Overwintering Pepper Plants Part 2 - What I Missed
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- Опубликовано: 1 май 2024
- It's time to prepare your peppers for winter. Yes, you can keep your peppers year after year. In any climate! In this video I will tie up any loose ends from the last video on Sunday. Hopefully between the two
Overwintering Peppers Video #1: bit.ly/2Ej8hNQ
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I saw your overwintering pepper videos about 10 days after I had pulled all of my plants out for the year. I was really wishing I’d seen the videos sooner. But I thought what can it hurt to try. I went out and got three of those plants- none had any leaves on them, the root ball was still there but they didn’t have any dirt on the roots for the last 10 days. I trimmed the branches like you said to do and struck three of those plants in a pot to see if they would come back to life and two of them have new growth on them. I’m pretty excited - thank you!
Thanks for sharing.
My organic heirloom tomatoes grow back every year from my compost bin from the tomatoes that drop the previous year and I get a ton of cherry and roma tomatoes from that I dont even have to plant tomatoes anymore
zone 5 here. Was given an early girl tomato by a relative last fall in a pot. Put it in front of a west facing window and it not only survived but produced some little tomatoes inside in January. It survived until spring and I planted it out the day after mothers day (may?) It took off and I had tomatoes in June, super early for zone 5, long before any of my other nursery grown tomatoes. Its worth it if you plan ahead IMO. This year I pulled suckers and potted them up. Just pulled my plants from the garden and brought in the tomatoes. We will be having another batch of early tomatoes, cherokee purples this time.
Good to hear. I have a couple that never got planted in the ground... limbs with fruit that I rooted in water then stuck in pots.
How did you keep them a controllable size? Mine grow so fast I cannot fit them under my grow lights
I was just thinking if this would work.....thanks for your post.🌿😊🇺🇸
Oh, didn't think of taking a sucker and bringing it in for winter. I grew black trifele, black cherry and big rainbow tomatoes for the first time this year and they were the best tomatoes so I am definitely going to try and save some suckers!
We are also in Zone 5 and have had fresh tomatoes during the winter. We are hoping to try again this year.
Great video as always. I appreciate your dedication to the channel and the fact that you bring us high quality information frequently. Thank you!
Thank you in advance for talking about ornamentals. I've often admired the background in your videos and can't wait to learn about the plants.
a couple of years ago I planted new tomato plants from seed, they survived
through the following summer. Last fall I planted again from seed , in December I had over 150 green tomatoes ripening in my living room because the temp was below 60 degrees. In the spring I had another great harvest of tomatoes from the same plants. This year I have set seeds and have nice seedlings ready to plant as soon as I can to see how they do. I have realized that as gardeners we are scientists, our gardens are our experimental labs. Thank you for helping me learn and do without having do all the experimenting myself.
Another great video packed full of information. Starting the process of overwintering today ❤️👍🏻
This was the perfect follow up video. Thank you!
So behind because I am traveling for vacation. Love how you addressed further questions. And, of course, mine was one of the greenhouse. I've been thinking I would like to get my greenhouse wired for the ability to heat. Now I am convinced that I should. So, thank you so much for that!
Thanks Brian! Very helpful info! I have never saved my pepper plants but will try it this winter. Mine are still producing.... still have many poblanos on the plants. Love these grilled and on top of pretty much any meat.
One thing I do is always use either mosquito dunks or liquid version of Bacillus thuringiensis. If you crumble the dunks into the upper layer of soil or spray the soil, you will never see another fungus gnat. The bacterium kills the larvae. I have even bought sterile peat moss that had fungus gnats. And they can and will kill your plants. As well I mix my Neem with pyrethrin (not pyrethrum) and spray the plants before overwintering. Tomatoes also overwinter well.
Thank you so much for these two videos. I desperately wanted to save my peppers last year and failed epicly. Now I have the tools and education to pull it off! I could never thank you enough!!!
I'm stoked about over wintering several pepper plants! Since it's cooled down at night, I have been covering my summer crops nightly with row covers while temps are in the 40's. They are VERY happy about it, too! 😄
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INFO., I WAS WONDERING WHAT TO DO WITH MY PEPPER PLANTS HERE FOR THE WINTER IN GEORGIA, THEY ARE STILL PRODUCING ALOT
Love the idea of the starting the grow super early for next season. I have to start mine indoors from around Feb under LEDs to get a jump on our spring (London, UK) otherwise the flowering starts just as we lose the heat of summer. Just brought my habaneros indoors last week as evenings are super chilly now (mine are in pots) got them under lights to see how long I can have the flowering phase hang on for 😝
Thank you! I have played with overwintering but you gave me a lot of new ideas. Will try again.
