The TRUTH About PEPPER PLANTS Nurseries And Seed Companies Don't Want You To Know!
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- This video exposes the truth about pepper plants nurseries and seed companies don't want you to know! Every year, we are lead to believe that peppers are annuals, and we must buy new plants or start new seeds every spring. This isn't necessarily true!
Did you know peppers are perennials? A pepper plant can produce for many years if protected from frosts, freezes, pests and diseases, and overwintering techniques can eliminate the need for planting peppers every spring if you can maintain them. Whether you prefer hot peppers or sweet peppers, these techniques can have you growing peppers year round!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 The Truth About Pepper Plants - They AREN'T Annuals!
1:35 The Benefits Of Overwintering Pepper Plants
2:52 Harvesting My Old Pepper Plants
3:55 How To Prune Pepper Plants You're Overwintering
7:23 Root Pruning And Transplanting Peppers
9:59 Organically Fertilizing Pepper Plants After Transplanting
11:54 Adding Compost And Mulch
12:56 Fertilizing Peppers with Water Soluble Fertilizer
13:26 Tips For How To Grow Peppers For Years
15:23 Adventures With Dale
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I haven't found that pepper plant I wanted to keep going year to year. Maybe this year?
@@mfhmonkey I enjoy the hot cherry peppers. They perform *great* in the winter!
They make dog strollers for large dogs. This way you can take him everywhere
I am taking mine out to dinner later. 🐶
I have countless peppers in all types of containers, including fabric grow bags and plastic nursery pots, all 5 gallon or bigger. I haven't thought of the plants in the grow bags as being root bound, but rather air pruned. I've always thought that was better than having the roots growing circular around the root ball.What are your thoughts? I've learned so much from you and truly appreciate your videos and would appreciate your insight on this question.
I overwintered my most productive King Arthur this year, (first time to attempt this) and I'm hooked. I had it in my studio in a three gallon pot. On sunnier days I'd carry it out into the greenhouse. It looks like a beautiful tall houseplant, and has given me small red peppers throughout the winter. When I set out my tomato and pepper plants I'll plant it out amongst them with a couple of eggs underneath.
I'm really enthused about doing several more this next fall!
Good video. I also have been able to keep a few pepper plants thru the winter in a small unheated greenhouse going on about 3 years. One plant lost all of its' leaves when the temp got to 23 and I thought it was dead. I just noticed a green bud sprouting so I pruned it and am waiting for some more new growth. It is so nice to have chili poblanos to eat in early April each year with an extra long growing season. I even left some jalapenos outside and they have died back. But even they seem to still have life in them. They may come back, too.
That was fabulous I will try it this year thank you for all your help! Love Dale!
Thank you! I hope you give it a shot! Dale says hi 🐕 😊
A tip for removing the grow bag is to turn over a bucket and place the bag on top. Then Roll the bag downward, off the root ball and over the bucket.
That's probably a good idea if they're large enough. This #3 bag was too narrow to fit around the base of a 5 gallon paint bucket, but if it was a #5 or #7, it probably would've worked. Regardless, it still would've ripped those roots off. Grow bags are great for annuals, but perennials...I'd go with a hard container.
@@TheMillennialGardener any tips for waking the peppers up in the spring? We are giving them high nitrogen synthesized water soluble fertilizer, watering, and putting them out in the sun on warm days. They have turned brown and stiff, but still pass the scratch test for green. Should we be doing anything else? They have been inside since Halloween so maybe it will just take some time to wake them up, if they are alive?
I kept this past year's Jalapeno and Long Green Chili...they are still blooming and fruiting if I take the time to pollinate! I am glad I held them both....I will continue to do this every year, but I need more varieties! :) ....My Jalapenos are for Stuffing! :)
Gracias, como siempre tus explicaciones son muy claras, empezaré está semana,
Got it Lucia. Muy Buena Duarte.
You are so knowledgeable and helpful all the time. Thanks for all you do.🌱
You’re welcome! Thank you for your support!
Same here. I trim my Peppers back somewhat, have some borage plants put around outside of one, which frost protects it in place. I lay borage leaves around other plants also. I bring some pruned with ‘Y’’s inside also in pots. I have one pepper 🫑 protected by 5’ tall French marigold (trees) as I like call them, trimmed them upward keeping them within the cage boundaries. Those marigolds are still blooming! Loads of beneficial pollinators came to enjoy the the umbrella-shaped marigold tops!
You are right. I never knew that until I moved to TX from the northeast. Just yesterday as I was cutting back my sweet pepper plant that is in my raised bed outside, is still alive so I'm leaving it. I've kept 2 hot pepper plants in pots and had brought them in during our cold spells. I trimmed them back a bit and they have new growth already. Love this!
