Why Are My Plants Not Growing? Stunted Pepper Plants - Pepper Geek

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In this video, I talk about why your pepper plants may be stunted. There are lots of ways to cause stunted growth, and many are easy enough to fix.

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[alexberry]

This man is the sole reason my pepper plants are alive you are a godsend.

[DhrChibi]

Thank you for also adding the temperature in Celsius. It's been quite a hassle constantly using Google to convert F to C in the middle of a video

[kirkberryleo]

Followed you for quite awhile and you have always helped but worth mentioning… here in my area in Canada we may have severe temp fluctuations even into mid June so my suggestion for other Canadians is after checking all the things in this video, remember peppers grow slow and until temps get stable…have Patience! I reluctantly followed the advice last yr and had the BEST yr ever for my superhots..Patience my friends

[fishlovme]

A couple of years ago I started keeping a journal of my planting dates and how various plants responded to different planting dates. Some pepper plants grow much faster and only need 5 or 6 weeks before they can go in the ground outside. Others need as much as 3 months! I've found that most of the hotter peppers need more time to grow - cayenne, sport peppers, and tobasco all took a lot longer than jalapeno and bell peppers. You make some great points about the plants being stunted, and that's why I don't like them getting too big before I get them outside. If the soil temps are just right outside they'll grow quickly once they're transplanted into the ground!

[spacejeezle]

Just the content I've been looking for. Thank you Pepper Geek. I'm a complete newbie and so glad I found your channel. I love how straight to the point and knowledgeable you are, thanks for the help!

[imalwayslast]

I moved almost two years ago after spending my entire life so far with a good sized yard that was very fertile. I had a phenomenal garden every year. Then when I finally got married and moved in with her...I learned that clay soil with way too many roots underground is a nightmare. It's taken a year to get rid of all the weeds. The soil doesn't drain well at all. I resorted to raised beds to TRY and give the roots some breathing room and it has helped some, but now I have a deer, rabbit and pest issue. The weather has also been very hard to deal with in the past 2 years. 2 years running we have had an entire month of wind and rain in the 40-50 degree range and then the weather completely flips and it's no rain for a month plus 90-100 degree temps. It's an every day battle...but I am slowly figuring things out. Every time I dig up clay to put a plant in, I always amend it. Two years of working on this yard and beds...I finally am making some progress.

[cohenkane]

My peppers are doing fine but I am watching your vids anyway. Great channel you've got here!

[jorgeromero]

a little while ago i had some stunned pepper plants for about two months and it was because the soil was very compact. I transplanted into a better soil and the pepper plants came back and grew huge.

[mhawang]

I was wondering about this and this video pop up. Thank you! One of my mini sweet pepper is not growing as fast as the others, even though they all follow the same process. I think it’s because I dropped it, spilled the soil and damaged a few leaves once… Time to do some troubleshooting.

[luisfernandotorreslopez]

Thank you so much for this! It's time to put our peppers into larger pots. Blessings and greetings from Chicagoland.

[Ade-qsws]

Always informative, and the content seems to get posted at the exact time I need it 👍 I think I was just getting impatient with my plants ! Keep up the good work.

[TobiasYoung]

This weather in Maryland on the east coast zone 7 is so damn bi polar that I can’t decide when it’s safe to put my pepper plants outside! I am growing them in 7 gallon boot farmers grow bags! I am buying them already potted from a nursery

[michaelgilliland]

This year I put seedlings with just the first leaves on it in the garden. One isn't doing so good but the others are doing a lot better than I thought they would

[riikkas]

I was hardening off my plants, a nice sunny day on a shaded east facing balcony. Only I didn't pay attention to the freezing wind, we are only just loosing the last of the snow here in Finland. My Blended Lemon and Starfish lost 2/3 of their bottom leaves. They are back under the growlight and I will start again in about a week

[gardenfunwithjane]

hi from Utah! I'm a total tomato geek 🤓 but I'm not very good at peppers. I'm following along to get better at peppers. thanks

[epicrabid]

Yeh my plant became stunted for a few weeks then began growing super fast recently. Hope i can get peppers out of them

[johnjude]

Knowing my plants had just been delivered to my friend who had a greenhouse, I believe they wasn't harden enough and got sick and stayed sick and I should have replaced them
Loads of information Sir Thanks 😊

[xccude]

Just want to say thank you for putting temperatures in Celcius to include the other viewers. The little things count and it does make a difference. 😊

[amandakrejci]

Thank you for your time and for covering all these options. I’m pretty sure the reason our pepper plants aren’t growing is because we did not harden them off correctly. Is there something we can do to help our plants grow? Or is it just a waiting game from here on out and we need to be patient? Lol. Also, do you think they will still produce peppers if they do start growing again?

[pandorasgarden]

Our Peppers from last year survived in our greenhouse cool thing is now we have 4 already with 4 plus peppers on each :)