Best Way to Start Pepper Seeds Indoors (or Outdoors)! 🌶️🫑

I purchased a couple of those tray this year and they so good! I often forget to water so they have saved me and my seedlings!

I'm fortunate to work at a restaurant. I get jalapenos, peppers, tomatoes, onions, potatoes, blueberries and whatever else I grab. Also, unlimited scraps, coffee grounds and eggshells for compost. Don't underestimate a cook job.; We have clear top, to go boxes and I can fill them with soil from outside, plant 12 jalapeno seeds and toss them in the back window of my car and they'll germinate in a week. Our pickles, butter, salt and sugar all come in food grade 5 gal buckets. Last year I planted six of them with Russets and Yukon Golds I got from work. I'm telling you, if you want to garden for free, get a restaurant job! Great videos too. I've been watching for years!!

Glad that I tuned in.. I'm in need of doing pepper starts for a friend of mine who is going to be out of town for the next 6 weeks. Yes.. I volunteered to start all of her veggies.

I have harvested pepper seeds that I plant. I harvest them only because they were delicious and I wanted to grow more. I start mine in small restaurant plastic containers so I know what grows on and can transplant them to 3 inch pots once they get adult leaves. I just never knew I needed to start them this early. Thanks for that Brian. I keep them watered on the heat mat and everything seems to grow well. I use a small plastic fork to dig up and move the plants to gently transplant them with little harm. Just one more wonderful video Brian. May the Lord keep blessing you and yours.

Thanks for teaching me that peppers do well doubled up. You are the only one I have heard that from. I greatly appreciate you and your wife!

I’ve been enjoying Sugar Rush Peach peppers, Bakers Creek- prolific, great color, medium heat with sweetness, turned out perennial here in sacramento and what a great name!

Brian, A good way to discourage fungus gnats: steep Mosquito Bits or Mosquito Dunks in the water you use to moisten the soil & later water your plants w/. It contains BT (Bacillus thuringiensis), harmless to people, pets, & beneficial critters, but deadly to the larval forms of mosquitoes, fungus gnats, drain flies, & numerous other pest species. 😊

I learned two things from this video. I’m in Zone 7B. I started my peppers in early February because many of them were super hot and I knew they would take about a month to germinate. I patiently waited 6 weeks. Nothing happened. I was so frustrated. Then I came across this video, and I saw your method of using the H202 and paper towel method. With nothing to lose, I tried again. This time the seeds sprouted 7 to 10 days later. I just planted them in pots and waiting for the plants to pop up. I’ll let you know. The second thing I learned was that plants are happy in pairs so when I planted the sprouts I made sure to plant them in pairs. I didn’t know that. Thank you for teaching me these two things. Hopefully I’ll have a harvest of lots of spicy, exotic peppers to for homemade hot sauces.

Walmart's Hyper Tough 4' shop lights can also be a great deal. They have a 5,500-lumen unit for $20, and a 3,200-lumen unit for $15, and they're both 5,000k. I'm using an older version that's 5,000-lumen, and they have served me well.

Both! Sweet peppers & jalapeno peppers

I followed your paper towel method (from your earlier video) for germinating yellow bell pepper seeds that I saved from a fresh pepper that I was using in a salad about a month ago. I am also growing Marconi Red peppers, from purchased seeds, which are kind of longish and curvy. Now I have them in plastic cups with the first 2 leaves showing. Depending on the results, I may try some Jalapeno peppers next year. This first-time growing pepper from seed experiment, prompted me to invest into two heat mats with thermostat. In a couple of weeks, I will be using those heat mats again, to germinate my saved Chocolate Cherry and grape tomato seeds.

Didn't know pepper's are fine with a growing buddy and I don't have to thin them out. I always learn something new from you. Thank you 😊

Serrano, chiltepin, small bead chilies. We grind in stone mortor with red tomatoes. Yum!

Brian, Some of us are still using old T8/T5 compact florescent systems. Be sure to let people know that, in contrast to LEDs, the efficacy of these bulbs diminish over time &, thus, will need to be kept lower w/ each year of use to make up for the loss. 😊

Both! Having a small backyard, decided to grow more peppers (a lot of fruit in a smaller space). I do the lightbulb “grow lights”, and then if there is a sunny-ish day, I put them out to get sun. Gives them good sunlight and started hardening them off!

New Mexico Big Jim peppers are fantastic! Lots of meat when you roast and peel! This is a very helpful video, thanks mucho!

I started my peppers 2/20. Last frost date is mid April. They are almost ready for their second set of leaves. I never knew about soaking them in hydrogen peroxide. Thanks.

Thank you!!! I learned that I am just going to buy the seedlings at my local nursery this year again! ❤❤❤

First time growing seeds. I already had a. 4 Tier rack. It is 3 ft long. I bought shop lights. Works great. They were only $17 dollars each. I think heat mats are a game changer. Tomatoes germinated in 4 days. Peppers in 6 days. My favorite are sweet banana bounty peppers. Great video. Sharing with sisters ❤️🌺

I use a really cheap toilet paper because it breaks down better than paper towels and holds the moisture better. When using paper towels it can be difficult to remove the seeds without breaking the roots with the toilet paper it falls apart when you add water.