Love the blood leaf!!
Thank you, again, for always going the extra mile! We're grown ups, we could Google, but it's awesome that you work so hard to make these videos for us.
I'm still trying to decide if I would harm my peppers by starting my overwintering process now. I'm just worried they're going to try to put on new growth because it's still pretty warm here in Texas but like I said my leaves Are yellow and moddled (SP) looking. It's not like a fertilizer. They're getting a balanced diet.. I think the squash bugs really damaged them.
I guess really if I cut them back and they grow new growth I can just cut off the new growth whenever it starts getting even cooler lol.
Looking forward to the ornamentals. Bloodleaf plant is gorgeous.
Your hook trial intrigued me and since I was growing heirloom brandywines from seed for the first time I wanted a scalable trellis system. Like you I only needed a small number of hooks so I just got some thick wire by dismantling an old, wire tomato cage with a grinder. Then I saw a video in which the grower screwed two heavy lag screws into a block of good wood and bent the wire between the two screws. Not pretty and not uniform, but was fast and cheap! I swirled the hooks around the trellis like you showed and I have some pretty awesome indeterminate Brandywines. Our Vancouver, Canada spring and summer were crap so my huge tomatoes are still green and on the vine. Hoping for some late season sun and ripening. Thanks for the videos, your suggestions are great and the presentation is A+!
Zone 8a- texas: I thank you so much for this video. I have just started growing food for the first time this summer season. I have not tried any peppers yet though. I do have some seeds (not the sweet jabanero). Now that you have shared this info I will give it a try with the seeds I have. You are a wealth of information 👏👏👏👍🦄
I only managed to sprout 1 habanada back in May here in San Diego and have it grow to a decent size. I'm definitely overwintering it like a national treasure because it's been too hard getting it to grow and survive this summer of heat and infinite cabbage loopers.
Another great video. Thanks. First time gardener so have not grown peppers but definitely on my list next year.
I’m super excited about the habanada experiment! I have habanada seeds so I think I’ll do the experiment right along with you. I’ll start the seeds today. 😁
I have one bell and three jalapeños left. Yay! So thankful to find this video. I’m in Alaska and this will be a great experiment. Hopefully successful!
Thank you for making these pepper videos!
I am even going to heat the greenhouse here in southern California. Several plants do not do well with the cold at night in January and February. It helps get a head start for the spring.
I like to thank you had the first year more then 3 peppers in my garden, and the plants are huge. Taking them in today and cross my finger they will be fine for spring
I live on the south coast of the UK. I have successfully over wintered a chilli plant for the last 3 years. Potting it up and bringing in doors each autumn. I do not prune harshly, in fact it's produced chillies right through the winter. I have not tried pepper plants but will now try it. Thank you for the videos.
Thank you for sharing.
One of my pepper plants it blooming in the basement. So it's working! Thanks bro
Great video (both videos)! Now I am excited - growing Tomatoes, Peppers (several varieties of both) & Eggplants & of course, many more veggies & root crops & fruits, BUT I will be heavy mulching the T,P&Es to overwinter outside (will cover them in case there is a threat of extreme cold temps.) Thank you Brian for the info & also want to thank those who asked those very important questions. Judi
Hoping for a mild winter in zone 8b. I've got some peppers that spent wayyyyy too long in their seedling trays before planting in my greenhouse this summer, and now they're in one of my garden towers. I'm gonna try pruning a few and hope that the composting in the core, liberal mulching, being in the greenhouse, and thermal mass will get them through the winter 🤞🤞
Sweet! I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s video! I have three coleus I need to dig up and over winter. I’m in north Idaho and buy new plants every year. Loved part 2 of overwintering peppers 🌶. I just brought mine into the house to ripen the fruit. I grow them in containers because our season isn’t long enough to fully ripen all the fruit. Can’t wait to overwinter these as well. My husband will definitely think I’ve lost my ever loving mind lol.
I saved tomato suckers from a cool tolerant plant and started new plants for fall from the, so I can see doing the same to have some ready to go out next spring.
Very helpful! Zone 9b here - first year growing pepper plants. I thought I was being smart putting the pot right up against the very warm concrete siding (a win) as the temps cooled but I've been overwatering it seems and have had not a clue (besides covering at night for frost) how to proceed here into December. Much appreciated.
