Overwintering Peppers - Keep Your Plants Alive for Years - Pepper Geek
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Part 2: Un-Overwintering Pepper Plants
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Pepper plants are perennial by nature, meaning they can live for several years if the conditions are right. In climates with winters, outdoor chili plants can be brought indoors to keep them alive until next year's spring.
In this video, we'll share our method for overwintering peppers. The process isn't for everyone, but if you have a special plant that you'd like to keep alive for next year (instead of starting from seeds again), you can try it out. Also, with seeds going out of stock more than ever, keeping your plants makes a lot of sense!
Remember that pests are your #1 enemy! Replacing soil and being watchful for pests is critical to avoiding and indoor infestation.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:07 What is overwintering?
1:11 Benefits
2:35 Drawbacks
3:25 How to overwinter peppers
5:27 Pruning back plants
6:28 Why remove all the leaves?
7:09 Can you propagate pepper branches?
7:33 Removing the soil
9:02 Trimming the root ball
9:39 Neem oil dunk for pests
10:28 Re-potting the plant in fresh soil
Common Questions:
12:05 Best container size for overwintering?
13:05 Can I get fruits indoors?
14:09 How much to prune?
14:31 Ideal temperature
14:57 Watering
15:09 Fertilizing
15:31 Lighting
15:54 Moving the plant back outside in spring
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Been growing peppers for 60 years. One of the best articles I've ever watched. Bravo!!!
Thanks, that’s encouraging. Peppers are beautiful. 🌶🌶🌶🪴
me too! ( okay 40 odd years) I love these young people!
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It's great to see their enthusiasm!
2 inches of sand on the top will keep gnats from escaping the soil and they will die. It also helps retain moisture.
Trimming the leaves back 3+ days before uprooting will increase your survival rate because it gives the plant a chance to heal before the next trauma (uprooting). Love the video though! I'll have to try this, although I have 7 months of snow in northern Canada, so I'm not sure how long it'll stay dormant.
mine did well by not cutting back this month n even had peppers growing through winter but had mine in pots to begin with but cut back roots n put some in smaller pots, they need sun in winter n water occasionally, I usually have around 7 I do this to each yr
I got a very late start on my peppers this year as the first set of seeds did not germinate at all (too cold). By the time I got more seeds and replanted, it was June. My peppers are just now blooming (first part of September in zone 8b, October 15-ish first expected frost date). So . . . I'm going to try overwintering for first time. I have 18 plants to repot and bring indoors, quite a daunting task for sure! Thanks for the helpful video.
I'm also in zone 8b ( SoCal high desert) and we have a few days down to 29F and several days in the 31-33. My pepper plants in the raised beds suffered severe damages to the upper branches and leaves. Only the trunks and lower branches are still green. Some peppers I have in pots, I moved them to the southern wall and they have lots of sunlight and a bit of heat from the house so they are still survived, the fruits are still on, just look sad. I don't bring them inside because I am also having other fig cuttings, tomato cuttings ... to the south windows. The peppers I have this year are just regular varieties like green bell peppers, jalapenos ( mild variety which is not my preference) and some sweet peppers I bought from the stores, so not that valuable to bring inside the house with risk of pests, plus I haven't had time to the unheated green houses are still not properly set up. I'm starting many seeds from the rarer varieties like carolina reaper, chiltepin, komodo dragon, cubanell, savina,.yellow, purple and white bell peppers. They are all harder to germinate and propagate, so I'll probably use this overwinter method next year as this is a very effective way to prevent pests get inside the house.
I bring in some of my herb plants by repotting into garden soil and pots that fit indoors. What I do to prevent bugs is simply dry the blossoms of my mums, which I pinch off as they begin to die to encourage further flowering. Those dried blossoms contain pyrethrins. I just sprinkle the dried blossoms around the soil and no more bugs ; )
Interesting. I looked at my largest mum that had lots of blossoms and all the early blossoms are gone. It's like someone cut all of them. Do you know if animals like to eat them? I know that groundhog comes around but never saw him go after mums.
It is nice that someone actually knows that pepper plants can be perennial. Most people think they are just annual as that is how they are advertised!
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You’d be surprised what’s perennial lol.
