PEPPER UNIVERSITY | Atomic Pepper Seeds

  • Common Pepper Plant Pests and How to Manage Them

    by The Botanist
    Peppers are tough plants, but a handful of pests show up on them again and again. The good news: almost every one of them can be managed, and mos...
    Posted in Pest Management

  • How to Clone a Pepper Plant

    by The Botanist
    To clone a pepper plant, cut a healthy shoot 4 to 6 inches long just below a node, from a disease free mother. Remove the lower leaves and any flow...
    Posted in Plant Cloning

  • How to Fertilize Pepper Plants by Species

    by The Botanist
    Fertilize peppers by matching the feed to the growth stage and the species, not the calendar. Get soil pH into the 6.0 to 6.8 range first, use a ni...
    Posted in Fertilizing Peppers

  • How to Grow Hotter Peppers: The Science of Boosting Capsaicinoids

    by The Botanist
    The most reliable ways to make peppers hotter are to grow a genuinely hot variety, harvest pods at full ripe color, keep nitrogen moderate, and eas...
    Posted in Growing Hotter Peppers

  • Isolation Grown Pepper Seeds: What They Are and Why It Matters

    by The Botanist
    Isolation grown pepper seeds come from plants that were physically separated by variety, using tents, cages, or distance, so insects cannot cross p...
    Posted in Isolation Growing

  • Grow Diaries: Jeff's Super Hots on the Deck in Lexington, Kentucky

    by Atomic Pepper Seeds
    Welcome to the first one of these. I've been wanting to start a grow diary for a while now. Somewhere to show what you're all growing, not just wha...
    Posted in Grow Diary

  • How to Germinate Super Hot Pepper Seeds: The Complete Guide

    by The Botanist
    Super hot pepper seeds germinate best in warm soil, about 78 to 85 F (25 to 29 C), kept damp but not wet. Soak them first, then sprout in a damp p...
    Posted in Germination Guide