I live in zone five in Iowa and have always had trouble trouble getting my peppers going in unpredictable late spring early summer weather. This year I used hot caps on all my pepper plants around 30 of them and had great success not only with tremendous speedy growth and pepper set but no Virtually no disease. I grew the habanada peppers this year and I had a tremendous harvest off of six plants ,unbelievable. I highly recommend hot caps , you can buy or make your own from large plastic bottles, I stick a thin long bambo in thru the top to hold them in place through the gale force winds of spring in Iowa.
Rewatched the overwintering video just now and I had some of these questions and read through most of the comments but there were so many. You should pin a comment on that video with a link to this video so people can go straight to this after watching that one. Maybe you'll get over a million views on this one too! (Congrats on that btw 😉)
I first watched these videos a couple of years ago and brought my pepper plants in from the greenhouse that winter when I decided I didn’t want to heat it. They are now finishing their third summer in the greenhouse, and I will be bringing them in again. I started some more peppers this spring that I will be bringing in for their first winter. I do cut them way back, but they leafed out and even produced a few blossoms and peppers in the house.
Mine are in pots all the time, so it’s pretty easy to bring them in the laundry room and put them under the grow lights. They are sweet mini peppers that I started from the seeds of organic peppers bought at the grocery store. I started some grape tomatoes that way too, and they worked just fine. (It was during the pandemic and we were avoiding going to stores, so I cut open the last few peppers and tomatoes I had, saved the seeds, and ate the produce.)
I just started pepper seedlings indoors! I have grow lights, working on a bunch of perennials. Going to keep up potting them until spring, when they can go inside. Fingers crossed!
Thanks for your content. I enjoy your videos.
You are very informative, appreciate that!
Thank you!
Excellent video! Complete and very thorough👍🫑
Awesome stuff as always sir! thank you for sharing :)
Thank you so much!!! I never knew I could over winter peppers. So far I've done my bell peppers, pimento peppers, pepperonchini peppers. Still have chili and jalapeno peppers to go. Mine are going in my very large bathroom with grow lights.
What kind of lights did you use??? I have 6 pruned back plants and only 3 small windows in the house, not enough light at all so I’m very interested in what you used!!!
Wow!!! I never knew peppers are perennials!! I appreciate your sharing your gardening knowledge. This should be very helpful as peppers have such a slow start from seed. I am in zone 7B. Love these two videos and have learned so much from all your videos so far. Glad to have found your channel this year!😎🌱
Hi neighbor! Zone 7 here too, in Oklahoma.
Love ❤️ your videos!! I’m binge watching and re-watching to take notes 😝 That being said, I live in Canada, in zone 3b. I’ve made a few purchases but couldn’t use the links you posted because they are US purchases. (I can purchase some but not all). If you could add Canadian links also, that could be a win-win for both of us. I hope I wrote this politely because you do an awesome job! Thank you for the amazing step-by-steps you continually provide!!
Im Jessica new to your channel, i cant thank you enough for the awesome advice. Ive always had the black thumb with plants, they all die... until i watched you bucket tomatos. And now for the first time my family has homegrown toms and loving it. So thank you ever so much, much love from newzealand :-)
Awesome! Welcome to the community.
Thank you!! I am going to try this!!
I think it will be creating a Bonsai effect to some degree.... The roots will send out new growth but we all know that root pruning does take time away from fruiting... do I have one I left growing outside all winter here in San Bernardino, and it grew a couple peppers, but has been very slow producing new bell peppers and growth of leaves as well. The plant looks very healthy other than that. I transplanted it and gave it new amended soil and nutrients as well in April. I grow many peppers in my garden and have been blessed with a great, long harvest! Thanks for your excellent shows! Bruce H.
Good info! Thank you.
yes...same scenario here!!!!! suddenly my interest shot up and put the chilli seeds in a pot, 28 of it , in May !!!!. to my surprice all seeds sprouted, and now i have handful of three inches tall chilli plants; i managed to pot them in 4, 5 separate pots and trying to acclimate them out side for the rest of this season.... and i don't think they will produce for this year though we have three months to pass before winter sets in !!!! AS YOU SAID, TRY TO DO EVERYTHING FOR THIS FEW MONTHS AND START IN EARLY SPRING, WITH THE PLANTS IN HAND ALREADY, HOPE FOR THE FRUITS EARLY NEXT YEAR !!!! SO....THANKS A LOT FOR THE USEFUL TIPS FOR GROWING LATE THIS YEARS !!!!
