HOW TO GROW SERRANO PEPPERS

A pepper variety that has just the right heat for a variety of dishes the Serrano pepper is a versatile paper variety to grow in your garden so we'll be growing our serrano pepper in this 16 inch wide container that holds about five gallons of soil the soil mix that I'm using to plant this pepper variety is about 50% compost mixed with 50% potting mix so the serrano pepper originated in Mexico and the heat rating of serrano pepper is slightly more spicy than a mild jalapeno so it's not very spicy it's not like a very hot pepper but it's a quite a versatile pepper that you can use for a variety of dishes and as you can see the plant has grown very well its a very healthy pepper plant and it's already showing a lot of peppers that can be harvested and as you can see this pepper plant is very easy to grow in containers and is one of the most healthy pepper plants I have grown now some gardeners believe in pruning their pepper plants so that it grows more bushy now in my experience peppers are naturally bushy and even if you don't prune them never they will grow into nice bushy plant now if you do not like super spicy peppers you will love the serrano pepper it's very easy to grow produces a lot of peppers and because they are not extremely hot they can be used in a variety of dishes as I mentioned earlier here you can see the peppers being harvested they very healthy and the plant will keep producing peppers the more you harvest the more peppers the plant will produce as you can see here this plant is loaded with peppers the key to growing great pepper plants is to make sure that the plan gets a lot of nutrients by using a rich compost or organic matter based potting mix and this was grown with about 50 percent organic matter and that provided the plant with a lot of nutrients that it would absorb and grow into this wonderful pepper plant now another thing that you need to remember is that do not use high nitrogen fertilizers especially when the pepper plant is established that will reduce the number of peppers that the plant produces you can use a tomato fertilizer that works great for peppers and about every three weeks you need to bathe your pepper plants with an Epsom salt solution which works wonders for the pepper plant so that was a quick review of the serrano pepper plant hope you liked it. Do leave me your comments if you love this pepper variety do let me know I'll see you again soon and a new episode until then goodbye