Best video on overwintering peppers that I have seen on RUclips...and believe me, I have searched for and watched PLENTY. Thanks for the time , effort, and thought you put into making this fantastic video.
I'm really happy that he included info on re-introducing them to the outside in the Spring!
I am going to try this with my reaper plants and taipin peppers.
I live in Canada and I really appreciate your metric conversions. I'm a little bit older and know both systems and I'd be able to figure it out otherwise, but I like that you take the time to add it into your videos. I'm just getting into growing hot peppers and this is the most informative channel I've come across so far. Great job! keep doing what you're doing. Love it!
I'm in Maine and folks in cold climates, this is key info. I had a power outage in the cool room I was overwintering my peps in, and lost all but one plant -- but that one plant, oh boy was it a real producer in its second year. This year I'm overwintering as many chiles as I can fit and hoping I can keep the conditions roughly correct for six months. Hopefully next year I will have a lot more chiles in year 2 and get that production boost.
Love this. I brought in one of my jalapeno plants for three years in a row. The stalk was as big as my thumb. It produced more peppers every year. Unfortunately, the third year it bit the dust as I was not as diligent in caring for it. Thank you ... have subscribed.
Fantastic overwintering pepper plants tutorial! Will be applying your technique on our pepper plants today ♡
I named my pepper Pete and I didn't want to pull him! Thanks for the video
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Very timely video! I have been planning to prep my peppers for overwintering, and this was just the motivation I needed to get it done, thanks! 😁 I felt like Morticia with the roses though LOL
Perfect timing for this video as I was wondering how to overwinter my two happy and healthy fish peppers. Thank you for posting!
Be sure to do a good job at rinsing and getting rid of bugs and their eggs from the roots before moving it indoors, like he has explained. We made this mistake last last Fall, and all winter and early spring we had fungus gnats throughout our house and infesting all our other indoor plants. They are also called drain flies and they lay eggs in organic material and the larvae feed on it and then become tiny black flies that get in your face and behave like fruit flies. Hard to get rid of, but we bought a product called Mosquito Dunks and soaked a Dunk in the watering can over night and used the water to water all the indoor plants each week for a month or so. It worked! Mosquito Dunks are harmless to humans and animals. They only kill the larvae of flying insects which eat it.
Can you buy this in Ontario Canada?
The active ingredient in Mosquito dunks is "bacillus thuringiansis israeli". Any product containing this would work.
BT works good too. Bacteria that starts with a T. It's a natural product. A bacteria naturally found in soil. It kills all kind of bugs including fungus knats. All the rage.
Thank you so much for this video! I needed this video cause I'm in the middle of bringing my plants indoors
This is the one of the best and more accurate video about overwintering peppers .Thank you very much .
Excellent detailed video! And one of my favorite channels to watch. As a new gardener, my peppers have done well this summer and I plan on following these suggestions this winter for a couple of my plants. Fingers crossed. 🤞🤞
Thanks pepper geek. Making my 3 car stall into my plant room for my flowers and peppers.
Hey, thanks! I thought about doing this last year, but this year I'm definitely gonna give it a go. Great video!
Seriously under-rated channel man - love your videos!
I didn't even know you could do this. I've kept pepper plants inside in their original pots (the ones that were in pots) without pruning or soil replacement and always get pests, even some on my houseplants so I stopped trying. I'm going to try this method for my heathly/unique plants I definitely want to keep. Thanks man!
To further confuse fungas gnats, i like to place a layer of play sand on top of the soil and bottom water. I find a lot of success with this
what does the play sand do to them?
@@thecyclingcouple4438 makes it harder for them to burrow into the soil.
I HATE fungus gnats. Me and my peroxide had some battles this year.
Ever try mosquito bits? Works like a charm they won't reproduce.
@@MrBigangry tried that last year, still got fungus gnats. What’s the trick?
Thank you very much this was very helpful. I have a bunch of indoor plants that aren't doing anything for me at the moment and I wanted to downsize everything so I could make room for my new seedlings and the platform for them for the new season but also wanted to preserve the plants as well and this greatly helped. Now I got a few hours of work ahead of me LOL.
Good to see you outside for once
Love your pepper and your pepper will love you back! Most folks don’t know what a pepper plant can do and how happy they can be in a sun room even here on planet Sweden.
