Pruning Pepper Plants 101: Is It Even Necessary?

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Topping pepper plants is a topic of much debate, with some growers saying it's a fantastic way to boost production, and others saying it's not necessary at all. So, who's right? As with most things in gardening, IT DEPENDS!
Pruning peppers removes top growth to promote more branching and bushiness. By doing this, you sacrifice your earliest peppers in favor of growing more vegetation and a sturdier plant, which can then lend itself to more flower and pepper production later on down the road.
I prefer to top lanky plants to bush them out myself, especially if I'm still early in the season with plenty of time to let those peppers produce. On larger peppers like bells or banana peppers, I let them be - it doesn't seem to do much besides slow down production.
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@epicgardening 4 года назад

Pepper pruning tip of your own? Lemme know what works for you ⤵️

@xalapa61 4 года назад

Epic Gardening IMO, depends on your growing season time and pot size. In general,Top early if it is leggy and vulnerable to wind etc. otherwise save the time and let it be, and enjoy! Also when topping you can attempt to clone the toppings.

@cigdemsentekin1672 4 года назад

For me it’s; never top peppers, prune everything below the fork and side shoots looking inside, and support plant if necessary

@PRDreams 4 года назад

@@xalapa61 I was going to ask about cloning. Can I clone like we do with tomato plants or does it has to be the top?

@xalapa61 4 года назад

Yaria Samavan Carlan I believe it must be a cut at a node, in order to clone more easily.if the plant has a v shape you may be able to cut 1 side of the V shape with out completely topping the plant.

@samartinez1988 4 года назад

Let the late frost do it for you? That's what happened to me this year lol

@jessiedwinell6258 4 года назад

not only do you consistently deliver quality, useful content but you are straight to the point and so knowledgeable. this is my absolute favorite channel right now.

@jakesnake9553 3 года назад

Would be nice to see a fast forward of what the pruning actually did.. ✌️

@rosshopkins2063 2 года назад

Pruning = ramification = more branches = more peppers

@JacksonHorton 2 года назад

@@rosshopkins2063 if you give the plant all it needs, there's no need to top. It will bush out on its own. If its needs aren't met, topping encourages bushing out.

@Spittin_Chiglets 2 года назад

Here is my experience....bell peppers I would NOT prune. Hot peppers prune. My bell peppers were half sized fruit and the plants looked big and bushy. The serranos and the jalapeno plants thrived and produced lots of fruit when pruned when young. Just my experience.

@danielyeroshalmi7492 2 года назад

The ripe to stop farm did that and found that with bell peppers it didn't help

@robertsansone1680 2 года назад

@@Spittin_Chiglets Thanks for the advice. I will consider it. The problem is, you have as much advice as you have gardeners. One says do this. The other says do not. I guess it's like fishing 🐟. You have to figure out what's good for you. Again, Thank You

@bigl9478 4 года назад

In my experience, topping my peppers is the ONLY way I can get a decent yield. I’ve been doing it for about 4 years, and for many years before that I was lucky to get a few peppers off each plant. Now my plants are at least double the size and I get WAY more peppers. Works with both sweet peppers and jalapeños. Last year I topped 1 jalapeño plant and left 3 others unpruned. The 1 plant I topped grew 2 or 3 times larger than the other 3 plants which were all the same size. I also pinch the flower buds off all my peppers to delay blooming until the plants are large enough with many branches to support the weight of multiple peppers. That’s a critical step because otherwise the plant’s growth slows once it starts fruiting and you won’t get many more branches or new fruit forming after that. The plant should have as many sturdy branches as possible before you allow it to set fruit. Pruning AND pinching buds leads to more branching.

@epicgardening 4 года назад

Interesting! Thanks for sharing Big L (Rest in Peace)

@denisebayer8748 2 года назад

@@epicgardening why RIP? Did she/he pass?

