Make Peppers Grow Faster! (Improve Growth & Ripening Rates) - Pepper Geek

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In this video, we'll share several tips to help your pepper plants grow faster. There are many techniques you can use to help speed up the growth of your plants, leading to bigger, healthier-looking, and more productive plants.

We'll also share some tips to help get more ripe peppers within a limited growing season (like ours in New England). Timing is a lot of it, but some changes to environment or feeding can also make a big difference.

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[kirkmuffie]

I have over 60 pepper plants in the ground right now. Only hot one are jalapeños. All of mine were started from seed and are of an heirloom variety. I love my peppers! 😃

[matthavill]

you guys are very well spoken and knowledgeable

[rogerdavenport]

Many years an old guy said that peppers liked "dirty soil" by what he meant was sulfur type soil don't know how he found this out, but he said to put a couple books of matches around each plant, and I can tell you it works. Good video.

[nysheikaj]

I can’t believe that “monster” is only one plant!! Wow!🤩

[peony]

Lot of YouTubers show their knowledge but Laura shows how to keep it clean after planting. Thank you Laura

[MortalConquest]

Thanks to you guys I have about 10 super healthy plants ranging from bell peppers to reapers. As always I appreciate all the advice

[lindacabral]

My plants are so small compared to others in my community garden and I get why now. Timing is everything! Really wish I hadn’t waited so long! I live in NH and we have a relatively short growing season so I will make sure to get them out in the ground ASAP next year. Thank you!

[PepperGuru]

00:36 So glad you guys are moving past this paradigm of pruning early biomass in your more recent videos! Came back here to remember the journey!

[thedoggoesskrrrt]

Dried cow dung works best then adding couple of live earthworms on adult pepper plant for aeration.
And then I would collect banana peels or any scrap vegetables in the kitchen then ferment them in water with brown sugar for like a month then I dilute it like a teaspoon per Gallon and use it for my watering.
Then when it's fruiting season I do collect egg shells, crush them into like a fine grain then I soak them in vinegar for like also a month and same method with the teaspoon to gallon method.

My reapers grew tall and healthy and there is like a hundred of fruit per plant and surprisingly it got a lot of attention from my fellow pepper keepers and I'm not even aware that I'm doing less than they usually do to make their peppers to have a lot of fruit.
And it's all organic.

[lemmzz]

I always add pk 13 14 when flowering works like a charm

[apeacebone]

On a whim at the beginning of the year, I saved and planted some seeds from peppers I had bought at my local farmer's market. They have... well, survived. :P I found your channel a week ago, and since then I have learned the multitude of things I've been doing wrong, and found SO much inspiration for the future. I've even ordered some seeds of less common varieties to start next year. Thank you for everything!

[dizzyspinner]

I have a tip concerning cloning peppers. I have apparently been conceding defeat prematurely. I have now had several cuttings drop all their leaves. I had them in small cups of potting mix inside a clear plastic container covered in plastic to keep the humidity high and they'd been dipped in rooting powder. Several of the denuded twigs have now gone on to grow new leaves and roots and are leading their merry lives. So don't assume they are dead just because they dropped all their leaves. I was surprised. I'd been sure they were toast, but I was wrong.

[vikingrobot]

I have no problem growing my super hots in N. Ga mountains.
I have cayenne, giant peach habaneros, Bolivian rainbows which I give away as beautiful gifts to close friends and family, reapers, scotch bonnets and jalapeños.
For some reason I could not get my green bell peppers to do anything.
My seeds may have been bunk but everything else went crazy as I pruned for ultimate fruit growth.
This year I’m going to dehydrate all my super hots and grind them in a small electric herb grinder to make super hot chili powder instead of freezing and using after thawed.
I’m hoping I wont lose much heat by doing this as I’ve acquired a very robust tolerance to super hots.
I always feel so energetic after eating super hots with a meal….there’s gotta be something to that.

I used large pots and set a marigold between each plant this year.
I did not have any issues with aphids or any pests although Ive seen tiny black flies and crickets on the plants I had zero leaf holes or other trouble.

This year I also mixed that nasty smelling fish fertilizer with my rainwater jugs and applied every 10 days which seemed to really energize the plants with no burn.

I’m going to try to overwinter my hardiest plants for the first time and also start some seedlings with a grow light early.

I swear hot peppers are the superfood nobody talk about.
If you can develop a tolerance you can eat them every day and feel great.

I love going to Mexican restaurants and asking for their hottest pepper sauce.
Usually they give me a cup of diced habanero if it’s a mom and pop restaurant and not a chain.
One time the server sent the owner with a cup of what appeared to be ghost and reapers chopped and lightly sautéed in oil.
I spread it all over my meal and went to town.
Yeah baby my lips were on fire but I was used to it.
It was funny cause all the staff kept glancing over to check on me to see if I was gonna live…lol.
My table mates could smell it
And even got irritated just breathing it in…lol.
The manager had to come by and shake my hand and said I was one of the only people that survived his concoction….haha.
The key to not looking like a total dweeb is to keep some white rice nearby to help quell the heat.

Yes milk works but that’s cheating.

Note: Yellow rice won’t help.

[StationRussification]

Almost everything U suggest I already do BUT what I like most about your videos is U R short sweet simple direct & honest.

[Bruce_W]

Plants in me and my dad's garden grow to 5 to 6ft. All the kinda that we grew did
Forgot to take any pictures of the garden but this is the final yield of my ghost pepper plant before first frost.
Sorry thought I could send a picture but couldn't figure out how. It was about 100 ghost peppers I picked on my last harvest

[joesimone]

Living in Florida I start whenever I wish.

[johnwhite]

Just want to say thanks for your channel and all the great info you provide for us amateur growers. Prior to this year, I have just killed every plant I have attempted to grow. This year I have been able to grow 9 variety of peppers with 4 from seeds I collected last year all in huge part to your hugely informative videos. Also, ALL of my plants have produced tons of fruit. Everyone I know has benefitted from this. So thanks again so much for all you do.

[DaHebo]

I come looking for some help for a few pepper plants i've have, and the first thing i see is that marvelous well cared plant, heck, you've earned my subscription, you're almost 100k! Congratulations!

[ijazh]

My plant is about 3 foot tall but getting very lopsided with a lot of foliage on one side compared to the other. I want my plant to be shorter and bushier so I can move it around more easily. It is producing a very good yield of peppers so far I've taken off 60+ large peppers and still have approximately 30 peppers still on the plant. I haven't used any fertilizer on the plant for about 4 months. The letting the soil dry and then watering it and the pollination trick both have worked fantastically. This was using a child light to automatically come on at night instead of additional lighting.

[vincentconsiglio]

I feel like the cannabis growing world provides so much more information about nutrients and what they do. I’ve also learned there’s no such thing as “ synthetic “ nutrients. You cannot make a synthetic macro/micro nutrient. ( NPK, cal-mag, potash, silica etc ) “ organic “ nutrients are really just time release nutes. I use dyna-grow products with mammoth P, bud candy, and fish sh!t and some PK boosters. I get massive, delicious fruits