How To Grow Sweet Peppers In Pots (Bell Peppers, Banana Peppers)

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In this video, you'll learn how to grow sweet peppers in containers. This full pepper grow guide can be used to grow all types of sweet peppers, from bell peppers, to banana peppers, to cubanelle peppers and more.
Growing peppers in pots is how we got started with gardening many years ago! So, while it does have some drawbacks, we still grow some plants in pots every year. It makes it so easy to get started with growing sweet peppers, no matter where you live.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Planting pepper seeds and germination
3:46 Early growth indoors and transplanting
5:23 Hardening off and moving outdoors
7:54 Fertilizing
11:44 Harvesting sweet peppers
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@BlackJesus8463 10 ай бұрын

None of my peppers have ever stopped making peppers long enough to grow bigger. In fact I think it's probably the reason green peppers are so popular.

@Scott-vq5ku 10 ай бұрын

What I appreciate most about your content is how you take the audience through the entire journey from seed to harvest, showing real results. If any of you are new to gardening, get a copy of their ebook, it is the perfect book for pepper newbies. Thanks Calvin and Crystalyn!!!

@chandlermoore5805 10 ай бұрын

I remember your same tip from another video about plucking early flowers to encourage more plant growth. That was a solid tip, definitely had pepper plants get bigger than normal using that method

@deshgouri 2 ай бұрын

I'm from a family of chili farmers from the South of India 😊 I'm now farmless in Seattle, learning your ways to grow "peppers" 😉 Both places have their own unique set of challenges, both are fun in their own different way ❤ thank you for sharing all your priceless knowledge and presenting it so well 🙏

@BossDaCashCrisis 3 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you, I'm planting out in bulk, we are all growing our own in UK at the moment, Respect from UK

@deecooper1567 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful peppers 🌶 🫑. Nw Nevada desert here & I wish I could get beauties like that. Have done some tweaking in the garden so hopefully next yr will be good. Thank you 👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

@DSaba10 10 ай бұрын

Just wanted to send along a thank you for your content. I've been trying my best to grow pepper plants for years but took a break last year to learn what I was doing wrong. Wound up with 3 different bell varieties that exceeded expectations this year for growing in Michigan. Yellow and Red bells with around 8-10 peppers on each, and a lunchbox orange bell variety with around 18 or so peppers on it. They were the best looking and productive plants in my garden this year.

@barryjanis 3 ай бұрын

A lot of Great tips, thank you .

@ChiliPepperMadness 10 ай бұрын

Great tutorial! This looks insanely helpful!

@daves3016 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for talking about sun scald, i had no idea thats why my peppers did that sometimes.

@cyberninja76a 2 ай бұрын

very informative, Thanks

@lekgotlatgae5955 8 ай бұрын

i appreciate your vids bro

@79PoisonBreaker 10 ай бұрын

Great video. I love my Sweet Sunset Banana peppers growing in pots. Most wire "tomato" cages are perfect for peppers too (even though they suck for actual tomatoes hahaha).

@PepperGeek 10 ай бұрын

Right! Those cages are much too small for most tomatoes, and they end up falling over anyway. Perfect for peppers though.

@HalcyonProtocol 10 ай бұрын

Oh yes, start the day geeky and spicy. It wasn't one of your favorites, but you introduced me to ají amarillo and it is now my favorite chili of all time. Thanks for doing what you do, guys.

@BlackJesus8463 10 ай бұрын

Whats it taste like?

@HalcyonProtocol 10 ай бұрын

@proprietarycurez8463 Has a berry-like tart sweetness, and Serrano-level heat. They look like giant orange jalapeños, but taste better and are hotter on average. Perfect for my uses!

@PepperGeek 10 ай бұрын

So happy to hear that! Glad we could help you find that variety.

@BumblebeeAdventure 2 ай бұрын

🐝thanks for the great video🌻

@princeschannel6285 10 ай бұрын

Hi I just followed u❤❤❤❤ from Belgium 🇧🇪 thanks

@albertnett7864 10 ай бұрын

Great info.

