Pepper Seedling Care Tips - Keep Young Pepper Plants Happy - Pepper Geek

How soon before last frost should I start scotch bonnets, ghost and habanero from seed indoors? I container garden outdoors but start indoors.

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When is the right time to remove the dome or lid of the tray?

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That's my third Carolina Reaper trial hopefully this will be a success following your tips they're slow growers just subscribed to your awesome Channel 🌱

Great Channel guys! just found this while I was looking at my pepper plants it's going to be a big help.

I am planting some ghost pepper seeds. This is my first seed planting endeavor. Thanks for you helpful tips. Wish me luck.

Do you leave the fan on 24x7?

I direct sowed the seed in the ground and watered it every day. Now I have seedings. What next? Other than sun, water, time, and the dirt they are growing in? My light is 94.026 million miles from my plants and is the brightest thing in this solar system . So how do I adjust it ?

Very good video. You brought out a lot of good tips. Thank you.

I have germaneted about 20 in one little pot oops, I didn't think that many would germinate, all I did was used miracle grow compost added my seed then put a wet folded kitchen paper over he top then some cling film, it only too 7days on a south facing window and now I have alot in the same pot, I'm a beginner so didn't really think before sewing, what should I do as some are very close together but they are only at the stage where there popping out the soil some are slightly bigger than others. Help appreciated ty.

Just a heads up, peppers uptake mercury very easily, so use caution when using fish emulsion. It's a legit issue, unfortunately.

In one video you say that when we repot seedlings into regular potting soil, if the potting soil has fertilizer, then don't add any. In another video you say to use full strength fertilizer when you repot seedlings into potting soil. I am confused- don't know which way is correct. When our seedlings were in cells, eventually we started using half strength fertilizer (Miracle Gro Performance Organics) and when we repotted into potting soil (which has fertilizer in it) we started with full strength on the Miracle Gro Performance Organics. Now the inner or newest leaves of the seedlings are yellow. Can you please advise us on the correct way?

Which water filter do you guys use?

Heat dome? I am growing a seedling that germinated it self in my fridge inside a week old bell pepper and it’s still sprouting, Inside my house. My heat is barely 70 degrees. Should I get a heat dome or am I cultivating the most cold hardy peppers?

You are so caring to your peppers. I simply use a heat mat and rotate my peppers each day. But then I don't grow any more than three peppers each year and grow lots of other vegetables.

Thanks for the recommendation on the starter fertilizer. I was wondering what to use that wouldn't burn them.

TFS this video. Daughter just shared it me as I had a question. My plants have fruit. Found them growing in a strange place. Can I transplant them , or is it too late to find a better home for them with more room.

Very helpful video. I noticed you guys use the seed cell trays vs soil blocking. Have you found you had a better experience with doing peppers that way?

How do you apply this fertilizer? Is it part of the bottom watering, or a spray bottle, or other?

Do people use the seeds out of the dry peppers you buy at stores ?

Great video. I have a question. My pepper seedling has sprouted but the leaves r pointing upward. The i have an LED light but idk what kind it specifically is but idk what to do. The light is really bright n its at about 3-4 inches away from the plant. Should i put it closer to the plant or do i need to move it further away

Lotsa vids warn of planting leggy pepper seedlings deeper than the root ball because of stem rot. I did just that 2 weeks ago , but I dusted the part of the stem that was going to be buried with CINNAMON as an anti-disease agent and my seedlings are doing very well, looking much better than before. Thanks for the tip about the fan. It really works.

Hi! What if we used potting soil but sifted out the chunks for the nutrients that are in the potting soil. They sprouted and are doing great but I started lots of seeds in one container so I can separate them later .. do I still fertilizer even with the nutrients in a potting soil!?

Worth noting that if you don't need many plants and are using quality seeds you can just spoil them and sow one per cell.

And if you do need a good number then it is also possible to stack seed trays in most propagators (rather than over sowing and thinning). You just have to take them out once they need light. This is something that suddenly dawned on me when I had some seeds I wanted to sow but didn't have any more space for them. Tried it and it worked.

Hi!!! New subscriber. Found you're video and found it a great help. I have the "My Smokin Hot Pepper Garden" Kit Bought on Amazon. The Kit is actually from my Province of Nova Scotia. The Makers are OH CANADA SEEDS, HALIFAX, NS. B2Y-3J7. I've never grown any vegetables or fruit at all and figured peppers and tomatoes should be a fun item to grow. The only "green thumb" I have are with Cannabis plants. I hope you'll be pleased I will watch all you're videos before I attempt to cultivate the peppers...Thanks.

