Un-Overwintering Pepper Plants - Coming Out Of Hibernation - Pepper Geek
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In this video, we take our overwintered pepper plants out from hibernation and allow them to grow. The process is super simple, and if your plants are still alive, they should perk right up and grow again.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:26 When to start transitioning
4:00 Moving under grow lights
4:50 1 month later
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Mine do not look like that 😆… I had a great environment, but I don’t think I watered enough over the winter. I kind of forgot about them…I still have hope and will try again next year. Thanks for this follow up video.
Your the only one to post this kind of video
I have that same hydrometer for my tent. Great piece and the app works well, along with other products from that same company. What a time we live in!😊
So cool
Happy Sunday, thanks for video
Happy Easter 🐇
We have a Marchant for fermenting that wintered in the shop & now it's out & growing/blooming like crazy. Fingers crossed, aphids are lurking everywhere. It's so cool to have a plant come out into the sun already half-grown.
Sadly my 2 year old ghost pepper didn’t make it this winter. Aphids saw new growth first daaaawhhh
I did this for the first time
Garage in sunny window
They did great!
On point and can't wait to try this next season!
I have 3 survivors from my overwintering experiment, which I did a rushed and sloppy job of when a freeze was coming. I gradually started leaving the 3 plants outside in March, bringing them in only when it had a risk of going below freezing, at first in part shade and then full sun. They had no signs of sunscald or damage from 35-40F temperatures (2-5C). So I expect overwintered plants are a lot more resistant to sunscald and cool temperatures than seedlings.
That said, they have not taken off growing again yet. Just within the last week I gave them some fertilizer and a good watering and brought them to a sunnier location. The coolest part of my basement is almost 70F (21C), much warmer than the Pepper Geek basement, and I think that prevented my plants from going properly dormant. I'm monitoring the temperature of my garage to see if it would be a better place for overwintering.
👍 What kind of peppers?
@@zarahsgarden2097 I had 3 different kinds survive overwintering, all different species -- Red Savina (c. chinense), a Jalapeno, and a Sugar Rush Peach (c. baccatum). Of the 3 the Sugar Rush Peach is doing by far the best, but not as well as Sugar Rush peppers I started from seed In November.
They are all alive and growing slowly. I'm hoping when we finally stop getting nor'easters they will take off.
Will there be an episode that covers your beard game?
I'm in Ohio. Still low 30s. But wanted this info. Thank you.
Excellent content on this channel. Thank you
Thanks for the thermometer tip, you may have saved my basement pipes from freezing! I just bought one I can put in my cellar to know what the temps are, I had pipes freeze (but thank God not burst) last winter when it was -15° outside. Now I can check the app and track my basement temps and set an alert if it gets too low. Love your channel and have had great success with hot peppers and fermented sauce as a result. I hope you keep the beard, it looks great on you.👍🏻
It would be good to also cover situations when bringing your plant back to life isn't that successful. How long to wait after assuming it is dead if no new leaves? 1 month? Sometimes new grown starts off woody parts so it is very hard to tell for me if there's point to wait. Also please kindly include Celsius units as you did before. Thank you.
That is a really good question -- my survivors maintained at least a few tiny green leaves the whole winter. Some of the ones that died lost all their leaves immediately, others had them dry up later, none of those came back. I would guess it is a good idea to let them keep a few small or regrown leaves the whole winter so you can see how they are doing. For the ones that died early, there was no root system left and the stems became hollow and brittle but some were less obvious from the outside other than the complete lack of green.
What if you want your pepper (or tomato plant) to continue producing inside over the winter? Would you still follow all the steps....the difference would be putting them under a stronger, full spectrum LED grow light?
Also, would you add something to the soil mix; worm castings, wood ash, fertilizer, etc. and water them more?
Do you have a video on bringing outdoor pepper (or tomato) plants indoors and growing them under LED lights? I’d LOVE to watch how you did this.
Great video, as usual! I LOVE your channel and learn a lot. You have great explanations!
Thank you for your time and help! ❤️🌶🍅🌺🪴😁👩🏻🌾
Thank you for sharing! Several of my pepper plants made it through our long winter! Still have to wait almost a month till we're frost free. *Hoping the production on mature plants will be worth it.* I only got one tiny Trinidad Scorpion Pepper last year 🥲 here in zone 4a, with our 90 day frost free growing season, every bit helps!
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Yup! Cold climate is a good excuse to overwinter. You can also start the seeds super early and up-pot to a big pot indoors (space allowing)
Scotch Bonnet ! My favorite pepper 😋
So good!
