Pepper Growing Tips - Complete Gardening Guide on How to Grow Peppers // Grow More Peppers per Plant 

Love how you indexed the topics along bottom of screen.

My wife doesn't know what's happened to me, she used to get home and I'd be watching RU-vid for the latest gadgets or video games. Now she gets in and the majority of the time you're on the TV 🤣. I am a first time grower in the UK and have followed all of your advice on various vegetables. I've done everything from seed and almost a 100% success rate. Now its just keeping them alive 😁 Look forward to more of your videos

Great list of tips. Another tip for adding Calcium to the soil which I do every year. I keep my eggshells and let them dry out and then crush them up in a container. When I need to start potting I blend the crushed eggshells up using a blender with the coffee bean/nut blade which results in a fairly fine powder. Then you can use the powder as an additive to your soil. Instead of spending money you're now using a product you would normally just throw out. I've been doing this for 3 years now and haven't seen blossom end rot since. ;oP

1:23 Starting seeds 4:56 Sun & Heat 5:54 Water & Spacing 6:43 Planting & Fertilizing 10:00 Staking & Pruning 12:00 Pest & Disease 16:01 Bonus!! I like the new black bar. I moved the time for planting and fertilizing. All great tips! Thanks for the video.

“Back up and you don’t even have a mask on” lol 🤣🤣🤣

"come here" had blue's clues vibes 😂

One of my favourite things about you is how validational you are about the emotions involved in gardening. You are so emotionally intelligent and aware, like a guidance counselor for gardening

I was sad because a slug cut the top leaves of my pepper plant. You made my day by telling that's a good thing to do :D !

Great video, well edited. Just what I needed. I planted 20 peppers a couple of days ago...wish I had watched your video first. Thank you for being concise and not using music.

Now I know why my father called anyone he didn't like a "sapsucker" Love your videos

Excellent information thankyou. You speak so clearly, and not too fast. So I take notes. You explain step by step. And thankfully no music blaring in the background.

I believe you're the best RU-vid gardener I've come across who explains things in detail. Very good content 👌

You can use finely ground egg shells as calcium addition. I do this with both my tomatoes and peppers and it works wonderfully.

Wow! I need peppers to add to my garden. Thanks to some of your viewers and to you, I’ve learned quite a bit. Thanks.

Wow! This is another video that I need to rewatch and make notes...so much great information. You helped me understand so many things that frustrated me with peppers. The possibility of keeping them growing from year to year is awesome!!!! Thanks again, Brian, for all the time you invest in helping us. Your videos are far and away the best gardening videos on RU-vid! They are almost “Calming” to watch. You have a soothing voice and delivery which helps me feel hopeful even though I’m not a very experienced gardener. You make your videos so “personal “. When you tell us to come closer, we know we’re getting ready to receive some really good info! 😄. And the humor when you told us to get back and the mask comment was priceless Thanks again to my favorite Gardening Guru!!!❤️❤️❤️. Nearly 200,000 subs....the growth of your channel says it all!

I love how thorough your videos are!

Definitely one of the best channels to learn from. I always come back here when I’m at odds with what to do!! Thanks in advance! These peppers are going to make Salsa and Chili! Til next time.

Great information! Thorough & very easy to follow instructions, excellent delivery & sprinkled with humor! Thank you, thank you! Did not know peppers were perennials!🤗🌱

love everything about you videos especially your sense of humor

Loved this video! So much valuable info! Can't wait to get in my garden tomorrow! Thank you!

This has been the most in-depth lesson on peppers I've found. Thank you for this!

I'm going with: Yes, that was enough information, and thank you.

Best video on peppers I’ve ever found!!!! Thank you so much!

Thanks Brian for all the great tips!

I always enjoy your early morning uploads. Even though I already know how to grow peppers this was very helpful in reminding me some of the basics and to not be scared to top my plants.

Cool video. I had a tomatoe plant that i grew for 4 yrs. So sad when it bit the dust

Wonderful tips and shared knowledge from Brian. This is chocked-full of tips and tricks.

Best gardening videos ever! Packed with information and numerous tips I have never heard before. Thank you.😀

I have learned so much from you. God bless you❤

Brian, you are fast becoming my Go-To Garden Guy! I'm in the Northern Sacramento Valley area of California and most other channels are in far different Zones > but the #1 reason is really all about you, your presentation & the Great Knowledge you share❣️

I’m going to clip the tops today. Learned something new!

I love the timelines at the bottom of your videos

I had an 80 year old Gardner use powder buttermilk on her garden for calcium :)

Thank you for the tips. I learned a few new things to help my peppers along today. Stay well and thank you for all the helpful tips for our "pandemic vegetable gardens!"