@TheChefmike66 2 года назад

Great tip, about pinching the flower buds! I never thought of that. I have had jalapeno plants rip themselves in half, literally, from the weight of the fruit. Thank you!!

@wildgr33n 2 года назад

o good i pinched blooms on the peppers since i was doing the tomatoes too, then decided to look up after if it was good/bad to do to them LOL they are still pretty tiny (peppers have not grown much bigger since planting in the ground, they just went right to flowering so was hoping pruning the flowers would encourage them to get a lil bigger first)

@Dude8718 2 года назад

I get mostly midday sun, and the evening sun and morning get shaded so the side leaves of my plant don't get much light but the top does. So pruning will help give it a bigger footprint and increase its light exposure for me.

@lvl300mrmime 4 года назад

HOW DID YOU KNOW I NEEDED THIS VIDEO!? Perfect timing Kevin. Thank you.

@houndthered5270 4 года назад

I was -literally- just thinking the same thing here.

@epicgardening 4 года назад

I'm always 👀

@nicsim7469 4 года назад

He asked Zuckerberg 👀😂

@lastblow4563 3 года назад

I almost never top peppers but prune them once an year when they go dormant in winter, that does work!!!

@Dmgolfer22 3 года назад

I didn’t top mine last year but did prune them often and they did pretty good. However, I topped several this year once they had 4 real leaves and I left the rest alone. There’s such a HUGE difference now after a couple months. The topped ones have several more chutes compared to non topped. They look like bushes already

@stellablue7435 3 года назад

I pruned all my peppers last season. You're right, the bells didn't do anything, except produce small fruits. But my cayenne and jalapenos produced so many peppers I couldn't believe it. No idea why really. I've learned that pruning tomatoes is kind of a hit and miss as well. I really enjoy your garden and videos 🌶

@JasFromMars 4 месяца назад

So happy! I searched your channel for this exact video and you guys didn't disappoint. I have a hydro garden inside and the flowers are blooming so thank you I will take what works for me from this!

@OSGCourtWatch 3 года назад

Personally I try to top as a seedling when it gets 3 sets of true leaves and normally only top once. By topping early u don’t let the peppers waste energy growing too tall before u top and no one wants a single stem pepper! Also, I make sure to trim off ALL fruit for the first 6 weeks or so after planting seedlings out into raised beds so all energy goes into building plant infrastructure....fruit production drains a HUGE amount of energy from a plant. Will get much more production over the entire season by doing that.

@jamesroyal1739 4 года назад

I watched your video on pruning tomatoes, and I put the pruning in water and they are growing roots ,thanks for your info, love your videos

@epicgardening 4 года назад

💯

@kristalsimon8797 4 года назад

I needed this video 1ish month ago. My bell peppers are currently super tall (over 3 feet tall) and super skinny. I had to add poles to keep them up. I'll have to watch this next time I plant them.

@epicgardening 4 года назад

No worries a stake will do for them!

@laurarisdallminnesotateach4914 3 года назад

Whenever I have a garden question, you’re my first stop! Thanks! So helpful!

@Real_Question_Marked 4 года назад

Thanks so much for the video Kevin, by coincidence I planted my first peppers recently, other than the pumpkin I have growing in my backyard (knuckleheads, which was accidental too as I was just trying to compost 2 pumpkins left over from Halloween that lasted through December) these pepper plants (cayenne and Hungarian wax) are the first real potted plants that are fruit bearing I've ever done. I call it coincidence because I was looking for a video about pruning when they started to fruit (because mine have become extremely bushy from topping, which I heard about doing since I started my seedlings late) but thank you for mentioning pruning after fruiting, it was very helpful! Liked this very much BIG THUMBS UP! :)

@epicgardening 4 года назад

@lisakukla459 3 года назад

Shishitos are my absolute favorite. Last year I topped some and left some and the difference was almost silly. I was getting 3-4 dozen peppers from the 2 topped plants every other day, and the un-pruned one gave me one pepper every week or so. Absolutely wild.

