A friend of mine has an 11-12year old cayenne pepper plant. It now produces GIANT mega spicy peppers, and the trunk of it is almost 2" in diameter. He calls it a pepper tree now, and he has it growing on what he calls Pepper Hill. It was a large mound of topsoil left after redoing his garden. He covered it with hay after planting hot peppers on it. He randomly collects every mushroom he can find in the yard and puts them in a 5 gallon bucket, and then fills it with water. He then pours the spore/mushroom water on Pepper Hill. The mycelium growth in that hill is absolutely insane. Now, anything that he plants on Pepper Hill grows like he's giving it steroids. Also, his property is pretty close to Ed Currie's property.
Omg!! Yes!! Do this! My husband freaked out once because I cut our rose bushes down to nubs like that and like 3 weeks later our rose bushes were HUGE! the branches were dense, and the blooms were outstanding! That was our best year for our roses! Pruning is so important!!
Our gardener cut our rose bushes like that a couple of years ago. And he ruined them. They have never went back to how they were. It was a stupid idea.
@ronaldraygun2639 how old were your bushes? Mine were many years old (like 6 years old) so this technique might not work on a younger plant. I'm sorry your plants were ruined.
Well I’m glad that worked for you because my mom had a gardener cut down our rosebushes in February for a “trim“ now the singular stick that was left is totally dead and hasn’t grown in months
I have a potted Serrano pepper bush that is fruiting right now. She’s about 5 or 6 years old. She’s a hardy lil thing. I love her and am working on growing her next generation from seed. Can’t wait to see them mature.
@@rosa.athome look into using moss and getting proper cuts for developing roots. There’s a surprising amount of technique but once you get it down it’s easy
I have one chilli plant and it refuses to die. No water for three months it fine i can go a year. Oh you chopped to much it fine it grows back. Oh I'm in shock well it fine a month late be fine. 30° fahrenheit with frost and with no protection. It fine the sun and heat me up. This chilly plant i don't know the name of just does the fine meme.
We need a video for maintaining the pepper plant while its indoors without having it grow out in your basement. How often to water? How much light does it need? I assume we don't want to fertilze so we are not promoting any major growth.
I've been bringing my bell pepper plants in for 8 yrs now. I water once a week if the soil is dry and no I don't give plant food in the winter time. I just have them placed on a table beside the living room window for light. Nothing special. It just works. 💜 happy growing 💜
One thing I definitely did wrong last year was to put it in a corner of the basement where it didn't get much light. Probably didn't help that it's a rammed earth basement and the pepper caught mold …
@@rolfs2165 Yeah, that won't help. I put mine in a table by the living room window each year. This year I have a greenhouse so everything is already inside for the fall and winter. Even after cutting them all back they have started to flower again. I'm just picking those off until February/March. Good luck this year!! 💜
It's funny that I read this while reading through the comments with the video playing continuously in the background. It has to be at least the 10th time hearing and I caught the feet comment RIGHT before I read your comment 😭🤣
I did that with a poblano last year. Left in my garage with windows.. It went dormant, just branches, nonkeaves. I figured it was dead. I planted it outside in spring and it didnt seem to do much, but a month later then started putting out leaves and flowers like crazy. Right now it has 15 big peppers on it.
Roughly related: I got seed from a lady in a pepper fb group. I planted in one of those starter kits with the little pods.... fungus grew and killed all but one of the seedlings. It was hanging on but not looking too good. I treated it with peroxide and it lived but didn't do much that year. When fall came it hadn't and certainly wasn't going to produce any fruit. I brought it in for the winter and babied it with peroxide until the following Mother's Day. I took it outside and repotted it in a 5-gal bucket (with cheap fish bodies 😅)... That thing took off and produced like crazy.
Oh man I feel like those are some resilient seeds from that pepper, I feel like the next generation won’t have a problem or.. maybe the exact problem but I doubt
We have a jalapeño plant that has been with us for three summers and has just been brought back indoors for our Canadian winter. We must have picked over one hundred and fifty jalapeños off it this summer. We cut it back, strip it of its leaves, gently uproot it and thoroughly rinse the roots. I then plant it in fresh potting soil and drench it to remove any air pockets. It struggles through the short days of winter and as soon as the greenhouse is up and running in the spring, it gets tucked inside in a prime location and planted back into the garden once threat of frost is over. It is now a small tree!
When I bring mine inside they continue to bloom. Since there are no pollinators indoors I take a small art brush and touch every bloom and it continues to make peppers.
Not pepper, but I did have a dwarf cherry tomato plant for 3 years. I would just bring it's container inside in the Winter (inevitably accidentally breaking off much of the stem growth from the Summer). It would even still produce a little in the winter though it stayed small. Then when it was outside in the Summer, it would grow again and be such a happy well producing plant. It only died because our furnace went out while we were away from home during a week of negative temps. 😢 RIP I'm pretty sure it was a Tommy Toe variety, so I hope to get another going again some day.
@@AirConditioner402 yeah, I know, I do too. That gives us an open window of at least 10 months of almost stable weather to plant, and some annuals here are actually perennials like peppers.
@@priestesslucyoh yeah that's what's used in the tropics. I thought it was impossible because plants need sun but I learnt that the sun can burn plants when they are young and kill them from light overdose. Like they don't catch on fire spontaneously but they harsh sunlight can kill them, I know because I was growing oregano and basil early this year and in August we had some harsh sunlight and it killed most of my basil plants who were more in the open. Only 1 survived and I'm now taking extreme care so it can grow big and strong!