*HIGHLY* appreciate the time / topic bar!!! #MVP 🏆

Thanks for the great info, Brian!!!!

That helped a ton on the problems I was having with sun scalding here in AZ even with a sun shade cloth, thanks for your help as always!

I found you by accident and have learned so much! I am in the process of pot planting vegetables and herbs in pots. I have subscribed and am looking forward to all your upcoming episodes. You are my university of vegetable growing. Thank you so much!

I am 78 years young but I joy your videos I always have thing to learn and then some. R

Best video on how to garden with peppers!! Thank you for the specific tips.

Thank You. Sounds like you covered everything! I’m on year 5 with my Bhut jolokia plant. I prune aggressively in early Spring. South Louisiana.

Awesome video! I learned a lot and will be implementing your suggestions on my peppers. I'm so excited to get them in the the pots. I'm in northern Canada so short growing season but we still get good harvests so I hope this year trying the bell peppers in pots will be fruitful! Thanks again!

One of the best gardening videos I've seen so far! Thanks for being so detailed in your video. Its a big help for new gardeners like myself.

I am watching this and finally seeing my seeds germinate. ! Thanks!

I've never heard of the digging it out, pruning it and prepping it for winter bonus method. Thabks for that one for sure.

Thank you for the very informative video as always! I learned the other day that lime helps the plant take in the calcium if its available. I'm going to try it this year with my tomatoes and peppers.

This vid has blown my mind over n over. Awesome info! Thanks. I dig the bar at the bottom.

Wow! It’s my first time growing any plants from seed and any gardening at all. This was extremely helpful!

I learned about the nitrogen today and cutting back for more yield thanks for the tip two things on my to-do list this year

Looks like I’ll be topping my peppers this year. I have a variety of pepper, all mild, many of which were grown from store-bought peppers. Sweet bananas are my favorite and are the best to grow here in SE Tennessee. Hard to keep up with picking them. 😊 Thank you for yet another great video!

👏👏👏👏👏 Another amazing video!!! So much detailed information!!! Thank you from Crete Greece 🥰

Such an informative video -- straight to the point. Love it!!! 💚💚

I used your pepper technique for an early crop of peppers and it worked beautifully! Only problem now is that I have 15 cubanelle peppers growing on a single plant and I can’t plant outdoors until mid May (NJ). Anxious for spring. Thank you for all your tips!

I get so much good, usable growing info from your channel. Thank you! Love the organization (topics indexed) and the humor throughout the video. I admit I am having a hard time accepting I will have to cut the tops off of plants for 3-4x more fruit but will try it this year! I either have fantastic luck and my pepper plants are super abundant, or I get 2-4 peppers only per plant. Not sure what I was doing differently but this video gave me some good insight on what I can try.

Very helpful. You covered all the bases including the pests which are always a big challenge. Glad I finally found your channel.

Great information my gardening friend! Thanks for the video.

Several things: First, you can get most every superhot pepper to germinate in 4-10 days by putting in trays with moist starter mix, then put trays on heat mat at 80 degrees setting, covered with dome. Much easier then paper towel which if not monitored allows roots to grow into towel, damaging roots. Second, when pinching tops, you will set back plants 2-4 weeks. This is great, and I do it too, but you need to add that into time for starting plants indoors. Third, there are organic nutrients that build the stem wall to allow strong stems as plants get big so that cages and sticks aren’t necessary, unless you expect a 4-5 foot plant with hundreds of peppers.

The over wintering idea....love it! I will try that as an experiment this coming winter. I have 5 different varieties of peppers. I'll take a couple of each and see which does best. Love it. Thanks!!!!!

This was very helpful. I never really had success with overwintering peppers. I'll try these tips next time.

This is insanely informative.

OMG I just learned I can keep my pepper plants for next year and maybe beyond! I live in zone 10A, Orange, CA they should do just fine. Thank you so much for your tips!

Your videos are always very informative. I was hoping that maybe you could do a video (come fall of course) that's a little more in depth about wintering your pepper plants?

I over wintered my peppers this year. Ready to put them back out. Your tips are going to be put to good use.. Hoping for a big harvest this summer!

Another great Video Brian, thanks for the tips. I now understand why my chillis have been taking so long to germinate. The afternoon shade tip is great and something i never knew.

As a rule of thumb, the hotter the pepper is, the longer it takes to sprout and it also grows slower. Tabasco is also superslow and a bit tricky imo despite not being that hot.

Thank you for the peroxide tip. My paper towels sometimes get spots of mildew. That should definitely help. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it when I use it for algae in hydroponics. So simple, yet so genius. I usually sprout mine by putting them on the windowsill. Between the sun and the heat register nearby, they sprout pretty quickly. No heat mat required. I don’t like to use a heat mat when I’m gone or asleep. I’m scared it’ll catch fire. PS - I love your videos. Very informative and great delivery.