@stablestoic1491 4 года назад

Just picked up 2 jalapeno plants from Home Depot. I'll apply this knowledge

@thatamericangamer7230 4 года назад

I found out those are actually pretty good how to harvest the pepper is Cut where the flower was grab something tiny and have a bag or anything else to store i got alot seeds from one but im gonna try more ways

@SB-bs7uv 3 года назад

I'm so grateful for your channel. I always come here when I need advice and I always find what I need to know. Thanks man

@lindahipple4817 4 года назад

I started my peppers Jan 20th. 2020. I started snack peppers, orange bell peppers, and nonhot habineros. Most plants were toped at the 3rd leaf node to help with bushing out to encourage pepper production. So far so good, record # of peppers ripening for me. A couple were not pruned and they are way behind on pepper production and height. All get the same nutrient and sunshine..they are all hydrponicaly grown. Thankyou for your video, great info. God bless.

@lindahipple4817 4 года назад

I'm in grow zone 7, been growing peppers now for 4 yrs+. There is a learning curve. Start earlier than you think is needed. 120 days is 120 days plus! Bc of transplant adjustment for the plant from inside to outside growing place.

@dangenereux3362 Год назад

This year planted 18 tobasco, 12 seranos, 92 cayenne, 4 red bell the 5th turned out funny as I ended up with a kung Pao pepper. I topped everything and I have such an early crop this year on seranos I'm picking alot to save on the heat stress while letting more energy into flowers n more fruit it keeps compounding exponentially. Topping is way to go I tried to top once I had established about 8 main leaves on my plants. Next year I'm getting Anchor, jalapeno, habanero, into my rotation. I make a lot of salsa Verde, fire hot salsa. Love my plants!

@brianramsey3824 4 года назад

Personally I believe in just taking the very top leaves off. Honestly my experience would indicate anything lower is just a waste

@CaidanceDubstep 3 года назад

In my experimentation over the last two years I think I would agree with this. Just topping the very top is enough to stop growth on the main stalk and encourage more nodes to shoot out stems. That said, if your plant is hella lanky, chop dat boi down.

@dirtisbetterthandiamonds 4 года назад

I've often thought about the fact that we tell everyone that pests love plants that are damaged or stressed, then we are told to cutor top the plants. Here in Florida, if I prune in my gardens I get white flies and aphids. If I prune my tomatoes, I have tomato hornworms way worse than seasons I dont prune. I'm sure the intense heat doesnt help either. Just my observation.

@ChoiBoyoung 4 года назад

Thank you. I got my shisito from a nursery and it’s quite tall now and I have a bamboo stick to lean it against. After harvest I’ll prune it back for winter. I don’t want to lose any of the peppers it is growing right now.

@veravalo 4 года назад

Ah yes it depends! I think I'll always be on the fence about this. :) Could have other benefits... like sturdy plants for high wind gardens.

@kelleycarter1239 4 года назад

I don't typically top my pepper plants I pinched all the baby leaves out of the top and pinch all the buds off while it's smaller.... I then take cotton string and tie one piece around the rim of the pot and then I tie each branch down almost 90 degrees... This gives each branch an equal amount of sunlight and space to grow... I do this while the plant is young and pliable and I adjust the strings out towards the tips of the branches to keep them widespread from the main stem..... pinching the buds off makes it put more energy into bushing out and pinching the baby leaves off of the top of the Y seems to be faster than topping and makes it bush out just as much

@keithcarnley1802 3 года назад

Pinching the first few blooms is even better

@ericmurphy447 3 года назад

So I have a dog, and he is a big boy. One day, he was walking past my Fresno chili plant, and his powerful tail literally chopped the top of the plant off. In the days and weeks prior, the plant had been dehydrated, and damaged by harsh winds, so I figured that my dog just put the plant out of its misery. However, this led to a ludicrous explosion of growth. It is now starting to flower and is the most successful looking pepper plant I have ever done

@L1zz13n3sS 2 месяца назад

that is hilarious!! and amazing!