Great topic. I was wondering whether it was temperature or light that caused the plants to break dormancy.
I love the way you showed to overwinter the pepper plants, I tried it with a reaper and a Trinidad scorpion I already have full branching the plant looks almost like it did before I trimmed it. Hope this ups my yield this year the last three we're pretty low yields compared to my first reaper harvest 🔥🔥
You have very hhhhot 🌶
about 2/3 of my pepper plants survived the CA winter outdoors.. Getting some flowers on the Anaheims already.
Great videos on overwintering these peppers. I'm wondering: does the same (basic principle) work for capsicum annuums that have always been indoors? Mine have been living in a north facing bedroom window (I know...) for a bit over a year now I think. I always struggle with keeping my plants alive in the winter, and never know how many leaves dropping is normal, and when it's a sign of dehydration. Should I trim back an indoor plant as well? Just as aggressively, or less so? I feel like the plant mainly struggles with the window being open when temperatures are around freezing outside. Mind you: the room temp doesn't drop below 10C, but part of the plant may be in a draft bringing fresh air in from the outside. Would it be better to move the plants away from the open window (and thus the little bit of light we do have in winter)?
Always harden off your plants for a week before leaving them outside as the new leafs aren't use to the outdoor conditions.
nice
I had 2 very small harvests off mine.
i was going to try that with the sweet pepper Tangerine Dream an see how that goes after this season in Canada. Never grew this kind of pepper before as its my frist snack pepper.
Also going to grow my frist three Hot peppers, cayenne, serrano, Big Thia Hybrid an see how that goes.
An try to grow two horn shape long peppers also because they have high yeilding peppers, Hungarian sweet,Corno di Toro.
Well thanks for that information. I didn’t know I could start the growing process in the house. I have a few over wintered plants that are on their 3 rd season. I definitely think I’ll be getting much more volume from my plants next season when I use these tips (provided my wife doesn’t try to kill them like she did this year) 😂
after eating hot chilis don’t kiss her.😂😂😂.
Yeah, where DID the beard go?! 😉Since I live in an apartment I can't really get my overwintering plants dormant, so I've had a Reaper x Douglah plant living on my kitchen table under a 12w grow light. Guess that's not really overwintering since it has been allowed to grow, but technically it has been kept over the winter so 😄. It looked like your Scotch Bonnet when I brought it in and it has grown a couple of branches which are about as tall as the stem was. But can clearly see that the light isn't enough as the distance between the leaves is "too much". I'm gonna start hardening it off, and when it has acclimated I'll transfer it to a 5 gallon bucket. 🤞Hoping it'll turn into a small tree and produce, at least, as much as it did last year as it is a very tasty pepper.
The balcony storage area that a lot of older apartments have should work similar to garage. Just make sure the temple aren’t dipping below freezing and stay below 50s
I over wintered my 1st jalapeno plant & followed your instruction, I have no grow lights so my plants will be hardened off from inside to outside. At what point do I transfer them into a larger pot & at what point do i trim/cut back the leaves?
Could you please address at what point you begin fertilizing these plants and the type of fertilizer used. Thanks.
All plants changed to yellow/brown sticks. Starting a fresh this year.
I overwintered my pepper in place last year. I’m in zone 9B. It’s obviously alive, as the trunk and stems are green, but it did not come out of dormancy all summer!! I will cover it again this year because it’s hung in there. Any thoughts about what to do next spring? I grew a bunch of pepper in pots this year and planning on overwintering them as well.
i had a quesiton about un-overwintering, should i transplant the pepper into a larger pot with brand new nutrient loaded soil? i did downsize my pot but i wanted to know if i could just set the plant outside for the 1 month then trnasplant like you did
Zone 8b here...i pot my best ones up about a month before first frost time...bring mine in just.before a freeze.light watering because i can barely move them...i.take them out when no chance of a.freeze ...usually just a few weeks..no lights..
The weather.can swing 50 degrees in minutes here...so ya never know...cause the weathermen really never get it right.
If you get branches dying coming into winter should you keep cutting it back to healthy growth or leave it until summer?
Beard is coming in good chap 👍
ahh so the problems I had with overwintering my plants might have been temperature.
I’ve attempted for the first time to overwinter some peppers. All 3 are California Wonder bell peppers. The first one has recently died, but the other two are still alive! We have about 8 weeks till they can go outdoors so I want to get them to start leafing out. I’ve opened the blinds and given them a good watering, but is there a point at which I should add some fertilizer in the water? The soil they’re in was just ordinary potting soil, not with fertilizer mixed in. Thanks.
