Tips For Growing Peppers In An Apartment (Or Small Space) - Pepper Geek 

What a little gem of a RU-vid channel. Glad to have found it.

More bloopers! This was awesome and funny! 😀I want more bloopers! Who is with me?

I am growing in a house but decided to try and grow three varieties inside over the winter. I have about 40 plants in total, the varieties are Highlander (Anaheim), Jedi (Jalapeno), and Suave Orange (Habenero). The Highlanders have many flowers all over them with about 2 peppers already started. I am just using a single room in my basement that has two entryways and no doors. I have grow lights hanging from the ceiling and some stand up lights that I wanted to try out. For heat, I have a cryptomining rig set up in the room, so that has been keeping the room at a nice temperature.

Last time I was this early was on my birthday! Grow tents are essential to indoor growing, best investment I've made in such a long time. PS. Just a little update on my Jalapeno that wouldn't stay dormant for more than 2 months: I popped it in the tent and started a regular watering/feeding cycle just before Christmas and it's already flowering and I just noticed my first fruit forming. The Bhut Jolokia and Habanero that were overwintered at the same time are both still completely dormant (or dead lol)

I had a great experience growing chile de árbol in my apartment with minimal equipment (no grow light, no heat mat). My home office is south facing with a big window, so that's is where my seedlings started their life. In the spring, after transplanting them into small pots, I started getting them out under a small plastic greenhouse on my south-facing balcony, before finally setting two of them down in a planter with a detachable greenhouse. It worked great, I actually am overwintering one of them. It was my frist time growing pepper (or any vegetable actually) and wgile there is definitely room for optimization, I am very pleased with my harvest.

Apartment dwelling pepper grower here, thank you for this informative video! It is totally possible to cultivate pepper plants indoors, but there are some challenges. Based on my own experiences, I would like to share these tips; Don't go overboard with the amount of plants you want to grow. Realistically, not a lot of your available space will get proper direct sunlight, especially late season. In line with that, don't pot up to much. The plants will be way to busy growing in the viable time they have, instead of producing fruits. Last, simulating outdoor conditions. Keep a fan on the younger plants to encourage sturdy stem development, and mist your flowering plants with water to increase the chance of pollination.

It makes my day when I see you guys have posted new content, thanks for these! :)

African birds eye chillis are quite happy in 1-2L pots too

I just transplant my papers into a similar size pot like yours and put them on my patio. Around 7pm I take them back inside so insect doesn't eat the leaves.

This is awesome! Last year i had a few pepper plants in my living room and this year too. Thank you for the tips. I hope this Video gets a million views so more people get Veggie Plants inside. ☀️☀️

I was in an apartment for about a year and a half. We didn't have a balcony, but I utilized closet space of about 8'x4' and went hydro just like you talked about. All plants were either grown hydroponically or in a 1 gallon pot to keep things small and grow as many varieties as I could. An apartment isn't ideal, but I still had a blast experimenting with various varieties and growing what I could, rather than dwelling on what I couldn't! I wish I would have thought about renting a garden plot, that would have been awesome!! As always, great video!!

Great garden advice and the bloopers were amazing😂😂 I love this channel!

I love y'all's videos so much I have some habaneros ghost peppers and Peter peppers😂 already sprouted, some seeds came in late I'm starting today and tomorrow 7 pot douglah, big black mama, aji charapita, sugar rush striped, purple Carolina reaper as you see alot of peppers from your harvest video 😂😂 I literally wait for y'all's videos.

I have a tiny house in the traditional sense and I set up a greenhouse at my bedroom window. It’s the only one that receives light but my overwintering peppers are happy. And I utilize my kitchen window and used a shelf to add another space at my window that I can use.

Another tip for hand pollinating peppers that I have found works wonders although a bit time consuimg (yet faster than a paint brush, for me anyway) is to gently touch the outside base of the flowers with an electrical tooth brush, the vibrations are fairly similar to a bee/bumble bees wings flapping and it releases a lot of pollen. When I plan on having my plants on my balcony I tend to grow them a fair but indoors before moving them out to my balcony greenhouse since I live in a colder climate to ensure that I get large and productive plants. Love the channel and keep the pepper love flowing!

Small pots about 1 gallon, led lights, electric toothbrush for pollination. Love the closet method, just got to check on them once a day to vent and allow air exchange

We started gardening in apartments several years ago, and started experimenting with starting our own seedlings in a small apartment in Boston. We had little indoor space but had nice large windows in an older high rise. Then we moved a little north of the city and used shelves in a bedroom with lights and signed up for a community plot. Where we lived just north of Boston MA it was $25/yr for a large plot in an established garden (water was available onsite). We did that for a few years before buying a house and it worked out very well. We’d always have more than we could use ourself and would be able to give extras to friends. It was tricky timing the size of the plants with hardening off and then transplanting, because we didn’t have a lot of indoor space and our balcony was both small and shaded, but it was still a great experience. If anyone is considering and not sure if they have the space, give it a go!

