Overwintering Peppers - Keep Your Plants Alive for Years - Pepper Geek
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Part 2: Un-Overwintering Pepper Plants
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Pepper plants are perennial by nature, meaning they can live for several years if the conditions are right. In climates with winters, outdoor chili plants can be brought indoors to keep them alive until next year's spring.
In this video, we'll share our method for overwintering peppers. The process isn't for everyone, but if you have a special plant that you'd like to keep alive for next year (instead of starting from seeds again), you can try it out. Also, with seeds going out of stock more than ever, keeping your plants makes a lot of sense!
Remember that pests are your #1 enemy! Replacing soil and being watchful for pests is critical to avoiding and indoor infestation.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:07 What is overwintering?
1:11 Benefits
2:35 Drawbacks
3:25 How to overwinter peppers
5:27 Pruning back plants
6:28 Why remove all the leaves?
7:09 Can you propagate pepper branches?
7:33 Removing the soil
9:02 Trimming the root ball
9:39 Neem oil dunk for pests
10:28 Re-potting the plant in fresh soil
Common Questions:
12:05 Best container size for overwintering?
13:05 Can I get fruits indoors?
14:09 How much to prune?
14:31 Ideal temperature
14:57 Watering
15:09 Fertilizing
15:31 Lighting
15:54 Moving the plant back outside in spring
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Trimming the leaves back 3+ days before uprooting will increase your survival rate because it gives the plant a chance to heal before the next trauma (uprooting). Love the video though! I'll have to try this, although I have 7 months of snow in northern Canada, so I'm not sure how long it'll stay dormant.
mine did well by not cutting back this month n even had peppers growing through winter but had mine in pots to begin with but cut back roots n put some in smaller pots, they need sun in winter n water occasionally, I usually have around 7 I do this to each yr
I got a very late start on my peppers this year as the first set of seeds did not germinate at all (too cold). By the time I got more seeds and replanted, it was June. My peppers are just now blooming (first part of September in zone 8b, October 15-ish first expected frost date). So . . . I'm going to try overwintering for first time. I have 18 plants to repot and bring indoors, quite a daunting task for sure! Thanks for the helpful video.
I'm also in zone 8b ( SoCal high desert) and we have a few days down to 29F and several days in the 31-33. My pepper plants in the raised beds suffered severe damages to the upper branches and leaves. Only the trunks and lower branches are still green. Some peppers I have in pots, I moved them to the southern wall and they have lots of sunlight and a bit of heat from the house so they are still survived, the fruits are still on, just look sad. I don't bring them inside because I am also having other fig cuttings, tomato cuttings ... to the south windows. The peppers I have this year are just regular varieties like green bell peppers, jalapenos ( mild variety which is not my preference) and some sweet peppers I bought from the stores, so not that valuable to bring inside the house with risk of pests, plus I haven't had time to the unheated green houses are still not properly set up. I'm starting many seeds from the rarer varieties like carolina reaper, chiltepin, komodo dragon, cubanell, savina,.yellow, purple and white bell peppers. They are all harder to germinate and propagate, so I'll probably use this overwinter method next year as this is a very effective way to prevent pests get inside the house.
2 inches of sand on the top will keep gnats from escaping the soil and they will die. It also helps retain moisture.
Been growing peppers for 60 years. One of the best articles I've ever watched. Bravo!!!
Thanks, that’s encouraging. Peppers are beautiful. 🌶🌶🌶🪴
me too! ( okay 40 odd years) I love these young people!
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It's great to see their enthusiasm!
I bring in some of my herb plants by repotting into garden soil and pots that fit indoors. What I do to prevent bugs is simply dry the blossoms of my mums, which I pinch off as they begin to die to encourage further flowering. Those dried blossoms contain pyrethrins. I just sprinkle the dried blossoms around the soil and no more bugs ; )
Interesting. I looked at my largest mum that had lots of blossoms and all the early blossoms are gone. It's like someone cut all of them. Do you know if animals like to eat them? I know that groundhog comes around but never saw him go after mums.
To further confuse fungas gnats, i like to place a layer of play sand on top of the soil and bottom water. I find a lot of success with this
what does the play sand do to them?
@@thecyclingcouple4438 makes it harder for them to burrow into the soil.
I HATE fungus gnats. Me and my peroxide had some battles this year.
Ever try mosquito bits? Works like a charm they won't reproduce.
@@MrBigangry tried that last year, still got fungus gnats. What’s the trick?
