Fourth year of failing at growing peppers

tnkrer · July 23, 2015

First year - (was first year of gardening) - rabits ate everything
second year - got a two small green peppers at the end of the season from 3 plants
Third year - 5 plants, one plant yielded 6+ red peppers and another yielded 6+ orange peppers and remaining three plants yielded zip .. Still I call that tremendous progress

So I was hopeful that I will do better this year .. and it started out quite well
but now most of them are not growing very well

Don't know what I should do .. They are looking pretty sad. I am going to spray them with bloom buster stuff to see if they will grow faster.

I treat them very similar to my tomatoes and cucumbers, which are wildly successful. The grow media runs drier for the peppers. Its 3:3:2 instead of 3:2:1. I use tomato-tone fertilizer strip. Its grown in the the earth-tainer. Is there a fertilizer that works better than tomato-tone for peppers?

July 23, 2015	#1
tnkrer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: MA 6a/b Posts: 352	Fourth year of failing at growing peppers First year - (was first year of gardening) - rabits ate everything second year - got a two small green peppers at the end of the season from 3 plants Third year - 5 plants, one plant yielded 6+ red peppers and another yielded 6+ orange peppers and remaining three plants yielded zip .. Still I call that tremendous progress So I was hopeful that I will do better this year .. and it started out quite well but now most of them are not growing very well Don't know what I should do .. They are looking pretty sad. I am going to spray them with bloom buster stuff to see if they will grow faster. I treat them very similar to my tomatoes and cucumbers, which are wildly successful. The grow media runs drier for the peppers. Its 3:3:2 instead of 3:2:1. I use tomato-tone fertilizer strip. Its grown in the the earth-tainer. Is there a fertilizer that works better than tomato-tone for peppers?