Glad you enjoyed it. These pepper plants will give you fruit well ahead of the new seedlings for the season. It's a great way to bridge the year.
I had heard glimmers of this but hadn't seen anyone give the directions. Thank you! I'm in GA and am trying to grow various veg all winter. I had one bell pepper that lasted a while, but it got covered with bugs and ended up dying. I'm going to be more diligent this year and see if I can winter a few over...
You should repot and amend the soil with bonemeal, manure, etc... Also, add some earthworms. **Note*** If you water with tap water, you kill off the good microbes that defend the plant; rainwater is key.
I'm glad this video could be helpful. Since you're in Georgia, your days are generally warm enough to carry your pepper plant outside for real sunlight (and nights often warm enough to keep them outside in a sheltered location). This will keep them relatively pest-free, whereas overwintering indoors can often result in aphid or spider mite problems if you're not careful. This is very easy for folks at our latitude. Just choose a small-fruited variety. Bell peppers won't fruit for you, or very well, since the UV intensity is too low. A cherry, cayenne, jalapeno, Tabasco or other small-fruited pepper will actually fruit for you all winter at your latitude.
Always enjoy your Adventures with Dale clips! I had heard that peppers could be overwintered but had no idea that the older plants would get so woody and tree like. Very interesting to see even though I don’t grow peppers.
Give it a shot! There are so many wonderful varieties of peppers out there, you'll surely like something. There are also a lot of ornamental varieties out there with rainbow-colored fruits. Even if you just grew them as ornamentals, they're fun to grow.
I love and appreciate the details that you provide in your videos. Thank you!
You are welcome! Thank you for watching!
May I also suggest that you can prune tomatos late in the season, and re-pot the cuttings to take inside when Peppers are taken in for the Autumn. With Bone Meal, 3-5-6, and a liquid Nitrogen quick release feed, you can be picking tomatos for you salads at Christmas. This seems to work better with cherry/grape sized tomatos as they get along with less light than larger varieties. With adequate full spectrum lighting even determinate varieties will set fruit. Enjoyed your video. It was time well spent.
Suggestion for you if not already said, is to downsize pot and soil in fall, then in spring upsize pot with nutrients around perimeter and upper area. Doing all at bottom will cause quick flushing out as you water.
Pruning was dead on though.
I went on a vacation to Panama a few years ago, and they had really good tasting peppers out there. The Panama peppers have an excellent flavor, similar to a serrano pepper but are not hot. So, I brought home some seeds and planted them, and they survived and produced peppers for 3 years, but then eventually died. I am going to germinate some more Panama pepper seeds that I saved this year.
I wonder what variety they are? Different countries often have different names for peppers. That's the trouble I had when I went to Martinique. Everyone knew this specific pepper I loved, but nobody knew what it was or they just had a nickname for it.
Great video! Some of my pepper plants seem to have survived outside this year here in San Diego and in excited to see what their production is like this year
Outstanding! I recommend cutting them back to the nodes, similar to what I did here where you remove about 1/3 of the plant matter to get a nice form, then hit them with a high nitrogen soluble fertilizer to help wake them up and promote new growth. It's important that you clean them up for the new season, remove any dead or diseased growth, etc. If you don't do much to them, they'll probably grow back funny and disorganized, but if you take a few minutes to balance them and get rid of the ugly or dead growth, they'll really bounce back! It's called "rejuvenation pruning" and it works wonders.
Great video of explaining how to regenerate a pepper plant thanks for sharing and take care🙂
You're welcome! Thank you for watching!
Truth! This man speaks truth! I have a Ghost in dormancy, inside, only getting ice cubes every once in a while to keep it alive. I also have lemon trees that I keep small! Midwest frost is brutal.
Now that is some good advice usually I compost them at the end of the year and now it's nice I heard you say this I never San Antonio we got like 11 months summer sometimes I'm not complaining cuz I love to Garden great information great great great man I started following you a couple of years back and now I got 18 trees and my yard and I Garden like crazy thank you for your videos brother
Well, you wound up "pruning" some of the roots that were attached to the grow bag! Thanks for the videos Millennial, I did this with two habanero pepper plants. One got the worse case of white flies that spread to all my house plants. You really have to keep an eye on plants you bring in doors. If they have one pest on them, they will reproductively explode in your house!
