Growing Edible Plants : How to Grow Hot Peppers Indoors From Seeds

To grow hot peppers from seeds in an indoor container, allow the seeds to fully develop, dry them out, and plant them under high-quality soil. Make sure indoor pepper plants get plenty of natural or artificial light with helpful information from a sustainable gardener in this free video on growing food.

Expert: Yolanda Vanveen
Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is a third-generation flower grower and sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Washington. She is the owner of vanveenbulbs.com and has sold flower bulbs for more than 15 years.
Filmmaker: Daron Stetner

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[Cataclysm31]

One, to two inches??

Don't plant them that deep.

Plant them about 0.5 - 0.7cm deep.

[soujoukh]

would there be a problem at all placing too many seeds in a small pot

[2000xlt]

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[StinkyCheese9999]

@Ogizzie

No not water them from the bottom for best results. Bottom watering encourages too much soil saturation and too high a rot rate. Since they are only a fraction of a centimeter down, watering lightly from the top is the far more effective method. You only need to keep the top centimeter of the soil damp, nothing more than that.

[StinkyCheese9999]

@uttpahari

Many bells, particularly green ones, are picked while immature (unripe) so the seeds aren't very viable. I mean if bought from a grocery store, you will have better luck buying seeds from a farmer's garden or elsewhere in-season and saving them till the next late winter/early spring. However, drying them for only 3 days isn't very long. It can take 3 weeks in colder temperatures, shoot for 80F and keep the top of the soil moist but not waterlogged so they don't rot.

[StinkyCheese9999]

@WinterFox155

Yes, but due to the shorter growing season and lack of lengthly high summer temperatures you should start seeds early inside, hardening them off for a long time bringing them in every night, and picking pepper varieties with shortest time to maturity... and while inside make sure you give them a LOT of light for a good head start (growing lights like CFL daylight light bulbs if not official plant grow lights.

Even then, you'll only get a fraction as much fruit as warmer regions.

[StinkyCheese9999]

@soujoukh

If you have poor germination rates that will increase the odds of having something viable, but generally you are correct, with good seed there is no need for so many in a single contain, it would be better to put about 3 in each container, near the center but about 1 cm apart. Give all 3 about 2 weeks to grow after they break the soil then cut away the weakest one, then another week and cut away the weaker one, keeping the best of the three.

[Nagamangos]

“They add a lot of spice and pizzazz to ANY type of food” oh really? Crème brulee? No ideas on proper seed drying. No discussion on saving open pollinated, as opposed to hybrid seeds. This video suggests one can drop 50 seeds in a starter try and enjoy peppers from the plants that miraculously flourish there. Your videos stink! Map out your plan BEFORE you make the video. Seems to me you ramble for the sake of hearing yourself talk.

[WinterFox155]

can you grow peppers in england pls reply anyone