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5 Pepper Growing Mistakes to Avoid

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5 Pepper Growing Mistakes to Avoid

EDIT: MISTAKE 1 IS…A MISTAKE! Flavor isn’t affected in the pepper from crossing, but the seeds will be hybrids. So you can plant sweet and hot together if you don’t plan on saving seeds.

Growing peppers is extremely rewarding due to the sheer variety of flavor, shapes, sizes, and colors. There’s something for everyone! But there are some unique mistakes you can make when learning how to grow peppers that can hamper your success. We discuss 5 of them in today’s video.

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37 COMMENTS

  1. EVERYONE I AM WRONG about the crossing…I anecdotally noticed this in a batch of my beds then didn't completely research. You are generally OK to mix sweet and hot, unless you want to save the seeds and replant, THEN you should definitely space them very far apart.

  2. I've over-wintered a Black Pearl Pepper plant for 2 years now. I just bring it in the house and put it in a full light window (no pruning). It still flowers, but doesn't really produce through the winter. Come spring, when it is warm enough, it goes back outside (just the other day here). Once outside, it starts producing like mad again! I got 5-6 harvests off of it last summer!

  3. Honestly this is really helpful. I’ve always loved gardening. Last year for the very first time I went full force and started a big garden. There was a lot of successes and a lot of fails. I’m growing Bell peppers again and decided to do banana peppers. These aren’t for me as my family enjoys peppers a lot more than I do. But for me it’s the experience!

  4. Straight forward and good tips and advice. Thank you for not trying to be funny or playing loud music! I like the way you give information without telling long story. Good job!

  5. Just got early flame japs. And candy can peppers as first time grower so glad I saw this to help with figuring it out live in Texas so definitely gonna need that shader lol

  6. This was a great video, even with the small mistake about crossing. I live in Central Florida and made the beginner mistake of pulling pepper plants in the winter and planting new plants in the spring. I will definitely give overwintering a go this winter. Can you do that with all pepper varieties? I have about 8 different varieties growing right now. Thanks again for the video, you really sound like you know your stuff.

  7. So I'm new to gardening and I was told by an older lady that moving plants to the shade or covering with a shade cloth doesn't help because you don't change the temperature. All you need to do is water more. While it's true that temperature won't change, is it true that water depletion is the only problem? I could only find information stating that plants couldn't transpire properly during extreme temps so more water wouldn't help anyway, but that was only one source

  8. I realize I almost dont eat any of the veggies I grow. I should just grow lots of peppers, cucumber and okra, cus they pretty much what I enjoy to eat. And herbs. Lots of herbs.

  9. Blossom rot in my bell peppers is always my biggest hurdle, I thought it was low magnesium but I suppose it's my watering. Everything is leaf mulched this year so we'll see how that works out.

  10. Lots of helpful info. I prefer serrano peppers. Assuming the tips in this video will apply just as well to serranoes, right?
    I'm a newbie with growing from seed, especially foot crops. So glad I found your channel!

  11. i live in the tropics so perpetual harvest for me :), mine renew their leafs every year and keep on pumping peppers, i've had em for 3 years already :).

  12. Cross pollination DOES NOT produce different fruits! I'm sick of the stupidity. Freaking listen to an expert, not a you tube hustler. Cross pollination only produces fruits that may bear seed to produce a new hybrid plant variety. …too many- "I grew a plant once and this works" bullshitters on YouTube. This uneducated crap is what I fight at every horticulture talk and plant sale and discussion. Christ almighty….ugh

  13. wow… I don't often catch you being wrong, but the cross pollination thing ? Just no, man, no… You might get cross pollination one year, and then get strange fruits when you actually sow those seeds produced by the cross pollinated fruits in YEAR TWO, but the flavor of those first year fruits WILL NOT CHANGE. I've grown sweep peppers next to carolina reapers there is no issue lol

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