I'm trying to find out if I can just trim them back and put them in a grow tent for winter and not cut them back to a stick
moving overwintered plant outside.. can I deep-plant overwinter peppers with a woody stem (like it's younger or a tomato... or not)?
Hi, I live in Ireland, I ave no space indoors, Indoors, if I leave my pepper plants outside and prune the foliage, will they go into hibernation mode and spring back up in spring? Thanks
I once left a plant on the porch all winter in Colorado.
Then I added water just to see what will happen and to my surprise it was still alive.
Maybe it was near the dryer vent? 😂
I'm binging my Peppers out of Dormancy, just got a 2 dollar 5 arm flex-grow light and made a n shape around the two plants and started watering them a little more heavily for the new foliage. Next three days are chilly, then it's 40-45+ every night... looks like May 1 they'll be outside :D I already have peppers forming, Pepper plants are real troopers.
None of my Cayenne, Bhut Jolokia, Madam Jeannete, Jwala, Maxibell and Orange plants have grown leaves during the winter. Some branches are greenish, some yellowish, others brown. I brought them upstairs to 20 degrees temperature and am beginning to water them. What do you think? Will they sprout leaves? Or are they already dead?
My peperplant is Brown now . Is it healthy. Is indoors overwintering
I’ve been waiting for this video during the last stream I tried askin bout the ghost cause I did mine too
The ghost didn’t make it 😢
@@PepperGeek that’s so sad I noticed it wasn’t in the video but still had hope mine has fruits growing now in south west Florida sadly not gonna be here when they are ready as I’m leaving for 6 months but my neighbors are gonna care for my garden
Do you have to stay in your basement with the plants over the winter, or can you leave -- e.g., to get groceries
Excellent video. Answered some questions for me. I've got 5 plants to unwinter. I've got some scraggly growth. Should that be pruned when it is up-potted?
You can prune at any time, but it is easier to see what should be pruned after the plant has had some time to grow.
@@PepperGeek Does that include die back from the original pruning points when you overwinter?
Thanks for the video. I am wondering what to do in an area that does not get a frost (in 30 years I've been here.) I have lots of varieties of hot peppers and want to save at least half of them for next year. Do I just prune them back and cover if it drops below 50 degrees at night? Will they need a dormant period to continue to produce? I can't imagine what they will become in another year of growth...some are six feet tall in August. Any advice would be appreciated.
I have like 5 plants in soil, and they are doing okay in the winter, we have like 10 days of frost in the whole winter, and the minimum temperature was like - 7°C, but the survive OK, no leaves and some branches falling, but the main steem look healthy and green, and with some days above 22° C, I can see new leaves. After explaining this I have to say that if you don't get a frost, your plants can survive if you prune and cover them without problems. Don't forget watering but less often than in other seasons.
How many years can you over winter??
I cut several back and put them in the greenhouse but they started growing again., i cant controll light or temp
Question for anyone who sees this - can you overwinter in a pot - transplant to the garden and then put back into a pot for the following winter? Or is that going to be too much shock to be cycling ground to pot every year?
I'm in socal 10b and overwintered my peppers by cutting them back, but I left them outside. They all survived and started forming new growth back in March, but no branching and the leaves are still very small. The plants also quickly started flowering with now ~20-30 mini peppers on each. Im talking reaper/ghost/scorpions that were giants last year, now the size of Thai peppers, or smaller. My thought is to cut them back again, and start over with some high nitrogen fertilizer, or maybe changing the soil. Any advice?
I would definitely fertilize with high-nitrogen to encourage new growth while it is still early in the year. We're doing exactly that with our 2 plants now.
great video. just curious though, what happened to the ghost pepper plant you overwintered?
I think they posted an update that the plant has died.
Yup, plant was dead by the time it came indoors. We left it out in a freeze and it didn’t make it
Mine have no leaves. I stored them in a cold dark attic
What area of New England are you?
When you water your 'over wintering' peppers, do you bottom water or water on top of the soil? Or does it matter?
We lightly water from the top, but bottom watering isn’t a bad idea. I’d just try to time it so the plant doesn’t become overly most. They use very little water when they’re so cold
In our community "Earthship" greenhouse we had a Thai chili pepper plant that went dormant all by itself last winter much to my surprise and endured a unheated winter and is now leafing out. Our Earthship is at approximately at 55 degrees north in the Skeena Valley in B.C. lt was as cold as -40 Celsius here outside in January, but warm enough above freezing in the Earthship to allow the pepper to overwinter.
