EASY Way to Grow Chilli Plants in Plastic Milk Bottles!

In this video, I show you how to grow chillies at home in plastic milk bottles! This easy way of recycling to grow chilli or hot pepper plants will not leave you crying over split milk unless you eat a really hot one...



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Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane - the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let's get into it! Cheers, Mark :)

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[Selfsufficientme]

G'day Everyone, I meant to post this video yesterday but it took longer than expected to edit - no use crying over spilt milk... Plant Dr details in the description above if you are interested. Cheers :)

[pollyjazz]

I've been doing this for over 20 years! I find that having a pot with a handle is very " handy"😁. Leaving the little flap to make mini green houses for the seedlings is an ingenious idea! I'm definitely going to try that on my next pots! Always learn cool stuff from your channel. Thank you 💕😘

[mishtc]

Condensed!!!

Dude. You're on fire!
Thank you for being unapologetically yourself in your videos.

[adedow]

Love the "cheesy" dad jokes, Mark! Good idea with the milk jugs. We go through milk faster than water here too. I might try this in the summer.

[suepatterson]

Everything I grow is in a container so I appreciate hearing container growing success stories.

[MISSISSIPPI]

Great Idea! We don't drink store bought milk but we do occasionally get those gallon jugs of Arizona Iced Tea with a handle, and I have thrown them away in the past! I'll be keeping them from now on :)

[lexkek]

As an experiment I'm growing two peppers in half gallon pots. One is a thai pepper and the other is jalapenos. What I learned is that pepper varieties with small fruit will perform and do well in small containers but something a bit bigger like jalapenos will considerably lag behind in production. My thai pepper has loads of flowers and peppers while my jalapeno only has three peppers. There's also the fact that smaller containers mean your plants will produce much sooner as well. I have to fertilizer and water these things bit more often due to the container size but it's really a doable method for smaller peppers.

[markburnstein]

I have brought hot pepper s in for winter .Kept them alive for years. 👌👋

[buzybee]

this guy is a working hard man....keep it up, a good exercise for your health

[elizle]

I have an abundance of gallon (3.8 liter) water jugs because I need distilled water for my CPAP. Love growing peppers, so I'll have to try this.

[jerrywilliams]

I just started working on a urban farm in Chicago. I find your channel very informative. Keep up the good work

[ShirleyHardyAu]

For extra heat protection for the plants add some paper on the inside of the container, as an inside inner layer again the plastic, before putting in the soil. This will keep the soil cooler. Paper absorbs water and it also prevents UV rays from entering the soil, thus reduces stress on plants. Also, Marc, if you have a pallet or two, you can put 2 steel droppers either end of a pallet (on the inside), to help it stand upright, and with long screws attached to the pallet, hang your pots on the pallet. You just need string or even shoe laces to attach to the containers using the handle, and hang over the screws. Been there, done that.

[ellisshelby]

In American, some folks do something similar called winter sowing where we put out seeds in milk jugs in winter. They germinate when the weather starts to warm up but they are already hardened off, so they can get planted out sooner. I plant mine out when they are still small but they quickly take off. It’s especially great for anything that requires cold stratification.

[rickyroaster]

A hand full of perlite and expanded clay pebbles, will sort any potential of insufficient oxygen and water logging. Great tips, will be using the milk bottles this summer, great for unpredictable Scottish weather

[CalikL]

I think the recent time forces a lot of people to think in more self sufficient way - growing your own food is actually the answer for a lot of modern problems, not only to simply feed yourself

[jujube]

We do this in the north east US, it's called winter sowing! You can set the jugs out in the snow, and as long as you have drain holes 🕳 the seeds will all emerge at the proper time for that seed! Chile are the one exception since they need the heat to germinate...but love this idea...and allows you to reuse some single use plastics a little more before they go to a landfill ❤️

[markzambelli]

I used to drink a lot of skimmed milk but the cows hated being thrown low across the lake!

[ThatBritishHomestead]

I do love this channel, I live in the UK never been to Australia nor do I have plans too.. but I always watch these videos!

[chrispedersen]

Great video Mark👍. I purchased a child's half shell sandpit. I water container plants in it to catch excess runoff. Works great 🙂👍

[letstalk]

I started keeping 1/2g jugs but really had no idea what I was going to do with them!! THANKS!!!