That is true. When you bring them inside, you may want to prepare them by dunking them in water, then spraying them with pyrethrin. You can also "water" the soil with pyrethrin. I *love* pyrethrin concentrate because it's natural and pretty safe to use. Dilute it in water, spray your plants and water the mix with it. The thing is, you need to do it 2-3 times, once a week, to break any cycles of pests in case there are eggs somewhere. This is why I just stick them on my garden cart and carry them in and out each night and morning if I have to. It's just easier than going through the process, but it's marginally warm enough here to do that.
This is by far the best video I've seen on this subject! Well done!
Thank you! I'm glad you found it helpful!
I wish I had found your overwintering video before we attempted that for the first time! We pulled our most productive super hot last summer but due to extensive mistakes on my part during the transplant process, it didn’t survive. I did manage to root a cutting before it finally died though. We have about a dozen peppers going already, in the nursery pots you recommended. I have more than one of all varieties, so I plan to transplant some to the garden and leave at least one in the pot to bring back inside during the winter here in zone 5b. We should start getting ripe peppers in the next month! We lived in PA in Happy Valley/State College when we adopted Tonks! I’d love to see more videos with this kind of continued harvest in mind! Are you going to use the sun porch for this next winter? Is it finished?
When digging up a pepper plant, you want to do all you can to damage as few roots as possible. Never pull them out. Always dig around them in a circle and lift up with a shovel to "pop them out." It helps to then cut them back and fertilize them. Since you're in MA and your summers are a bit short, I'd actually recommend you dig up your chosen pepper plant a month early before your first frost. That way, the plant can be pruned back, fertilized, and recover in the sunlight while it's still warm. That way, it should have new leaves and some new buds when you bring it indoors, and it'll continue fruiting periodically over the winter.
The sun porch is not done. The windows are *supposed to* come in this week, but this entire project has been nothing but missed dates, so I'm not going to hold my breath. After the windows go in, we still have to do the electric and flooring, so we still have a bit of a ways to go. It probably won't be done until sometime in April. I will use it to overwinter my sensitive citrus and coffee plants, and I'll probably grow a tomato, pepper and basil plant in there, but I'm going to try hard not to turn it into a jungle. It's supposed to be a gathering area, so I can't jam it totally full of plants...I'm going to try not to, anyway 😂 It'll at least be plant-free April to November when it's warm, here.
Very informative, thank you
You’re welcome! Thank you for watching!
Another nice tutorial!👍 I overwintered 5 pepper plants this yesr...only loss one.
I cut mine all the way back to the "y"...no leaves. I overwinter them indoors in front of a sunny window. They quickly grow leaves and throw flowers. I remove the flowers and they are super ready to grow when I pot them up for another year.🙂
Dale's is cute no matter what he's doing! I guess he's ready for another year of defending the garden from bunnies and such. He really has grown into a handsome pup. Love his coloring and cute face!🙂
I have to ask - why not let them fruit? If there is enough sunlight energy to get them to flower, you will be able to get some fruit production, particularly on small-fruited peppers like cherry peppers, serranos, jalapenos, etc. It will be tougher for large-fruited peppers, but the smaller ones will give you food during the winter. If you're going through the effort of overwintering them, they may as well feed you in the process 😀
Dale has become a very confident dog. I don't even recognize him from the first couple months after we adopted him. He is so smart it blows my mind. I know everyone thinks that about theirs, but he is really unusual. Brittany has had dogs her entire life, and Dale blows her mind on a daily basis. He's really something else. I'm convinced he is an old soul.
@@TheMillennialGardener When I learned to overwinter peppers everyone said cut them all the way back and take off the blooms. I'm still eating on our pepper harvests from last year. I freeze, dehydrate and turn some into powder.🙂
Dale really is an outstanding pup.🙂 Through the years we've rescued three pups. The last was Charlie. He was 16 years old. His human Mom died and no one wanted him because of his age and he never was around other dogs. Once we got him home we found he also had health problems they didn't tell us about...we would have taken him if they would have told us.🙂
We made his last days glorious. He lived 7 or so months with us.🙂 We spoiled him rotten...like all fur babies should be.🙂
I live in Canada and we just had 10 inches of snow. Ensconced in my basement under grow lights are two orange bell peppers who were bought as seedlings in 2020. I thought they were incredibly productive that summer, but it was nothing to the amount of peppers produced in 2021. Can't wait until late May when they can go outdoors to see what happens in their 3rd summer.