Many, many thanks. I just finished my Tabasco’s. I’ll let you know how I did in the spring.
Another 5 star video with pro tips for days....kind thanks to you.
I just converted over a extra closet in my new place for my peppers in the winter :) going to buy some new potting soil this next week
Where i am, fall & winter are the best seasons for starting to grow them, this year i planted 2 bacatum varieties, ghost pepper plant, a naga viper, moruga scorpion and a Thai orange. Were in for a wet spring.
This is a fantastic video. I subscribed. Very well done. I’ve done overwintering before but not with the cutback and root wash. Just a little cutback and bring the dirt and mites and bugs and eggs and grubs and… well, you get were I’m going with this. And I just dealt with the bugs etc as they showed up. Can’t wait to do this!
Thank you. I'll try this with most, if not all my peppers.
This is the best video I have seen on overwintering plants.
Thank you!!!
I had 2 out of 7 peppers come back from last year. The Burnish Bush and Jalapeno made it the King of the North bell pepper didn't. I love the Burpee Burning Bush hot pepper plant. It's coming in again in zone 5a this year as well as Aji Rico.
Perfect timing and you answered every question I had on overwintering. Thank you for another great video!
Perfect video!
I am so happy to see this information on pepper plants because I have so many that did well this summer that I would like to keep. I'm in NorCal and we are starting to see some frost. I hope I'm not to late in getting them out of the raised beds. I was going to put them in the greenhouse but the temps in there are 80 to 100, maybe by the window in the garage instead. Well done.
This is such great information, and it just always reminds me of growing weed. Literally all of these principles apply to weed.
When I tell you I have been WAITING for y'all to do a video on this subject, lol. I love your content!
Haha I’m sayin just in time
@@goodgnarfun lol they had to wait like we all did but I've been THINKING on this one. Would it be better to go hydro indoors? Should I leave leaves? I have a few lights, they'll be fine...right?
Check out "khang starr" he does hydro peppers.
@@AlexXDiety I have a mother plant that I clone. I used to keep peppers in the dirt but electricity is expensive so i only grow marijuana.
Hi from central Portugal; Just letting you & anyone who's interested know, I left last years green pepper plants outside in the soil over this last winter..All the plants are now looking green & healthy. I did take the extra precaution of sheltering the roots from any weather with some light boarding.
That is great! Wish we could leave some outside, but I know what would happen 🥶
I think our winter in Central Portugal was quite warm this year so that might have helped too.
Super appreciate the conversions in the video!
I live in North Idaho and our season is short so I have been looking Into this.
Thank you. I'd have never thought about washing the roots... - This year I planted my two peppers too late in May amids a slug invasion and they ended up rather small with one tiny and no peppers. So I planned to dig them out and to put them into the garden-house along with the vines and the peach, so they might continue growing, but I fear it might get too cold for them, so I imagined they might be better kept indoors, to develop a 'proper' size and perhaps a pepper, that is not nipped in the bud by a greedy slug.
I'm a new gardener. 👩🌾 last year I harvested a few peppers. I was able to overwinter two pepper plants last fall. This year I have about eight different pepper plants. I have so many peppers this year. I'm going to try to overwinter all of the plants this winter.
Thanks again second time watching this… about to pull my whole garden here in kc. Trying to decide wich to keep. Stay safe guys
Thanks for nice Presentation. I am going to do this winter.
I overwintered 2 pepper plants last year, and I set them back by mistake, when I moved them outside again. They bounced back, though, and really produced bountifully this summer! It’s really convenient to move them if they’re planted in 3-5 gal grow bags, I move them into my living room for the winter, and I cut them back for the winter almost as hard as this, but they do grow some new leaves during winter, by a sunny window. If they do flower, I snap those off, until they go outside. You can really get a head start on the pepper season this way!
I do Sam's with big plant pots n grow bags
So you just leave them in the same grow bags, prune, and take them inside right? This is what I'm hoping to do as well, I don't really want to go thru buying indoor mix and uprooting all that. Also, I had absolutely no pest problems on my pepper plants so I feel a little more comfortable not cleaning and repotting before I bring them in.