@TheAftermath502 2 месяца назад

Lol good boy !!!!

@liawijaya23 20 дней назад

Ur dog had green thumb... ehmmm paws,, ehm tail i mean😂

@hollywood4809 4 года назад

Awesome video Sr. I’m a first time gardener and this was very helpful!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and for your videos.

@rowenadinsmore1 3 года назад

You can eat those peper leaves. It can be used in stews or some brothy soup.

@PeterSedesse Год назад

This is such an easy experiment to do. Grow 20 and top every other one, that way you eliminate all the other variables. The yield is almost double ( 80 percent more ).

@FinznFowl82 3 года назад

He pretty much described how I prune them. They usually dont need it in my opinion, but if they are leggy I will top it.

@meishawalters7588 4 года назад

Planted some New Mexico green chili. They did ok last year and only 4 plants made it this tear out of 8. Wish me luck!

@willardmakinishi6980 2 года назад

Awesome. I was really wondering whether I should prune my peppers or not but this was more insightful. Thanks a million times

@Jane-ez7yl 3 года назад

Basically if your plants has peppers on them when transplanting remove them or the plants will stay small and not bush out cause it needs energy to produce roots and the small peppers interfere

@robinalexander5772 8 месяцев назад

I never prune my peppers, for me I like nature to do its shit. On a good note, I like your channel, lots of good stuff. cheers from Tasmania

@AliaRohaluss_TheCat 2 года назад

From local indonesian farmer: if you plant for yourself, no prunning is ok, you can't eat all peppers yourself and it will look prettier in your garden. The fruiting will be slower but you will have good peppers when you need it For massive gardener or to sell, pruning will increase fruiting, but you will get peppers laterer in its life

@JesiDavisBuildingaSimplerLife 3 года назад

Thank you for this!!

@YEYES-zt9rs 4 года назад

yahoo! was waiting for this vid ;) gratz on the homestead! I'm actually looking into 5 acre farmhouse out here in PA; I'll be watchin!

@epicgardening 4 года назад

Sounds great!

@llamaspitstudios8302 2 года назад

Very helpful! Thank you 😊

@takishasage-freebeautyzone 4 года назад

I'm always reluctant to prune heavily, however, I've been watching a ton of Roots and Refuge lately and Jess prunes her tomatoes like nobody's business. So I've adopted that technique as well and I love the air flow it offers my plants. I tend to plant a little closer together than what is traditional, so pruning has helped the health of my plants. HOWEVER...I can not bring myself to prune my pepper plants with the exception of a snip or two on an unhealthy looking plant/leaf. This year I'm noticing that I'm getting fruit setting while the peppers are super short (like approx. 12 inches). It looks odd to have a bell pepper growing on a 12 in plant. Is anyone else noticing this? I've never had fruit set until the plants are at least 2-3 feet tall. And it seems to be happening on all of my pepper plants, irregardless of variety.🤔

@queenlinzable 4 года назад

Takisha's Age-Free Beauty Zone ugh we topped ours and nothing much has been happening. One bell pepper plant is starting, do I pick it before it’s ripe to encourage more growth or let it grow to size?

@JasonEngman 3 года назад

I have a bell pepper plant so small when it made the first pepper the pepper is as tall as the plant. Really considered removing it so it will focus on growing a little.

@Magisktification 3 года назад

Guess it depends on were you live. Bit here in Sweden its quite windy and i hardly believe pruning them will increase airflow at all. Whats the real reason for doing that?

@NinongWyn 4 года назад

Thanks for sharing.. i will definitely do the same when my pepper plant is ready. keep up!