My chiltepin is 2 years old. It didn’t fruit it’s first year, but it’s been fruiting non-stop for the past six months. I’ve had it inside it’s whole life and not in some fancy greenhouse area, just my terrible apartment by the window.
First step is to move to a warmer climate Edit: it's so refreshing to see the number of people in these replys who understand sarcasm. Actually move? No, don't be ridiculous 🙄
I heard some people keep their pepper plants over winter in basements or garages in my country and we usually get some -20 Celsius each winter. I'm going to try this with one chilli pepper this year, mostly because I'm not sure it will work.
He lives in asan Diego which is zone 10 I think. I'm in Brisbane zone 11a. My winter this year was warm. I still have to do this with my pepper plants or at least play musical plants since the sun stays out of my backyard that timd of year.
Living in a townhome where i can't plant anything in the ground. I had a fish pepper plant for 3 years and a scotch bonnet for 2. Over wintering is fantastic for pepper plants.
@@pennyaccleton6227I'm doing something like this in the southern tip of Canada for the 2nd year now. You just want to make sure you dig up enough roots with the plant. Or do what I'm doing; keep it in a pot year-round.
My wife knows it all and thinks these grow channels don't know. She didn't even know you could start a tomato plant from another branch tho 😂I did it in the kitchen
@@excitationofstereocilia2103 how's does she know everything but not the most basic thing like sappling propagation lmao, what in the autistic knower of all things is that😂😂
I just found my love for gardening this past June 😊 Today I learned that I can bring my pepper plants inside to get a head start next spring. Thank you so much for sharing!
I come from a country in the tropical part of the world. Our pepper plants are shrubs. They are perennials. Yes, the fruits come in seasons but, it doesn't die unless by disease or aged. So I was surprised when it was perceived as dying off after harvesting. However, your weather in the western hemisphere does not allow leaving the plant in the soil.
I did this last year and put 5 pepper plants in one pot. Put them in my little living room window. Even harvested a few peppers. I have had peppers all summer. Can't wait to do this again!
This past winter we did not have a day of freezing temp! My peppers and tomatoes survived being outdoors without much trimming (they were against the fence) 😊 We had a storm yesterday with heavy rain and chilly wind. Next week the temp will go up to 50s at night. It will be a good time for me to trim them good to boost new growth. NorCal 9b
@@gardeningwithjsp the "grandmother" is the actual plant! 🤣. I've kept her in the original planter/pot (although I think I need to resituate get this season into a larger home). At this point she's almost bonsai! 🤣
That's amazing! I wish I could see! If you ever decide to post a video please tag me! I try to search for pepper plants that are years old, but I can never find any pictures or videos. Oldest I've had was two years.
@@gardeningwithjspcorrect me if I'm wrong but I think you only have to cut if you have to dig up the plant and break its roots. The idea of cutting off the extra foliage is to let the pepper focus on repairing its roots that you just cut. If you have it potted then you can skip that and just bring it inside for the winter.
I’m on year 2. First year they were all red. This year they are all green. Delicious. Going into year 2 was not done on purpose. I just kept watering it because it was a pretty plant but then the white flowers started showing up again. I’ve been picking peppers since February here in FL
Yes I did know that. Not through knowledge of my own though,had an accident 6 months in a wheelchair the plants I stripped back the previous harvest threw out fruit whilst still growing rogue(similarity with hemp as this also went dormant and gave me flowers) Love growing it's like medicine Love chilli's Cheers from🍺🍺🇬🇧
Whats also a bonus with this method is that peppers produce more and more as they age, or at least more on the 2nd and 3rd year, idk about after that but still a good way to get a better harvest from your plant
I have several chilli plants that are years and years old; and they do fine with little effort. It's not too cold. Occasional frost, doesn't seam to worry 'em.
What zone do you live in. I’m in zone 7. I have been wanting to do this for a long time but there are way too many bugs in my soil to do thinking about bringing any of my plants in the house.
That's awesome. A couple of years ago q friend was digging out his garden bed and said he didn't want the small rainbow peppers that weren't growing much for him. I repotted them and set them on my porch, they loved it. I ended up giving them as gifts to others in the area who still eat them.
I've been able to get 3 years out of mine. I just fertilize them and mulch at end of year (dead leaves). It's protected them from frost bite real well.
You can do something similar with tomatoes. Take some cuttings, root them in water, once you have good roots on them pot them up and keep them on the windowsill until it's time to plant them back outside.
I'll try it! I do the same in the fall with 2 tropical Hibiscus plants, now well over 5 years old and covered with blooms. I never thought about saving peppers!
I've never successfully overwintered summer veggies, even here in coastal VA (zone 8a). Gonna try again with a potted red bell. Wish me luck! (I've succeeded with basil, btw)
I tried that several times, but haven't had any luck getting them going again the following year. I cut them back and potted them in Oct., I put them back out in late May, but they didn't start to grow until mid August, and just started to set fruit about when the weather was changing again, but the new plants I seeded and planted did fine and out grew the older plants every time.
I have three different sweet peppers in pots for 3 years. In the summer in the greenhouse and in the winter in the garage near the laundry under lights and heat pad. I will cut them back as you suggested. Live south of Nanaimo BC, (east Vancouver Island) Canada.
