Root Bound Peppers - How To Avoid Root Bound Plants - Pepper Geek 

THANKS A MILLION for starting this channel, for your intense knowledge about peppers. I have been trying to grow from seed for years now, every year just squeaking by and actually having plants that produce peppers. Squeaking by- because the plants barely make it to the stage where I plant them. You videos changed EVERYTHING for me. Now I'm growing beautiful plants - first year ever. Had my garden soil tested and it is good for the second part of their life. I was missing the fertilization at the beginning and you really educated me. THANK YOU so much!!!

I started some way too early this year and ended up putting some of them in gallon sized pots. I really learned a lot this spring, that hotter peppers take a lot longer to grow than the larger pepper varieties do. You'd think it'd be the opposite! I am happy to say that as of yesterday though, all of my pepper plants are in the ground outside!

Great video as always guys. Love the fish pepper plant too so unique.

55 bell pepper plants here :-) looking good! Thanks for the video

Thanks for the video! Ran into this problem myself this year. Going to transplant today!

Thank you for explaining and showing pot bound plants compared to a normal root system. This helps me a lot!

Great topic! Out of practicality and because of their low cost, I often use transparant plastic cups for the double cup method. I wrap the outer cup in dark paper or aluminium foil to keep the light out. A bonus benefit of this that I've found is that you can observe the root system developing, giving you a heads-up for when it's time to transplant.

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i just dumped out my 5 gallon grow bags from last years peppers and it definitly helps grow perfect roots. they had very even growth throught the whole volume with no big roots near the edge

Thanks for the very helpful totorial . Even though I have been gardening for over thirty-five +years I can make mistakes and I do , They say helpful information is valuable information .I value info such as those , like yours , that brings awareness to seasoned gardeners , like myself. Keep up the good tutorials , there are people like myself who watch your you tube on channel on and on learn from it.

Superb channel, please keep producing this helpful style of content on chillies! I live in the north with a very short growing season, so I've developed my own grow tents with watering system and led lights. My problem is that it's now the end of May and the weather outside is still to cold, so many of my chillies are extremely root bound. I hope to get then out this week coming, so fingers crossed and with your tips I can get them back on track. One outcome from my grow tents is that many of my chilli plants have become hydroponic. I have an automated watering system that circulates water/fish emulsion through a pump and catch tank and the roots have grown down into the tank which now has a fishtank filter to add oxygen and the results have been really good, they have also been hardened off and go out next week, fingers crossed that they adapt to the shift over to soil based growing. I'm happy to add updates/info if you or other people are interested!

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This is really useful to know for myself cause im planning to keep pepper plants indoors and didnt want them over ablut 1 foot

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Put your instagram link in the description, in fact, it should always be there ! Love the content keep it up !!

I second the mycroryzae, hip hip

Yeah, I started too many pepper plants and ran out of room, so some 8 week old plants get left in 2.6 inch pots 😬

Another way to not get rootbound plants is if you put them on a tray of hydroleca (clay pebbles). The roots just go into the Leca. Saved a few of my plants this year.

The thing I find about pepper plants is they take ages to grow so starting them early is probably better than starting to late as if you was to start seeds say April they can still be a little on the small size by June

A year later can you put a medium container pepper plant in a bed for the second year? Any particular things I can do to help it? Big fan by the way.

It's been taking ages for the weather to warm up this year so my peppers have been in their containers way longer than I wanted and some of them are extremely root bound. Like, worse than any you showed in this video. Hopefully I can salvage them.

We have had a unusually cold summer here in Northern Europe. The night temperature still isn’t hot enough for the plants to stay outdoors all night. And it still seems like that is a few weeks away. My plants were out more than a month ago last year. So I’m planing on replanting one seedling of each verity to be a pepper in a can (though not officially part of the challenge due to not following the rule), just to be sure I actually get any kind of harvest and som isolated seeds to plant next year. Because if it’s a cold/early fall aswell I don’t know how much harvest I’ll get out of my plants in big pots. So this is prefect timing, as I’ve been quite concerned with just how extremely root bound I’m expecting the pepper in a can peppers ought to become. But this made me a bit less stressed. And that maybe it’s a good idea for my potential problem. I’m planning on doing a experiment where a few of the cans are punched with a bunch of small inward and outward facing holes all along the sides and bottom of the can, inspired by the air-pot design. Same idea with air pruning as with fabric bags as I understand it. Im planning on cutting into the cans and comparing my weird cans with tons of small holes all over, to the more sensible cans with a few drainage hole on the bottom, and see if that makes any difference at the end of the season. Anyway thanks this video had perfect timing

Pepper G, can you please make video in future of how to sale our pepper pods or sauces at farmers market I got ahead of myself and am growing 25 plants different varieties this became addiction so fun real FAST ‘!!!!

How did you avoid root binding in the pepper you grew in the can? Or is it just inevitable with any pepper in a small container? Edit: nevermind I should have just finished the video. Thanks for all the info!

