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Our Pepper Fertilizer is a liquid plant food made specifically for pepper varieties, in garden beds, raised beds or containers. It provides balanced nutrition to support fruit development, steady growth, and budding and bloom.
It is a 3.6-3-5.1, with more potassium than nitrogen, for a plant that has to set and ripen fruit rather than just grow leaf. It is dosed by plant size: a smaller amount for plants under twelve inches, double for large or fruiting plants, once a week through the growing season.
Mix it into a watering can at the rate for your plant size, or run it through a hose-end sprayer. Feed once a week from planting until the season ends.
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Plant appearance can also be affected by light, watering, roots, temperature, and other growing conditions, so feeding is one part of overall plant care.
3.6% nitrogen, all of it nitrate — the nutrient behind leaf and stem growth.
5.1% soluble potash, the largest number in the analysis — the nutrient behind fruit set and sizing.
3% available phosphate — the nutrient behind root development.
Watering can — plants under 12 inches
1 Tbs (15 mL) per gallon of water
Feed once weekly through the growing season
Watering can — large / fruiting plants
2 Tbs (30 mL) per gallon of water
Feed once weekly through the growing season
Hose end sprayer
Set dial to above feedrates
Weekly through the growing season
Leaf misting (optional)
1 tsp per quart (32 oz) of water
Every 1–2 weeks
Direct, bright light for six to eight hours a day. Peppers set the most fruit in full sun; in dim light plants stay small and flowers drop.
Water moderately to heavily, letting the soil go mostly dry between waterings rather than staying wet. Uneven watering during fruit set is the usual cause of blossom end rot.
Well-draining soil that still holds some water, with a pH of 6.0 to 6.8. Compost mixed into the bed or container gives that balance.
Peppers want 70 to 85F days and nights above 60F. Flowers often drop when nights stay below 60F or daytime highs push past 90F.
Feed Pepper Fertilizer once a week through the growing season: 1 tablespoon per gallon of water for plants under twelve inches, and 2 tablespoons per gallon for large or fruiting plants.
Cut peppers with snips, leaving a short stem on the fruit. They are good to eat green, and leaving them to color adds sweetness and heat.
Pepper Fertilizer is a 3.6-3-5.1 formula built for a heavy-cropping warm-season plant: nitrogen for the framework of leaves, potassium for setting and ripening fruit, and calcium, which peppers need a steady supply of to form sound fruit. Feed once a week through the growing season, from when your peppers go in until the season ends. Peppers are a warm-season crop, so there’s no fall or winter schedule.
Liquid. You mix it into water and give it as a watering, so the nutrients reach the roots dissolved rather than sitting in the soil breaking down; all of its nitrogen is nitrate, which the roots take up directly. For a plant that’s fed weekly and is flowering and fruiting at the same time, that’s the practical form: a measured dose each week, in step with what your pepper plant is doing.
Yes. Pepper Fertilizer is formulated for pepper plants as a group, and bell, jalapeño, habanero, cayenne and the rest draw on the same nutrients in the same pattern: leaf growth first, then a long run of flowers and fruit. Same feed, same weekly schedule.
It depends on the size of your pepper plant. Under twelve inches tall, 1 tablespoon per gallon of water; large or fruiting plants, 2 tablespoons per gallon. Young plants need less, and once they’re carrying fruit the demand rises and the rate steps up to match. For a row, a hose-end sprayer set to match those rates does the same job.
Pepper Fertilizer is formulated for peppers. Tomatoes and peppers are often grown and fed together, and this won’t harm a tomato, but tomatoes have their own feeding pattern and we make a dedicated tomato fertilizer for them.
Pepper Fertilizer is a dilute liquid feed, and dilution is what matters here. Fertilizer burn happens when concentrated salts sit against the roots: too much product in too little water. Match the rate to your pepper plant, 1 tablespoon per gallon for plants under twelve inches and 2 tablespoons for large or fruiting ones, once a week in season, and the nutrients arrive in solution at a strength the roots take up as they water. Water it in as part of a normal watering.
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