I'm in Maine and folks in cold climates, this is key info. I had a power outage in the cool room I was overwintering my peps in, and lost all but one plant -- but that one plant, oh boy was it a real producer in its second year. This year I'm overwintering as many chiles as I can fit and hoping I can keep the conditions roughly correct for six months. Hopefully next year I will have a lot more chiles in year 2 and get that production boost.
Love this. I brought in one of my jalapeno plants for three years in a row. The stalk was as big as my thumb. It produced more peppers every year. Unfortunately, the third year it bit the dust as I was not as diligent in caring for it. Thank you ... have subscribed.
I live in Canada and I really appreciate your metric conversions. I'm a little bit older and know both systems and I'd be able to figure it out otherwise, but I like that you take the time to add it into your videos. I'm just getting into growing hot peppers and this is the most informative channel I've come across so far. Great job! keep doing what you're doing. Love it!
It is nice that someone actually knows that pepper plants can be perennial. Most people think they are just annual as that is how they are advertised!
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You’d be surprised what’s perennial lol.
Be sure to do a good job at rinsing and getting rid of bugs and their eggs from the roots before moving it indoors, like he has explained. We made this mistake last last Fall, and all winter and early spring we had fungus gnats throughout our house and infesting all our other indoor plants. They are also called drain flies and they lay eggs in organic material and the larvae feed on it and then become tiny black flies that get in your face and behave like fruit flies. Hard to get rid of, but we bought a product called Mosquito Dunks and soaked a Dunk in the watering can over night and used the water to water all the indoor plants each week for a month or so. It worked! Mosquito Dunks are harmless to humans and animals. They only kill the larvae of flying insects which eat it.
Can you buy this in Ontario Canada?
The active ingredient in Mosquito dunks is "bacillus thuringiansis israeli". Any product containing this would work.
BT works good too. Bacteria that starts with a T. It's a natural product. A bacteria naturally found in soil. It kills all kind of bugs including fungus knats. All the rage.
Best video on overwintering peppers that I have seen on TH-cam...and believe me, I have searched for and watched PLENTY. Thanks for the time , effort, and thought you put into making this fantastic video.
I'm really happy that he included info on re-introducing them to the outside in the Spring!
I am going to try this with my reaper plants and taipin peppers.
I named my pepper Pete and I didn't want to pull him! Thanks for the video
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After reading up on overwintering, I decided to give it a try. I have 17 potted plants, 7 reapers, 5 ghosts, 5 scorpions. This is the first year I've even grown hot peppers... and I kinda like the challenge to see if I can get them thru this. So, today I brought all of them inside. I live in south central Missouri. The temp tonight is supposed to be 28F. I don't want to lose them, I'll see how it goes. The plants produced abundantly and I'm looking forward to keeping them alive for a repeat performance!
I didn't even know you could do this. I've kept pepper plants inside in their original pots (the ones that were in pots) without pruning or soil replacement and always get pests, even some on my houseplants so I stopped trying. I'm going to try this method for my heathly/unique plants I definitely want to keep. Thanks man!
I successfully overwintered Jalapenos, Giant Marconi and bell peppers last winter. I did have a problem with gnats till I got Neem Oil spray. I've seen videos suggesting a 1 inch layer of sand ontop of the soil to stop them from being able to lay eggs so going to give that a try this year. I kept my plants in a north facing window (I don't have a grow room/garage or greenhouse) so they never got direct sunlight and gave each plant a half cup of water every two weeks and all but 1 plant made it. Great video and very informative.
Hi from central Portugal; Just letting you & anyone who's interested know, I left last years green pepper plants outside in the soil over this last winter..All the plants are now looking green & healthy. I did take the extra precaution of sheltering the roots from any weather with some light boarding.
That is great! Wish we could leave some outside, but I know what would happen 🥶
I think our winter in Central Portugal was quite warm this year so that might have helped too.
Thanks pepper geek. Making my 3 car stall into my plant room for my flowers and peppers.
This might sound strange, but your video was so helpful because it made me realise overwintering was absolutely not for me. I carefully considered everything you said, and found it would be much easier to start new plants in the spring. Without your video, I could very well have gone about this all the wrong way. So, thank you very much for your help and taking the time to explain the process! I really appreciate it. :)
Absolutely! Glad it was helpful in making your decision, definitely not for everyone
He did a very nice job, however I just trimmed mine back outside and ignored it until spring. The ones that made it are wonderful peppers and the hardy varieties I need. If I knew it was going to snow or freeze I would have thrown some shade cloth over the top but never did and there was a few over cold nights that I didn’t get to them and they survived.
