r/containergardening

First time gardener here. What happened to my banana peppers? Thinking maybe blossom end rot. Any advice?

This is Polly my pepper bff lol. I've had her in a pot for 3 years. In the summer she goes outside. In the winter, I chop her down to 1/3 and put her in a west facing window. Water about once a month. She'll still pop off peppers for me even in the dead of winter.

I fertilize with a tomato pepper fertilizer and top dress during the growing season. The peppers aren't huge, but neither are my in ground poblanos so 🤷‍♀️. I've started saving seeds by pepper size to see if that helps.

But overall pretty easy and successful. I've got some specialty pepper varieties I'm going to try and overwinter next and I'm going to try a small container garden with grow lights this winter...see what happens.

I am a novice gardener and I've had varying degrees of success. One of the things that I'm still not clear about is fertilizing. When I first started, I definitely did not feed my plants well because I didn't understand the timing of how it all needed to come together. This growing season, which is my third, I'm getting a little more adept; however, I still don't know when to use which fertilizer when.

Once my seedlings were established, I fertilized them with Vigoro and that has been a rousing success. Now that my Persian cucumbers are blooming I'm frozen because I don't want to under-fertilize but I don't want to over-fertilize either. Is now even a good time to introduce a different fertilizer? The fertilizer I have for blooms is Incredible Bulb as well as fruit and bloom booster.

Fertilize or chill?

Hello, I purchased this gem avocado a few months ago. I got it in pretty rough shape, but was able to nurse it back to health and drive lots of new growth on the two branches it did have. But, I made a mistake and cut a longer part of the upper trunk that extended beyond the top branch and cluster of leaves off. After I did this, the trunk started turning brown and the top cluster of leaves look like they are dying.

I repotted the plant when I got it. The pot is sitting in a bigger pot with room between the bottom, there is plenty of drainage.

The plant is positioned to get pretty good morning light and some good filtered shade in the afternoon.

I have a moisture meter that I use to check and water when the meter starts to read "moist" instead of "wet"

Can I save this plant? Please help!!

First time ever growing lettuce from seed! The leaves are so pretty!

Hey I have two dwarf eggplant plants and both of them bloom flowers and they fall.
At first they were outside and it was too hot so I brought them in. And the flowers are still falling. I’m pollinating but nothing. I’ve had prob 10-20 flowers per plant. Every single one had fallen off. I’m so disheartened 😭
Does anyone else know what I’m missing. It’s healthy otherwise

please let me know if i am in the wrong place

Need help with drying out olive tree. Any help would be appreciated.

Got this olive tree 2 years ago from a garden centre, it looked luscious green and beautiful. I kept it in its original pot which has good drainage and the soil always drains out when I water it which is once per week in the summer, and once every 2 weeks all year round. It’s kept outside on the west facing terrace, but it’s out in the open so it gets loads of light. With that being said I live in Belgium so the winters although not too harsh are cold and gloomy and only gets very sunny and hot here after May.

The tree has been doing well all thsee years, but two months ago, I noticed that the leaves started yellowing and drying out. I’m really not sure whats happening and what to do, AI has suggested that it may be a normal seasonal change, but after 2 months it has not change and only continued to get worse

I’m really not what is happening or what I can try and the cause of this. Please I would love any advice or insight on what this may be and how I can fix it. I’m really keen on keeping this tree alive as I’ve paid good money for it and it has really become a part of our family

Thank you!!!

A while back I noticed a few tiny chili seedlings popping up in the soil of a plant I'd just bought (must've hitched a ride in the potting mix). I let them grow, and now they've gotten surprisingly big and are even flowering!

A few questions for anyone with experience growing chilies:

Should I repot them into their own containers? If so, what pot size would you recommend at this stage?

I've read that chili plants go dormant starting around October — how should I care for them as they head into dormancy?

Any tips on watering, feeding, or general care would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance! Location Kolkata

I'm struggling with the hosepipe ban but this is my first attempt at growing melons. I've got about 5 melons growing but I'm not sure when they're going to be ripe. Should they go yellow?

Did my second try at container corn.

These were 30 gallon bags with some spent soil from last season amended with steer, chicken, and mushroom compost, and garden tone.

Day 67 from a direct sow (although I had trouble with racoons digging it up).

Had a lot of aphids towards the end, but the insides were still good.. the harvest is from one container, and I still have the other 3 to go.

Very sweet and way better than my try last year.

In retrospect, I should have planted less in each container and fertilized more at the early stages. I didn't feed at all for about a month and then fed with Alaska fish fertilizer and switched to a Neptune's harvest I had laying around once per week. I probably should have fed more nitrogen early on, but I think it still turned out well.

I tried this last year with another early variety, but had some pollination problems a tons of pests. This year I was more vigilant on the caterpillars and 'forced' wind pollination by hand.

Dwarf lemon that has been in pots its whole life, how do I handle this?

Currently in a large tub, at least 20 gallons

Here she is, in all her glory. The downside is, it created a lot of hidey-holes for bugs.

1-3 pics of the Kale with fasciation

4 - my normal kale stalk

5 - cat tax

My dwarf cavendish has a ton of pups - at least 4 or 5. Are any of these big enough to safely remove and replant?