@PepperGeek 10 ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

@bethgaither1214 10 ай бұрын

This year, I grew Scotch Bonnet peppers. Beautiful red color. Last night we had a Jamacian Jerk Chicken cookout using them! 😊 I also grew jalapeños and Shishitos but had never tried the Scotch Bonnets. Thanks for a great informative channel.

@BlackJesus8463 10 ай бұрын

They dont taste good enough to put up with all the heat! None of the superhots taste very good.

@milkysher 10 ай бұрын

@proprietarycurez8463 Real Scotch Bonnets are very flavorful, and a country's famous cuisine is built around it.

@carlandersonlll6861 10 ай бұрын

I have a Grand Bell Sweet Pepper plant in a pot i started by seed last year. I live in Maine and i bring it in on the radiator by the livingroom window in the off season and outside in the summer. When the seed germinated last year i took a calcium pill and used a file and put the calcium powder in a small cup of water that i put on the plant to help prevent blossom end rot which helped. I use miracle grow once in a while and not too often. The peppers doesn't get very big, but i think it's due to not big enough pot. Other than that the plant is doing good for it's second year. I am doing an experiment to see how many years this Pepper Plant will live for.

@felixvaldez7763 3 ай бұрын

3:16

@alanmcbride5040 3 ай бұрын

Great video, thank you so much! You focused on bell peppers in the video, between the two sweet peppers. Do you have a comparable video for banana peppers?

@Lukiel666 10 ай бұрын

I just got some Hungarian crushed paprika paste (hot). Literally crushed paprika peppers. Tastes great, going to save some of the seeds from it to grow next season.

@BlackJesus8463 10 ай бұрын

Thats a lot of flavor! 👍

@daranall4949 6 ай бұрын

Love your step by step. Its super helpful like following a recipe. Thanks for all your pepper knowledge

@roywarriner8441 4 ай бұрын

I back onto a natural space and have given up on trying to keep the weeds out of an in ground garden so have switched to containers, 10 and 20 gallon grow bags. Have you ever tried to keep a pepper plant producing year round indoors?

@perforations6234 10 ай бұрын

I successfully germinated seeds in mineral substrate, this reduces greatly to problem of fungus gnats (I try to completely avoid soil in the house)

@rosalindhb 10 ай бұрын

My peppers definitely don't look like that. 😂 I'm in Texas 8b and I think the heat stunted growth. Bells and bananas are very small or going straight to red before becoming big. Only thing that did well were Jalapeños.

@PepperGeek 10 ай бұрын

Jalapeños and other Mexican/New Mexico types are a great choice for any hot/dry regions!

@davidmackenzie218 10 ай бұрын

Glad I found your channel. going to share it with my brother and a couple others. Wondering what grow lights you're using. Did not see a link to your book but I'm guessing I can find it on Amazon. I'll be checking your other videos soon. I'm in Fresno California and I'm a little concerned it might be too hot and dry here for containers but I think I'll give it a try. We do have three great growing seasons here. Thanks

@PepperGeek 10 ай бұрын

Hi there, so we have a few grow lights, all of them LEDs. This article includes a few options: peppergeek.com/best-grow-lights-pepper-plants - also our ebook is here: peppergeek.com/ebook. Thanks for watching and sharing the channel!

@FarmToMarketRoad 5 ай бұрын

I killed 2 flats of seedlings this year spritzing seed tray. Bad damping off problem. Bottom watering and sterilizing mix with boiling water solved problem.

@jenmv3483 7 сағат бұрын

So when beetles come, what do you spray with? Neem?

@stephown5374 10 ай бұрын

Do you have anything about Padron Spanish tapas peppers?

@manisham9803 Ай бұрын

What do you do with the plant when the season is over?