Thank you👍
I had a rough time getting my Habanada to go this year, but luckily got 3 good plants to take.
In my climate (10b) tomatoes usually make it through the winter fine even producing fruit for all but the coldest few weeks. It's true that they tend to poop out by about the third year. However, if you have an indeterminate tomato this would be the perfect time for making clones. Start a new clone a few weeks before you would plant outside, and they take off much faster than the seedlings. I've had clones of a variety that was supposed to take 80 days (and took closer to 100 in my yard) produce fruit in 60! Plus, no need for collecting seeds
I love the coleus and crotons .
Thanks!! Great information. Can’t wait for tomorrow’s video
You're welcome!
I live in north Florida and had one pepper plant for about 3 years. I would bring it in only when a freeze was forecast and it produced bell peppers nearly year-round.
I've had that happen too with peppers. What surprised me was when my eggplants came back out after winter and I did nothing to keep them safe in the ground. They got large stems too. I live in northwest FL and the weather is getting warmer. We only had three or four frost days last winter.
That’s awesome!!!🌶🌶🌶👍
I'm on the 3rd year with my peppers. Central Florida. I have them in pots and once they dig into the ground (in their pots) they take off like crazy. Tomatoes too. Don't move them til the first cold snap
Hi am really enjoying your videos - I live in France so have a bit of a difficult time finding certain things. Last year (I am in Mid Dordogne area) and last year year we had 3 good frosts, but the grass etc. never died and my roses bloomed all winter long. I have access and use an Orangery which is a wintering over place on many estates/Domaines. Not as much glass as a greenhouse, just one wall of windows, it faces north west. I even have a winter squash that showed up in the Orangery some tomatoes and lots of peppers are showing up, a couple even with blossoms on them from my kitchen waste. I have chard and beets that I have harvested for more than a year now in there and some herbs so your over wintering video is great going to try some peppers.
Here in France home of the escargot - snails are the bane of my gardens existence and I had to plant late so everything was big enough to make it thru their onslaught - I collected about 3500 snails last year, gave to my FR neighbor who keeps the best for himself and feeds the rest to the family of hedgehogs who also think they are a delicacy.
I did well with tomatoes and courgettes (zucchini), my two pickling cukes were beyond bitter yet the nice 14" long Eng. cukes that were right beside them were fine. Don't understand why, picked them small, picked them med and big. I also had lovely Cantelope melons, they looked great, smelled great but were never that sweet, could it be cross pollination being next to the winter squash plants? Lastly this is my 3rd year planting the lovely lime green romanesco, got some small ones last year, this year my plants are big and beautiful but NO flowering, I keep checking and just more leaves coming. Due to the hard and often clay soil I did raised beds and had to buy a lot of my soil, haha I live on a horse farm and there was no aged manure. I used what compost I was able to make, I use my espresso pucks and ash from the wood stove, my soil seemed good as when I went to plant my Toms it looked like hundreds of worms so they seemed very happy. Do you know why my romanesco might not have flowered? I can grow easily into December am just now harvesting winter squashes as the stems die off, have a couple of pumpkins that have hardened off on the vine, but it has maybe gotten down to 4C (38/40F) at the coldest. So will leave the romanesco in the ground. I also have to move my garden, we rent so it will be my 4th garden I have had to create, but thankfully just on the same property. I would like to put down wood matter for a more hugel garden and am hoping to score some horse manure and straw to put down and will try to rake up some leaves.
Sorry for such a long comment, but your methods seem very good and make a lot of sense, I started my gardening life off in New England, then lived in Florida for 30 years and now in France it is a bit more like the NW of the USA so really a lovely long growing season in the middle between the 2 areas. Off to watch more videos I am interested in what I can plant in the fall. Thank you very much.
If you want to rid yourself of snails, get a half dozen ducks.
I'm in New Hampshire and I'm going to try this with my jalapenos and my 5 foot green pepper plants !
all good stuff to know..thank you
I am zone 9 and I did eggplants a few years ago. The first year I did not get much but they kept growing for like 3 years and they put off so dam many eggplants !
This year is my first time gardening here in the US and don't know what to plant except tomatoes because of the weather/climate. My husband bought seedlings from the garden store and I planted them then I found your channel while searching for tips on growing tomatoes! 😊
I've learned a lot and applied them, thank you for the tips and tricks. Our tomatoes are still producing, have some lettuce and okra as well.