Seems a complicated process. I just leave my chillis in the ground over winter, they die back and look completely dead. In spring they get new shoots from the base, trim off the dead stuff and they grow perfect.
Remember to keep it somewhere warm and make sure it doesn't completely dry out! I kept mine in the garage every winter for 3 winters (4 growing seasons). Last winter the garage got too cold for it. It was a dragon cayenne. It made the BEST cayennes.
Depending on the type of pepper, you can grow it just like papaya in the tropics. This of course, applies only on tropical suitable peppers. They flower everytime, amd if you water your pepper tree everyday when it's dry season, you'll still get your peppers all year round.
Unironically peppers are tropical plants… they just have the ability to grow in cold climates due to the earth once being completed cold but some plants survived and peppers were one of the outcomes… that being said mother plants are amazing to have as they can produce much more the next year… as long as you don’t trim the entire plant… if you’re going to trim the entire plant then the peppers will always taste the same but it defeats the purpose and old plants are less resilient to fungus so you might have it for 4-10 years and then wake up one day to it dead overnight due to a fungus that was able to enter the cell wall and kill it over night… but new plants tend too stay 1 step ahead as long as they’re healthy. So growing from seed is best
I've done this with some Ghost Peppers. The first year yield was a couple of dozen peppers. The second year I had three flushes of peppers and had hundreds in total. It isn't as easy as he makes it seem to keep the pepper plant over the winter in colder climates.
I planted cayenne pepper and harvested peppers 3 years in a row without doing anything... Best peppers we ever had, plus we grew some scotch bonnet plants and they were delicious
I potted my pepper plants this year with the plan to bring them in for winter. I didn't realize the need to drastically cut them back. Thanks for the tip.
When I lived in Costa Rica I had 2 pepper plants that were bushes chest high, and one that was as tall as the house. They were years old with fat trunks. That was in the mountains down near Panama at 1000 meters elevation, a little over 3000'. The biggest pepper was a habanero and it's peppers weren't very good to eat but the old bush was cool anyway. It must have been 20' around.
Actually, I just plant in pots and then bring the pots in the house over the winter. They then continue growing outside in the same pots during spring into summer, then repeat!!
Ive got a pepper plant in my backyard that is over 10 years old and i leave it right where it is. but i do trim it back every year. Same as my hydrangeas.
Worked for me this year. Only issue I had was some animal kept eating the new growth this past spring. I moved the planter to the other side of the yard and it finally took off. Thank goodness pests are not too smart.
I had a few awesome pepper plants when i lived down in the tropics, id just continually pick the ripe fruit year round, give em the occasional light pruning, and fertilize em with some Black Kow about once a month. Now im up in colorado (not far from pueblo home of the pueblo chile) but the whole aspect of a legitimate winter season is totally new to me, and im still getting the learning curve down. I dont have a lot of room indoors to start seedlings in the winter really unfortunately, which would be very helpful.
I have two pepper 🌶️ trees that are 5 years old, upgrade their soil with compost and increase potassium and boom all year round peppers 🌶️, don’t think I’ve ever seen them without flowers or pepper. Chop it back a little and it keeps growing
My oldest was 11 years old. Couple of ways to do it. I always left mine in their bucket in the greenhouse. I almost never pruned mine. First time I figured it out though, a mouse ate it to the ground and it came back.
You can also build yourself a small hothouse rowhouse and keep everything alive all winter and still growing. Take more effort but if you set yourself up right and do most of the work yourself it's cheap and easy, just takes some time to do.
If you either have the climate or a good greenhouse with heater, but you can also keep your tomato plants alive year-round if you have such things as well
I was wondering about that . I’m in zone 7a and my peppers did the best in the fall and looked so healthy. I did pull it out Not knowing but did save the seeds from that plant. Will definitely pot it and replant this year😊
I had a habanero plant that was not doing too well. I pulled all the peppers off and gave it that 420 soil and it’s now the best plant in my garden. Not even a year old and it’s massive.
My granpa discarded the whole plant every year, so when I planted mine, I intended to do the same, but I was too weak to pull it out, so I just cut it. I was amazed when It growed back and I had a better harvest next year 😊
I did not of that and got fruit year round by just growing them in a cardboard box, lined with durable plastic from a roll I had, in front of a bay window. They were dragon cayenne pepper plants. They flowered and produced fruit year round without any issues besides when I had to wait from picking all the peppers.
We had a jalapeño that came back for 5 years. The peppers were hotter every year. The last year they were too hot. My husband's brother started eating one and it drew up a blister on his lip. My husband and his brother love hot but hubby threw the plant away at the end of the season. We did make pepper sauce with the remaining. We never did anything except water the plant until it died each year.
I had a bell pepper plant that produced peppers every summer for three summers in a row!!! Didn’t do anything but keep it where it was and it did all the rest. And it was in a pot too!! ❤️💜💚
With pepper leaves & stems being usable (yes, including edible ways), one would be happy to know that those don't have to go to waste in the process of pruning them to overwinter
Yes I have habanero fir long time. I didn't even do anything. They keep.on growing and fruiting. Until I sold my house and they're gone. Thanks for sharing coz I'm going to plant again. I just brought one. I'll do the same what you do. Thanks
I've gone one step further and brought my favourite plant inside, put it under a grow light and it kept fruiting all the way through, didn't trim it down, had chillis all winter and now it's huge and going back outside in a few weeks. If you have the room I highly recommend it
6a-7a angst: Must be nice Living in a climate like CA X'D my peppers are perennial af. Tried em in a window indoors and if the mites don't get em then the first night it hard freezes it sucks their moisture out like herbs in a dehydrator even if I watered em that night or set up a passive gravity reservoir. its way challenging here is the chilly zones.