@nvrcnfrm6225 4 ай бұрын

what would you consider a short season. in melbourne aus we have warm weather from octoberish till march. would you consider that short

@miamited69 9 ай бұрын

I am in zone 9. What is a good bell pepper to grow in 5 gallon buckets that will provide me with regular size peppers. What I have tried are about 1/5 the size they should be. self wicking planters with regular fertilizer.

@dianesmith6745 3 ай бұрын

Out of the 2 seeds you planted, do you thin out one?

@user-fj2hk7xr7w 8 ай бұрын

Am in the Philippines. Finding seed is tough. I transplanted yolow wonders into pots. Had a heavy rain and 90% of the leaves fell off the next day. Hope they come back

@Yvxszio 2 ай бұрын

one advantage of using pots is that you can move them indoors or somewhere where your plant is protected from heavy rainfall since the water will accumulate in the pot.

@dianaromero7611 3 ай бұрын

How did you get them to grow so tall?❤

@user-ct5md9yl8i 5 ай бұрын

How often do you fertilize?

@manisham9803 Ай бұрын

What do you do about the beetles??

@hotsauce0606 10 ай бұрын

Only bring them outside when night time temps are above 55? In Vancouver (8b) that doesn’t happen until July lol. Our average night time temps in the summer are 57. I feel like these planting guides need to be modified for colder zones. Any PNW growers know when you can transplant pepper seedlings to outdoors?

@jimrobinson7441 10 ай бұрын

I'm in the Idaho Panhandle 20 mi south of the border, 5b/6a, avg last frost 5/15. I put mine out around the 3rd week of May but my bells were King of the North and Ozark Giant which are both supposed to be suited to cooler climates. The overnight lows were definitely below 55° at that time, probably more like 40-45°, they did fine. I started picking some peppers around the 1st of July. I've had frost 3 times so far in September, I cover everything at night of course. The peppers are blossoming and fruiting like crazy right now since it's cooled off, they seem to be loving the cool weather.

@annstclair4668 2 ай бұрын

Good morning, when ever I plan peppers the stems always turn black. Please say how to fix this problem.

@janwilliams3545 10 ай бұрын

I have a banana pepper plant that has grown over 5 feet tall in a 5 gallon container; throughout this growing season about 50% of the peppers have/ are getting BER; I tried a CA++ supplement with no change! I water it consistently ; i fertilize every 2 weeks; what am I doing wrong???

@LADOGardenTips 3 ай бұрын

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@theexodia9166 10 ай бұрын

What kind of heat lamps do you use? You didn't link it in the description and I'm interested in it.

@ska042 9 ай бұрын

No heat lamps. For germination, a heating pad below the mini greenhouse. Once the seeds sprout, artificial lighting 14-16h/day. You can use specific LED plant lights, but it's not strictly necessary just for seedlings, since they don't need that much light. Something like 30W of LED lighting 30cm above the plants is easily enough for seedlings. Any regular white LEDs will do for this, I think cold white is somewhat preferable though. If you grow them beyond a few weeks under artificial light, the light requirements will increase of course.

@dccreations1361 10 ай бұрын

Any tips for dressing with mice or rats in the garden? They are DESTROYING my last pepper crop!

@BelindaGerard-ms7us 4 ай бұрын

🎉❤

@gregbluefinstudios4658 10 ай бұрын

After 40 days and 40 nights of rains, I wasn't sure if they got enough watering, so I watered them with Hurricane Lee. Does that help? seriously, with all the rains, I haven't needed to add extra water but I felt that the fabric grow bags were probably draining the nutrients, so, I upped the fertilizer schedule a little.

@deecooper1567 10 ай бұрын

That is hilarious 😂😂 Funny yet not funny ya know? Hope you are all safe 👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

@gregbluefinstudios4658 10 ай бұрын

Life is challenging enough, @@deecooper1567, without laughing at things, right?

@Simlatio 3 ай бұрын

They need a warm place to germinate hey? Let me just go inside and place it in front of an air conditioner. 🤣 Man, Australia is a shite hole sometimes.