I appreciate your dedication! I understand how tough it is to be patient and wait for that growing season. They all feel so brief, even down here so much further south. It's never long enough 😅
I saved one jalapeno plant after your video in the fall. I would have done them all but 3 were together in a huge 100 gallon round planter, so couldn't bring them inside. I'm absolutely going to grow this years in smaller pots. I joked about them being pepper trees before watching that video because they were so hardy. I guess I was kind of right lol! I'm going to get the one I did saved all spruced up now that I have these great tips. Thanks again for all you share! Give Dale belly rubs from us :)
How did the jalapeño overwinter? Did it fruit, or did it just stay in stasis? If light isn’t strong enough, they’ll just kind of hang out and not do much. Here on the NC coast, the sun is strong enough to still produce fruit on small-fruited pepper varieties. Dale is in Snoozle-land right now, snoring away like a lumberjack.
@@TheMillennialGardener It did great. Down here on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, we didn't start getting overnight freezes until late December/early January. It bore fruit constantly until I left it out a couple of times when the temps were below 30. I thought I lost it but it came back. It's got a couple of peppers now that I'm going to take off to let it kind of reset. I wish I would have saved the other 3 in the giant container. I've made nothing but mistakes this first year, so it's par for the course lol! Hopefully I can take it back out to the garden and out of the garage soon.
I overwintered my habanero back in Cali for a few years. Im told that in our warmer climates, peppers can be treated as perennials. Going to try that with a few select special peppers I ordered this year, so we will see how it works.
Peppers are naturally perennials. I'm still growing this cherry pepper and I'm picking it as we speak. It fruits for me all winter, albeit slowly. This summer will be its 4th season, and it looks great. A pepper plant can easily last 5-10 years if you care for it.
Thank you do much for this demonstration, it is better then the other one I watched last year. It was taking my pepper plant out and given a break in shavings sprayed with water over winter
I'm glad you found it helpful! Thank you for watching!
Awesome information! Your videos are sooo helpful!
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching!
Such good information! Thank you.😊 Dale looks handsome in his sweater! 😊
We are almost out of cool weather for the year, so we need to make use of Dale’s extensive wardrobe while we can 😂
I over winter the most productive plant from each variety I have, which is six plants total. I just dig them up and put them in Lowe’s buckets that sit in my back room since I have no other use for that room. Block off the vents and put a space heater set to 50F.
I will say I am much more aggressive in my cutting back of the plant and you definitely won’t be getting any fruit off of them for most of the winter. Although usually by February a few will manage to make a fruit or two. Even though that’s not what I want. I just want them to stay dormant until I can get them back outside.
I think I may try to save the ones outside this winter by making a hoop house for each bed. I have had ones make it to mid January before a cold spell finally kills them off. I only have to protect them until late March. I will always bring in some as an insurance policy even if it does work. I hate not having peppers to spice up my food.
I have an 8x8 plot of peppers, many varieties, producing well. I'm in central NC and hope to build a cover over this patch for the winter. Probably 2x4s around it and secure plastic over it. Any suggestions folks?
Love it! Great tips, thanks
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
In Australia the problem isn't winter it's summer. I've managed to keep a tomato plant for a year and the second year (despite the rain) a lot of fruit has set, so I'm going to try it with the Chilis and Capsicums (peppers) this year.
If it makes you feel better, our problem is the winter and the summer 😅 But hey, April and October are pretty nice! Peppers are much easier to maintain than a tomato. You can also try eggplant, ground cherries and tomatillos.
So true, I have had a pepper plant growing for 3 years now. I have pruned it back and it sprung back and had an abundance of peppers.
Outstanding! They can go even longer! Keep that baby alive.
Regarding the root prune and transplanting. If you're overwintering for full dormancy (ie zone 3-6) because the winters are too cold and you'll be keeping them indoors with not much light and don't want them to grow until spring... I guess you can "downpot" without much/any root pruning (assuming the original containers were large and plant was not rootbound)? Then start waking them from dormancy with grow lights in the spring and then up-pot and root prune a bit once days are fairly consistently 65F+?
Great content thank you.
I do this every year. The cayenne do particularly well to over winter. Also I do ghost and Reaper peppers.
I would expect a cayenne to be an excellent overwintering pepper. I'd be curious about the super-hot peppers. I've found pepper heat is proportional to temperatures - hot peppers get hotter during the hottest parts of the summer! I wonder how hot they are during winter?
We are overwintering an African Red Devil Pepper Plant and a Jalapeno. We noticed what appear to be some aphids on some of the leaves. Used a light dose of Sevin, but they came back. What do you recommend for aphids on indoor overwintered peppers?
I grew peppers indoors in my apartment for two years. They flowered and fruited a couple of times a year. I used the window light and cheap led and cf lights. Now they are outside, fruiting away in my front yard.
Peppers will fruit all year long as long as they have enough food, water and solar energy. This pepper plant has fruited for me for 3 years, all throughout winter, too. Next year will be Year 4.
