4 Ways to Speed Up Pepper Growth & Fruiting

Always pick off the very first pepper you find on your plant, when you first notice it. The plant needs to know that it needs to produce more than one pepper. Remove leaves from the bottom of the plant and compost them. I live far north of Michigan and always have lots of peppers.

Hey, you know what i did last year? I planted my pepper plants from seed in Sept/Oct and kept them under flourescant lights all winter. I pruned them hard 2 or 3 times. And they were very large putting in the Spring garden. Right now they are going bonkers. The type of thing you only dream of. I've never before seen anything like it. Tons and tons and tons of peppers of all kinds. :-) Love your channel.

I've started overwintering my pepper plants. At the end of the season I dig them up into pots and put them in my basement under grow lights. I was harvesting chilis into March. In Canada!

His hair works as a visor and I absolutely love it. Genius.

Water every 2 weeks? Here in GA wait 2 weeks to water and they will have been dead for 13 days.. I water almost everyday and the peppers here are doing incredible

Green thumbs up to everyone growing a garden this year!!! Always something new to learn in the garden, never a dull moment. Thanks for the great tips.

Here's a comment from northern Europe. I started pruning pepper plants several years ago and never looked back. But it's a different pruning - I'm trying to get a tall plant, so it can use space efficiently and have a lot of fruit later. At every node where plant splits into two branches, I try to cut one of them, usually the one that is into the plant, so it does not become too bushy and dense. As a result, plants get tall and slender (almost a meter sometimes), like tomatoes, and have big nice fruit. Towards the end of the season I prune tops off completely, so it has energy to ripen existing fruits instead of creating new ones. All of this happens in a greenhouse, growing in 16 liter containers - so I have to use area efficiently, very tall plants help with that. Growing medium is peat, automated irrigation is used, as I am not there every day.

In shorter growing season areas I have learned at season’s end to lift the peppers from the ground (for those not growing in pots all ready) and plant them in pots…cut them way back and place in a frost protected area where they still get light…and continue to water lightly until next spring. The peppers will be far ahead of anything I can grow from seed at next season. Then simply repot or replant in spring. I have peppers setting long before I generally would. Bountiful harvests as well.

I received my first yield in the middle of May. I saw that peppers are perennials. They suggested that you pull them out and put into a pot and protect from winter. We don't have super cold weather in California so instead I covered them with a huge plastic sheet. Wow, out of about 40, I lost 6. They did so well that they are way ahead of newly planted peppers.

One of the most straight-to-the point videos I've seen from you. Thanks for not beating around the bush on this one.

Luke, thank you for sharing your gardening knowledge with all of us. You are a wealth of information and inspiration. 🌱🌱

I learned from my father back in the 60's we had and organic farm when organic was not known about . We had a city farm that was grandfathered in of 7 acres . We even had restaurants that bought from us besides neighbors . Word f mouth kept us busy . I am now retired and moved from NJ to VA and still garden

Thanks Luke, you provided information about pruning pepper plants which I needed; I live in Pennsylvania and due to the shorter growing season I have decided not to prune the plants as you advised for a short growing season; I appreciate your advice and your many videos take care and have a good day

I pinched out the tips on all my peppers as soon as the plants had at least 6 lower leafs. I did this last year for the first time AND my green peppers plants grew into thick healthy multi stem bushy plants LOADED with peppers👍🙌🙌 i live in northern michigan zone 5...I started all my peppers inside march 1st.. I pinched out the growing tips on my peppers this year also and they are multi stem bushy plants loading up with buds now and gonna produce a ton of pepper this season too👍🙌 No more tall leggy pepper plants with 5 peppers no i have literal pepper bushes that produce lots of peppers.😁

Having this exact issue right now. Bell pepper plant with one fruit that hasn’t grown much while the rest of the garden is going crazy. Great video.

Love all the advice. Being in Michigan with such a small growing season got me into hydroponics and indoor gardening. For our pepper plants we create a huge mound or like a volcano around them and it holds in water too. Works great for the outdoor gardens!

So glad I had my notifications on. My father in law and I were just talking about how the peppers aren’t doing as great as we think they should be 😂 I immediately sent this to him. Love your channel. Keep up the great work!

Very informative. You've cleared up questions I've had growing my peppers over here in Wisconsin. Awesome. I won't worry about topping them, because of the short warm season here.

Growing big in Wisconsin! Thanks for the tips on peppers. Going to pick a couple of peppers tomorrow morning based on your input. Thanks!

I've never actually had problems with my peppers once they're in the ground. They always end up big, beautiful, and very productive. Very little actual intervention from me. Also, like beans, I make sure to pick them regularly to get them to keep making more flowers. It's the early stages as seeds and seedlings indoors that's the tricky part for me. That's getting lots better though too, keep heat mat at 80* while germinating (which takes a long time...85* for hot peppers, and they take longer), keep grow light on from the get go because they will actually pop up unexpectedly and get leggy literally overnight...good luck!