The outtakes are priceless.😀

I just got started learning to grow but I’m in an apartment! Thank you for this apartment friendly video!!

I grow peppers in my hydroponic system and its been great so far. I use the aerospring hydroponics system. They are a bit pricy but if you can afford it you will never regret it. Great video!

Haha! You guys are cute. I can’t tell you had fun with this one, even if you did need a break by the end of it! Good video guys. Enjoyed it.

Always love the videos.

Awesome suggestions. I never thought about renting a plot.

So glad I found your channel!!

Why did I never think of getting a plot from the community garden?? I just checked and there are 9 remaining for 30 bucks. My apartment building has two tiny beds I use but this will give me so much more freedom to grow the varieties I want to!

I live in a studio apartment, so I have to be extra mindful of space. I started a seed starting area underneath my table back in February. I'll be moving some of my peppers outside in a container garden but others, such as hot Thai chilis and pot-a-peños, will be staying indoors as they only get to be about a foot tall and not much wider. I'll probably be able to fit five or six in my apartment in 1-gallon planters. I have a grow light in my "kitchen", as the only window in my apartment is not in an ideal position to give my plants enough sunlight. The ones I'm moving outside should not get huge in containers and this climate (cool semi-arid, 4b/5a grow zone). I grew 2 jalapeño plants last year and between the 2 of them in 3 gallon grow bags, I got close to 100 pods. This year, I still have the same 2 jalapeño plants from last year and a peter pepper plant, all three of which will be moved outside once it warms up a bit. I'm also going to grow Spanish habaneros, habanadas, NuMex Easter peppers, long slim cayenne, bell peppers, and Bulgarian carrot peppers outside. Summers regularly top 100 degrees where I live up here in South Dakota, but it starts snowing in November and keeps snowing well into March and sometimes even April. We're not fully out of danger of frost until around the 20th of May.

I grow in our apartment i have 3 growtents have them in diffrent rooms. These are sponsored tents and lights and get new System tomorrow also. Like this channel keep up the great workb 😊😊👍🏼💪🏻 stay safe take care best wishes from Sweden 🇸🇪

I grew 15 big pepper plants on my 7th floor balcony last year haha

Thank you for the video and the tips ^^ I live in a three-room second-floor apartment in Denmark, so I'm limited in space and even more so in ideal lighting placement for plants and peppers. I have north-facing outdoor balcony access, which should be pretty bad for peppers, but... In early April last year I moved my two Aji Limon out there, (they had spider mites) so I wanted to keep them away from the rest of my plants I figured they would wither and die, because of the mites, the temperature, and the low light placement... Much to my surprise, I got almost 200 chilies from those two plants, and they were in rather small 0.8 gallon pots 👍 The Aji Limon is not among my favorites, but a big harvest like that despite all the odds was so satisfying Keep up the good work 🤗 P.S. I love the bloopers 😆

Cool vid thanks

People are always pushing the paintbrush for pollination by hand, but I gotta say that I *really* like using a q-tip! You already have them, they're perfectly-sized for getting in there, and they hold onto a ton of pollen! Love the videos always! Couldn't help but push my q-tip agenda! :P

Great vid guys... Was hoping to get to see some beard progress too lol.

2:55 woah more of them please!

I like yalls channel 😊

I have a “kitchen table garden” in my tiny, two bedroom not-even-sure-how-many-square-feet home lolol. There’s a GIANT south facing window over the table 😍 I have Serrano, red/green/orange bell, some kinda Chile, lemon drop and green Anaheim peppers growing. Actually found your video by searching, “peppers that don’t need a lot of space!” 😂 In my kitchen garden, I’ve also got manyyy different types of herbs, cherry tomatoes, carrots (my soil is too rocky 😓) and radish! My outside garden.. which is east facing 😩 has bigger stuff like cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, peas, romas.. things like that. They actually seem to be doing wonderful so far this fall! Which I was a bit surprised by. I told myself that if I harvest just one veggie, I’ll be grateful ♥️ I mostly wanted to learn and collect seeds from this batch! So if you’re new to growing.. even if your harvest doesn’t go as expected, you’re absolutely _guaranteed_ to learn a lot 🙂 Great video and excited to check out the rest of your channel on my gardening journey! I didn’t even know about the rent-a-garden-plot idea but my community has an organization for it 🤯 defffff checking that out! I love that you offered up that super useful info to your viewers, just as helpful advice 🥺♥️ I think I’m used to RU-vidrs only offering things that allow them to profit in return.. lol

I have a small community Garden 14 x 15 for $40 a year. I jam a lot of plant in that space, including 4 pumpkin plants each year. I started Scotch Bonnet and Cayenne pepper seeds in doors this year but they are growing soooooo sloooooooow. I planted some outdoors also, but no germination yet (7 days).

Lets go pepper geek! lets fire up that 3x3 or 2x4 flood table and lets get to work!