I successfully overwintered Jalapenos, Giant Marconi and bell peppers last winter. I did have a problem with gnats till I got Neem Oil spray. I've seen videos suggesting a 1 inch layer of sand ontop of the soil to stop them from being able to lay eggs so going to give that a try this year. I kept my plants in a north facing window (I don't have a grow room/garage or greenhouse) so they never got direct sunlight and gave each plant a half cup of water every two weeks and all but 1 plant made it. Great video and very informative.
Thanks for this useful video. I have chilies in pots hanging over my balcony and live in Central Europe, so frost in winter is a given. I bought a small plastic greenhouse that fits in the balcony and I was wondering how all my plants would fit with the foliage, so I'm glad to find out that they don't need the leaves :) I would never have thought about cleaning the roots and changing the soil, but now I will do it. I hope the greenhouse will keep them warm enough and I can get the fruits earlier next year (it usually takes until August to start getting anything when I grow them from seeds).
Thank you for the advice. I stumbled upon this one and it was what I needed to know. Thanks again
I’m definitely doing this coming winter as the pepper plants I have are quite abundant. I have 14 pepper plants in self wicking 5 gallon buckets and I’ve had a most bountiful year so far. I have Anaheim, poblano, red and yellow bell, jalapeño and Tabasco. I’ve picked at least 20 pounds and canned 2/3 that much, I’ve eaten the rest. I love peppers.
Very interesting video! Thanks for all that Information.
Have You ever considered waiting a few weeks between the harvest of the peppers and the cut -back of the plant?
Many plants pull back a lot of sap with nutrients and chlorophyll from the leaves before the leaves dry and fall in autumn.
I'm new in growing peppers, but when I make my other plants ready to overwinter, I wait with the cut until the leafs are fallen or at least brown.
I'll adapt many of Your recommendations, (thanks again, that will certainly help me) when Ill make my peppers ready to hibernate, but I'll cut them way later after the harvest.
I loved this video!! Give me a lot of information about replanted chili pepper 🌶 I never know I can save my money that way!! Thank You very much
Excellent & very thorough video Thank you!! I have an 8' x 4' raised pepper bed it's a packed 'forest' of 6 types of pepper plants thriving & prolific, I will hate to see them die, especially knowing they have the ability to be perennial. First frost in my area of NJ is expected in a few weeks. I would love to try overwintering at least a few.
Thank you for all the info! The season went too fast, I can't wait til next year
You're not alone, we're already planning varieties for next year's grow ;)
This might sound strange, but your video was so helpful because it made me realise overwintering was absolutely not for me. I carefully considered everything you said, and found it would be much easier to start new plants in the spring. Without your video, I could very well have gone about this all the wrong way. So, thank you very much for your help and taking the time to explain the process! I really appreciate it. :)
Absolutely! Glad it was helpful in making your decision, definitely not for everyone
He did a very nice job, however I just trimmed mine back outside and ignored it until spring. The ones that made it are wonderful peppers and the hardy varieties I need. If I knew it was going to snow or freeze I would have thrown some shade cloth over the top but never did and there was a few over cold nights that I didn’t get to them and they survived.
@@calisingh7978 That's wonderful! I'll experiment with the ones that are in really sheltered spots, see if they survive. Thanks for the tip!
There's doing it right, and there's doing it half azz and let whatever lives live. The latter isn't hard, and if you were just going to let them die anyway, why not?
@@calisingh7978 imma try that with some we get some frozen overnights but im to far south to get snow.
yes did 5 last year 1 survived. but i didn't take all the proper steps..can't wait to give it a go again..thx love your channel
Thanks for the great video. I was just choosing to overwinter a few of my pepper plants that produced better than expected this year.
I followed all your steps to overwinter 7 pepper plants in the basement near an East-facing egress window. They seem to be doing great so far. Some are now producing leaves. Is that from too much sunlight? Can i just cut the new leave off and continue overwintering them?
After reading up on overwintering, I decided to give it a try. I have 17 potted plants, 7 reapers, 5 ghosts, 5 scorpions. This is the first year I've even grown hot peppers... and I kinda like the challenge to see if I can get them thru this. So, today I brought all of them inside. I live in south central Missouri. The temp tonight is supposed to be 28F. I don't want to lose them, I'll see how it goes. The plants produced abundantly and I'm looking forward to keeping them alive for a repeat performance!
