Root Bound Peppers - How To Avoid Root Bound Plants - Pepper Geek

In today's video, we're discussing root bound plants. When your peppers (or other plant varieties) become root bound, the root system essentially begins to tangle. The roots run out of room in their pots and begin to travel back up in search of more growing media.

This is a very common issue, especially when your peppers are planted too early or are otherwise left in small containers for too long. We'll cover why root bound plants happy, how to avoid it in the future, and how to correct the problem.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - What is a root bound plant?
1:14 - What issues does it cause?
2:50 - How to avoid root bound plants
3:19 - What it looks like
4:30 - How to fix a root bound plant

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[unamor]

THANKS A MILLION for starting this channel, for your intense knowledge about peppers. I have been trying to grow from seed for years now, every year just squeaking by and actually having plants that produce peppers. Squeaking by- because the plants barely make it to the stage where I plant them. You videos changed EVERYTHING for me. Now I'm growing beautiful plants - first year ever. Had my garden soil tested and it is good for the second part of their life. I was missing the fertilization at the beginning and you really educated me. THANK YOU so much!!!

[fishlovme]

I started some way too early this year and ended up putting some of them in gallon sized pots. I really learned a lot this spring, that hotter peppers take a lot longer to grow than the larger pepper varieties do. You'd think it'd be the opposite! I am happy to say that as of yesterday though, all of my pepper plants are in the ground outside!

[alanwatts]

Miracle grow, brought to us by our friends at Bayer!

[DonPandemoniac]

Great topic! Out of practicality and because of their low cost, I often use transparant plastic cups for the double cup method. I wrap the outer cup in dark paper or aluminium foil to keep the light out. A bonus benefit of this that I've found is that you can observe the root system developing, giving you a heads-up for when it's time to transplant.

[sanctifiedbytruth]

Thank you for explaining and showing pot bound plants compared to a normal root system. This helps me a lot!

[carlnikolov]

55 bell pepper plants here :-) looking good! Thanks for the video

[michaelblausey]

Thanks for the very helpful totorial . Even though I have been gardening for over thirty-five +years I can make mistakes and I do, They say helpful information is valuable information .I value info such as those, like yours, that brings awareness to seasoned gardeners, like myself.
Keep up the good tutorials, there are people like myself who watch your you tube on channel on and on learn from it.

[nymeriagloves]

i just dumped out my 5 gallon grow bags from last years peppers and it definitly helps grow perfect roots. they had very even growth throught the whole volume with no big roots near the edge

[Jardin-de-invierno]

Great video as always guys. Love the fish pepper plant too so unique.

[flyindonkeyodoom]

Thanks for the video! Ran into this problem myself this year. Going to transplant today!

[furiousninja]

Superb channel, please keep producing this helpful style of content on chillies! I live in the north with a very short growing season, so I've developed my own grow tents with watering system and led lights. My problem is that it's now the end of May and the weather outside is still to cold, so many of my chillies are extremely root bound. I hope to get then out this week coming, so fingers crossed and with your tips I can get them back on track. One outcome from my grow tents is that many of my chilli plants have become hydroponic. I have an automated watering system that circulates water/fish emulsion through a pump and catch tank and the roots have grown down into the tank which now has a fishtank filter to add oxygen and the results have been really good, they have also been hardened off and go out next week, fingers crossed that they adapt to the shift over to soil based growing. I'm happy to add updates/info if you or other people are interested!

[skie]

This is really useful to know for myself cause im planning to keep pepper plants indoors and didnt want them over ablut 1 foot

[IQzminus]

We have had a unusually cold summer here in Northern Europe. The night temperature still isn’t hot enough for the plants to stay outdoors all night.
And it still seems like that is a few weeks away.

My plants were out more than a month ago last year.

So I’m planing on replanting one seedling of each verity to be a pepper in a can (though not officially part of the challenge due to not following the rule), just to be sure I actually get any kind of harvest and som isolated seeds to plant next year.
Because if it’s a cold/early fall aswell I don’t know how much harvest I’ll get out of my plants in big pots.

So this is prefect timing, as I’ve been quite concerned with just how extremely root bound I’m expecting the pepper in a can peppers ought to become.
But this made me a bit less stressed. And that maybe it’s a good idea for my potential problem.

I’m planning on doing a experiment where a few of the cans are punched with a bunch of small inward and outward facing holes all along the sides and bottom of the can, inspired by the air-pot design.

Same idea with air pruning as with fabric bags as I understand it.

Im planning on cutting into the cans and comparing my weird cans with tons of small holes all over, to the more sensible cans with a few drainage hole on the bottom, and see if that makes any difference at the end of the season.

Anyway thanks this video had perfect timing

[Beltloop]

A year later can you put a medium container pepper plant in a bed for the second year? Any particular things I can do to help it? Big fan by the way.

[djgautz]

Put your instagram link in the description, in fact, it should always be there !
Love the content keep it up !!

[truthseeker]

I started some Aurora, sheepnose, and Alma peppers this year. about 12 each.
after planting outside,
Half of the Aurora are doing great, same with the alma. the other half and every sheepnose have been stunned at about 4in. its been 4 weeks since transplant, and I dropped some organic veggie food in the holes.
Im in Ky and our season has been cooler than normal and last 2 weeks way more rain than usual. Im not sure why some did good and others are just blah.
any input would be much appreciated ✌❤

[wayneking]

The thing I find about pepper plants is they take ages to grow so starting them early is probably better than starting to late as if you was to start seeds say April they can still be a little on the small size by June

[aperson]

It's been taking ages for the weather to warm up this year so my peppers have been in their containers way longer than I wanted and some of them are extremely root bound. Like, worse than any you showed in this video. Hopefully I can salvage them.

[brianramsey]

I think typically my habaneros are particularly bad in also wonder if I need to water more

[yieldingfish]

Yeah, I started too many pepper plants and ran out of room, so some 8 week old plants get left in 2.6 inch pots 😬