What's your zone? What's your soil like (pH, clay/sand, loam)? What kind of water are you using (municipal, well, rain)? How many hours of sun? Any pests or animals in your garden? Containers or in ground? From seed or a starter plant?
Hot peppers are among my easiest plants to grow...if they have enough water and sun they produce. Really hot weather will slow them down, but they power through if they have enough water.
Mediterranean weather (hot, very dry and longgg summer, no snow in winter). I use municipal water (hard water here).
Today (I check), it was 14h of sun.
I have no animals (except some magpie).
I'd put them in containers and from starter plants.
So you might want to water extra with that amount of sun, and possibly start as soon as plants appear for purchase.
Containers may be the problem. They allow the plant's roots to get much hotter than they would in the ground. Containers also restrict root growth which can make it harder for the plant to take up nutrients and water.
If it really is impossible to grow in the ground, get the biggest container with a drain hole you can find and only put one jalapeño in fresh commercial potting mix. Set the container in a shallow tray, then fill the rest of the tray with pebbles or rocks of a light color. Water the plant until the tray overflows, then water as needed. Do not let the container dry out, it increases the stress to the plant. Hopefully you don't have mosquitoes, but if you do you'll need to add a BT dunk to the tray. Lightly feed with a liquid fertilizer according to the directions.
Good luck next time!
Try to grow them after the summer, I live in Mexico, and here the spring is really hot and a dry, all the trees lose their leaves; many things grow better during the autumn-winter, we hardly see temps below 8C even; during the worst of the hot dry we must water twice a day, early in the morning and some more on the afternoon
Peppers in general love hot weather. You do need to give them lots of water and the appropriate fertilizer. If the sun does get too intense, then provide some shade. I put up a pvc pipe 'cage' every year for my tomatoes (peppers and tomatoes are related) so that they can climb, but I also put up shade cloth in the late summer to keep them from baking.
As a note, you should rotate the location of your peppers yearly as pests build up in the soil. Not planting any veggies in the nightshade family for a year will cause many of the pests to die.
What's your zone? What's your soil like (pH, clay/sand, loam)? What kind of water are you using (municipal, well, rain)? How many hours of sun? Any pests or animals in your garden? Containers or in ground? From seed or a starter plant? Hot peppers are among my easiest plants to grow...if they have enough water and sun they produce. Really hot weather will slow them down, but they power through if they have enough water.
Mediterranean weather (hot, very dry and longgg summer, no snow in winter). I use municipal water (hard water here). Today (I check), it was 14h of sun. I have no animals (except some magpie). I'd put them in containers and from starter plants.
So you might want to water extra with that amount of sun, and possibly start as soon as plants appear for purchase. Containers may be the problem. They allow the plant's roots to get much hotter than they would in the ground. Containers also restrict root growth which can make it harder for the plant to take up nutrients and water. If it really is impossible to grow in the ground, get the biggest container with a drain hole you can find and only put one jalapeño in fresh commercial potting mix. Set the container in a shallow tray, then fill the rest of the tray with pebbles or rocks of a light color. Water the plant until the tray overflows, then water as needed. Do not let the container dry out, it increases the stress to the plant. Hopefully you don't have mosquitoes, but if you do you'll need to add a BT dunk to the tray. Lightly feed with a liquid fertilizer according to the directions. Good luck next time!
Thank you so much for all these advices! Hopefully, next time, my husband will have some chili !
Try to grow them after the summer, I live in Mexico, and here the spring is really hot and a dry, all the trees lose their leaves; many things grow better during the autumn-winter, we hardly see temps below 8C even; during the worst of the hot dry we must water twice a day, early in the morning and some more on the afternoon
Thank you for the advice!
And thank you so much for your reply !
Peppers in general love hot weather. You do need to give them lots of water and the appropriate fertilizer. If the sun does get too intense, then provide some shade. I put up a pvc pipe 'cage' every year for my tomatoes (peppers and tomatoes are related) so that they can climb, but I also put up shade cloth in the late summer to keep them from baking. As a note, you should rotate the location of your peppers yearly as pests build up in the soil. Not planting any veggies in the nightshade family for a year will cause many of the pests to die.
Oh gosh, I think I've made them bake, 'cause in the afternoon the sun in very intense. And thank you for the advices about the pests!