Thank you for popping up in my feed because I was thinking about saving a few peppers as the weather is changing. I am going to overwinter a bell pepper, banana pepper, and one hot pepper. Take care.
Sounds good!
Just what needed as it is harvest time for my various peppers in Hamilton, Canada. hello and thanks for a detailed video on chili plants. thks. I have a 3 yr old cayenne pepper that is just loaded with peppers. Now i know i can do this gng fwd confifently. thks again
Just what I needed thanks!
When I lived in Palmdale California thankfully our Winters aren't that harsh so I heavily mulched my plants and put Home Depot buckets on top of them. During the day I would take them off, and put them back at sunset. I was so happy when they came back in the spring!
Now I live in Las Vegas Nevada and I have a container garden so I just moved the buckets inside of our shed that has Windows during the winter.
Good idea with the covering. I'm planning on dragging everything under the covered patio but the bucket would keep the cold dew off.
Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. I will try this. My peppers are doing great this season!
The only drawback I can see is that my living room is already jammed with bananas, guavas, citrus and more. A few more plants and I won't be able to walk in there. 😄
Also - a tip: Get a Felco #2 pruner. You'll never look back! It's the cadillac of pruners. Will set you back about 70 bucks but with care you can leave it to your grandkids. Sharpening blades is easy. Replacing blades is also easy. Cheers.
I am going to give this a try. We live in NW Montana so our growing season is short, 3 months. We grow most of our garden in a high tunnel, unheated so as soon as the first frost hits it's curtains for most of the crops. Thanks for the video.
This will be the second winter for my one pepper plant, I was surprised how easy it was to keep alive over the winter. I'm looking forward to trying this with more peppers. I live in zone 2b, so a very short season. This sure helps to have a jump start on pepper growing here.
I live in So Cal. We rarely get a frost, and if we do it is a short time. I grew my 36 pepper plants in containers with indoor potting soil. So after seeing this video and reading the comments (thank you) I will prune them, treat the soil, cover with sand and place under the shade tarp. Thanks for the video and wish me luck!
Good luck😊
I live in Northern California and last year I cut my peppers down and left the outside since our winters are mild, but not one survived...so this year I will be over wintering some of you super hots like my reaper, 7- pot bubble gum,SRPs,mad hatter and some rocotos. Thanks for a very informative video.
I just came across this video. I’ve heard of overwintering pepper plants but never knew how it was done until now. Surprised that all of the leaves are removed. I have hungarian hots, pepperoncinis and jalapeño peppers that I am going to “try” to overwinter. Thanks to your video I am comfortable trying it. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this video! I have a habanero plant that did amazing this year and was hating the thought of pulling it!
Cool! I have a habanero that grew out instead of up and gave a ton of pods. I'm planning on overwintering it along with a couple of others types. God bless y'all!!
Good luck with the overwintering!
Would you do a follow up on how your over wintered pepper plants shown here? What they look like in the spring/summer?
love the way your shirt matches the pots!
Wow, just Wow! I will be trying this method. Thank you!
I’m using my peppers in flower arrangements. I already made a ton of hot sauce and dried more than I can use for years. I’m gonna try to overwinter them for the 1st time.
Sounds great, good luck with the overwintered plant!
Overwintered for the first time this year, just put the plants back into the sun a few weeks ago. Out of 11 plants, 10 made it so pretty happy with that. We only have light frosts, so I left them potted in one of those cheap plastic greenhouses. For reference here in Melb, Australia we get 850-1000 chill hours and the capsicums did fine in that temp range overwinter (0C - 15C is our night/day temp range during winter). If you get below 0 a lot I would take them inside, ours did ok with about 4-5 days of below 0C.
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What month did you do this? In melb also.
Thanks for this. I was sitting here wondering how I could keep them at 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Glad to know that they will probably be okay with much colder temps.
I'm in a similar location, I got a couple of hard frosts this year and I thought it had nuked the plants. All the leaves scrunched up. Do you think with similar heavy pruning they'd survive over winter unprotected? Or would I need to make a poly tunnel or similar for them. I plant in raised beds.
I have a Chiletepin from last year that successfully survived! Let's go for two years!
Also will be trying to over-winter a couple of Indian long hot peppers (these peppers can grow to 12" long or more!)
Thank you for sharing so much great information.
