Indoors vs. Outdoors 🌱🌶️ Update 1

This is an update on my experiment, growing a Poblano plant indoors vs outdoors.

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[kevinrandall]

It's been a big year for you Shaun, massive move from your other house plus two vastly different greenhouse builds. Very interesting to watch though & definitely the best is yet to come.
Look after yourself and Mrs Chillichump.

[SullyStuff]

Thanks @ChilliChump as always love your content and it’s fun to see how growing out doors vs indoors does effect the growth of your plants. I’d love to see them when you have a full year without moving house part way through the season. 2022 here we come!

[deedaw]

Just an FYI, in the US, in the low desert of Arizona, some of us are just barely getting our gardens growing! Where I live was a 115 F today. It will easily be 120 in a couple days. If I get any whoppers I'll be sure to post on fb! Really like your videos. Thanks for sharing!

[pw]

The weather this year has been ridiculously challenging (at least here in West Yorkshire). I'm a backyard grower with limited 'greenhouse' space (really just a very small polytunnel and not really 'indoors' in the same way as a large greenhouse). I've routinely and frequently felt the need to protect my container chilli plants from heavy rains by moving what I can into it hurriedly when the weather was particularly bad. Which has been often. Conversely, when the sun came out for a few days at a time - it's been overcast for periods as you mentioned - getting them out on the low garage roof for as much light and warmth as possible, often to dry them out and avoid rapid wilting when under polyethylene, after the odd unavoidable drenching. Avoidance of overwatering has really kept me on my toes but nurturing my plants has been very rewarding. They are fruiting well and on balance there's been just enough sun this time round to pack some heat and ripen. Low temperatures this summer have also been problematic.

I've noticed that the plants I put under cover to save drowning are significantly bigger, but on the whole I can't complain.

Would it be good to incorporate taste tests (subjective, I know!) and hotness/scoville approximations in next year's experiments in terms of the end results as I'm lead to believe that the amount of water a chilli plant gets can affect these important things!?

[duckyandsquishy]

Thank you for my feature. Excellent video as always

[ahuertas]

Hey Sean! Hope you are well! Thanks for the video!

[bpatterson]

Always look forward to new content, watched almost all your videos. As I am getting into growing chilli peppers this year. Learned so much so far, thank you for sharing !

[brianbutler]

I have been doing a comparison between growing in pots(5 gallon) vs raised beds (both outdoors). Interesting results. The pots grew big, faster, set fruit faster. But by now in the growing season, the plants in the beds are bigger, are setting more fruit, and the peppers are easily 50% bigger. Same fertilizer schedule, the pots need more watering.

[murdog]

Another great video Shaun. I planed 4 Poblano’s this year. They started in my grow tent but have been outside since the first week in Jun. I certainly do NOT have any monsters to brag about. All my plants have produced really well, but nothing worth bragging about. I might try and keep one Poblano in my grow tent next year if you decide to run the competition again. Thank you so much for sharing. I love all your content. Wish you and Mrs CC the very best! Stay Safe and Stay Spicy! V//R - Shane

[gazellecarlson]

looks good, interesting about the density

[cavjer]

From the little experience i've had, my advice for growing outdoors is choose variety wisely, manage expectations, grow in a pot and finally; if you have the space indoors then overwintering and treating plants as a multiple year project will really help in a climate like the UK.

[deadboi]

I've got a monster green pepper that I've been growing outside. I might have to enter it!

[lukasthorson]

Would like to see next years indoors/outdoors comparison done with pots of the same seize. I've done a few tries with growing both indoors and outdoors myself to see how different it is and I've gotten a wide range of results depending on the cultivar.

[growpod]

You would need to do several years as the weather affects the outdoors more. Also some varieties do better outdoors than others. This year sugar rush peach has been really prolific outside, wheras Cayenne which I expected to do better was not as good (Similar conditions and placement.)

[paulkerrison]

I'd be interested to see how different soil composition affects outdoor plants. Sandy soil that drains exceptionally well vs usual soil mix, shallow bed vs deep bed etc and on a completely different note I have to say holy crap those pumpkins are HUGE

[analuciadagostino]

Hi ChilliChump. I'm from Brazil and we have an amazing pepper called "dedo de moça". It is a Capsicum baccatum species and is awesome. Try it if you can!

[SullyStuff]

Time travel: love the video! In reality I’ll post what I think in a moment.

[rimmersbryggeri]

Try putting them in raised hotbeds if possible. That should keep the roots warm even early in the year. I've hade great results in boxes on the edge railing of my balcony this year.

[silverbackpeppers]

Might do a poblano next year, i was a bit late starting my peppers this year, and im probably gonna end up bringing most of them to my indoor set up so they can finish up properly, as this weather we are having is dismal.

[erikhartwig]

That pumpkin is huge!

Out of curiosity, have you done a nutrient analysis on your fertilizer (vermicompost)? Ive been having a problem with end rot on my tomato's (too much water and not enough calcium) and your tomato's look great