I use Dr. Earth Organic 5. One cup fert to one gallon water. Let sit for 24 hours, you've got tea. Add fert dry to old soil to replenish nutrients.

How much I feed depends on how much I water. One to three times a month. Leech for a week or two before harvest. Great growth, peppers taste excellent, and it's organic.

There are plenty of good ferts out there. I hear fish emultions and seaweed extract work well. I'm sure there are lots of opinions around here.

My neighbor grows a range of vegetables and peppers (mostly sweet) using miracle gro. With great success. I wouldn't use it my garden but I've had tomatoes from his and they were great. However my mom's tomatoes are the best and she uses the same fert I do.

habbob,

Hi! I've never heard of that fertilizer before. Yes, I prefer to use organic fertlizers too.

I have been using Fish emulsion, liquified seaweed, and Hasta Gro (6-12-6).

I have some Miracle Grow left, but I prefer to use the organic stuff. Hey, thanks for your input.

www.drearth.net I think.

Sounds like you're doin fine. I find peppers can have slow periods of growth... then they explode (mainly due to climate).

Save that Miracle Grow for something you aren't going to eat.

-HabBob

Thanks!

My guano tea recipe:

to a 5-gallon bucket of water add:
3 tbsp dry bar cave bat guano [high P]
3 tbsp mexican bat guano [high N]
3 tbsp worm castings
2 tbsp blackstrap molasses
2 tsp maxicrop powder [high K]
1 tsp epsom salts

with a fishtank air pump and air stone, I let it bubble for at least 24-36 hours [2-3 days is even better] to get the microherd going. Biodynamic action is the key to organic growing, and the molasses+worm castings+bubbling air stone action really gets the microculture off to a good start.

shelbyguy,

Thanks for the recipe. I have been making compost tea, but I haven't been adding the guano. Gives me something to think about.

Dean

The best fertilizer I've ever used is rabbit manure. You see great results usually within a week and it's so mild you can apply it straight from the bunny without burning your plants. It literally saved my garden last year.

If you can get hold of any you should give it a try.

Alan

My vote is for the Dr. Earth Organic 5
http://www.drearth.net/products/blended/

A superior blend of fish bone meal, feather meal, kelp meal, alfalfa meal, soft rock phosphate, fish meal, mined potassium sulfate, humic acid, seaweed extract, PRO-BIOTICÂ seven champion strains of beneficial soil microbes plus Ecto and Endo Mycorrhizae

It's good chit :)

Here is a link that might be useful: Dr Earth

Thanks you all.

I use compost I make out of foodscraps shredded paper ,coffee grounds Cow manure, leaves and spent brewery grain.I practice no till just mulch around plant with compost then cover with leaves. I also make compost tea and use as a foliar Ive great results and it is alot less work saves water and the worms do the tilling for me.

greenguy, I have compost piles. I use the compost in my garden. I also make compost tea, but have yet to use it on the peppers.

how often do i fertlize my hot pepper plants, once a week, or once every 2 weeks? i grow in containers, and i grow them in soiless mix.also i use liquid seeweed and liquid fish emulsion, with some bonemeal, thanks

I may be wrong but I think peppers require very little fertilizer. Once at first planting, then when the flowers show. I would imagine, if it is in a container, that you may need to fertilize, lightly, monthly to replenish what has been flushed away through watering.
Someone like Fiedlermeister or Smokemaster would know.

I use organic. One secret is to use alfalfa pellets. you can think of them as rabbit pellets before the rabbit eats them. I use them to make a tea. Alfalfa has lots of real important nutrients. I also buy cheap seaweed as a powder and add some. way cheaper then the liquid seaweed fert. it is sold as a feed for horses and other things. It is all the same stuff. North Atlantic Kelp powder. I saw it recently for about a dollar a pound. you might try Fedco Seeds in Maine. can not remember where I saw it. but fedco has all kinds of stuff.