In this video, I share my hot pepper growing secrets and explain why you should sow these summer veggies first each year! Growing hot peppers can be tricky because germination is inconsistent and pepper transplants grow slowly. With these pepper growing tips, you’ll know how to grow hot peppers from seed for best success!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Hot Pepper Planting Schedule
3:00 Recommended Seed Starting Equipment
5:06 Preparing The Seed Starting Medium
7:10 How To Plant Pepper Seeds
11:09 Transplanting Pepper Plants
14:20 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Hot Pepper Planting Schedule
3:00 Recommended Seed Starting Equipment
5:06 Preparing The Seed Starting Medium
7:10 How To Plant Pepper Seeds
11:09 Transplanting Pepper Plants
14:20 Adventures With Dale
Question: if I have a greenhouse and I keep the temp at a 50/55ish do I still need a heat mat?
Excellent video! Thank you.
Do you keep the heat mat on 24/7 or put it on a timer?
Very useful information. Now I know why I could never grow peppers.
Thank you MG! 😊👍
I kept my pepper plants from last year. After cutting them back I put them by a basement window. They're already starting to sprout leaves and will be ready in Spring to go right back to work.
I've never tried it with peppers, but if I were concerned about long germination times, I would soak the seeds in kelp before planting. Kelp has hormones in it that reduce germination time and even help pop old seeds. It's the miracle cure, works for everything!
I germinated pepper seeds 3 years ago .now i have same plants for last 3 years do not have to wait for peppers . less than a month i started getting peppers every spring. In fall dig them out from ground . Prun the plant to few leaves and prune the root ball . Put 6 to 7 plants in pot add potting soil keep em moist in garage through winter . Bring them out in spring and start getting peppers right away. 😂.Why do you have to do all that every year and wait a long time to get peppers.
Nice brother 😍♥
In Pakistan🇵🇰 & india pepper🇮🇳 is very important food
I am trying to over winter my hot peppers for the first time and this time trying to avoid spider mites.
So i pruned my Thai Dragon chill that i bought from the garden centre last year and just went wild on the stalk and growth, like an indeterminate tomato plant! Not even a week later after pruning, it started growing leaves but then died.
What should i do?
a) Leave it, it is normal and will still spring back
b) No it's a gonna after the initial re growth, toss it. It won't grow back
c) I don't know as i have had both success and failures from this
In the Uk most of our central heating system radiators are located underneath or beside a window sill to heat the bricks and help with condensation. We have ours on a timer so like 6am – 10 am and then 4pm – 10 pm. It also kicks in if the ground floor gets under 17c. We keep the first floor cold for sleeping and the second floor we use to dry clothes in the winter and the bathroom there houses the succulents, like aloe vera, Christmas cactus, jade/ money plants, orchids and mushroom box.
Would we still need a heat mat? The shop bought sweet bell peppers are still holding after also being grown inside last year. As a bigger plant will hold itself better than it's twin outside i think this year?
Thank you for the advice
That guide per zone is exactly what I need for me done for each vegetable. Do you have one for each vegetable? by chance? It’s perfect! Easy to read and understand for me (and its focusing on one vegetable)
I live up elevated climate and somehow they are moving really moving in a cold climate.
Hot
Mild peppers etc
My soil is volcanic
Oh this was exactly the video I needed. Going to buy that heat mat. I just planted aribibi gusano, Carolina reaper and Bulgarian Teardrop. Last year I had my seeds soaking in water before planting. Don't know if it's recommended at all but it worked so I did it again this year. Love your dog ❤️
I like this method as you are not having to worry about bugs from potting mixes. I personally did a large purchase of OrganiPlugs. I have five, 5-gallon buckets with gamma lids storing them. These make it so easy to start plants in 6-cell trays. When I bought them, last fall, I paid about $0.09 per plug with shipping…2,100 of them. This may seem like overkill, but I have used similar plugs many years after and just need to rehydrate them (soak them in some water). The peat pots look like they are about $0.15 per pot. Scale this for the future and you could change your method.