Hello Millennial 😀 would it be possible to see the update video on that pepper plant ? I convinced a few of my friends to watch you video and overwinter pepper plants.
Thanks you in advance 💚
I can make a community post to take a photo of it. It's still going strong and producing. I'll overwinter it again, and next year will be its fourth season.
Great video. We are going to overwinter our African Red Devil Pepper plant this upcoming winter.
And you inspired us to overwinter a Jalapeno Pepper Plant as well. We removed them from the garden yesterday and they immediately went droopy. Got them home and put them in two gallon pots with WOW Soil and Plant Booster and Espoma Garden Tone and hit them with Plant Marvel 12-5-19 diluted in water. The plants have perked up and look great today. Since these are first year plants we really didn't have any dead growth or damaged branches. We plan to prune leaves if/when they die this winter as well as remove dead growth as you showed. Great video. I can't believe all these years went bye having purchased pepper seedlings in the spring and nobody ever said they are all perennials!
Great info! If we were to keep the plants in our house over the winter instead bec we’re in NY, how would you prevent pests from becoming a problem after having plants outside all season?
That is always a challenge. You can apply a dust like Sevin or Spinosad dust to the soil to control any soil pests. You can also dunk the entire plant like I’ve done to kill spider mites: ruclips.net/video/JBirBcx-tUY/видео.html
If you need a dust, I have them linked in my Amazon Storefront in the video description. They’re pretty effective.
Thanks for the encouragement and information. I am not sure if the pepper plant can survive being in the garden in zone 5b.
You will have to overwinter it in front of a sunny window. It can still fruit for you if prune it during the growing season so it has time to recover.
Interesting, I live in a part of Florida that gets
I can leave my plants outdoors, since it's so warm here. I rarely even need to cover them. As a matter of fact I didn't cover them for either of our last two(I think) freeze events. The plants took a bit of a hit, but most are coming back really well.
I have had pepper plants survive a very light frost, but they do take damage. You can throw a bucket or a large flower pot over them, and they'll survive a frost. A freeze is a totally different animal, though. Freezes will kill them outright. If the main stem does not die back, they will sprout new shoots. 2 years ago, I grew a pepper plant right up against the south wall of my brick house, and it made it all the way into January before freeze finally got it.
There are so many benefits and detractors on overwintering tender perennials. I find the more that I research the "cons" are lessened. I have tried to overwinter pepper plants a couple of times and had zero success. I may have been too late in deciding to keep them, so much energy is needed for hibernation. Energy that is lost as the overnight temperatures drop.
If we think about it, isn't it easier to overwinter than to start from seed? Seed starting takes a fair amount of energy. Some people use grow lights and heating pads in order to get a head start. So, wouldn't it be more beneficial saving that energy that has been built up in a plant? That could be thinking too deeply though.
Very valuable information Thanks and ☮️ from MN
Thank you! Thanks for watching!
Here in Ireland I have a orange habanero a cayenne and a scotch bonnet overwintering in my bedroom until the weather heat up some more. and all 3 are looking ok 😊
Do they develop good heat at your latitude? I noticed that peppers grow hotter in hotter weather. I'm curious!
Think that will be too much work for me in the northeast but it’s cool to see
I keep 2 pepper plants overwinter .. the bell pepper puts on flowers, but yep, no fruit (but it is ready to start producing the MINUTE the outside temperatures get high enough - well worth it, if you want bell peppers early on!) .. the cayenne provides me with fresh hot peppers all winter long. If I had a little more space, I would bring in an Okra plant, too .. they are also perennial.
I’ve never grown okra. It is popular down here in the south. Growing up up north, we never ate it. Those small-fruited peppers perform great in low light! I love having fresh cherry peppers 365 days a year!
When planning my tropical greenhouse with breadfruit cacao coffee ice cream bean etc I’m adding in my pepper plants 🌱
Awesome! I bet you can grow some tomatoes over winter, too! Especially cherry types. They don't require the solar intensity beefsteaks do.
Chili's are not annuals. However, for a chili plant to be viable year round you need to live somewhere with a mild winter. Chili plants hate frost.
Here in Australia where winters are often very mild I have seen chili plants growing to be quite large bushes whilst still producing heaps of fruit.
This surprising and so interesting. Where I am we have a few ( but lessening ) frosts, but I think I could do this. I wonder do you have any videos on how to take pepper, or tomato, or any other kinds of seeds from the fruit and save them and plant them in the next season? Thanks for something new that I did not know.
