Ultimate Chilli Soil Recipe: Get Perfect Peppers!

Have you tried Mycorrhizal Fungi before? What other amendments do you use? 🌱Looking for Chilli pepper seeds? chillichumpseeds.com/ 🌱Manage your plants with my free app: seedsio.com/ Edit: let me clarify, you can grow perfectly good chilli peppers in a simple compost mix. This soil mix is designed to optimise many aspects of growing (drainage, pest and disease reduction, protection from blossom end rot, and of course producing bigger harvests). If you, as beginner grower, want to keep things simple with plain compost, that is perfectly fine. Just a couple tips: 1. be very cautious with watering. While the root system is still finding it's way in your pot, water can collect in areas where there aren't roots. So it may seem your plant is dry, it actually may not be and your roots won't stretch into those constantly wet areas 2. If you notice leaves going light coloured, don't jump to using more fertiliser. This is probably due to overwatering. 3. Start feeding right away, use a half strength tomato feed every 3rd watering for a month. Then switch to every other watering. 4. If leaves start showing light green between the veins, consider using epsom salts foliar spray. 5. Sweet peppers seems to be more susceptible to blossom end rot, so I would really consider adding calcium in some form when you pot them

Hate to admit it but only watched this vid to comment 'but you didn't add Epsom salts'. But you did. Good work!

My mix 1 part perlite 1 part vermiculite 2 parts compost (1 mushroom , 1 dairy) 2 part coco coir 3 parts worm castings

I use this mix after watching your previous videos and have started using the Mycorrhizal fungi for the first time this year. My plants are deep green in colour and doing very well indeed. Bearing in mind I'm in Lancashire and the weather this year I'm very very happy with progress so far. I have used a couple of sprays of epsom salts on the leaves as well. I discovered a couple of years ago that following your grow chillis videos was the way forward. My only problem this year will be what to do with my excess chiilis from last year in the freezer once this years crop arrives. I still have sauces and jam from then as wel despite giving plenty away 👍

Very cool thank you so much will have to share with my friend he’s been have a very hard time growing peppers 👍

Thank you ChilliChump for taking the time to show us your soil recipe... You know over the years we have known each other, I have asked questions in this area, I am so pleased to see you give us a demonstration of the amounts of each nutrient that you are adding along with explaining its purpose,. those reminders are always important. I pretty much had all the nutrients that your adding to your soil recipe, but the one I have trouble with is compost... So I hope that it's available from stores.... I am reasoning that I should look into how the compost is created and what goes into it, I'm thinking along the lines of all-natural and examining what components created the compost. I certainly want to try your soil recipe and see what kind of results I get.... The discussion about micronutrients... That is the subject that I have been interested in this particular growing season I purchased some products with micronutrients in them, and will be watching the results which so far I don't see any thing negative to report and I think that's a positive thing 🙂 as you explained about micronutrients I agree that they are a very important component. Also the discussion about Epson salt, I am so glad you brought that subject up and explained what it does and how to use it. This episode is going to be a great reference for me. 🙂🌶

Hi teresa south Africa love all your videos planting for years done it all me self but fluding by us killing all years of battling chilli I've done all

This is very similar to my pepper mix. I love fish bone meal. I use sulpomag instead of epsom salt for Mag but it has P & K .I prefer pumice to perlite. I would add gypsum to your mix. I use gypsum and wollastinite my mix. Have you tried seacrop? It's magnesium and trace minerals. It's great for foliar feeding. I think sulphate is really important for Nitrogen use efficiency and for creating oils that produce good flavor.

Great 👍🏻 Thanks!

Broer I'm growing my chillie plants on my stoep in Greece ,they are getting at least 9 to 10 hours of sunlight, if I don't water them every 36 hours their leaves are looking like an old lady's face. Great video by the way.👍👍

Thanks Chillies chump for this very informative and well explained video. Do you have a recipe for a seedling germination mix please.

Hi Shaun, great video I will try this for next year to give things a boost, this year is a write off! I'd like to ask a bit more on the compost itself, what one do you use? Yours looks really nice, dark and crumbly. Can you recommend a good one to try? I bought some cheap supermarket one and its been quite 'hay' like, very fibrous rather than a rich soil consistency. Are not all composts not equal? Thanks

Hey I have that same trowel 😂 Awesome stuff from Australia.

Looks pretty good. I wouldn't say vermicompost and chicken manure are interchangeable though. Chicken manure is way hotter with high nitrogen. I use volcanic rock in my mixes to help with drainage. It doesn't float to the top and breakdown like perlite.

I use 50% vermicompost and 50% rice hulls and it works like a champ

I add loam soil to my mix, as far as far as microbes or mycelium, things like worm casting or compost have all you need, even the air has mycelium floating in it. Wood/leafs in the soil will help mycelium grow. Saying, that I am not a fan of very much composing wood in my soil that most store bought soil has.

I have a liquid Mycorrhizal that I use for bare-root raspberries, do you think using this at the planting stage is a suitable option? I always thought that Vermiculite and Perlite were kind of the same thing, what difference does it make using both? The main reason for all these questions is that we have just moved house to Norfolk and I am now setting up from scratch again with the bonus that I now have a greenhouse 😀😀 As an aside I am loving Seedsio and have implemented the NFC tags.

I like your recipe. It's packed with a good balance of nutrients and promotes drainage. It's easy to see why you have such great results with your peppers.

Hi Shaun just a Quick question on overwatering, last season I used some 20L self watering pots with really good results, at the end of the season when dismantling the pots, the root system had made its way to the bottom of the reservoir, so sitting in water , would this not be the same as overwatering?

Whats your opinion of growbags for chillis?