@tanikotakebunku 4 года назад

Wokay.. thanks... I will do in my garden 😃

@mycomfortmeals 4 года назад

Your video randomly appear on my feed. Since it's about peppers I click to watch it. Then you introduced yourself, I was like... are we related? My surname is Espiritu as well. 😁 Watching your vid from the 🇵🇭.

@farmlifepinas 2 года назад

Subscriber hete in philippines because of this video. I have 5000 hills of chilli and many of them.already have Y taht has fruits and i want to prune them due to strong wind striking now here. So i search for a video fkr confirmation if i cam do it. Then there you gow. Thank you

@1kaaa 4 года назад

Got a shitshito plant at Nijiya a month ago and it’s already fruiting. I was nervous whether it was too late to top, it doesn’t look like I have to now. It looks exactly like yours. Woohoo!

@MarcellHobbs 4 года назад

I’ve been harvesting jalapeños for a couple of weeks. Those and my bell peppers are over two feet tall, but the bell pepper isn’t fruiting. Should I top it?

@Noahsoak 4 года назад

Thinking same. I'm in Oregon however, not much time left. :( Mine are bushy and producing so, maybe not??

@ruthantiaobong3502 3 года назад

If you go to 0:50 secs in to this vid, my bell pepper is growing up (1ft 4in-ish) but has those growths (2). I'm in PA, I think I m going to chop them off and see if that helps. This same plant kicked off what I thought was a growing pepper to boot! Did you ever chop your pepper? And what zone are you if you get to this?

@NotoriusNa 3 года назад

So to my understanding, I shouldn’t top my bell peppers? And should top my early jalapeño plants? Also, love your channel!! I look forward to your new videos.

@TheMarycanada03 4 года назад

I will try that in my pepper

@lightfoot1Juke 3 года назад

🔥🔥🔥Some prefers to top, others like to bottom.

@janesun5339 3 года назад

Hi Kevin, what did you use for your bed covering? Wheat straws?

@Diana-xm1dm Год назад

1. Green Bell Pepper 2. Jalapeno 3. Poblano Pepper 4. Anaheim Pepper 5. Cayenne (for chili flakes).

@randyestrada183 3 года назад

I like.

@hiimfiny 3 года назад

Can you prune the plant when it starts to grow out flower buds?

@Magisktification 3 года назад

I live in Sweden and i dont prune my peppers... It seems counterproductive in almost all cases. Removing early flowers is not a bad thing tho.

@yvonnew.116 2 года назад

What to do when the chili plant got too bushy? I migrated my chili plant from a pot to the ground, after a storm in late April, it doubled the size in a week. Now it’s so giant and a little bit too bushy. However I don’t see many flowers this year, what did I do wrong? I haven’t add any fertilizer yet.

@ugosmith7529 2 года назад

Now I probably wouldn't top this one but let me show you how I would if I did. *proceeds to top pepper plant* 🤣🤣

@missbackwoods 4 года назад

Ty again for a great video. I noticed several times you mentioned longer growing seasons, Do you have any videos for shorter season plants ?

@conniecasale3593 4 года назад

Love you. So needed this NOW

@ultragash3673 2 месяца назад

We’re in San Diego too, do you water with our tap? I feel like I’m getting leave deformity on all my plants because of the water.

@eblopez79 2 года назад

I see that you have hay/straw on your jalapeños boxes. Would you recommend doing that? Tomatoes too?

@legacychannel7738 3 года назад

few questions please ......what time of year?....only main stem??.....only once a year???

@LTWellsofWellness 3 месяца назад

Can you replant the topper cuts?🌱

@Edekje 3 года назад

I have a 2 chilli plants here. I barely pruned them, and as a consequence they are about 1m tall and have a Y-fork at around 30-40cm height. Below the fork there are no leaves left, they dropped off. The plant is getting too tall and it seems wasteful to have such a long bare stretch below the Y- fork, so I would like to prune it below the fork. I am worried however that as the plant will then have no leaves, it will die. What do you guys think? Keep in mind I live in Northern Europe and the growing season is coming to an end now...

