roots. They did nibble on the tomatoes but not like the peppers. I stayed out in the garage late with the rifle waiting Friday night but now show. Not sure what it is? Even spread that pellet repellent around and some ammonia but nothing is working
peppers only the next gen, aka the seeds, so the peppers for the current season wont be affected. Also, the secound tip is wrong im afraid. Chilis benefits from drying out alittle before they get more water. The roots get stronger and seeks deeper, hence making the plant grow more and better when water finally arives. So if you want a big plant and a big harvest, wait untill the soil is dry before you water each time.
This was a great video, even with the small mistake about crossing. I live in Central Florida and made the beginner mistake of pulling pepper plants in the winter and planting new plants in the spring. I will definitely give overwintering a go this winter. Can you do that with all pepper varieties? I have about 8 different varieties growing right now. Thanks again for the video, you really sound like you know your stuff.
This explains so much! My pepper plant produce only THREE peppers all summer, but it’s been soooo hot. Since the temperature dip in the end of August, it’s been flowering and producing like crazy. 6 peppers popped up within a week of the cooler temps.
I thought you would only get differences in the cross pollination if you grew from those seeds. I thought that the characteristic of the plant is set from the seed so if it cross pollinate it doesn't matter if you don't propagate the seed from that cross pollination
I grow several types of peppers...my son wants hot ones this year and after watching this video I am happy to say I do not make the five mistakes...although you did give me a idea about shade cloths...
I've over-wintered a Black Pearl Pepper plant for 2 years now. I just bring it in the house and put it in a full light window (no pruning). It still flowers, but doesn't really produce through the winter. Come spring, when it is warm enough, it goes back outside (just the other day here). Once outside, it starts producing like mad again! I got 5-6 harvests off of it last summer!
Thank you for this. I’m just a jump of the 5 from you in Burbank, CA. My wife and I just moved from an apartment into our first SoCal house and I was eager to plant peppers, herbs, and tomatoes in the backyard which I started late in July (we moved in mid-June). They’re looking good, growing, and such. But tip #5 answered my question regarding why my flowers are wilting and falling: Heat. The plants have all grown enormously, but the fruit isn’t happening. I just subscribed due to how wonderful this video has been for me, as well as how to take care of the “suckers” on my tomato plants. Thank you, thank you, thank you! If you’re ever up in Burbank, I’d love to buy you a drink!
Thanks for sharing. I'm in Zone 3 Saskatchewan - so growing peppers outdoors successfully is a challenge here! I was able to grow some bells indoors this winter using the Kratky method and grow lights. Got a few varieties going in the garden now - fingers crossed no early frosts this year. I've also planted some in small grow bags that can come into the house this fall.
Cheers Kevin for a really interesting video. I live in the UK and it certainly freezes in the winter. Is it worth leaving my Peppers in my (unheated) greenhouse over the winter or would it still be too cold? Bear in mind the plants would not get any frost on them. Your advice would be appreciated.
I started my first vegetable growing this past May from a starter Ring of Fire Pepper plant, just over 2 months later, so many peppers... still green... waiting until they're red. Growing in a single pot, watered daily at dawn, growing near a Rona tomato 3 feet away, and I do plan on growing more for next year.
New sub here! Love your knowledge and channel Kevin. My sweet peppers and haberno are growing well from seeds so far. Always great contents and looking forward to binge watching your videos soon!!
Thank you for the correction. I thought xenia effect was only in corn I thought. There may be other species but only one that comes to my mind is corn. fruit of the pepper plants that was cross pollinated will taste exactly like the pepper of the type you grew but the seeds from the crossing will produce fruit is almost anybody's guess.
I've had a lot of up and downs with my Serrano, jalepeno and red ghost. I started my garden with those 🤦🏾♀️ heat waves have killed a lot of flowers when it was in blooming beautifully, then understanding I don't have to soak the soil when watering because then over watering knocked a lot of flowers off. I only got 5 Serrano, 3 jalepeno and red ghost plant that never flowered. I'm so happy for my tiny harvest but I'm coming back with some knowledge next season
There's a lot of plants that can be overwintered! I overwinter many of my herbs; they'll usually flower once without fruiting and then enter a dormant / minimal growth state until you plant them outdoors again. My rosemary occasionally sets out its cute little blue flowers when I have it inside over winter so it makes a lovely houseplant!
A couple of weeks ago I had a bell pepper plant that lost it's upper branch in some moderately windy conditions when it was heavy with fruit. So I got two green peppers instead of the sweet peppers I was hoping to get. My mistake was not giving any support (e,g, staking)
Please help. I had aphids on the back of pepper leaves. I have applied strong pesticide and all (ALL) leaves fall out. Should I keep that pepper or just dig it out and start over? Anyone can answer
I am inspired by your advice to overwinter peppers and chillies and wondered if you can give a little more advice? Do you cut all the stalks down to leaving just one third? And do you replenish some of the soil and if so when? Only because I am wondering if the soil the plant uses during the Sumner is depleted and root bound? How would you set it up ready for the next Springs growth when the old soil is left in etc? Would you tip it out and loosen it with your hands to drop some of the old soil away and re-pot? It would be great to see a 2nd video following on from the one I just watched on how to do this over wintering etc. Thanks so much.
My peppers are turning dark and brown on some of the stems & the leaves. My red knights buds fully just blacked out and shriveled up 😭 my cubanelles are the only ones that seem to be flourishing. I noticed the others like green peppers, red peppers aren’t doing very well, they’re in my large raised bed that has many plants in full sun. We have very good soil in the beds & my husband did put some fertilizer (he sprinkled it around the stem) recently it smells very strong I think that may have killed them
