What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we are going to cover growing

pepper plants but growing them upside down. I know that we've talked about these

topsy-turvy tomatoes before and also

strawberries but is it possible also to grow peppers upside down? The short

answer is yes it is pop possible I mean not every plant is going to do well upside down but peppers are one that does and the reason why is because of two core reasons right number one, they don't have really deep roots, which means that you can grow them upside down just fine because they don't need to go too far in the soil. And then number two, the fruits are not exceptionally heavy.

So they're not going to fall and collect and sort of be distorted in a way that

would make them not palatable to grow upside down.

So like if you're going to do let's say upside down cantaloupe, well I don't know about that.

You're going to have to support that in some way and it kind of just seems

impractical to do it upside down because it's going to cause more trouble than it's

worth. Whereas with peppers it actually can save space.

You're going to avoid weeds, you're going to have pretty much no diseases and no pests.

You don't need to stake it because they're going downwards, not upwards.

And thanks to gravity, water and nutrients are going... going to

gravity, water and nutrients are going to be easily delivered to the

root zone. So if you're going to grow peppers vertically,

you can actually just buy one of those like topsy-turvy bags or any sort of

copycat version of those or you can just make your own upside-down container.

The easiest thing to use here is going to be one of those five-gallon buckets,

maybe something from the Home Depot.

And what you'll want to do is you'll want to drill a hole in the bottom,

and that's where you thread your seedling.

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