I know how much work it took to prepare this incredible progression video - thank you so, so much for taking the time to do this for us!! You have inspired me to try this myself.
I too am growing A green bell pepper plant with just a seed from a store bought (Walmart) green bell pepper that was very vibrant & healthy. I too placed the clean dry seed in 1 of Aero Gardens(AG) grow sponges, and grow baskets... I looked back in my Record book- where I keep down the seeds, or pods planted, the item & amt of each harvest & date harvested... According to my book I planted my Grn Bell Pepper Seed on Aug 2nd. and at 15 weeks(105 days to be EXACT) I harvested my very first 2 peppers the sz of a golf ball. I now am letting them grow between a golf ball, & baseball sz., & then harvest bc they are so tender & sweet & just the right sz for a nice amt of salad for 1 person without leftovers. That way you always have "FRESH".... Also I want the nutrients going to the other peppers... It has now been 19 weeks(133 days EXACTLY) since I dropped the seed into Bounty Elite, and as of 2 days ago I harvested the 7th bell pepper... I NEVER did PRUNE any part of my plants at all!! I did NOT cut away any leaves!! NO NO... I did buy a $5 electric toothbrush from Dollar Tree & pollinate when I see new flowers by placing the toothbrush on the back of the flower head & gently buzzing it as if you were a bee just for a second or two... You can see the pollination falling. Occasionally I will feed a teeny amt of fertilizer(Aero Garden amt of required food into a gallon of distilled or city water into the AG water slot on the "off week of feeding", ONLY after peppers started coming on generously. I never hsd any blooms or baby peppers fall off unless i accidentally knocked them off, maybe total of 2 or 3 nothing like yours. So sad!! I love❤ my peppers... I am a FIRM believer in turning in a fan high enough to move the plants about, all night about every 3 nights... I do believe that really helps!! Happy growing🫑🌶🥗 🥬🥕🍆🥒🫑🌷🥗
The flower drop that you experienced can be because you had too many pepper plants in the Bounty. When peppers try to fruit they consume a lot of nutrients and since you had 3 peppers, there was likely not enough phosphorus to support many peppers. So the plants adapt to this environment by dropping flowers because it can't support that much pepper production. If you are to try this again I would suggest only using 1 pepper plant, you will get a bigger plant, more peppers will be produced and the peppers will be bigger because there is no competition between them for nutrients.
I had pretty good luck with one bell pepper and one fairy tale eggplant in one bounty, but I had to really stay on top of pruning and feel like both plants would have done better if they had the whole thing to themselves. So I think your advice is spot on.
You should never use seeds from store-bought peppers. Peppers cross-pollinate, which means that farms grow different types in adjacent fields, and a bell pepper can pollinate a chili pepper…making that chili pepper not hot at all…or vice versa, making the bell pepper hotter than normal, or just altering its taste in general. Cross-pollinating doesn’t affect the taste of these plants growing and their peppers, but those SEEDS will be dramatically altered. They may not be clones of the pepper they come from.
@@Denverscorpio Then it’s not a Reaper! HAH! I’ve grown from store bought vegetables. I’ve only been at it a few months, and those plants just ain’t growing well anyway. No comparison to nursery bought small plants, but that’s probably just my experience and torturously hot South Florida conditions. So… Today I received my order of 10 hot pepper seeds packets from The PuckerPepper Company, including the Carolina Reaper and 9 ghost varieties. Gonna try to germinate these in my 10-pod Idoo, but transfer them to pots outside way before they’re ready to fruit.
Educational and hilarious! I died with your honest review of how boring it was! Thank you for such a fabulous thorough video! Very interesting and helpful!
I'm a Mexican who was living in Germany in 1978 to 1984. A lot of our cuisine requires different peppers. So as soon as I found a pepper there, I would open it, plant it and grow them from seed. And I was very successful. Now I'm in Arizona and will try to grow peppers for the first time indoors. Summers are brutal here that temperatures can get up to 117 Fahrenheit, which will bake crops. So, I will now grow them indoors now.
I did this same experiment using seeds from a store bought red bell pepper. I had only one pod with three seeds and thinned it to the strongest plant. I didn't count days, I counted months. I planted in February and only harvested my first pepper at the beginning of October. All of my peppers are much smaller than the original, but they have a much deeper color and much, much more flavor. I could not buy peppers that taste this good. I had a lot of blossoms and babies that dropped, but I think it's just in the nature of the plant. I found that the best pollinator is my trusty sable artist's brush, gently stroked over the blossom. I have since planted alma paprika in another garden and it is doing beautifully. I have two plants and about a dozen peppers total. After four months they are now just beginning to turn a pale orange. I think that pepper plants are best thought of as a specialty houseplant that produces food. Thank you for making such informative and enjoyable videos.
Nice work. I grew some baby belle peppers in the aero garden. Had yellow peppers around day 130. Maybe try a different type for quicker results, but smaller peppers. Thanks for the video
I have been Gardening for many years and can say that you had waiii too many pepper plants growing as the roots were havinG to compete for nutrients too much!!!👍But We Gardeners are always doing experiments because we lovVe to learn!!!👍You haVe inspired me to grow Pascilla Peppers in my Areogarden into de future!!!👍I juSt got my first Aerogarden thiS past week and I am so lookinG forward to learninG lots about hydroponic gardeninG!!!👍Happy GardeninG Lil Bro!!!✌🙏😇🌎🌹🌞🌹🌱🌱🌱🌹☕🍵☕
Thank you so much for this vid. I really appreciate showing how to use your own seeds in the Aerogarden. The ones online from them are kinda pricey. Tennis ball fix was cool too.
