You're one step closer to growing some fresh peppers right from your backyard or garden! Check out our blog on How to Prune Pepper Plants and follow the five easy steps to prune like a pro! How and When to Fertilize Pepper Plants To ensure your plants thrive for months, it's ...
Add 1 tablespoon of Epsom salt to a gallon of water and pour it around the base of your pepper plant, following your usual way of watering. Do this in the interval of every 3 to 4 weeks. To learn more about this, don’t miss reading how to use Epsom salt for pepper plants. #6...
Bell pepper plants, as well as other types of sweet peppers, typically grow taller than hot peppers like jalapeño and serrano. Most bell varieties grow up to 3 to 3 1/2 feet tall and 15 to 18 inches wide. Because of the mature plant size my bell pepper plant spacing is 18 inches ...
Plant TypeFrost-sensitive perennial, grown as an annual FamilySolanaceae GenusCapsicum SpeciesCapsicum annuum ‘Shishito’ Native AreaJapan ExposureFull sun Height2-3’ Watering RequirementsAverage Pests & DiseasesAphids, whiteflies, pepper weevil, blossom-end-rot, root rot, tobacco mosaic virus ...
Bring container-grown jalapeño plants indoors at the end of the season. Place the container in a sunny spot, and, with luck, you’ll get more peppers on the plant! Types ‘Señorita’grows to nearly 2 feet high. This pepper is very hot. ...
Topping chili pepper plants means removing the tip or a larger part of the plant. The main stem is cut bellow the firt "Y" forming on it. When the tip of the plant is removed, plant will reroute it's growth hormone auxin lower down the stem, making the plant branch out. Most of ...
How long do pepper plants live, anyway? Are they annuals, perennials or somewhere in between? Can you grow them indoors in the winter? Let’s take a look at the life of a pepper plant. Note: In the years since I have written this post I have had more experiences with...
Pepper plants wilting is a common symptom when the plant gets stressed. If your plants of pepper are losing their vigor, you might be wondering what you could do accomplish to correct the issue and why they’re turning brown. Pepper plant wilting can result from water overflow, submerging or...
PEPPER PLANT CARE & HARVESTING Pruning pepper plants: As a general rule, pruning pepper plants isn’t necessary. Peppers can be sensitive to sun scald, so removing foliage can expose them to the sun too much. Water: The key to watering peppers is moderation. Too little will cause the leave...
When you grow Peppers from seed, how long do Pepper plants take to grow? That can depend on which type of peppers you are growing. And it can seem a long time till harvest, when you grow peppers from seed! Peppers do take quite awhile to grow; especiallyhot pepper varietieswhich need...