This was my first year growing peppers in zone 4. We are preparing for the first hard frost and im too attached to the plants to toss them in the compost. Planning to bring most of them indoors, some dormant and some to see if they keep fruiting. Thanks for the video!
I'm on the edge of 3 & 4. New to the region, not the state though. I'm attached to all my plants which look just as great now as they did in June when I planted them. My neighbors & local food pantry have delighted in its bounty. I've even grown flowers that supposedly won't grow here. I thought I'd lost my bell pepper in June's flood, but I placed it in a cup in my heater room and its actually crowned. I've also learned about doing this with eggplants & tomatoes. I love experimenting & with 4 months of outdoor gardening...my garden needs all the blessings it can receive. It will be high 30's tonight & 27 Thurs. night. Take care, ~ Covah
I’ve been overwintering my Jalepeños for several years with great results! The first year I had growth and even a few peppers and the plant was fine. Last year I put them in the basement and only got some growth right as spring was starting. It’s worth the effort.
Did you have light on them in the basement?
@@ExtravagantFragrances there was some light. They were next to the window.
Thanks for the video, I'm going to try it this year, I live in CT. and don't have a long growing season, I start all my peppers from seeds I save from the varieties I like most, usually germinating in early March, (seems like it takes forever for seeds to germinate and become established plants). I also want to overwinter a hot pepper that I grew this year that doesn't look like any of the peppers that I saved the seeds from last year, I've gotten as many as 5 different varieties of peppers from the seeds of one distinct hot pepper I grow and 2 of this years plant fruits weren't even hot, but I got an abundance of fruit from the 10 or so plants I grew this year.
Thank you for good information.
Perfect timing on this video; I was just thinking about trying to overwinter peppers for the first time this year as the first frost date rapidly approaches. Great information
Great to hear, good luck!
We have 2 green houses full of our peppers (2 Carolina Reepers, 4 Red Ghost, 2 Chocolate Ghost, 2 Green Bell, 2 Red Bell, 1 Gypsy, 1 Red Habanero, 2 Orange Habanero, 1 Chocolate Habanero, 1 Scorpion, 1 Perconcini, and 1 Jalapeno). This is our 1st year having any type of garden or greenhouse. The plan is to insulate the greenhouses and keep our peppers producing year round. We are in the Mid-Atlantic where winters can get cold. So we also have heaters we will be running. We've done ok over the summer, even revived some plants that struggled in our house (we bought them online in February and kept them indoors). They were reduced to nothing but sticks when we brought them outside in late April. They had been doing fine, then lost all their leaves. My husband thought sure they were dead. But I knew as long as there was life in the stem, they could recover. Now they are all producing beautiful hot peppers! I'm taking cuttings to start new plants for the spring as well. We're learning as we go and hope we have sufficiently prepared for the winter. Our greenhouses should still get sunlight over the winter. Do you think we will still need grow lights as well? We have 1 set, but will need to get another set for the 2nd green house if the natural sunlight is insufficient. They should receive light pretty much all day. Of course, the days are shorter!
Where'd you get the chocolate pepper seeds?
I'm in Virginia and I am in a similar situation. What size is your greenhouse and how are you keeping it warm? I have a 10x20x7 green poly greenhouse. I assembled it in early March 2021 so this will be my first full winter.
Good lord! You're going to need a stomach transplant at some point!
I never knew this was a thing. I live in a flat. I raise pepper plants and give them away. I can't wait to have my own garden to grow peppers. The only one I can't get in UK is the wiri wiri pepper. What a great video.
I have been told you can't do it. You make so much sence. Thankyou.
Siving your compost will make it so much easier when you replace it. Going to try over wintering here in the UK in a polytunnel with a smaller polytunnel around it covering in straw like with rhubarb hopefully keeping frost off it. Having given it a good pruning first.
I think I'll try that and see what happens!
I'm in Huddersfield. I'm going to have a go too in the greenhouse. Nothing to lose.
Thank you very much. I feel like I might do this after all. I didn't realize that you could cut the plant down so much so it wouldn't take up so much space. Great info!
Glad to hear it - good luck! With seeds going out of stock on many sites, it makes sense to keep any prized plants alive
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Would keeping it in the house in a bay window with the house around 68- 70° would there be problems??