For sure! Zone 5 in NW PA. The snowbelt. I did try to overwinter in house. Failed. I need a video showing how to help plants survive inside. Pretty Please.😊
Same as all brassica to be honest. Mine are all 5 years+. Giving me loose leaf trimmings year long, tender stems and heads! Not to mention a load of pollinator blooms in early to late spring on some...just wait for it to go to seed and cut them down to the lowest growth.
My favorite thing to do with really any pepper Hollow it out with the exception of a couple seeds stuff it with a cheese ball stuffing wrapped in bacon baked❤
A friend of mine has an 11-12year old cayenne pepper plant. It now produces GIANT mega spicy peppers, and the trunk of it is almost 2" in diameter. He calls it a pepper tree now, and he has it growing on what he calls Pepper Hill. It was a large mound of topsoil left after redoing his garden. He covered it with hay after planting hot peppers on it. He randomly collects every mushroom he can find in the yard and puts them in a 5 gallon bucket, and then fills it with water. He then pours the spore/mushroom water on Pepper Hill. The mycelium growth in that hill is absolutely insane. Now, anything that he plants on Pepper Hill grows like he's giving it steroids. Also, his property is pretty close to Ed Currie's property.
very cool, thanks for sharing
Dope asf
I know that name from hot ones lol
That’s sick dude
That’s awesome 👏
Omg!! Yes!! Do this! My husband freaked out once because I cut our rose bushes down to nubs like that and like 3 weeks later our rose bushes were HUGE! the branches were dense, and the blooms were outstanding! That was our best year for our roses! Pruning is so important!!
Peppers are not roses. Do NOT cut down pepper limbs.
This is extremely common MISTAKE.
You chop out a plant, it doesn't have the roots to support full foliage. That is why you have to cut them back.
Our gardener cut our rose bushes like that a couple of years ago. And he ruined them. They have never went back to how they were. It was a stupid idea.
@ronaldraygun2639 how old were your bushes? Mine were many years old (like 6 years old) so this technique might not work on a younger plant. I'm sorry your plants were ruined.
Well I’m glad that worked for you because my mom had a gardener cut down our rosebushes in February for a “trim“ now the singular stick that was left is totally dead and hasn’t grown in months
I have a potted Serrano pepper bush that is fruiting right now. She’s about 5 or 6 years old. She’s a hardy lil thing. I love her and am working on growing her next generation from seed. Can’t wait to see them mature.
Grow a new one from cuttings, it will fruit quicker and you know what fruit quality you will get from it.
@@Pummers38I tried cuttings in water and soil and couldn't get them to root. Do you use a hormone ?
Are you in a cool climate and transplant to a pot? 😊
@@rosa.athome look into using moss and getting proper cuts for developing roots. There’s a surprising amount of technique but once you get it down it’s easy
I have one chilli plant and it refuses to die. No water for three months it fine i can go a year. Oh you chopped to much it fine it grows back. Oh I'm in shock well it fine a month late be fine. 30° fahrenheit with frost and with no protection. It fine the sun and heat me up.
This chilly plant i don't know the name of just does the fine meme.
We need a video for maintaining the pepper plant while its indoors without having it grow out in your basement.
How often to water? How much light does it need? I assume we don't want to fertilze so we are not promoting any major growth.
I've been bringing my bell pepper plants in for 8 yrs now. I water once a week if the soil is dry and no I don't give plant food in the winter time. I just have them placed on a table beside the living room window for light. Nothing special. It just works. 💜 happy growing 💜
One thing I definitely did wrong last year was to put it in a corner of the basement where it didn't get much light. Probably didn't help that it's a rammed earth basement and the pepper caught mold …
@@rolfs2165 Yeah, that won't help. I put mine in a table by the living room window each year. This year I have a greenhouse so everything is already inside for the fall and winter. Even after cutting them all back they have started to flower again. I'm just picking those off until February/March. Good luck this year!! 💜
It needs to be near a south facing window unless you live south of the equator then it needs to be by a north facing window
Took me a second to catch the "feet for free" line. Hilarious.
Took me a moment as well, that was a good one, well delivered :D
I paused the video and asked the Universe, “did he just say he was giving us the feet for free?” 🤣
what else was the video about?!?
@@cburns458my thoughts exactly.
It's funny that I read this while reading through the comments with the video playing continuously in the background. It has to be at least the 10th time hearing and I caught the feet comment RIGHT before I read your comment 😭🤣
I did that with a poblano last year. Left in my garage with windows..
It went dormant, just branches, nonkeaves. I figured it was dead.
I planted it outside in spring and it didnt seem to do much, but a month later then started putting out leaves and flowers like crazy.
Right now it has 15 big peppers on it.
Roughly related: I got seed from a lady in a pepper fb group. I planted in one of those starter kits with the little pods.... fungus grew and killed all but one of the seedlings. It was hanging on but not looking too good. I treated it with peroxide and it lived but didn't do much that year. When fall came it hadn't and certainly wasn't going to produce any fruit.
I brought it in for the winter and babied it with peroxide until the following Mother's Day. I took it outside and repotted it in a 5-gal bucket (with cheap fish bodies 😅)... That thing took off and produced like crazy.
