Potting Up the Monster Chilli Plant to Final Pot

This is my soil contender for the Monster Dorset Naga competition with @PepperGeek . Choosing the right pot size is essential to maximise the number of chilli pods at the end of the season! I also share some tips for you when growing chillies in massive pots.

🌶️Hydroponics Monster Dorset Naga

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[ChilliChump]

Hydro plant is well under way, and now the soil plant is in its final spot. Everything is where it needs to be...lets do this!
👇👇Some links below from things I mentioned in the video

🌶Hydroponics Monster Dorset Naga

[adolfoman]

Been watching you for several years now, Shaun, learning how to make the best fermented hot sauces that my family and friends love! Great to see this channel grow and how you've expanded your "hobby" into a dream job! Bravo.

[PepperGuru]

00:42 Flowering capacity is a quantitative trait. Siblings can outperform one another and have very different production potentials from one another, even if coming from the exact same fruit/mother parent’s pod. The two week lag you experienced is exactly what you presume, (the scout roots finding their limits) but if a two week lag waiting on that perceived “jump” you’re referring to makes that much of a difference in yield totals, I wouldn’t look to container size for the answer to that question. Really great video idea though! Take a handful of CLONE specimens and do a proper season long experiment. Ensure all plant specimens are on the exact same genetic playing field. Seed siblings can’t do that for you. 4:00 Holy mama! She’s a beast already!

[davidniemi]

I never thought I was a very serious contender in this competition as the 3 Dorset Nagas I started were all originally dragging on the ground. But they're perking up and all 3 have been in-ground for a while. #1 is over 1/2 metre high now and looking very healthy in my "Old Garden". #2 is about half as high in my "New Garden" -- both of these are in a forest and get just part sun, but are in locations I've previously grown large chilli plants. The third one is in a friend's allotment with close to full sun, but it is the smallest and least impressive so far. I also have about the same growing season as you do, from late April until some random time in November, in northern Virginia -- I'm hoping being farther south will compensate for the extra shade in my two forest gardens.

[murdog]

Going to be a MONSTER plant! Can’t wait to see the updates. Thanks so much for the update! Loved it! v/r Shane

[mustangms]

I looove planting chillis, everyone should try it, works very well even indoors

[Devil_Doolittle]

im glad you covered this topic. it took me years to understand, admittedly. the plant wants to be in the best position possible before it really starts to push effort towards fruiting. growing pumpkins admittedly helped my understanding. ive had huge success with shallow wide small pots with habanero's that even though they might only be a foot all around end up producing HUNDREDS of pods throughout the season. while pepper plants of course do better in bigger pots, that's only if (as you said and say) if it can maximize its own growth cycle

[Justmebeingme]

Excellent information. Thank you for sharing your experience. I am so excited to get to try all this next season. Wish i found your channel before. Beautiful sauces and plants

[capsicumco]

Looking good, all the best. Try add a nice mulch layer. Will never go back after applying mulch. Pine needles are my go to

[Ostlord]

aww yee just want I needed after a long days work!

[MHollywood]

Best channel. Learned a lot over the years. When we get a new property I am looking to upscale. Only doing a few varieties with limited space. Ghostly jalapeño, cherry bomb, red flame f1, scotch bonnet red, and cedrino.

[DeadColdTales]

Crackin stuff Shaun, I'm gonna be potting up this weekend as well, just a few of my larger plants, I've a Ghost (chilli type) and a Chocolate Bhutlah that look quite similar size to yours but I'll not be going for a big 90ltr pot, as I grow outdoors I think 15 to 20ltr will do for me 👍

[thomasoberg]

Some of my plants are 3 years old and have been producing for a month now.... in sweden
Cheers

[FerdinandFake]

If you want a monster plant, try some heavy hps lights while it's still indoors in spring until the sun is really out. My jolokias started late Feb as well and are quite a bit bigger. Started out with LEDs but they really loved the intense heat of the hps lamps

[rbid]

the trick in how you repot using the original pot as mold is excellent.

[gazellecarlson]

sweet, i will try this in my largest pot. i have 2 of them.. thinking an Aji and a Moruga

[lonewolfshepherd]

Hi geezer I wonder if you could advise? I have an overwintered scotch bonnet ( not one of your favourites I know) Any way this plant has grown like crazy and has masses of flowers and quite a few fruits. The problem is they are on the small side; so should rub off some of the flowers to get the plant to increase the size of the remaining fruits. Quality over quantity sort of idea! Really interested to see how this years monster turns out, hope pepper geek comes 2nd.

[Nitsuj]

Great video! Where do you buy your vermiculite and perlite in the UK?

[lukasgraesslin]

How long will it probably take until the rootsystem has spread in that big pot and growth starts at the top again?

[The_Duck_Pond]

Wondering if a lower half skeleton would assist preventing soil compaction?