Hi! Quick question, Can I transplant my pepper plant from seedling tray to its final pot? Let's say 3-5 gallon pot? Thanks for your answer

I think typically my habaneros are particularly bad in also wonder if I need to water more

I started some Aurora, sheepnose, and Alma peppers this year. about 12 each. after planting outside, Half of the Aurora are doing great, same with the alma. the other half and every sheepnose have been stunned at about 4in. its been 4 weeks since transplant, and I dropped some organic veggie food in the holes. Im in Ky and our season has been cooler than normal and last 2 weeks way more rain than usual. Im not sure why some did good and others are just blah. any input would be much appreciated ✌❤

Thanks for this info. I know the feeling of planting too soon. I may just keep my root bound plants for my indoor grow room and just buy some for outside. Will a root bound plant resume growing to normal size when transplanted or will it stunt the final size of the plant?

Have you any experience using hard plastic air pruning pots, either for seedings or full size plants?

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hi i have problem of chilie pepper shrink leafs, no aphites and is growing on the ground

@Pepper Geek Any ideas on how to get rid of spidermites indoors? I've tried spraying the soil and plant with neem oil, soap and water but they're still there

Hi, I have 12 varieties this year. I have a question about cross-pollinating pepper plants. do I have to separate different varieties of pepper plants in my garden to avoid cross-pollinating? if yes? what is your strategy ? and how can it be done successfully. my goal is to maintain the same heat and flavour profile for all 12 varieties.

Dang, I'm new to peppers, and have some going in two 1'x4' concrete planters on my back porch, I kinda just planted a bunch of hot varieties all together, and now I have a ton of sprouts and I'm not too sure, if I can transplant them to another container or if I should just pluck them. Idk

Got a small plant with lil flowers, can I still top them? They came with rootbound sensed to me.. directly planted it into a bigger pot

I bought root bound pepper seedlings and they r already producing peppers. Should I pick off the peppers and the flowers to promote more growth in the plant?

@Pepper Geek HELP! I had affids(sp?) for the first time this year and they loved my green Bell peppers. I treated the plants while still indoors then moved to raised bed 1is thriving while the other 1 all leaves fell off, and is now just a green stem. Can this plant recover? Or it is a lost cause? Should I remove it to plant something else in the raised bed?

I have a tobacco pepper plant on my kitchen counter it’s growing peppers. Can I still garden it off and move it outside or is that an issue since it’s already growing peppers?

I've got some prairie fire growing this year, it's still to cold to put them outside, they are not potbound but have started flowering, any ideas? They are only 7inches tall

Sadly root binding is the one issue I've invariably run into when growing my chinense phenotype project in containers (usually around August once they're in excess of 2 feet tall) and eventually goes full pot bind. They're wonderfully stout, almost comically wide plants with very even pepper distribution but their root ball is usually in excess of 3x any other variety I grow so 10-15 gallons just isn't enough. I'm hoping the 25 gallon size works out or else it'll have to be a strictly raised bed/ground planting ordeal.

If you were to keep a pepper plant indoors in a smaller container intentionally, will you have to root prune it regularly? And will it produce all year long or will it still stop producing for a while after some time?

Some of my peppers started to flower before I could transplant them and I plucked them off. When would be a good time to let the flowers mature? (Zone 6b)

Hello I've been following your channel and ventured myself to start my pepper garden, after several months of taking care of my peppers the plants finally started growing peppers but all of a sudden the plants withered, have no idea what happened maybe u can help me ? I live in mexico city the peppers I tried where carolina reaper, ghost pepper and trinidad escorpión

How long are seed viable my grandfather used grow these potent little peppers and unfortunately he passed and only seed around house are 7 years old

My problem is not having root bound plants, but the opposite... my root system doesn't seems to grow... some of my hots and super hots are 2 and a half months, some in 9 Oz solo cup and some in 18 Oz... is it normal? Thanks!

I started using fabric pint and quart size fabric pots to upsize from soil blocks. All my plants are doing amazing this year and they are not root bound due to air pruning. I also found my plant have not had any transplant shock at all during transplantation to their final pots and ground this year. I’ve seen the results from the clear fabric pots you shown in the photo and the results were not good. The roots grew through the bags and the roots needed to be trimmed to remove the plants from the bags. Those bags said the bags were biodegradable but the are made from plastic so I think that statement is totally inaccurate. I bought 12-18 month bags and the plants slide completely out easily. I think the bags will last many years because I will only use them for 1-2 months before transplanting and the bags can be used over and over again.

Are you also a Speedcuber?

How do we get seeds from pepper geek ?

Hey, what zone are you guys in?

If you don’t use mycorrhizae, you should. If you’re worried about root bound plants, don’t add it too early.

How about overwintered pepper plants? Technically pepper plants arent annuals...

I have root bound small fabric bags. Roots look good but the top is curling. My extras. Also my overwintered plant is starting to curl at the top. I've been harvesting a month already. Do you think I could transplant up or will that affect harvesting? I was afraid to because when it started to flower I transplanted it up and it dropped over 100 flowers.

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