Good and timely info. Only two things I'd add, from my experience, is soak the seeds overnight and always water from the bottom. Maybe add a small fan airflow across the seedlings too. I grow micro greens and have applied things I've learned there to almost all seed starting.
a cup of water might be more sanitary than licking it if you're moving the chopstick from your mouth to the pellet over and over
rehydrated coco coir bricks are just as sterile (and probably cheaper) and can fill normal trays with it and to save more money instead of a heating mat the propagator can be placed in an airing cupboard (aka water heater cupboard) or ontop of a desktop pc etc, even a warm room 20-25c will do.
to stop leggy seedlings have them placed under "cool white" cfls or tubes or led lights, even warm white will work but nowhere near as good.
video reminded me its probably time to start mine
Dale's a cutie!💓 Great presentation! Very informative.
I'm in Chicago and we had snow so I started the last week in January with some seeds. I'm going to start hot peppers mid February.
I live in south Texas…do I need to do this for jalapeños or bell peppers? I don't care for extra spicy peppers so probably don't need that heat mat…plus it should hit 65 today😃
I sift and sterilize my seed starting mix by baking the soil and hydrating with a 50/50 water/H202 solution in a spray bottle. Last year I learned the hard way that I basically had a fungus gnat farm instead of a seed starting system! 😕 so far this year is MUCH better. I will try the pellets for my pepper seeds. Great chart on frost dates! Very handy!
Hi Anthony,
Can you please make a video to address some of the techniques people use for helping seeds to germinate, such as:
-Refrigerating seeds for 3 days before sowing to simulate winter-to-spring conditions
-Soaking seeds in black tea for 30 mins before sowing
-Soaking seeds in hydrogen peroxide before sowing
-Scarification of seeds before sowing
Do these things help, hinder, or do nothing either way for germination?
Thank you so much. I trust your advice more than any other gardener!
Just my suggestion Soak the tropical type with tea for 48 hours then sow them or wrap them in wet paper towels works for me for years😊
Thank you for this info. I was treating all my peppers the same.
Oh my, Dale is such a cute pup! I know it's fun introducing new yummies to him.😃
Have you tested the method of soaking your pepper seeds in warm tea from a used tea bag…soaked overnight? Seems to work.
Looking forward to seeing all the beautiful peppers you will grow this year.👍
Dale sure was enjoying the sunny day and I noticed your new shed.👍
Are pepper seeds true to type?
Do you use this method with tomatoes also?
My son and I lined cardboard boxes with tin foil and cut a hole for a grow light. One side is open and we used tin foil curtains to keep the light in, lift the curtains to water. Last year the light was probably up too high, so the plants were a bit leggy, but most survived. Any thoughts on this strategy? Sadly our "sun room" is north facing, so we don't get a lot of direct sunlight in our home.
Thanks for another great video. Brilliant use of a chopstick! I've been using tweezers to gently pick up and plant individual seeds but I love the moist chopstick tip idea. I'll be starting my seeds this week so the timing of this video is perfect for me.
You don't really need heat mat. It's optional. It's good for people who grow a lot of peppers and the good thing is that it keeps the stable temperature for germinating, but it can cause even a problem later on, when the peppers grow. They might be not hardy enough or the might stop growing completely. I would say use heat mat, if you are experienced gardener and have a lot of space, otherwise don't use it.
The Caolina Reaper was developed in my hometown (where I currenly live), Fort Mill, SC, by the Puckerbutt Pepper Company.
I love using peat pellets. I don’t like the trays for them tough. Very hard to label. I use little plastic cups and drop each pellet in and write on the cups. Cover them with cling wrap or put them in sandwich bags and put on the heat mat. I open the bag everyday to check moisture and give them air. I’m growing the super hot peppers this year. Patiently waiting for the seeds I ordered to come in. 🌶️
Just curious if an old fashion cheapy heat pad would work? They get warm but never really hot enough for good relief…anybody try? I'm in FL & don't really NEED 2 do indoors…but should I want to, I do have that cheap heat pad😉
Funny I just came across this video today. Great video, by the way. I just started my pepper seeds earlier this afternoon. Like you said, peppers take a long time to germinate, but this time I'm trying something different. I'm doing the "paper towel method". So I have my seeds in moist paper towels, in glass containers, on a seedling heat mat. Let's see what happens 🤔
A tomato seed starting video would be handy