A Complete Guide for Growing Tomatoes & Peppers - Seed to Harvest: Every Step!/Table of Contents

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Time Stamp Table of Contents. This is probably the most complete guide on YT for starting tomatoes and peppers indoors, through harvesting them and all the steps in between. Every step can be found. Just click the section you want. I cover all aspects of seed starting, all aspects of taking care of transplants, all aspects of planting and tending, how to mange pests & diseases, how to save seeds and I show you an entire year's growth of these plants.

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0:00 Introduction of Video Contents

Section 1: Growing Tomatoes & Peppers: When to Seed Start, Starting Mix, Light, Watering & Feeding 2:05

2:42 When to Start Tomatoes & Peppers Indoors - Soil Temps
3:35 Definition of Determinate & Indeterminate Tomatoes
4:15 Mold, Fungus and Fungus Gnats - Seed Starting Mix Fix!
6:02 How to Pack Your Seed Cells with Starting Mix
6:40 Planting Your Pepper & Tomato Seeds
9:30 Lighting Needs & What Thin & Spindly Plants Look Like
11:45 Pepper Growth, Timing and Heating Mat
13:00 What are True Leaves & What They Look Like
14:00 I Don't Use Organic Fertilizer at Initial Planting - Why?
15:15 Bottom Watering & How to Do It & When to Do It

Section 2: Growing Tomatoes & Peppers: Acclimation (to Sun), Fertilizing, Cup Transplanting Peppers 16:42

17:20 When to Start Peppers Indoors
17:44 What is Plant Acclimation & Generally How to Do It
19:36 Feed & Fertilizing Your Pepper Seedlings
21:15 Transplanting Your Seed Start Peppers into Cups

Section 3: Growing Tomatoes & Peppers: True Leaves & Fertilizing, Purple Stems, Cinnamon Anti-Fungal 28:27

29:28 Review of When to Seed Start Your Tomatoes & Peppers
30:20 Growth of the Tomatoes & Tomato True Leaves
30:50 Feeding Your Tomato Seedlings & Bottom Watering
32:15 How Often to Feed Your Seedlings
32:40 Update on Growth of the Pepper Plants in Cups
35:50 How to Label & Keep Track of Your Plant Varieties
38:25 Planting Routine & Acclimation as Way to Improve Health
40:20 How to Use Cinnamon on Your Starts for Fungus & Mold

Section 4: Growing Tomatoes & Peppers: Cup Transplanting Tomatoes, Fertilizing, Stem Bumps, Tips 41:50

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42:00 Supplementing Light By Using Sunlight for Indoor Starts
43:30 Update on the Tomatoes that are 4 Weeks Old
44:20 Bumps on Tomato Stems - No Worries
44:55 Transplanting Your Tomato Seed Starts into Cups
49:40 Watering & Feeding Your Peppers & Tomatoes in Cups

Section 5: Growing Tomatoes & Peppers: Pruning Peppers, No Flowering, Feeding & Progress 50:38

51:00 Pruning Tops of Peppers - How, When & Why

Section 6: Growing Tomatoes & Peppers: Pepper Planting, Container Soil, Basic Feeding, Tomato Progress 55:56

56:10 Planting Temperatures & Fertilizing Tips & Pepper Growth
57:35 Planting Tomatoes & Peppers in Containers
1:02:10 Plating Tomatoes & Peppers in the Ground - Principles

Section 7: Growing Tomatoes & Peppers: Prevention, Splash Barrier, Aspirin & Sprays, Planting 1:07:00

1:07:05 Growth & Seed Starting Tips & Cup Transplanting Tips
1:09:40 Tour of Pepper Growth in Earth Beds
1:10:20 Why You Mulch and Remove Leaves & Actual Process
1:12:58 Iron Phosphate for Snails & Slugs
1:14:30 Planting Your Indeterminate Tomatoes in Earth Beds
1:17:50 Principles of Mulching

Section 8: Growing Tomatoes & Peppers: Side Dressing, Pruning, Suckers, Removing Leaves, Sprays 1:18:10

1:18:25 Preventive Spraying & Baking Soda & Aspirin Spray
1:23:10 Pepper Pruning & General Maintenance
1:26:10 Pruning Tomatoes, Staking, Sucker Removal Demonstrated
1:31:15 Side Dressing Tomato Plants with Fertilizer & Feeding Tips
1:34:39 Spraying for Diseases - Routine & Tips
1:35:59 Tips on Pruning & Options - It's Up to You

Section 9: Growing Tomatoes & Peppers: My Harvest, Saving Tomato & Pepper Seeds, Final Tour 1:37:10

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[HannaPramholt]

I’m watching this on a Saturday night, with a glass of wine. Some would say I should get some friends, I think I prefer tomatoes..

[theresapangilinan]

The minute details are crucial for beginners like me. Those are not tackled in other channels. Excellent teaching sir!
Invaluable in pandemic lock downs as we all try to be self-sufficient and try urban gardening.
Your videos help curb worldwide hunger.

[JindyMarie]

I'm sitting here concentrating, taking notes like I'm in class...except it's 2am lol
Thank you for such a thorough and informative video!

[TheSoilandGreen]

YouTube wants you to make 20 minute videos. Thanks for not listening to them. Long format is better. Good stuff

[jamee]

I am so, so, so grateful that you combined these videos into one long tutorial. It is so difficult and time-consuming to try to track down all the information that one needs to learn how to be successful in gardening, and I am so thankful to have all of this in one place. Thank you for the extra work that you put in to make this complete tutorial!

[thebigmick]

I really appreciate the timestamps. a lot of other great youtube gardeners on here but never take the time to. it is absolutely frustrating having to go back to a video trying to find a certain step you missed or need to hear again. like hey I watched how to plant my peppers step by step but now I'm having to scan through your video frame by frame to catch that 10 second clip where you mentioned something important.

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Really appreciate your love for the Garden!

[benaires]

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[TheVoiceOfJequan]

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Mike, from Melbourne, Australia.
I have followed your channel for a couple of years now and have shared it with gardening mates who comment on my green thumb.
You sir, are a gift to anyone who wants to but doesn’t know how and is concerned with failure.
The comprehensive expose’ on every facet of successful propagation and production of plants into vegetables, keeping them safe from pests, staking and pruning to maximise yield, showing the harvest, even seed recovery is a feat of informational excellence.
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[MOOSEHEADstadia]

Helpful. Thanks! I've got about 120 tomatoes and 100 peppers started indoors. I've followed your advice and everything is thriving!

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