I just planted some birds eye chilies. I followed a tutorial on how to germinate seeds from fresh chilies. It's now a month into summer here so I planted them outside because it will be warm from now until May.

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I have questions on watering do i need to water the soil every day or if the soil are dry

Great info however I find peppers are very sturdy in general kinda hard to kill. Best example I can give is I had planted out my garden had some of the weaker plants left my friend was going to come take them so I left them in there cells in the shade got totally water filled and sat for almost 2 weeks like that by the time he came and got them..
They were totally fine grew almost as good as mine did by end of the year.
Probably couldn't kill them if I wanted too

I like to germinate in wet paper towels before i even bother puting in soil in case any seeds are duds... seems to be working well!

Hi Pepper Geek, in your video you mention that after sprouting the ideal temperature is between 21 and 26 degrees Celcius. But is that the ambient temperature, or the soil temperature? In my grow environment the soil temperature tends to be 4 degrees cooler than the ambient temperature, which is why I ask. Thanks so much!

Do you guys have any type of online form where pictures can be sent I just started playing bell pepper seeds not too long ago and my sprouts/seedlings are very small

Y’all watch a lot of 7 pot club too right?

In no-frost zones, is it ok to germinate in full sun?

HELP! Frequency of fertilizing the babies? And when to start? After one set of true leaves? Two sets?

My peppers are the same size as yours but they don't look that healthy, I have followed most tips from you but I still got some leaves with the tips looking like "burnt".

Could it be excess fertilizer? I'm using 7-5-6 30ml for 1.5L sprinkler bottle

I planted my peppers on the 8th of March and since then they only produced 1 pair of true leaves... No idea what's happening... They are on a South-West window.

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What if we don’t want to use lights? We want to use general sunlight

So gentle breeze with the fan for 12 to 14 hours a day or just for an hour or so? Cause I’ve seen a lot of different opinions

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I wasn't so lucky with my first try...I used a self-watering tray which kept everything too wet. This caused mold and stem rot. Out of 10, 7 germinated, and only 1 survived. Seeing this mold, I moved the seedlings to another little greenhouse but when I took the cover off after several days, more died as if traumatized...they were still on a heated mat, so perhaps they got cold with the temperature difference. I also had a fan on too...All of my serano peppers died leaving only a green pepper plant. Could they be that sensitive to temperature? could also be mold that I didn't see. I'm doing another batch, will see how it goes.

Although my plants are not as tall as I would like them to be, they appear to be very healthy. This is probably due to me transplanting into 4.75 inch pots instead of the recommended smaller sizes. It's my first time growing peppers...They are about a month and a half along. The only problem I have run into is when to water and when to fertilize. I have been letting my soil fully dry out for about 3-4 days in-between watering and I'm not sure if I should go ahead and water or wait until my plants tell me it's time. I'm afraid if the soil gets too dry that I might risk rotting out the roots but I definitely don't want to overwater. The reapers are only a few inches tall with 4-5 sets of leaves..... nothing like I've seen in any pictures. Very short but very healthy! Maybe I should try putting a small layer of straw on top of the soil to help retain the moisture? I can send some pictures if you have time to look.... Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Love your videos BTW guys!

Would it be the worst thing in the world to have two peppers per cell? I remember purchasing from green houses plants with a few per and I just gently separate before transplanting into the bed. What are the downsides to having two per?

I set up my Philips Hue lightstrip for grow light, that I basically taped to the inside of the humidity dome. Whats nice is that you can decide what kind of color you want, in terms of using a red or blueish white. And, you can easally set how bright you want the light to be, from completely dimmed to full sunlight.
I'm playing around with this now to see where my plants likes it. So far, no issues.

What are the peppers at 34 seconds in? Dark leaves

For aeration does the fan need to be on all the time?

WATER FILTERS and WATER itself are a complex and rich topic and should be further examined. Not all filters are the same. Reverse-osmosis and ionic transfer differ from charcoal filtration in significant ways. Understanding chlorine ,and more recently, chloramine in tap water is valuable, and necessary for hydroponics. I don't see the value in using, say a Brita filter for seedlings. The Brita and similar devices consist of two stages; the first is activated charcoal, which is a reverse osmosis sort of mode, and the second stage is ionic transfer, in which contaminants are swapped for sodium salt. Therefore, this type of filter adds sodium, and the result may be equal or inferior to the tap water. Chlorine can be aged out in a day... but chloramine can't. Some claim chloramine is a game changer, and rainwater should be used instead, especially in hydroponics, but my experience has not proven this ...yet.

Just a tip on the seed plucking part. The plant's only source of nutrients in the initial stages of germination come from the seed and seed
shell itself. Plucking them off only takes that source away. Nature's way is best.