You're welcome!
You will find a lot of great gardening information here but unless you are in his same growing zone, it would also be beneficial for you to look up your USDA gardening zone and check out your local extension office. These will help you know what you can grow in your zone and when to plant.
Best of luck to you !
Love to hear the success stories of new gardeners! Welcome to the community. 👍👍
Check with a professional rather than these social media clowns. All they do is spread misinformation they see on other people’s videos.
My mother lives in northern MI (Traverse City area) and this year I planted her peppers that I had started from seed, in mid May with Wall-O-Waters for protection. We had the best peppers ever! We grew Big Bertha first time and I will be overwintering one for sure!
Hope you are saving seeds, a proven winner for you. I couldn't find the zip closure plastic packs at the stores you'd think would have them. Michaels Craft. Located at the stand in line area. lol
I have a Jim's hot pepper that I put in a large decorative pot and it was really pretty so I brought it inside for the winter then put it back out in the spring. It is now about 10 feet long! I had to attach it to the porch rail because it outgrew the stake and it put out at least 100 peppers! Now that I know the correct way to overwinter, I will just keep saving it for as long as it lasts LOL!
Is it still going?
I enjoyed both videos on overwintering peppers. Most helpful. On 2nd video you said you liked eggplant but didn't like the skin, me neither. I grow eggplant for my wife & found that either smoking/baking them on the grill or roasting/baking them in oven/air fryer "Whole" and then scooping the meat (seeds & all), the result was a sweet, delicious not bitter flavor. I would use it for a parmensan casserole or eggplant dressing. I even make individual servings in ramekin bowls in the airfryer (ours is the front loading Power XL brand mdl, works better than basket mdls). Just thought I'd mention that. Thank you for your helpful videos.
Funny that I just saw the part 1&2 videos on overwintering peppers. I'm doing this for the first time. Also trying with tomatoes as an experiment.
Great video!
This year, I grew my pepper plants early, around January in hydroponics. This gave me a big plants with huge roots. In Spring, I transplanted them outside and it's the first time have have actually had a good harvest of peppers 🌶 . I will try to overwinter a couple of my plants and see if it works for me.
Please explain how you did this with hydroponics. There is so much on the web, all different and some are very extensive.
Started watching this, jumped to last weeks/years vlog, didn't realise you could over winter, few weeks yet, but for deffo going to dig up and put in greenhouse, see how we go. I get poor results, thinking because not a long enough growing season, happen this will work. Might even try sewing earlier in a heated propogator as well. Thnx, Much appreciated.
Zone 6a will give this a try first time gardener pruning will be difficult
Hi! Another great video, so much useful information. Where I live, southern Ontario my garden definitely will go to rest over winter. My pepper plants are going indoors tomorrow, frost is getting closer. I will try to keep them on production over the winter, wish me luck. Do they have a resting time on their own? Will they just stop producing? Ideas on how to prepare or restore the soil for next year, please. Looking forward to the new series on ornamentals. Good luck on all your projects.
I only grew habanada once and it took a really long time to produce pods. It was the last pepper to ripen in my greenhouse last year.
Great advise thank you. I watched a Charles Dowding video where he talked about overwintering tomatoes in England. He had one that he couldn’t regrow from seed but really liked it so he took shoots of the plant and rooted them to over winter.
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I overwintered a couple of pepper plants last year in my garage. One of the plants survived the winter hindsight maybe they both did. Nice tall plants lots of fruit in zone 5b. I'm over wintering 5 plants this year.
I save a couple tomato clones bc I have a short growing season already, and sometimes it's even shorter than short. We had an abnormally cold spring this year, so nothing got transplanted into the garden until early second week of June... and our first frost is tonight... 10 days earlier than our average frost date. We lost 3 whole weeks of out door growing 😭
I didn't have any pots but I had several extra large coffee containers. Poked holes and used that!
My mom watched me cut down the peppers declaring the whole time that no way was this going to work. LOL 😆
Figured it never hurt. Gonna compost them anyway. Can't wait!
I also took some of the extra stems and put them in water to see if they root!
Lol. Thats funny. And yes.. what have you got to lose?
I grew Coolapeno last year. Didn't get a ton of peppers but the flavor was awesome. I wish I seen this before I threw that plant out.
My great uncle used to over winter tomato plants to use the shoots in the spring as cloned plants instead of starting from seed.