I just grab the pepper by the main trunk and give it a good shake every day. The buds that fall off were weak anyway. I always get lots of peppers .

My pepper starting - and overwintering the seedlings location (I start in Oct now) - is my water heater closet. It stays 85 in there with 35% humidity, and is vented floor and ceiling for CO3. I made a shelf from fluorescent light lattice for airflow, and put cleats 4" apart for raising my lights in small increments. I can raise each light separately, as the first plants are taller. It's a killer setup! I wish there was a way to post pics. I also outfitted my watering can with a curved piece of copper tubing to reach all the way to the back. Once they get bigger, I will move some to my main location in the back hall, where I have my homemade LED headlight setup that can be seen clearly from the ISS. I used three 6,500K temp LED headlights I wired up, along with two warmer commercial lights for about 35k lumens in a 2x4 space. It's daylight in there. I never have to harden my plants off. That's where I overwinter my mature peppers and the tomatoes I root in September and seed start at Christmas. Come mid-March, I already have mature and fruiting peppers and tomatoes in the garden. Works great!

And here I was trying to cut down the amount of varieties to grow. Now I feel like I could go the other way instead! 🤔I guess I could keep a couple of the varieties that lend themselves to it in smaller pots. About rotating plants: I noticed the same thing last season when I grew some plants in a container that wasn't really "rotatable". Most of the plants in them all grew facing the towards the sung. Also, loved the bloopers in the end 😂

If you have good climate during the whole year, you can plant two or three plants every month, so you always have plants with different sizes growing, that means permanent harvest and space saving.

Anyone with tiny growing space, check out the hot burrito pepper. Pretty beginner friendly. Happy in a 6.5-7.5 inch (diameter) pot. Mine only recently started suffering because i let it get sunburnt so all the tips got burnt. Stupid 91 degree weather. 😢

Another option for "where to get grow space" is see if you can "rent" or willing to "lend" people for a cut of the harvest or something like that. Kinda like your Uber for gardening.

Great video, thank you! I wanted to ask, are apache peppers a suitable indoor variety?

i've had an allotment for 15 years and we had strict rules about tiyness, sadly plants don't understamd plot boundaries ;-) I;ve tried to grow them in my garden now as I;ve moved last year, but nope north facing isn't right at all, I mean at the moment the sun doesn't even come into the garden, so I was thinking to rebuild all my shelves and lights but not sure yet

I love my small grow tent and mars hydro led light. 2x2ft filled up fast, but its okay. I dont want a ton of plants. My tabasco peppers stay small in their pots and still give me good fruit. Im using soil and organic nutrients, but im thinking of switching to hydroponic nutrients.

How do you get "bushier" plants, I have a couple of plants in pots(in the UK)they have grown 18" tall but only have a single leaf stalk every 4"?

How about pruning rootbound plants and re-using the same pot? without pot up in size.

Where did you get your “Pimenta de Neyde” seeds from ? I was on your website and saw the post about the pepper plants you grew of this variety. I have never seen this variety get that black from the foliage or peppers.

I live in a tiny apartment somewhere cold. But we get a solid 3 months of long, hot days. What's my best option for growing hot peppers on a small apartment balcony? I would love to be successful just one summer.

Hi when shold i start growing my peppers. In finland?

My only question i had,is when i should start my seedlings for the upcomimg season this year? I live in Hungary,so the first two months in spring is not really warm,and we can easly get snow in march sometimes and cold snaps at nights... And i want to grow this year habaneros,jalapeños and a few carolina reapers from seed at home. I saved those seeds from last year,but bc i started them indoors i guess too early they did not made it to the point,when i could plant them outdoors in the garden. And if you guys can give an answer for that based on your experience i would be really grateful for that.

In our apartment we didnt have a closet to hang a grow light, so we use a clothing rack instead.

Did you guys start your seeds for this season yet? If not when?

How stressed would peppers be if root bound in a coffee cup? I don't want to spend a fortune on pots so I keep them in those until they're ready to take out.

Please do a video showing how you get the seedlings established in the areogarden. Heck, do the video on all aspects of the hydro setups you have. Wear a beard for the start of the video. Yes, I'm the beard guy.

Check with your landlord before starting seeds in your closet. My apartments landlord told me I had to take my growlights out of the closet, considering it a fore hazard.

I'm growing my ghost peppers inside under a LED light and some of the leaves are turning black

Will cats chew on the leaves and kill them? I have an asshole cat(who I love) who chews on about anything he can! Even cables that were soaked in lemon juice and hot sauce lol

I started growing chillis in a grow tent then as they got too big after a getting a few chillis. They all had to move to the deck, 60km wind gusts, average temp of 15-5c and all the flower and fruit dropped. Oops, half them are still alive

i actually make and sell high end grow boxes for this. who wants a gross grow bag in their living room? I make them to be beautiful furniture pieces with custom design and lighting

What are the best books on growing peppers? I don't trust google to answer this question.

Never have success growing peppers indoors unless it's from seedlings

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