Yummy and loved watching this and all your other videos!!! You have a soothing voice and I love that you show begging to end THANK YOU 🙏 keep up the amazing work
i also have an aerogarden and i love it...i really liked your video and it took a lot for you to do this video...very professional...i heard to place a fan on your plants in order to make the stems stronger so they won't break....you had a bountiful harvest!!! love it!! hope to see more videos of your future harvests!!!
peppers are self pollinating all needed is to shake plant or stems with buds. that is what I do with my tomatoes. thanks for all your great information. you are great.
Wow, such a cool journey! Thank you for sharing! I'm about to attempt tomatoes and peppers in my Bounty soon so I appreciate you showing the success with that one as well.
Thank you! I have peppers growing in the windowsill. They have grown very big to fill the window - 4 feet tall and 2.5 feet wide, healthy and lush-looking, disease and pest free. I was trying everything to get the flowers to develop into fruit. I will now try patience.
Guess what, I checked this morning and I have some peppers growing! I did add Cal/Mag, and bloom fertilizers. Also a touch of hydroponic solution just in case there were any deficiencies. Guess it took a few weeks, or just time in general, for the flower drops to turn into a few peppers surviving.
Thanks for sharing this! Peppers are on my list of things to try. I just started "pot-a-peno" peppers a few weeks ago, but would love to try other varieties including bell peppers. I appreciate you showing this. Just to clarify one thing - it seemed you grew these in a Bounty, but your title says Harvest. Have you also grown bell peppers in a Harvest?
Oh that was a typo. Thanks for letting me know. I just fixed the title. I haven't grown them in Harvest. But the plants never grow more than a feet. So, I am sure you can grow Bell Peppers in Harvest too. You may need little trim time-to-time, and just stick to 2 plants in Harvest for better spacing.
Hi. I just wanted to add that store bought peppers are grown commercially so they most likely are hybrids. This could be the cause for the long growing cycle.
How are your peppers doing now? Have the continued growing peppers, and are they still taking the same number of days until red and ready to harvest now that you are using the toothbrush method for pollination? And is the plant with the tomatoes still producing faster than the others that are grown without the tomatoes? I wonder if heirloom seeds would grow faster. Maybe try growing peppers that require less days required to harvest and do an experiment with 3 types in 1 bounty? I do wonder if final pepper harvest time would have been 27 days earlier if you pollinated with the electric toothbrush in the beginning instead of the q-tip? The q-tip method used from days 64-91, then you switched to the toothbrush and on day 101 you finally had a pepper growing? The electric toothbrush works amazingly well on little tomatoes, and I touch it on the them about 1/2" behind the flowers so it doesn't damage the flowers. I love your videos, they are super thorough and inspire me to try something new! Also I was watching some videos on pruning the plants so they grow multiple stems and produce more peppers, although they might be smaller peppers, just more quantity. 10 red peppers in 230 days, flavorful peppers grown from red, store-bought peppers. Day 101 began getting baby peppers that did not fall off of the plant - Day 200 starting to turn red on some peppers, but plant with tomatoes ready to harvest if want red or green peppers growing on there - Day 212 Many peppers red, began harvesting when needed.
Thanks so much for extracting all the details. I transplanted the pepper plants outside for summer and the plants did very well with the second crop. Got same amount of peppers but I harvested green this time. Tomatoes have no difference with and without the pepper plant companion. I will do more experiments with variety of peppers and will post updates. Thanks for your time watching my videos and providing comments.
I'm about to take my first venture with a hydroponic garden (NIAMP type from Amazon) so your videos are really helpful to me. I'm hoping to grow cherry tomatoes, lettuce, kale and both bell peppers a chilli peppers. If I am successful with the first unit, I will probably get a second. Thank you so much for these informative videos.
@@krazykid2002k Yes. I've had good success with Romaine lettuce, Dill, Basil (it grew like a triffid) Parsley and Rocket. Failures were Spinach, Rosemary, Mint and Tomatoes - grew a Gardeners Delight but it grew too tall for the unit as did the Chilli pepper. The tomato plant went all leggy but the Chilli plants is now on my kitchen windowsill. I'm about to start off new plants of the ones I know grow well and I use a lot. There was so much Basil I bought a dehydrator to dry it. I've now got a second unit and will be attempting to grow dwarf tomatoes and dwarf French Beans in the new one. It's great fun experimenting and the plants that were successful had a wonderful flavour.
I am considering growing these in a grow room, but I want to stagger my plants so I have more chance of peppers available all the time. With your second crop how long did it take? Should I start 1 plant a month or 1 every 3 weeks or so?
The peppers from the second crop just started so I don't have an exact answer, but I am getting a strong feeling that it is going to take 50-60 days for the second crop to be ready to harvest.
With 4 plants, you should be refilling water frequently. I recommend stick to the regular feeding cycle. Additionally, add 3-4 ml of nutrients every time when you refill water.
It took 7 months to harvest first fully ripened bell pepper. This is very long. I think something like California Wonder would be better. I recently started experimenting it.
@@aerogardenexperiments peppers get really stressed in hydroponic without media. Thus the aphid raids. They thrive well in soil. Less stress = no aphids. But yea, im still gonna try hydroponics anyway lol.
You should never use seeds from store bought vegetables. Peppers cross-pollinate, and taking seeds from commercially grown peppers aren’t clones of the parent.