I do have a video on harvesting pepper seeds here: ruclips.net/video/p234fvARD8Y/видео.html
But please keep in mind some seeds are different. Pepper seeds are very easy to save. Tomato seeds are more difficult, because you must ferment them first. If you simply save the seeds in a tomato like this, they won't germinate. I do not have a video on saving tomato seeds, because I don't save my tomato seeds. You have to research to see if seed-saving requires fermentation or not.
I’m SO MAD I just found out about over wintering peppers-- never starting from scratch again!!
I still recommend starting most of your peppers from seed. The reason why is because fresh, healthy seedlings are more likely to be *reliably* productive. Sometimes, peppers can take damage from pests and disease during the growing season, and while you can overwinter and restore them to health in many cases, whether they produce as well as a young, disease-free transplant isn't guaranteed. I recommend everyone that grows peppers overwinter a few plants if feasible, because not only will you get a jump start on the new season, but your overwintered pepper can in some cases produce all winter long, too. However, I would not put all my eggs in that basket. peppers are perennials, but they will go into decline after a few seasons. My plant is going on its 3rd season and it's already full of new leaves and flowers since I made this video, but I still made sure to start a bunch of seedlings, too, because I can't only rely on this for production.
I am surely planning on growing some pepper trees here in Tucson, AZ!
Your climate is a bit milder than mine during the winter, so you should be able to easily overwinter them in pots and have them keep producing all year long. You may be able to do it in-ground if you have a mild winter and you cover them well.
@@TheMillennialGardener That is the plan! I mulch with woodchips, so I have that for insulation. Also, I overwintered a couple other plants through the frosty week or so we just had last month.
I have a Kale, some onions, and a bean plant still thriving! A lot of my mother of thousands plants bit the dust. You should see what freezing does to them! So odd!
I also want to grow a pepper plant in my office in a huge planter pot! For snacking...
Good job, quality vedio.
Thank you! I appreciate you watching!
I did know that, but they're grown as annuals. a lot of vegetables are technically perennials.
I've kept them in pots over-winter before, but every aphid for miles around comes to hang out on them and they struggle with the lack of light.
Does it get warm enough where you live to carry the plant outside during the day? If the plants are taken outside, they generally do not develop the pest issues frequent to indoor plants.
@@TheMillennialGardener not really, it goes down to like -35C here :S
I successfully last winter overwintered about a dozen capsicum plants. Although we no longer have the greenhouse. I am planning to just use a raised bed as a permanent home. Our frosts aren't that bad or cold. So hoping a water and a frost covering will be enough for them. We will try and experiment.
Would you know if leaving a frost blanket cover all winter is a good idea? Or should I uncover on the warmer days? Could also use poly tunnel plastic and make a mini hothouse
Did you dig them up and bring them indoors, or did you carry them in and out daily like I do?
You can leave a frost blanket on if they are rated to let UV in. Row covers will do that - they’ll have 65-85% light transmission depending on how thick they are. Opaque covers will not. I use UV-transmissible plant jackets on my sensitive trees. You can see them here: ruclips.net/video/O5pc_GYjyKI/видео.html
Dale seems to be the star of your videos. I love his little sweater. .. Your pruning segment was very helpful to me. Thanks. 🌶🍆🍅
He’s the star of our lives. He’s the best thing that ever happened to us, so it is only fair to give him the spotlight. It’s his garden. I’m just the caretaker. Thanks for watching!
great info
Thanks for watching!
I'm gonna try this with a few different varieties of tomatoes and see how it goes, as well as a pepper plant
My pepper plants just started putting out new leaves and flower buds.
It knows spring is coming!
This is the best time of year! After the freezes, but before the hurricanes 😃
@@TheMillennialGardener They're in my little 2'x2' grow tent with my seedlings. Looks like the last few days of freezing daytime Temps here, with any luck they'll be out in my Greenhouse with a heat bulb and a trash bucket of water in 2 weeks.
Keeping the pests and disease away is a real struggle for me. I got one to survive 2 years but pests and viral infection from the pests killed it.
Hi can you put a link to where you bought your metal tree tags? And are you happy with them?
Thanks Tom
They are linked in my Amazon Storefront in the video description. Yes, I like them.
I love love love your channel. You're a great teacher, thank youuuuu. P.S. My garden is floreshing because of you 😍👩🌾
And here I came to learn how to over winter 5 bell pepper plants… I will go hide and cry now!
That is a ton of fertilizer to use at the same time. Is that plant ok? I have 3 pepper plants in grow bags i want to repot. They dry too fast in the summer here
Yes. Nothing new here.
Pepper plants, basil, some tomatoes and other plants are classified as _tender perennials_
Hey again. What is a good place for me to get quality owari satsumas? Thanks!