Pepper papa or mama -you deserved those babies! You loved and nurtured it to life
It demanded a sacrifice
Oh man I feel like those are some resilient seeds from that pepper, I feel like the next generation won’t have a problem or.. maybe the exact problem but I doubt
amazing story
You are in fact, a Garden Angel, that was some dedicated work!
We have a jalapeño plant that has been with us for three summers and has just been brought back indoors for our Canadian winter. We must have picked over one hundred and fifty jalapeños off it this summer. We cut it back, strip it of its leaves, gently uproot it and thoroughly rinse the roots. I then plant it in fresh potting soil and drench it to remove any air pockets.
It struggles through the short days of winter and as soon as the greenhouse is up and running in the spring, it gets tucked inside in a prime location and planted back into the garden once threat of frost is over. It is now a small tree!
That's awesome. Do you normally use seeds from jalepanos you get from the supermarket?
When I bring mine inside they continue to bloom. Since there are no pollinators indoors I take a small art brush and touch every bloom and it continues to make peppers.
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Great tip!
Thank you! I was wondering about this
You don't actually need bees and butterflies as pollinators... tiny things like gnats will also do it! (If the pollen grains are small.)
I think pepper flowers do themselves, don't they? You might not *need* to do any of that
Not pepper, but I did have a dwarf cherry tomato plant for 3 years. I would just bring it's container inside in the Winter (inevitably accidentally breaking off much of the stem growth from the Summer). It would even still produce a little in the winter though it stayed small. Then when it was outside in the Summer, it would grow again and be such a happy well producing plant. It only died because our furnace went out while we were away from home during a week of negative temps. 😢 RIP
I'm pretty sure it was a Tommy Toe variety, so I hope to get another going again some day.
Advantages of living in a tropical zones:
Never have to worry about frost.
Basically, all year is good to plant most crops.
Well.. more or less. I live in a tropical country, and you have to worry about storms and heavy rain for a few months. Other than that, it's all good.
@@AirConditioner402 yeah, I know, I do too. That gives us an open window of at least 10 months of almost stable weather to plant, and some annuals here are actually perennials like peppers.
He's only subtropical.
Nobody uses greenhouses in the tropics, right? (Shade houses probably 😂)
Hmmmmm, just say: BANANAS, and everything and everyone knows where do u live..
@@priestesslucyoh yeah that's what's used in the tropics. I thought it was impossible because plants need sun but I learnt that the sun can burn plants when they are young and kill them from light overdose. Like they don't catch on fire spontaneously but they harsh sunlight can kill them, I know because I was growing oregano and basil early this year and in August we had some harsh sunlight and it killed most of my basil plants who were more in the open. Only 1 survived and I'm now taking extreme care so it can grow big and strong!
My chiltepin is 2 years old. It didn’t fruit it’s first year, but it’s been fruiting non-stop for the past six months. I’ve had it inside it’s whole life and not in some fancy greenhouse area, just my terrible apartment by the window.
First step is to move to a warmer climate
Edit: it's so refreshing to see the number of people in these replys who understand sarcasm. Actually move? No, don't be ridiculous 🙄
He did put it in a greenhouse. However, perhaps u can pot it n put the plant indoors(ur house).
I heard some people keep their pepper plants over winter in basements or garages in my country and we usually get some -20 Celsius each winter. I'm going to try this with one chilli pepper this year, mostly because I'm not sure it will work.
We don't have anything to loose by trying this only to gain ☺️
I live in the deep South & still have to bring plants in. We definitely have a longer growing season but winter can still be brutal.
He lives in asan Diego which is zone 10 I think. I'm in Brisbane zone 11a. My winter this year was warm. I still have to do this with my pepper plants or at least play musical plants since the sun stays out of my backyard that timd of year.
Living in a townhome where i can't plant anything in the ground. I had a fish pepper plant for 3 years and a scotch bonnet for 2. Over wintering is fantastic for pepper plants.
Works for sweet peppers as well in case anyone is wondering.
Thank you, I was. However, I'm going to have to experiment, as it's not that warm here.
@@pennyaccleton6227I'm doing something like this in the southern tip of Canada for the 2nd year now. You just want to make sure you dig up enough roots with the plant.
Or do what I'm doing; keep it in a pot year-round.
@@phantomkate6I'm definitely tempted to set up a few permanent hot pepper plants in a greenhouse.
@@phantomkate6what size pot?
@@priestesslucy Dooo it 😁
This is perfect timing!! I just pulled up these plants and now I can save them? Awesome!!
My wife told my this too but I thought she was lying. But it’s true and I asked how did she knew. Turns out she follows epic gardening too 😂.
This sounds like something a sim would say😂😂
My wife knows it all and thinks these grow channels don't know. She didn't even know you could start a tomato plant from another branch tho 😂I did it in the kitchen
🤣🤣🤣
@@excitationofstereocilia2103 how's does she know everything but not the most basic thing like sappling propagation lmao, what in the autistic knower of all things is that😂😂
I just found my love for gardening this past June 😊 Today I learned that I can bring my pepper plants inside to get a head start next spring. Thank you so much for sharing!
I come from a country in the tropical part of the world. Our pepper plants are shrubs. They are perennials. Yes, the fruits come in seasons but, it doesn't die unless by disease or aged. So I was surprised when it was perceived as dying off after harvesting. However, your weather in the western hemisphere does not allow leaving the plant in the soil.