@@calisingh7978 That's wonderful! I'll experiment with the ones that are in really sheltered spots, see if they survive. Thanks for the tip!
There's doing it right, and there's doing it half azz and let whatever lives live. The latter isn't hard, and if you were just going to let them die anyway, why not?
@@calisingh7978 imma try that with some we get some frozen overnights but im to far south to get snow.
When I tell you I have been WAITING for y'all to do a video on this subject, lol. I love your content!
Haha I’m sayin just in time
@@goodgnarfun lol they had to wait like we all did but I've been THINKING on this one. Would it be better to go hydro indoors? Should I leave leaves? I have a few lights, they'll be fine...right?
Check out "khang starr" he does hydro peppers.
@@AlexXDiety I have a mother plant that I clone. I used to keep peppers in the dirt but electricity is expensive so i only grow marijuana.
This was my first year growing peppers in zone 4. We are preparing for the first hard frost and im too attached to the plants to toss them in the compost. Planning to bring most of them indoors, some dormant and some to see if they keep fruiting. Thanks for the video!
I'm on the edge of 3 & 4. New to the region, not the state though. I'm attached to all my plants which look just as great now as they did in June when I planted them. My neighbors & local food pantry have delighted in its bounty. I've even grown flowers that supposedly won't grow here. I thought I'd lost my bell pepper in June's flood, but I placed it in a cup in my heater room and its actually crowned. I've also learned about doing this with eggplants & tomatoes. I love experimenting & with 4 months of outdoor gardening...my garden needs all the blessings it can receive. It will be high 30's tonight & 27 Thurs. night. Take care, ~ Covah
I live in So Cal. We rarely get a frost, and if we do it is a short time. I grew my 36 pepper plants in containers with indoor potting soil. So after seeing this video and reading the comments (thank you) I will prune them, treat the soil, cover with sand and place under the shade tarp. Thanks for the video and wish me luck!
Good luck😊
I overwintered 2 pepper plants last year, and I set them back by mistake, when I moved them outside again. They bounced back, though, and really produced bountifully this summer! It’s really convenient to move them if they’re planted in 3-5 gal grow bags, I move them into my living room for the winter, and I cut them back for the winter almost as hard as this, but they do grow some new leaves during winter, by a sunny window. If they do flower, I snap those off, until they go outside. You can really get a head start on the pepper season this way!
I do Sam's with big plant pots n grow bags
So you just leave them in the same grow bags, prune, and take them inside right? This is what I'm hoping to do as well, I don't really want to go thru buying indoor mix and uprooting all that. Also, I had absolutely no pest problems on my pepper plants so I feel a little more comfortable not cleaning and repotting before I bring them in.
Great video thanks for sharing
Great information thanks
We have 2 green houses full of our peppers (2 Carolina Reepers, 4 Red Ghost, 2 Chocolate Ghost, 2 Green Bell, 2 Red Bell, 1 Gypsy, 1 Red Habanero, 2 Orange Habanero, 1 Chocolate Habanero, 1 Scorpion, 1 Perconcini, and 1 Jalapeno). This is our 1st year having any type of garden or greenhouse. The plan is to insulate the greenhouses and keep our peppers producing year round. We are in the Mid-Atlantic where winters can get cold. So we also have heaters we will be running. We've done ok over the summer, even revived some plants that struggled in our house (we bought them online in February and kept them indoors). They were reduced to nothing but sticks when we brought them outside in late April. They had been doing fine, then lost all their leaves. My husband thought sure they were dead. But I knew as long as there was life in the stem, they could recover. Now they are all producing beautiful hot peppers! I'm taking cuttings to start new plants for the spring as well. We're learning as we go and hope we have sufficiently prepared for the winter. Our greenhouses should still get sunlight over the winter. Do you think we will still need grow lights as well? We have 1 set, but will need to get another set for the 2nd green house if the natural sunlight is insufficient. They should receive light pretty much all day. Of course, the days are shorter!
Where'd you get the chocolate pepper seeds?
I'm in Virginia and I am in a similar situation. What size is your greenhouse and how are you keeping it warm? I have a 10x20x7 green poly greenhouse. I assembled it in early March 2021 so this will be my first full winter.
Good lord! You're going to need a stomach transplant at some point!
Fantastic overwintering pepper plants tutorial! Will be applying your technique on our pepper plants today ♡
Thank you for the advice. I stumbled upon this one and it was what I needed to know. Thanks again
Thank you for sharing so much great information.