Another wonderful video of yours, Brian! I’m sooooo excited about your next ornamental video because I have bought that same red leafed plant last month as a tiny plant and it’s been getting really tall and wondering what should I do about it. 😄
Thanks Cindy! So glad you have this plant. It's one of my favorites. You're definitely going to want a pinch it back so it gets bushy and not just tall. But I'll cover that tomorrow😉
Great video! I usually just yank out my pepper plants at first frost. New subscriber.
Me too. Now we know
My favorite way to eat eggplant is to peel it, slice it, dip it in egg and then flour and fry it in a little butter or oil. So good!
I grew up a Chocolate Habanero last winter until spring, indoors with just a growlight an fertilizer. The damn thing was 2 meters tall in march and gave about 30 peppers! From the seed i got, i grew 5 new plants which are now outside and half as tall but full of peppers. I live in Holland, an 8 region i believe.
Hi Brian
So excited to share with you …..
I took time to overwinter a few of my peppers
I stored them in garage in front of the widows. Well they kept growing 😮 ha yep and kept trying to flower
Aside from that after planting them outside few weeks ago I am already getting peppers 😮👏😊👍
So AWESOME
THANK YOU so much!!!!
Nice!!!
@@NextLevelGardening
However next year, I may want to mark the peppers which one is what 😂 lol
Thank you again
Thanks for this series of videos. They're very useful. I've grown what were sold as ornamental peppers completely indoors, in the past, without problems, and harvested peppers from them for several years.
An on-screen typo happens at 1:00. The low to mid-thirties Fahrenheit is 1° to 3° Celsius, not -1.6° as you show on screen. 32°F is 0°C, the triple point of water. A temperature of -1.6°, even for short periods, will likely kill all of the pepper plants.
Also, 41°F is 5°C, and 50°F is 10°C - useful to remember. Add 5°C for every additional 9°F.
Eventually I am hoping to do this. Although I do have my ornamental peppers in the house.
If you’re not a fan of eggplant due to the skins, try growing the Asian kind of eggplant. The skins are much thinner, and don’t need to be peeled. Just store them in produce bags on the counter to maintain the moisture level. I grew two Ichiban variety plants this year (just in five gallon buckets), and they have produced all summer. I still have more eggplants than I know what to do with because they produce so much more than the big varieties. I use them in every regular eggplant recipe, but the skins aren’t tough at all.
My Ichiban eggplant were very prolific this year as well.
We have overwintered and grown peppers and tomatoes indoors. Our biggest challenge has been aphids! We will try again this winter.
I've had a fair amount of success posting sticky fly paper as an extra protection against any gnats that may have snuck in to the soil.
I overwintered my jalepeno and actually I didnt give it any sunlight at all. I kept it in my hallway away from windows so it went completely dormant (although it started sprouting back out around february... I think thats when we were running the heaters a lot so i guess the heat woke it up). Anyway its doing great.... so like i dont think you need the growlights or even the window. just a cool dark place ... maybe like a garage if you have one would be good. i dont... so hallway it was lol
I think I’ll buy a small camping tent for my plants!
That's was great ty
Made eggplant casserole tonight from Japanese ones (tender, not bitter and very good.)
I'd love to learn more about that nice plumeria you have in the back ground..I started mine from seed but only got 3 out of 6 and some don't get any taller thank 2 inches while others from the same batch are up to 16"
This was so helpful for you to answer questions. Thank you!!
Being in SoCal, I don't explicitly overwinter the pepper or chili plants. Just keep them a little protected and usually 90% of them pull thru. I think that overwintering eggplants and tomatoes are not worth it, as these are very easy to grow in the first place and loose their vigor after the first season. I have seen eggplants get thru the winter but are usually less productive the next season.
Overwintering chili and pepper plants are good in cooler climes and gives you a good headstart the next year. Thanks for the video.
I'm experimenting: they are in pots on a wagon. I move them into the sun daily (depending on temp) then back into the garage. We'll see.
I grow peppers all year around in my basement aquaponic set-up. And I get peppers all year round.
Zone 5 here...in the valley....we get 20* below...
Had them in my unheated greenhouse and they froze even in a insulated place with other plants all around them...
Maybe ill heat it this year....😁😬
Thanks for the great video, as always. Do you have any info about overwintering cucamelon? I've been told that it's possible, but the available sources don't seem to agree on how to go about it.
Hi! Just found your videos & love the info! Couple questions though, zone 5b. Can I bring them into the basement where it’s about 50° during the winter & use a grow light? Also is this for ALL peppers (bell, banana, jalapeño etc)?