Hi Bizz how are you doing today ❤😊
Thanks
I did this last year and put 5 pepper plants in one pot. Put them in my little living room window. Even harvested a few peppers. I have had peppers all summer. Can't wait to do this again!
I had a friend who did this with cherry tomato plants in west central MN!
Brought in the house for winter.
Had tomatoes all winter long.
I kept a patio tomato plant going for three years when I lived in Southern California. I even had 2-3 tomatoes each week through the colder months!
Name the fertilizer please
Where do you store for the winter? Does it need light or can I put them out of the way like some dormant plants
It@@debrafrost9950 I am guessing it was bullsh!t...
This can be done when you keep them warm😊
This past winter we did not have a day of freezing temp! My peppers and tomatoes survived being outdoors without much trimming (they were against the fence) 😊 We had a storm yesterday with heavy rain and chilly wind. Next week the temp will go up to 50s at night. It will be a good time for me to trim them good to boost new growth. NorCal 9b
My "grandmother" chilli plant is more than a decade old!
I'm glad this is catching on!
Did she cut it each time or did she just leave the whole plant and it kept growing?
@@gardeningwithjsp the "grandmother" is the actual plant! 🤣. I've kept her in the original planter/pot (although I think I need to resituate get this season into a larger home).
At this point she's almost bonsai! 🤣
@@VashtiWood Most pepper become less productive after around two or three years but you can still grow them for longer
That's amazing! I wish I could see! If you ever decide to post a video please tag me! I try to search for pepper plants that are years old, but I can never find any pictures or videos. Oldest I've had was two years.
@@gardeningwithjspcorrect me if I'm wrong but I think you only have to cut if you have to dig up the plant and break its roots. The idea of cutting off the extra foliage is to let the pepper focus on repairing its roots that you just cut. If you have it potted then you can skip that and just bring it inside for the winter.
I’m on year 2. First year they were all red. This year they are all green. Delicious. Going into year 2 was not done on purpose. I just kept watering it because it was a pretty plant but then the white flowers started showing up again.
I’ve been picking peppers since February here in FL
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My pepper plant lasted 8 years, just treating it like a regular houseplant. Including 4 years above the arctic circle.
I'd imagine that the pressures from pests and diseases aren't as bad up there.
Yes I did know that.
Not through knowledge of my own though,had an accident 6 months in a wheelchair the plants I stripped back the previous harvest threw out fruit whilst still growing rogue(similarity with hemp as this also went dormant and gave me flowers)
Love growing it's like medicine
Love chilli's
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Whats also a bonus with this method is that peppers produce more and more as they age, or at least more on the 2nd and 3rd year, idk about after that but still a good way to get a better harvest from your plant
Mine are 8 yrs old and yes, the plants look like little trees now and they produce more and more every year. I hope you try it.
This video comes in handy for me. I have been thinking about what to do with my pepper now. I will do what you suggest. Thanks.
I have several chilli plants that are years and years old; and they do fine with little effort. It's not too cold. Occasional frost, doesn't seam to worry 'em.
What zone do you live in. I’m in zone 7. I have been wanting to do this for a long time but there are way too many bugs in my soil to do thinking about bringing any of my plants in the house.
@@TriggaTreDayNot sure about zoning. If I have any bug problems I use a pyrethrum spray. Just not near / when flowering ... need those pollinators.
@@TriggaTreDay You can spray all the dirt off their roots with a hose and put them in fresh soil.
I’ve had my Serrano plant for years now it gets bigger and better every year . Does great in a pot .
I just left mine where it was and nature did its ting..3 years and going
Where do you live?
In what growing zone?
@@jacobpena4052I do this same thing in Florida
What part of the world?
WHERE????
I'm just leaving mine in the ground and praying they survive 😆
We only had 3 real frosts last winter, so I'm good with covering as needed
That's awesome. A couple of years ago q friend was digging out his garden bed and said he didn't want the small rainbow peppers that weren't growing much for him. I repotted them and set them on my porch, they loved it. I ended up giving them as gifts to others in the area who still eat them.
I've been able to get 3 years out of mine. I just fertilize them and mulch at end of year (dead leaves). It's protected them from frost bite real well.
You can do something similar with tomatoes. Take some cuttings, root them in water, once you have good roots on them pot them up and keep them on the windowsill until it's time to plant them back outside.
I'll try it! I do the same in the fall with 2 tropical Hibiscus plants, now well over 5 years old and covered with blooms. I never thought about saving peppers!
I've never successfully overwintered summer veggies, even here in coastal VA (zone 8a). Gonna try again with a potted red bell. Wish me luck! (I've succeeded with basil, btw)
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Please tell me how you succeeded with basil, I look at my basil wrong inside and it dies 😭
I tried that several times, but haven't had any luck getting them going again the following year. I cut them back and potted them in Oct., I put them back out in late May, but they didn't start to grow until mid August, and just started to set fruit about when the weather was changing again, but the new plants I seeded and planted did fine and out grew the older plants every time.
Grow in a 5 gal bucket. Save yourself from having to dig it up.
Pepper plant can grow quite big. So a lot of growers use post as big as 25 gallons, In no world will you be able to move that yourself
@@thewafen763I grew peppers in a few 5 gallon buckets and it worked fine
@@mainhalo117 not saying it won't. But a lot of veriaties will outgrow 5 gall pots pretty quick
@@thewafen763 I was growing jalapeños and banana peppers
Putting plastics in the ground defeats the purpose of planting a garden.