Thank you. We respect your knowledge.

Thanks for all your excellent tips.

I’m growing around 50 chili plants this year.

Whats a "smokey" pepper?

Keep up the great content. Thank you for the great tips.

I am so happy to learn about the paper towel to germinate the pepper seed! I am so excited! Headed to the geeen house now! Thank you so much!

Valuable amount of info, thank you. I was horrified when I accidentally broke off the top of one of my pepper plants. You can imagine my relief when I saw what you did and why. I am looking forward to getting loads of peppers this year. I planted both jalapeno and habanero peppers besides my bellpeppers. Oh yes, and I will take off tops off the other peppers too. Thank you.

My heat mat has a thermostat so when planting the seeds in my indoor sprouting area (my garage) I set it at 75. Seems to work well.

Peppers are one of our favorites, too! :) So many different flavors and colors... yum!

Great video. Very thorough.

I planted my pepper plants WAY too close this year but they’re going so well. I can tell the spacing prevents some from growing to maximum capacity but the amount of pepper plants helps offset that. Since I have no frost, I’m going to make sure the next time I plant them I do it right. Hopefully then I’d be able to keep them there for many years to come.

Can you do the same with the bell pepper plants. Can you prune and bring in for next year. I've never had luck before in getting the seed started. Now I know why. Thanks so much. You have been a blessing getting things started during these times.

Great info ! I'm a new gardener and can't wait to try all these things. And I LUV your humor :)

Awesome！Thanks for sharing! That's all the information that I need for the peppers.

I have cayanne and a serano going for about 3 years now

I can not believe I actually leaned in to hear your secret.

This was great! Thank you. It’s my first year growing a pepper plant.

Brian this was extremely educational...very helpful!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge 🤗👍

Thank you for your willingness to share your experience and knowledge with the rest of the worlds gardeners. I appreciate you. I started my seeds indoors but when I hardened them off and got them outside we had about 2 possibly 3 frosts. They look weaker but they dont look dead which suprised me. Their growth has severely stunted though. Do you have any tips or tricks for this situation?

I love that my chickens like to eat the bugs! I wear garden gloves, pick the bugs off my plants and they make a great treat for the chickens! Thanks for the hint on the peppers! I would like to know more about using shade cloth (beetles killed my Pines that were the garden's shade).

Love your videos and the way you present them! Wish I had seen this video sooner so I could have topped off my peppers before they flowered. I’m new to vegetable gardening!

I have to say I find this very educational. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. The sense of humor was good as well. . Blessings from Gettysburg..

back up, you're not wearing a mask. CLOWN!!! sooo funny! glad i came up on this video early enough to save my pitiful pepper plants. thx

I love bell peppers and have been growing them for years. However, I was always disappointed in the number of peppers per plant. One week ago, I pinched the tops off and they are already leafing out at the "armpits!" I am so excited to see if this works. Thank you!

Extremely helpful video, thank you!

This really works! I did it last year and i’m getting ready to pick my first harvest.

I've gone to places where they sell damaged canned goods or out of date foods. Look around for powdered milk that is out of date (huge discount) .. and sprinkle the powdered milk on the ground under tomato and pepper plants to help with the calcium needs. Great video BTW! Love that idea of taking the top of the plant off and redirecting the energy!

This year as an experiment I planted some seeds (from peppers I harvested in my garden) onto a corner in my yard and in my garden bed. Surprisingly the ones in my yard seem to have all sprouted opposed to none in the garden bed (they could always take longer but it’s been like 12 days). Anyways it’ll be interesting to see how the pepper plants grow opposed to the garden beds. Edit: they’ve come out in the garden bed but germination for some reason is slower, probably because the soil is less compact.

Hi, I'm extremely pleased with the quality of the information in your movies. Greetings from Romania and thanks!

Great Show!!! 👍🏻

Thank-you for the pepper video! I have neem oil, but need to know if I mix it with water and if so, what's the ratio? My little bell pepper seeds took quickly this year and I had to give away some of my baby pepper plants to the neighbors! I wasn't expecting all of them to germinate.

Great video! Thank you so very much, I really appreciate the time and effort you put into making and posting these. I'm always learning something! I do have a question though, if I may ask on topping your pepper plant. What if you have peppers already forming and the plant is only say 2 feet tall, still short. Would you still top it, even the fruit that's forming? Thank you! 🌞

So glad I found you, you have been so much help, thank you.

Thanks! Perfect timing as I plan where to plant my peppers. Likely I will plant in self wicking buckets on a side of my garden shed that will proved late afternoon shade.