Last year I overwintered a sweet red Marconi pepper and it was huge this year and produced peppers all summer long ,
I will overwinter my cherry bomb peppers this year. They are wonderful roasted and pickled, and make wonderful Louisiana style hot sauce. Thanks for the thorough explanation!
Glad I saw this video post! I'd really like to try to save a couple Scotch Bonnet plants that I started from seed in the house and transplanted to a raised bed. They are producing peppers like crazy and frost is probably coming in the next 3-4 weeks. Hopefully, it will work...I never knew pepper plants weren't annuals...I always pulled them & tossed them after the frost did them in. I'll try your method! Thanks, again!
Great! Glad you saw it too - good luck with the scotch bonnets
Are the Scotch Bonnet peppers hot or sweet or in between? They look interesting.
Thank you, great information as always, U.K. subscriber needing all the help he can get 😀
Hey UK! Happy growing! :)
Thank you so much! Just in time. You may have saved my shishitos, ghost, marconis & other beloved peppers 🌶 ❤. I ordered a small portable greenhouse I’m attaching to the sunny south side of my house where I plan to sit in the sun (& a heater) & live with my peppers during the dismal cold winter.
Wish me luck.
Thanks for the help!
I have had success in growing peppers indoors purely by trial & error. First time, since they did not yet bear fruit when the frost came, I brought them indoors and had peppers in January. Last season, I put them all in pots, and brought them inside to a cool but sunny room. They began to get lots of aphids, so I sprayed them with castile soapy water to keep the plants alive. In spring, I put them outdoors, and my hot ball pepper plant has blossomed beautifully into many little red peppers. I am so glad I watched your video. Now, I will prune them all back, and bring them indoors to winter over. Thank you!!!
That is exactly how I discovered peppers being able to overwinter and now I have had some of my pepper plants for a little bit over 5 years the longest one I ever had was 7 years and like he said sometimes it does give peppers in the winter I never put mine in any special light or anything it just gave me peppers sitting in the sunny window I live in North Dakota so that's exciting because we have such a short growing season
We are turning our shed into a overwintering grow shack. Currently working on insulation which will be our biggest issue I feel since we are in zone 5b. We have 3 grow lights, adding some reflecting material on most walls to help, adding a heater and a heat lamp.
We will also try to do around 100 starters for our raised beds we are putting in in the spring. Let’s see how it goes!!
Sounds like a great use for the space! Good luck :)
Great video thanks for sharing
i am so going to try this
Thank you for all of the information on your channel! A question for you:
I’ve overwintered my Chocolate Reaper successfully for two seasons now, and this year, it has started leafing out inside in early December. Should I continue to prune the leaves, or is it best to let it do it’s thing inside while waiting for Spring? Thank you in advance.
So timely! Am thinking to focus overwintering less common peppers and those with very long growing seasons like habanero. For common peppers, like jalapeño and serrano, the plants we get at the local farm supply store in spring have worked out great the past few years.
I tried to grow some from seed taken from a pepper bought at the grocery store. None of them started to grow. Any advice on jalapeños?
@@joland119 I think jalapeños for supermarkets are picked early, so I am guessing the seeds may not be fully developed. I would try to find peppers at a farmers market that are corking and red. Then just throw a whole bunch of seeds into a few pots and hope that some of them make it to the finished line! That's what we did with bell peppers in early spring. Got three or four plants to maturity and fruiting.
@@joland119 A ripe Jalapeno should be red. The seeds from red pods are used for seed-growing the next year. A jalapeno's 1st color is green (immature pod).
I'm growing indoors mostly, but can't fit all of my plants back inside the grow tent. Definitely growing to try this with a couple of plants. Very helpful, thank you guys so much.
You bet, good luck with it!
I followed your directions step by step with my habanero today 🤞🤞🤞🤞
im in southern california and have gotten away with a good trim back and just leaving them outside, unless we have a lot of rain, then bringing it inside is a must. I have a 3rd year serrano thats been doing great.
I’m in Wollongong - Australia. One of my pepper plants is in its third year and I’ve never even pruned it. I have plants on my front patio that fruited all winter and have just put on a huge burst of growth now we’re coming into spring
@@joshuafahy218 must be nice to have year-round fruits! Not so much here on the Canadian prairies :(