I have followed your step and I am happy with the result.Thank you for your guidance and information.
I have three different sweet peppers in pots for 3 years. In the summer in the greenhouse and in the winter in the garage near the laundry under lights and heat pad. I will cut them back as you suggested. Live south of Nanaimo BC, (east Vancouver Island) Canada.
I just had the pleasure of taking BC Ferries to Nanaimo in November. Magic part of the world. Best wishes from Geraldton Western Australia 🇦🇺
I literally love this channel. Learned so much from it. Thank you!!
Same is true for beans! I've had a few bean plants for 5+ years , haven't repotted just left in ground and fed nutrients from above
I'm in zone 6 and am trying this. Overwintered indoors and fingers crossed they come back!
How did they turn out? I’m curious.
Seems a complicated process. I just leave my chillis in the ground over winter, they die back and look completely dead. In spring they get new shoots from the base, trim off the dead stuff and they grow perfect.
Where do you live? How low is your winter temperature?
Same
Can't do that here in Canada. Lol If only.
Yeah, this only works in certain gardening zones. I can't do this in my Z7 garden.
Worked for me in Houston. Near Chicago where I live now? 🤣🤣🤣 No.
Remember to keep it somewhere warm and make sure it doesn't completely dry out!
I kept mine in the garage every winter for 3 winters (4 growing seasons). Last winter the garage got too cold for it.
It was a dragon cayenne. It made the BEST cayennes.
I've done this with eggplant too - it's great. Careful of collar rot - that one was potted up pretty deep.
Yayy was looking for this since I have about 10 beautiful plants that gave me some amazing eggplant this year
Thank you
Well, both are Nightshade so yeah, of course it works.
Depending on the type of pepper, you can grow it just like papaya in the tropics. This of course, applies only on tropical suitable peppers. They flower everytime, amd if you water your pepper tree everyday when it's dry season, you'll still get your peppers all year round.
I left mine in all winter. Still got peppers end of winter. Zone 10
Unironically peppers are tropical plants… they just have the ability to grow in cold climates due to the earth once being completed cold but some plants survived and peppers were one of the outcomes… that being said mother plants are amazing to have as they can produce much more the next year… as long as you don’t trim the entire plant… if you’re going to trim the entire plant then the peppers will always taste the same but it defeats the purpose and old plants are less resilient to fungus so you might have it for 4-10 years and then wake up one day to it dead overnight due to a fungus that was able to enter the cell wall and kill it over night… but new plants tend too stay 1 step ahead as long as they’re healthy. So growing from seed is best
Does it need watered through the winter? Keep it in the dark or in sunlight?
sw pennsylvania?
I've done this with some Ghost Peppers. The first year yield was a couple of dozen peppers. The second year I had three flushes of peppers and had hundreds in total. It isn't as easy as he makes it seem to keep the pepper plant over the winter in colder climates.
The free feet made me laugh. Thanks for sharing! I anna plant peppers!
I planted cayenne pepper and harvested peppers 3 years in a row without doing anything... Best peppers we ever had, plus we grew some scotch bonnet plants and they were delicious
Tried this on my two year old ghost pepper plant.....DEAD! Should have put it back in my grow tent.
Where did you keep it?
Sorry to hear!
@@epicgardeningits 11:30 where i live on a school night sorry to Hear that though
Maybe it wanted to become really ghosty
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LOL😂❤OMG!! The feet for free! I can't stop giggling
Ty! Totally needed that!
I potted my pepper plants this year with the plan to bring them in for winter. I didn't realize the need to drastically cut them back. Thanks for the tip.
What about water? Do you continue to water it? Sounds like a dumb question when I type it but some plants don’t need it when they overwinter.
@@fabalabadingdong1 I'll double check but I think it's every 3 weeks or so.
You don’t need to drastically cut them down. Just keep taking care of it. You’ll be pleased
When I lived in Costa Rica I had 2 pepper plants that were bushes chest high, and one that was as tall as the house. They were years old with fat trunks. That was in the mountains down near Panama at 1000 meters elevation, a little over 3000'. The biggest pepper was a habanero and it's peppers weren't very good to eat but the old bush was cool anyway. It must have been 20' around.
Seeing you workin in your garden, and walking in the soil barefoot, truly makes me smile and makes my soul happy!!! ✌🏽💚
I had a bishop crown tree that was 8yrs old
Beautiful chilli’s not too hot and not too mild
Actually, I just plant in pots and then bring the pots in the house over the winter. They then continue growing outside in the same pots during spring into summer, then repeat!!
Hai bioqueensb how are you doing today 😊❤
Ive got a pepper plant in my backyard that is over 10 years old and i leave it right where it is. but i do trim it back every year. Same as my hydrangeas.
You can actually use those tops in soups😊
Tops? You mean the leaves?
@@beckymartinez9926I would take caution and avoid advice in eating leaves. Pepper, tomato, potato are all nightshades.
@@akatsukiawsome13 no worries. I don’t eat pepper leaves. Thank you for the word of caution though.
I thought you said toes, I was gonna lose it
I’ve had the same chilli plants for 5 years getting bigger plants and more chilli’s to harvest each year even all throughout winter
Does this apply to Bell peppers? 🤔
Worked for me this year. Only issue I had was some animal kept eating the new growth this past spring. I moved the planter to the other side of the yard and it finally took off. Thank goodness pests are not too smart.
