3 Things to NEVER Do When Growing Peppers
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from someone who's been growing peppers for 20 years, these tips don't make any sense. pulling peppers off the plant with your hands is perfectly fine. i never grow them in the ground, and peppers need water. but telling you not to overwater them is a blanket recommendation that should be followed for all plants. if your pepper is ready, grab it by the crown or top and pull up, not down. pulling up will break it off at the stem, if it doesn't readily break free, the pepper isn't ready.
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I don't know about the watering... I just started growing hydroponic. In towers and kratky... Peppers are the best. So, yes it tells me they are okay with lots of water. I've been a bit confused by this since you'd think cucumbers would do better in water growing medium, but peppers seem to be better.
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Don't harvest by hand 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@1000PoundFirebladeThat's fine in a warm climate. In a short cooler climate you take what you can get in the short season.
@chipperfish01I was laughing as I heard these 3 "obvious" things, which I've known for a long time.........then I remembered, I learned them right here on your channel years ago ! 😂 Thanks for all the garden info I would've probably never known if not for you !
@neuralglitch9063Very helpful, especially the advice on watering
@christinagardener1889And, sometimes u-tube works😮 I came here to find out if I should clip the fruit off my peppers, which according to some other videos I planted wrong, and my question is answered. Cool, going out to get me sum Del Diablo, Super Chile and Habanero peppers.
@michael59keith65I watered everyday it did not rain and have never seen that problem.
@dianeblocher3844Off topic....Does anybody else have a pair of Fiskars shears that are at least 25 years old?
@slyfoxx2973Great video. I was actually wondering about the watering frequency because I'm growing peppers in a raised planter in Arizona. I gave them a shade cloth over the top so the amount of sun and evaporation is less but it's still very arid here so I'm guessing that it's still good to try to water on a somewhat frequent basis.
@biblesforbreakfastI live in Northern California and we just went thru 100°+ heat for a week so I watered daily. My peppers are in 10 gal fabric containers because we just tore out our raised bed garden to re-do it but it's not done yet. Here, I found that everything grows better under shade cloth or an EZ up. It gets really hot in our backyard. I took some container peppers inside for the winter a couple years ago and put them under grow lights and they produced for a year and a half. Thanks for the tips👍❤️
@let.it.shine_LaurenHow do you know when to stop plucking the flowers and little peppers so the large peppers can grow
@BS-j1965missed opportunity to link to the amazon posting for those pruners. i was ready to buy them
@binarypowerThis is really helpful. Until now I've only read that peppers are supposed to have continuously moist soil, and it led to me over watering young peppers, and now they are dropping leaves. But I have a big pepper in a closed pot, which I have to let dry out before watering, because no water is getting out. And that plant is thriving.
@coldwhitespring5004In Oklahoma should I prune my bottom leaves off my peppers
@CarlDearman-u1vI stopped at number one. Pinching flowers, buds or growing fruit is a no no. Pepper plants don't use one energy over the other. They flower, grow fruit, AND grow green growth on the plant all at the same time just fine.
I cant take anything else you were to state seriously if thats what you started with. 🤦♂️
Chili chump did a video on the debate of pulling fruit / flowers from young plants and came to the opposite conclusion. He provides some citations to empirical studies.
@warrenschwartz5653Common theme! You really should be watering according to where you live and as needed. I'm in Colorado and due to the elevation and sun intensity, i must use shade cloth and water when they get wilted or the plants will absolutely die. It's happened before. Anyway, carry on!
@grandeernesto4756Correct.
@bharatiya_thanosWater once a week u got a dead plant, just water early morning or when sun goes down
@vampireofpomona2668I don’t water my pepper plants until they tell me they are ready for a watering. Signs of slight wilting. In hot climate maybe once a week. I get huge harvests doing this method. I also inter crop them with Kelsae onions & they love each other!
@BradleyGorrillSo your going stand there and tell us watering 2/3 times a week is too much then say im not going to say to say its too much tell us you have no clue what your talking about with out telling us you dont know what your talking about
@TrumpyDumpyCAPISCUM THANK YOU.
@hardyakka6200You did not pick those Peppers off when they first started growing if so they wouldn't have got that big
@JoelvilleTNFunny thing I just watched video from ChilliChump saying the opposite - pinching off flowers is not necessary.
@sonarsphereHydroponic peppers here and they produce a lot!
@VAHelixlol every day here in florida if we dont have rain lol be we are getting alot of need rain here this week we were in a drought
@jeffkablock3229Great explanation. I am trying growing my own red bellpepper plant.
@jamesdanielbuenosuriel9181Sure looked like there was at least a half dozen plants in that fabric grow bag!!
@jeanblair1751I use the "fabric pots" as well, it's pretty easy to know when to water. Just grab the pot and give it a little lift You'll know if its too dry.
@The_Good_Life402Your pepper plants will tell you what they need. If they are wilting and droopy, give them a deep watering. I live in Florida and by mid summer I have to water my plants daily.
@PapaProsPeppers in containers, check them daily in the heat of the summer and water only when required, but plants laden with fruit do need lots of water. A container will dry out fast in the heat, especially if the container is black.
Giant Marconi pepper plants can grow to reach 7 ft tall. Containers will stunt their plant growth. The other dozen varieties I have grown somfar have done fine in containers, but some as large as 10 gallons.
if you tell US don't ... then YOU shouldn't! ... also, instead of tossing the parts you pulled off, just drop them below the plant you pulled it from, giving back the nutrients to that same plant and the part decays into the soil. It's called Chop n Drop.
@StizelSwikAll my small plants shooting fruit 😢. They're the size of a whole untouched garlic cluster, some maybe 2 tad bigger. Take them off?
@OceanBliss0777idk, I have my pepper in an ice cream bucket and I just water it till theres an inch of water at the bottom, then wait till its gone, and then water again. Otherwise ive noticed the peppers just stop growing, and in summer here that inch of water lasts less than a day, its usually gone by the night, so i just water it daily when i wake up every day
@laharl2kDepending on circumstances sometimes it's ok to let a few peppers fruit early;; especially if one has many more that grow large before flowering.
Never say never because there will always be situations where rules need to be broken to survive or thrive: Example: Any plant that does not get a little water in every morning is struggling by 1 to 2 pm in the afternoon and potentially dead by 4 to 5 pm. Summers can be brutal with dry spells lasting for weeks, especially if the wind is constantly blowing.
Good info thank you
@reneecasey5719It's so glad to have a content creator right in my region where my CSA actually resells the seeds of. I really enjoyed this content and was wondering about underwatering... I noticed my bell peppers didn't suffer as expected from under watering but only created elongated peppers? I think they're slightly slower... especially this year (2025) where our heatwaves in July absolutely pommeled the flowers in the peppers... I didn't even have a single fruit until August!!! And yeah, that tracks, that heatwave in July absolutely scorched the pollens and flowers. I saw my CSA still had peppers before I even saw any on mine... could it be shade cloth? Just wondering on your thoughts about heatwave and peppers.
@VibeGardeningInformedEditionPeppers like containers more
@BigP.EnergyI may argue point 4 depending on how windy your climate is, and drainage. because I water mine every second day right now in the flowering phase
@tysonmott49573:45 and don't let leaves touch, less fungal growth
@reallyfreefoodforestpeppers do not like allot of sun either..a couple hours a day is enough..I always plant my peppers in the middle of my small garden and plant the tomato's on the border to regulate the amount of sun my peppers get..Have always been successful that way
@milmil6594This may be true for outdoor peppers, but for hydroponic peppers this advice is mostly wrong. You just have to learn how to break off the stem with your hands properly.
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