What do you think the minimum outside low temperatures can be to start leaving them outside full time? Thanks
If there is EVER a night where it goes to zero, the plant will completely die. Anything below about 5 degrees will seriously shock the plant, and it could take a long time to recover. Above 10 degrees and it will probably be okay outside full time. So make sure to check your weather forecast for minimum nighttime temperatures.
Also, make sure to harden them off, rather than just tossing them out there. Just tossing them outside when it's nice enough is easier, but you could stress the plant out and seriously hinder it's recovery time, which will make it produce far later and far less.
@@JonTopping im guessing thats Celsius...
Yeah we usually shoot for consistently above the 50F mark to be safe. Avoid anything close to freezing and we’ll usually haul them in even if it goes into the 40s, but we’re usually overly cautious.
@@PepperGeek for the next two weeks we have nothing colder than 50 degrees at night..do you think I need to harden them off or start leaving them outside all night from the beginning? Thx
@@JonTopping I keep my pepper and tomato plants in containers until I have a good forecast extending to the last frost date staying well above freezing, then I start planting in-ground gradually, most valuable plants last. Pepper plants can sometimes survive a little below freezing, especially in the fall, but in the spring it is not worth the risk and disruption to their growth. Young plants can get some damage well above freezing, or from a strong cool wind; and sometimes temperature will drop well below what the forecast predicts. So I like to have my plants in the garage on cold nights, and bring them out in late morning when it gets up to 50F / 10C, and take them in again at night.
RIP ghost pepper 😅
ohhh i didn't know you needed a specific temperature to overwinter peppers! So it's pretty much useless to try this if the only alternatives I have is either room temperature or freezing outside?
You can keep it alive at room temp, it will likely just keep growing. Keep it as a houseplant for the winter if you want 😄
@@PepperGeek Oh sweet!! Thanks a lot for the advice ❤️
The one Sugar rush stripey plant i had with perfect sriped pods has kicked the bucket a week ago, after happyly growing away all winter, no idea why... it just gave up :/
I had quite a few more overwintering survivors 2 months ago, but they died off one by one as the winter went on leaving me with just 3 out of 15. So I think the longer your winter, the harder it is to overwinter, especially if you do not have a cool enough area to store the plants.
Were you overwintering, or just letting it continue to grow and produce?
If it was producing, did you make sure to never let it get a fully ripened pod?
I really want to do this next winter, so I'm trying to figure out any tricks and advice I can.
@@JonTopping something in between i had 4 plants growing at about 18°C with light from a roof window 2 didnt make it the other 2 are completely fine
@@JonTopping I was just overwintering. But I rushed to overwinter 15 plants as a hard freeze was imminent, I should have planned ahead, replaced the soil to eliminate fungus gnats, quarantined, used a cooler location, and not tried so many at once. In other words, do what the Pepper Geeks did, not what I did! But even in the best circumstances, overwintering won't have a 100% survival rate.
Please Can I over winter my plants in a plastic greenhouse?
In a plastic greenhouse, maybe. It would have to be very well insulated, and probably heated on very cold nights
You forgot to translate those strange Fareneheit values to the more commenly known Celsius ;)
I tried overwintering for the first time. Has a mass of white fly. ended up tossing the plants.
That’s a bummer. This was my first over wintering, 3 plants. Did you wash the soil off and re-pot in a sterile before bringing indoors? He has a video on this, to help prevent pest problems.
My govee monitor was more than 5 degrees off. For anyone looking to get one make sure to check that it's accurate
Ah thanks for sharing. Compared ours to another cheap thermometer and they were within a degree
Has anybody ever used puckerbutt pepper company for ordering seed? My brother swears by them, but i want other opinions before i buy.
I used their reaper seeds. They were great.
My mom has been growing a healthy fruiting pepper plant on her windowsill for many years. She does not do anything special in winter.
Nice, I wish our windows faced South 😞
Wolfman....
Guess the third plant didn’t make it !?
Nice video! But I honestly can’t focus on anything but that clunky microphone whenever it’s in frame 😂
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I'd rather just start my peppers from seed in January
Us too honestly, really only worth it to us if it is something special
How come? I would think it would be nice to start with fully formed plants?
@@JonTopping if you start your seeds in January they will be fully formed by spring.
@@JonTopping I have plants I started in November that are larger than the ones I overwintered. But that is a lot of work too, and cannot be done for very many plants either. I do start my main grow from seeds in Jan - Feb, in zone 7a, anything earlier than that or anything overwintered is an exception.
Dewintering