I had a few awesome pepper plants when i lived down in the tropics, id just continually pick the ripe fruit year round, give em the occasional light pruning, and fertilize em with some Black Kow about once a month.
Now im up in colorado (not far from pueblo home of the pueblo chile) but the whole aspect of a legitimate winter season is totally new to me, and im still getting the learning curve down. I dont have a lot of room indoors to start seedlings in the winter really unfortunately, which would be very helpful.
That's one of the reasons why I 'Container Grow' almost everything..
Eazy-Peazy..
Fascinating! So do you ever return it to the soil? Or just leave it in the pot? Does it still need water and light? I have so many questions!! 🤩
How did you dig barefoot 🦶
I do this. Just be careful.
I do this all the time 🤷🏼♀️
I am so enjoying your channel. I am just starting out in the vegetable garden 😊
I have a 3 year old pepper plant. I kept thinking that it was gonna die but still watered it and it gives me fruits every year 😊
I have two pepper 🌶️ trees that are 5 years old, upgrade their soil with compost and increase potassium and boom all year round peppers 🌶️, don’t think I’ve ever seen them without flowers or pepper. Chop it back a little and it keeps growing
My oldest was 11 years old. Couple of ways to do it. I always left mine in their bucket in the greenhouse. I almost never pruned mine. First time I figured it out though, a mouse ate it to the ground and it came back.
You can also build yourself a small hothouse rowhouse and keep everything alive all winter and still growing. Take more effort but if you set yourself up right and do most of the work yourself it's cheap and easy, just takes some time to do.
If you either have the climate or a good greenhouse with heater, but you can also keep your tomato plants alive year-round if you have such things as well
I was wondering about that . I’m in zone 7a and my peppers did the best in the fall and looked so healthy. I did pull it out Not knowing but did save the seeds from that plant. Will definitely pot it and replant this year😊
I saw your video a while ago and decided to plant peppers now they are flowering ❤ (south hemisphere)
I hope you, in more southern climates, know how lucky you are..
Great advice. I didn't know you could do this. Thank you.
I had a habanero plant that was not doing too well. I pulled all the peppers off and gave it that 420 soil and it’s now the best plant in my garden. Not even a year old and it’s massive.
My granpa discarded the whole plant every year, so when I planted mine, I intended to do the same, but I was too weak to pull it out, so I just cut it. I was amazed when It growed back and I had a better harvest next year 😊
I did not of that and got fruit year round by just growing them in a cardboard box, lined with durable plastic from a roll I had, in front of a bay window. They were dragon cayenne pepper plants. They flowered and produced fruit year round without any issues besides when I had to wait from picking all the peppers.
That's great, if you have somewhere to put it that's warm.
Thank for sharing such a great tip 😎
New to growing my vege’s and NEVER knew this! GRACIAS ❤
We had a jalapeño that came back for 5 years. The peppers were hotter every year. The last year they were too hot. My husband's brother started eating one and it drew up a blister on his lip. My husband and his brother love hot but hubby threw the plant away at the end of the season. We did make pepper sauce with the remaining. We never did anything except water the plant until it died each year.
Can I ask what garden zone ? I kind of feel sorry for that 5 yrs old jalapeno plant.
I had a bell pepper plant that produced peppers every summer for three summers in a row!!! Didn’t do anything but keep it where it was and it did all the rest. And it was in a pot too!!
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I do the same thing as you do. I have a 3 year old cyanne pepper plant. Just cut my pepper back for the fall/winter.
With pepper leaves & stems being usable (yes, including edible ways), one would be happy to know that those don't have to go to waste in the process of pruning them to overwinter
Do you keep it inside, or in your greenhouse? Do you water it all winter? Does it grow in the pot? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS
Yes I have habanero fir long time. I didn't even do anything. They keep.on growing and fruiting. Until I sold my house and they're gone. Thanks for sharing coz I'm going to plant again. I just brought one. I'll do the same what you do. Thanks
cheers mate i was wondering why my Carolina reaper chilli plant was struggling. i have been pruning it but not as much as you have shown.
I've gone one step further and brought my favourite plant inside, put it under a grow light and it kept fruiting all the way through, didn't trim it down, had chillis all winter and now it's huge and going back outside in a few weeks. If you have the room I highly recommend it
NICE WORK BOOTS!!❤😂
Will you give advice on Roses? Specifically planting in pots.
Thank you!
6a-7a angst: Must be nice Living in a climate like CA X'D my peppers are perennial af. Tried em in a window indoors and if the mites don't get em then the first night it hard freezes it sucks their moisture out like herbs in a dehydrator even if I watered em that night or set up a passive gravity reservoir.
its way challenging here is the chilly zones.
For sure! Zone 5 in NW PA. The snowbelt. I did try to overwinter in house. Failed. I need a video showing how to help plants survive inside. Pretty Please.😊
Love the videos you share. Question what type of fertiliser do you use for your peppers? 😁
Same as all brassica to be honest. Mine are all 5 years+. Giving me loose leaf trimmings year long, tender stems and heads!
Not to mention a load of pollinator blooms in early to late spring on some...just wait for it to go to seed and cut them down to the lowest growth.
My favorite thing to do with really any pepper Hollow it out with the exception of a couple seeds stuff it with a cheese ball stuffing wrapped in bacon baked❤
Yep and thats only if you live where it frosts. In Puerto rico you cannjustbhave the samenpepper plant in the ground for 4-5 years.