I recommend contacting Stan McKenzie at McKenzie Farms in Scranton, SC. I get all my grafted citrus from him.
I grew up in a place where there is never a day where there is frost ever. Every family has at least 2 or 4 pepper plants in their yard that is over 10 years old. I didn't know pepper plants are grown yearly until I saw it on RUclips
I've seen some pepper plants that have become "pepper trees!" They are impressive, impressive plants after a few years!
Not true about bell peppers. That is all I have kept over year after year and bell peppers do well. Actually I get more peppers on the plants every year as the plant gets more hearty. I do not trim them back either. I have to give away green and red bell peppers I get so much from 4 plants.
8:50 - What can you do with that old potting mix? Can you reuse that, and if not how do you get rid of it?
You can reuse it. I just wouldn’t use it to plant any nightshades (tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, eggplants) due to disease transmission. You can use it for other families, like lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, sweet potatoes, corn, etc. You can also dump it into your garden beds. I just had a sunroom built so my yard is all dug up around it and I used it to backfill around some gaps.
Millennial Garden the topic regarding the 5 gallon bucket I drilled like 10-20 holes in the bottom but not the sides same drill bit for my citrus should that work for me thank u
That's a lot of holes on the bottom. I prefer to spread them out some, but you'll probably be okay. Please be aware the 5 gallon buckets aren't UV resistant, so that many holes in the bottom will probably have the bottoms cracking within 1-2 years.
Great video bud. Love the organic stuff you put in the mix but I'd have to say you lost me at the Miracle Gro.
I urge against 100% organic gardening in containers. It doesn't work out well, because trying to be 100% organic in a man-made container leads to poor results. Organic gardening requires soil doing work for you, which you don't have in an unnatural container garden. Soluble fertilizers are mandatory when growing in containers. You cannot use only organic granulated fertilizers, because containers lack the microbiome to break them down. You need fertilizers that are already processed. You can use fish emulsion if you will, but it's going to stink up your entire house. This is why solubles are a must. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using soluble fertilizers like MiracleGro. If you don't want to support that exact brand, there are other good companies like Jack's to support.
@@TheMillennialGardener i hear you but doesn't the compost contain nitrogen as well? I do not like putting too much nitrogen in the things I eat. Could be wrong but that's how I understand it. I Rather have less yields than add miracle gro. But that's all my personal choice. Keep giving us great videos 👍🏻.
@@TheMillennialGardener Egads just look at the color of that stuff.
GreaT info
Thank you!
Love your videos and dale! 🤗💞
Thanks so much!
Our African Red Devil Pepper Plant and Jalapeno have been indoors since 10/31. We pruned all leaves off when they died. The stem and shoots are still green. The plants are no longer producing small leaves. Is this normal? Assume they are now dormant?
I don't believe grow centers will be shutting down because of over wintering a few peppers.
But interesting
Thanks
The goal behind overwintering peppers for most is to give yourself a jump start on the season and reduce your seed-starting needs in some cases. If you live in certain areas of California, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, etc., you can actually overwinter an entire crop and you won't have to start any seeds or buy any plants if they're in good enough shape. Warm climate growers can actually save a good bit of money.
Good video! But you don't have to use and I wouldn't use inorganic fertilizer. For nitrogen use e.g. horn shavings instead.
My father used to put a match in the whole before he planted the pepper plant it worked great the sulfur i guess.
Peppers like mildly acidic soil. If your soil is neutral or alkaline, some sulfur will help. I have sulfur prills linked in my Amazon Storefront if you need some. They are a good, natural way to acidify soil.
I'm so stalking your content. Thanks for your time.
I'm glad you enjoy it! Thanks so much for watching. I really appreciate your support.
How about the production, is it the same year after year or becoming lesser each years?
This pepper plant is on its 3rd season, and it still produces very well. I haven't seen much drop-off. You're going to want to prune the plant fairly aggressively each winter to help it generate new growth. The more new growth, the more vigorous and fruitful it will be.
We live in Bucks County. Curious as to where you lived in Pennsylvania
But can I prune the roots and put it back into the grow bag? So, it's better to grow in a plastic pot instead?
If you're pruning the roots anyway, why bother about the roots that are grown through the fabric?
Did you test the cow manure compost to make sure its not contaminated with aminopyralids , if you start seeing leaves curling up that plant is screwed
It would be literally impossible to do such a test. The number of bags we use a year is in the dozens. Maybe 100. I've been using this brand for many years. I've never had a problem.
I housed mine in garage
They are right now sending out new growth
Awesome! You should get a big jump start on the harvest!
