Pruning, Staking, Mulching & Fertilizing Young Peppers: Get Them Ready to Produce!

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One video that covers basic pruning, staking, mulching and feeding your young peppers. This is the best way to set them up for great production. Mulching is a great way to slow weeds, conserve water and create a disease barrier from soil born diseases.

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[sunny]

The Nurse in me says "wow, what beautiful veins"!

[AcornHillHomestead]

Last year I tried growing 2 bell pepper plants in 5 gallon buckets on my blacktop driveway. They did phenomenally well! I got a huge yield and nice thick walled peppers.

[bryanromeo]

I gotta give it to Gary, above and beyond 👏

[cheyennemcgaugh]

Thank you. Your video had exactly what I was looking for.

[Klink]

Gary, thanks to your invaluable vlogs on growing and pruning young pepper plants, I am swimming in peppers (bell, jalapino and sweet banana). Out of the 20 plants I planted, I have an average of 4-5 peppers growing on each plant with more on the way! Thanks again!!!

[honeste]

Super helpful. Now that I've already gotten pepper plants growing from seeds in a box planter, I need to figure out how to transition them to something larger or at least individual spaces.

[ciarasherrianne]

The staking info and tying was super helpful and just in time for my garden.

[billastell]

WOW it is amazing how differently peppers are treated in different areas.  I'm up in Canada zone 5.  I don't prune at all and don't stake.  The odd one tips over but usually no harm is done.  Could be that up here they grow slower and therefore are more solid.

[kathleenm.talkie]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Very helpful.

[brujero]

Great video, I have a Jalapeño seedling that is now developing into a nice plant but I started late in season. I have only given it coffee grounds and it so far its doing good, seems the least maintenance of my plants. Zone 9 btw

[omogolonkgogelang]

Please give more insight on fertilizing; at different stages as the plant grow.

[mushtaqahmad]

Thanks so much sir very good advice God bless you

[korbandallas]

you now plant 2 peppers per container, correct? I love the pruning of peppers. Great base early on when u trimmed and left 4 to 6 leaves, the stems become massive and support so much. love the new home also, my goal is to do the same upgrade. thanks

[paulschmaltz]

now i know why my pepper plants blew over, thanks a million for a great tip

[catbee]

Thank you, Gary. Very helpful video. What is the reason for planting the front row of peppers inside containers and then buried half way?

[malakingdude]

leaves can be used to flavor soup as greens. They are mild and really good. I blanch and freeze them in a heavy baggie to save for winter.

[eduardoquintero]

hi Gary I don't know if I'm doing this right ....ok I have jalapenos plants in containers its about. 102 degrees outside it has flowers and buds I live in texas should I move them ....

[eduardoquintero]

hi Gary it's been a month since I added fertilizer and lime. on my jalapenos plants in containers ....do I add fertilizer and lime again or just fertilizer ?

[pollykettle]

u are doing a great job, very informative 👍

[tigerhop]

Oh my gosh I thought you were supposed to prune peppers aggressively to produce more later, but didn’t know it was different in zone 7!