Hot Pepper Growing Guide: Sow These Summer Veggies FIRST!

In this video, I share my hot pepper growing guide 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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[TheMillennialGardener]

If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
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

[growlegion]

Great video! One thing I would add is that if for some reason a pepper sprout DOES get a bit "leggy" or tall, simply plant it deep when putting it in the new pot. Roots will grow from the buried stem portion and the little plant will grow healthy and strong outside or in a sun room.

[virginiaallisonpeck]

It’s warming up here, but I know the weather is trying to trick me into starting seeds this early so it can freeze and snow on them in April 😂. I will wait. I envy you your beautiful weather ❤

[BracesandBoots]

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.

[soynajahk]

I’m in Jamaica growing habaneros and scotch bonnets and we can just throw the seeds in our garden and they will germinate, grow well and bears lots of hot peppers with consistent watering. However, the technique I use without a heat mat is the planting cells or pots with a humidity dome and place them in an area that receives full sun and ensure they don’t dry out. You would be surprised how heated the soil gets.

[brucepechtel]

Awesome video. Very informative! I grew Big Jim’s last year and they did grow very spindly and began to tip over and hence I lost several of them. Great advice! Will try this this year with my Big Jim’s and Ghost Peppers we have planned for. Looking forward to more of your videos! You just gained a subscriber! Thank you again!

[debbiep]

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.

[myurbangarden]

I have some Jimmy Nardelo, fish pepper 🌶️ and Red Rocket Cayenne on a heat mat. I also have a kitten 🐾 who likes the heat mat too. This is helpful.

[dirkjanrulez]

Started my pepper this week even tho in my zone 8a they can’t go out till mid may. When the day temps reach 20c regularly and nights stay above 10c. Will use the tips if a resow is needed! Loved the vid

[rudijleroux]

Thanks for all this information. This year is my third year of trying to grow chillies. I'm in Cape Town, South Africa and all I have to do is to count 6 months later on. So happy.

[mehdiimran]

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.

[sierrastevens]

Starting my hot peppers currently in Maine USA. I love your videos, liked and subscribed 🥰

[bonbonlewis]

Here's my crazy technique to seed start without a heat mat in the past: line up seeds on paper towel so they will be in a horizontal line when hung. Wet the papertowel and place in a ziplock bag. Then I clip a magnetic clip(office supply at dollar store) and hang it from my hot water line from water heater! It has germinated well! Not only my pepper seed...

[GmamaGrowz]

Thanks for sharing your hot pepper secrets 🤩!

[ResearchQueen]

Thank you for this info. I was treating all my peppers the same.

[zacharylewis]

My type of video! I actually got heavily into gardening after being hooked on hot peppers.
I'm going all out this season with sugar drop orange, Numex Orange suave habanero, star scream, purple death and mattapheno X mutant F2.

[nousernameleft]

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 🤔

[blipblip]

Thanks. I didn't realize how intricate hot pepper germiniation could be, but it explains why I've had such poor results with my attempts! I always thought those peat starters were a waste of money, but the fact that they are sterile is a good point, and they certainly are affordable. The heat mat might help too, as you point out-and probably also for other seedling starts? Enjoyable video and I sunscribed.

[mrsgbee]

Thank you my peppers have germi ated really well.😊

[cbdcdiva]

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!