Dam..... I clicked his vid being so excited and only 3mins & 40s in he says bell peppers would be to much for this way. Well thanks for letting me know before i watched the whole thing. My family only eats bell peppers.
You would have to live pretty far south for bell peppers to grow well in the winter. They require a strong sun, since they are a big fruit. I would suggest you try a pepper like Lipstick. It tastes almost exactly like a bell pepper, but it is smaller and can fruit for you in the winter. It'll also outproduce a bell pepper 5x. It's a great variety to try.
You could probably do it without the expectation that you would get any bell pepper throughout the winter. Only because then you’d have a head start in the spring when you put out the pepper plant.
Disagree with your root bag statement. Loosing a few outer roots isn't going to hurt the plant and grow bags are good for preventing root bounding while increasing feeder root mass, thanks to air pruning.. The little bit of effort to unpot the plant is worth it.
Try growing a tree in a grow bag. If the taproot is damaged, the tree can die. This has happened to me on several occasions. Some "annuals" can tolerate root damage, but many trees cannot tolerate taproot damage. It absolutely isn't worth it. Furthermore, grow bags require more water and fertilizer, because the evaporation rate and wash-out rate is much higher. There are situations where grow bags can work well, but their use is overwhelmingly tied to the price. If they weren't so cheap, few people would use them. They create a lot of problems if you grow the wrong things in them.
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I’m in south Louisiana. The heat, humidity and daily rain we get will cause grow bags to mildew in a very short amount of time. Whatever I plant in mine needs to be in and out quickly. I do find my potatoes plants like the bags better than 5 gal buckets. Buckets just held too much rain water even with the MANY holes I drilled.
I always thought they were annuals until I got into growing hot peppers and found out they were from hot climates
Nicely done. I’m in Bucks county, where were you in Pennsylvania?
I lived in Philly for 5 years, then lived in Montgomery County for 8 years. I lived in Ardmore, Narberth and Conshohocken.
had a 8 year old homanaro its the only hot pepper plant you need when they get 3,4 years old,500 peps at a time
I grew three habanero peppers about 5 years ago. I dehydrated the fruits and stuck them in a giant bag, and I still have a lot left. They produce so much fruit it is ridiculous.
Very good to know thanks.
5:24 If it's a good enough pepper to overwinter like this, why not also try to root that top cutting?
I've never rooted a pepper cutting before. Sure, you can do it, but I have 36 seedlings growing as we speak, so I don't need new plants at the moment 😅
The grow bags are cheap enough that I find it easier to just cut them apart and get the plant out without tearing the roots
That's why I don't like grow bags. Had such a hard time taking out my hydrangea plant.
They're good if you are sure you're going to rip them out at the end of the year. If you want to keep them past then, you'll often have problems. Grow bags are popular for one reason: they're dirt cheap. If grow bags were the same cost as a hard nursery container, they wouldn't be very popular.
@@TheMillennialGardener I ended up cutting the bag, couldn't save it even though it was still in good condition.
@@TheMillennialGardener - I think they’re really good for certain plants. I’ve noticed that herbs that like really well draining soil do well in them, like everything in the mint family. I can see why trees can be an issue due to the taproot being so important but otherwise, I think the grow bags are pretty good.
They’re especially good in regions like mine where I get rain basically once a week.
Though I do agree that leeching nutrients can be a problem. If you put the fertilizer on the top, it will saturate down instead of washing out of the bottom of the grow bag.
Is your garage heated? How cold can it take in an unheated, uninsulated garage if I wanted to try and overwinter this coming winter? Thank you!
No, my garage is not heated. It is insulated, because it is attached to the house. It exists solely off the radiative heat of my house. My garage has never dropped below freezing, so that's why they survive in my garage. Pepper plants cannot survive a freeze, so if you overwinter your pepper in a garage, you'll need to make sure it never drops below freezing for even a second.
Ok, thank you for your response!!
Left out all the time in caly and same in Las Vegas looks like crap but comes back
That dry air helps keep disease down. I’m sure the sun can beat them up a little, but give them a good haircut in the winter and they bounce right back like new in spring! They’re more like a little fruit tree than an annual!
@@TheMillennialGardener I had earned a commercial botany degree and moved moved to Coachella valley from Iowa so major soil condition/climate shock but growing season in Coachella and vegas is waaaaaay longer but minerals and micro nutrients are also better even though its not black rich soil with maximum Organic matter..so a good triple 15 and water and best herbs and veggies with water from bottom up to save evaporation works great,,,,got addicted to desert/semi tropical/mediteranean climate. Ill take the heat and burn off for a couple months vs freezing for 5 month and tornados and hail in Iowa