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This video explains how to sow and grow Palermo peppers successfully from seed to harvest. It shows the conditions sweet Italian peppers need and how to support healthy plant development.
The guide covers germination temperature, light levels, watering, feeding and transplanting, along with tips for preventing weak growth. It also explains how to care for plants as they mature to encourage good fruit production.
If you want to grow sweet peppers at home, this video provides practical beginner-friendly advice for growing Palermo peppers in pots, greenhouses or sheltered garden spaces.
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Look at what I've grown. Only joking. I
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bought these from the supermarket. So,
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we're going to try and grow these
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ourselves and see how well we get on as
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we bought these from the supermarket.
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I've never seen these sort of peppers
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before and they look absolutely amazing.
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And yeah, these are used more in gourmet
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restaurants and stuff like that because
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they're easier to chop up, easier to
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cook, and they taste a lot sweeter as
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well than the bell peppers. So, let's
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get these sewn and let's get them
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germinated and see if we can grow some
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of these peppers this year. So, these
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are the Palomore peppers which I spotted
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in Asda and they look absolutely
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delicious. I've never seen peppers like
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this before. I've seen the little ones
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um which you can get, but I've never
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seen them this long. And you don't see
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seed packets selling these sort of
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peppers from what I've ever seen in the
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supermarkets or garden centers. So I
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thought why not give them a try. I love
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an experiment down here at the a
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lotment. So I thought why not give them
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a try and see if if we can grow them
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ourselves. And the best thing about
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buying the peppers sometimes in the seed
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packets is that you'll get a whole load
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more seeds in a pepper than you would do
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in a seed packet and it works out
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cheaper. So, these are grown in Spain,
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so around the same climate as what we
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have. Obviously, it's a bit warmer
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there, but we do have hot summer some
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years. So, yeah, we'll see if we can
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grow them. And I've read up on these.
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And these are a lot sweeter than the
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normal bell peppers. And they start off
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as green, then ripen to yellow, then
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ripen to red. So, whichever color and
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sweetness you want, that's when you let
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them go ripen to. So, yeah. Let's cut
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them open. Let's take the seeds out and
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let's get these sewn.
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So, we got some plant pots what we're
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going to use. So, we need to put some
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multi-purpose compost in these.
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Like so.
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That should do. So then next we need the
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seeds. Hopefully there's some seeds in
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these. Like I said, I've never seen
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these before. So we'll see how many
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seeds we get in a pepper.
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Hey, we're looking good. We are looking
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good.
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So I don't think we'll need the other
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pepper because I think enough in this
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one. So, let's get the seeds out.
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Plant about 10 in each one. Obviously,
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we don't need all the plants, but like I
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said, we don't know how well these are
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going to germinate
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or if they'll do well at all. But, I do
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love an experiment when gardening.
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Who else loves an experiment garden?
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Just try and separate them up a bit
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because we don't want them all growing
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next to each other.
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Obviously, when they get bigger, we'll
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thin them out into individual pots. So,
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that's a wonderful.
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That's what I mean. Like if you bought a
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packet of pepper seeds, you'd probably
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only get about 10 in it and they'd be
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really expensive to buy this variety if
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you did buy it. So, it's great to
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purchase pepper itself and then do that.
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I do the same as well with certain
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tomatoes. If there's a variety of tomato
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in the supermarket that looks good,
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looks healthy, looks decent,
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I'll use a tomato from the supermarket.
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And when I'm doing the tomatoes, I never
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dry them out. I just scoop the seeds
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out, plant them straight into the
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compost, and they grow. So yeah, why not
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try it with the peppers as well
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and see how
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So yeah, I definitely don't need the
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other pepper.
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I think we got enough in that one.
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But yeah, we're going to experiment and
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see how all these grow.
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So that's enough peppers in there. We
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still got plenty of seed. I'll take that
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pepper home to eat it.
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Might as well. See what it tastes like.
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I just need to cover them with a layer
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of compost.
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The only thing with peppers is that they
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need a lot of heat to help them
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germinate. So, if you got a heat mat,
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perfect. I haven't got a heat mat, but
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I've got a nice hot flap. So they'll go
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on my window sill where it's nice and
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light and where it's warm. We'll cover
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these with cling film when we get home
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after we we'll water them at home so
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that we don't get water all in the car
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when we're taking them home. We'll water
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them cover them with cling film and then
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when they start to germinate we'll take
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the cling film off and let them grow and
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then we'll bring the plants back down to
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the a lotment around April time. That's
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if they do germinate. We can only wait
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and see. So yeah, there we are. We have
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three tubs with about 10 to 15 seeds in
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each one. Like I said, we won't want all
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the plants, but we'll get the best ones
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which are growing and see how well we
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get on.
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So, make sure you drop us a follow to
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stay up to date with how well this
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variety of pepper grows. That's if they
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grow at all and if they germinate.
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Fingers crossed they do. we have success
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and hopefully we'll get some huge
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peppers like them. And apparently they
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produce a lot more peppers on the plants
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than bell peppers. So we'll see. We'll
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see how well they get on. It's an
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experiment and I love doing experiments
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and showing how well I get on down here
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at the plot. So hit that follow, leave a
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comment, let me know if you've grown
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them before. Until next time everyone,
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remember keep smiling, keep shining, and
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keep gardening.
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