@Allister123456789 3 года назад

any chance you could elaborate on the length of your season @2:24 I'm i a climate where our top temperatures are around 18 in mid summer. The growth season is relatively short

@youcanask2980 6 месяцев назад

I’m in a CA zone 18 and I believe I topped my pepper wrong, lol. It’s pathetic looking. I thought two leaves was the Y but it was just leaves. Now I have a 7” tall pepper with a small bunch of leaves at the bottom and a stick with two floppy leaves on top. I’m about to cut them off. The nodules below the two leaves are trying to break through but the one at where I thought was the Y is not doing anything. Should I just cut them down to the producing nodules and hope for the best or is there another way to save this plant? I’ll probably chalk it up to an experiment, so I’m not too worried about it but it would be nice to say I recovered it though too.

@DynamicJon 2 года назад

Do we need to worry about the leaves touching the ground like we do with tomatoes? I have a few habenero and jalepeno plants that are super bottom heavy with tons of growth just growing at the bottom and touching the soil

@rachelweeks9583 4 месяца назад

Wait. So you leave all the “suckers”? (Tomato verbiage)

@erikamarsolais8663 4 года назад

@glenh4971 4 года назад

Pruning can be good or bad for your pepper plant. You have to experiment with it. I also do not like to prune super-hot peppers. It sets them back too much.

@bainiboyfoodandadventure 4 года назад

I pruned/topped my 15 red bell peppers but only 12 came out good and branch out really good the remaining 3 didn’t branch and I believe they’ll die sooner or later:(

@JacksonHorton 2 года назад

From my experience pruning is used as a aid when the plant isn't getting everything it needs to bush out on its own. When their needs are met, they bush out themselves, even when very small, regardless of variety. Topped plants haven't produce as well for me

@mozee01 2 года назад

i put hay on my bed like urs and all of a sudden all kinds of grass started to grow from the hay. How do i pick the ones that will not grow grass? ty

@DavidWong1228 3 года назад

Can you plant chili “suckers”?

@anonymous-os1rp 3 года назад

Any solution for wrinkled leaves

@thewalkingcrow8946 4 года назад

Topping peppers just to top them is kind of silly. Topping has less of an impact than the nutrients and light available. So take care of your soil if you want lots of yield. Or nute it to death with your preferred method of organic or non-organic. But with good soil that's unnecessary. As one of those pepperheads with decades of experience I never top my plants and I get over 100 pods per plant every year. Yours are super small plants compared to mine, which are 4 ft tall right now. Some years I get them up to 6 ft tall if I go heavy on the nutes. I quit fertilizing a few years ago and went to a "no till" kind of concept but I use containers. The bigger the container = bigger plant = more pods assuming all things remain the same. But if you want REALLY big yields, use two and three year old plants. They aren't putting as much effort into roots so they fruit out earlier and more heavily. Once you go into growing plants for multiple years, your concept of pruning really changes shape. You prune to control the size of the plant, not to force it to yield more. If you really wanna go advanced, defoliate the leaves on the bottom 2/3rds of the plant (lollipop it) and that will make it branch out more as the light hits the stem stimulating branch buds to form. But if you top the plant, you kill it's final height.

@soccerfillenfrance 4 года назад

As a beginning gardener who is interested in peppers, this was helpful. I feel silly to say I didn't even think of growing a pepper plant for years. I guess I always thought the whole plant died at the end of the season.

@PRDreams 4 года назад

😮 how did you know I was working on my peppers?!

@epicgardening 4 года назад

I'm always watching you

@PRDreams 4 года назад

@@epicgardening 🤣🤣👀

@clashofphish 3 года назад

I've never topped my peppers. Most useful thing I've found for getting larger yields is to pull the early flowers off and not let it set with fruit until the plant is larger.

@montanasbigsky 4 года назад

I did this this year and I didn't get more peppers. I was kind of disappointed.

@murasakino9173 Год назад

Will my bell pepper plant regrow new leaves and stem because it got eaten?

@tamiruchi 4 года назад

Could I potentially try and root the top that I cut?

@Dmgolfer22 3 года назад

I top once my peppers have 4 real leaves. It’s amazing the difference. topping once theyre starting to mature is pointless. A good rule of thumb is if your young pepper looks thin and tall, top it. If it naturally already has a bushy look to it with multiple chutes, don’t top it!

@survival7691 4 года назад

I topped out a cayene pepper and a hybrid striped pepper plant, and both seemed to stop growing at all. It seemed to stunt them.

@epicgardening 4 года назад

Blah :/

@survival7691 4 года назад

@@epicgardening LOL, but hey, they ARE still alive and getting flowers!

@jaytru3808 2 года назад

Can you use thr top as a clone and re root???

@Chalovski 4 года назад

I have small peppers which started to bud some flowers out. I live in Toronto and was wondering if I should cut them off to promote plant growth rather then fruit growth. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

@Neyobe 4 года назад

Thankssss

@robjoemama2466 4 года назад

I always have a hard time growing bell peppers for some reason. Leaves always turn yellow to early or the flowers turn yellow to early and fall off. I'll be lucky to get only one tiny bell pepper. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

@ryanwinfield8582 4 года назад

Does it really matter how you prune? Cutting at an angle or a straight cut?

@epicgardening 4 года назад

Yes the water can sit on top

@ryanwinfield8582 4 года назад

Thank you for replying back 🙂

@on_another_level5661 4 года назад

Great info. Thanks! I have a question, any help would be appreciated. My garden was just damaged by a strorm that came through. I live in zone 6, is it too late to buy some veggies from a nursery to replace the damaged ones?

@jamesjustice464 4 года назад

Question? My peppers didn't get trimmed and is getting fruit, a lot. Now it is leaning. Any suggestions?

19 дней назад

Where you live and time of year it is are two major factors that I still cant find guidance on. NE America mid September Bell pepper plants. Prune or top?

@muggamarc 11 дней назад

Prune

@johnpower2018 4 года назад

What brand of scissors are those

@gamecock4u03 2 года назад

So you showed us 3 plants and said you wouldn't top either one of them. So is this important or no?

@Fattiapples 4 года назад

Do you recommend taking off the first bud/flower?

@epicgardening 4 года назад

I typically don't unless it's on a lower branch

@TylerDurden404 2 года назад

Anyone know what pests eat bell peppers?

@NickShay 3 года назад

My peppers have been in seedling stage for what seems like forever. I seeded them around 2 months ago and they still are in the dicotyledon stage, any suggestions on what I’m doing wrong? I live in South Georgia near Florida in zone 8b.

@jpeebs3296 4 года назад

Why is it important to cut at an angle? Thanks for the vids :)

@epicgardening 4 года назад

Water won't pool

@sharonlynn3358 4 года назад

I have no luck with peppers at all I'm in zone 8b and I thought peppers liked the heat? This year all of my transplants died so I direct sowed just to try it and I only have about 10 out of probably 100 plants coming up. They are about 2 inches tall... any advice? Since I direct sowed so late should I prune when they are big enough?

@epicgardening 4 года назад

They do, but still v. sensitive early...may be struggling in heat

@marcellava 4 года назад

*I need help* , I started growing 4 green beans in a pot for about a month and they were doing so well, and today I found a big brown caterpillar who finished eating two of them completely and was just about to chop off my third one, half it’s stem is eaten (thick wise) but it’s still standing straight and my last and smallest plant is still alive but had yet to grow any leaves, please, I need to know that my littler bean poles aren’t a lost cause despite one being almost chopped down like a pine tree, what can I do to keep pesky caterpillars from entering my pot again?

@epicgardening 4 года назад

Hand pick those off!