Love your pepper and your pepper will love you back! Most folks don’t know what a pepper plant can do and how happy they can be in a sun room even here on planet Sweden.
Perfect timing for this video as I was wondering how to overwinter my two happy and healthy fish peppers. Thank you for posting!
Super appreciate the conversions in the video!
Thanks Geek I learned a lot and will try some of your tips. 👍🏼
Excellent detailed video! And one of my favorite channels to watch. As a new gardener, my peppers have done well this summer and I plan on following these suggestions this winter for a couple of my plants. Fingers crossed. 🤞🤞
This is the one of the best and more accurate video about overwintering peppers .Thank you very much .
Thanks for the help!
Thank you for good information.
Very timely video! I have been planning to prep my peppers for overwintering, and this was just the motivation I needed to get it done, thanks! 😁 I felt like Morticia with the roses though LOL
I’m going big for my first time overwintering. I have 3 jalapeños, 2 ghost peppers, 2 habaneros, 1 Tabasco, 1 poblano, 1 Carolina reaper and 1 spicy bell pepper. Plus I have some seedlings that I’m trying to develop far too late in the season.
If you're having fun, there is no bad time to plant a new plant 👍🏻
@@PepperGeek I’m definitely having fun, plus my 4 year old son loves it which is an added bonus. Just had my first Carolina reaper seedling sprout yesterday 😃
I’m in the exact same situation as you; I’m trying out overwintering for the first time this winter with 18 peppers total! 6 bell peppers, 2 cayennes, 2 jalapeños, 2 poblanos, 2 red chillis, as well as 4 baby plants which are 2 pepperoncini and 1 cayenne and 1 poblano that I started from seed during the summer.
And now my first chocolate bhutlah seedling has sprouted.
Dude we have almost the same garden. I got Scorpion peppers and Thia chili along with a few other varieties.
Thanks for the tip
Thank you so much for this video! I needed this video cause I'm in the middle of bringing my plants indoors
I’m definitely doing this coming winter as the pepper plants I have are quite abundant. I have 14 pepper plants in self wicking 5 gallon buckets and I’ve had a most bountiful year so far. I have Anaheim, poblano, red and yellow bell, jalapeño and Tabasco. I’ve picked at least 20 pounds and canned 2/3 that much, I’ve eaten the rest. I love peppers.
This is a fantastic video. I subscribed. Very well done. I’ve done overwintering before but not with the cutback and root wash. Just a little cutback and bring the dirt and mites and bugs and eggs and grubs and… well, you get were I’m going with this. And I just dealt with the bugs etc as they showed up. Can’t wait to do this!
Hey, thanks! I thought about doing this last year, but this year I'm definitely gonna give it a go. Great video!
Wow, just Wow! I will be trying this method. Thank you!
I've overwintered ghost peppers for several years with great results. It does give them a great head start for the next year. I never cut them back nearly this much, but I can understand why you do. I kept mine in an unheated garage, but that was in Tennessee, where winters are pretty mild. I've got a HUGE (6ft from tip to tip) ghost pepper this year in the ground that I plan to dig up and pot up for winter. It is so covered in peppers that I hope we don't get frost or real cold weather too early, as I'll hate to cut off a bunch of unripe peppers, but I know it's going to happen, because it still pumping out flowers on the very tips of every branch.
For storing it in the garage - does it not need light?
Southern exposure , grow lights and treat it the same as summer . I get peppers , tomatoes , basil , ginger , garlic , onions , turmeric ....... all year long here in Mississippi . (indoors in the winter) This guy is too paranoid . Get some Sevin dust and some ladybugs , and rock on !
How much neem and soap for soaking the plant?
When you know you're getting close to the end of the season when you know there wont be enough time to ripen the fruit, i suggest pruning any of those new flower buds. My thoughts on that are that its not wasting energy on new growth and hopfully is instead storing it in the stems to be available for breaking dormancy.
I havent done this so i dont really know, but it sounds nice.
@@inmyopinion6836 well you like using toxic poison so you are not nearly paranoid enough!
Seriously under-rated channel man - love your videos!
love the way your shirt matches the pots!
Did you know you can sterilize your soil in the Oven? spread it on a baking sheet an pop it in. 200F for about 45 mins does the trick.
You can even do smaller batches in your microwave
How much are you talking about?
I'm a new gardener. 👩🌾 last year I harvested a few peppers. I was able to overwinter two pepper plants last fall. This year I have about eight different pepper plants. I have so many peppers this year. I'm going to try to overwinter all of the plants this winter.
Thanks for nice Presentation. I am going to do this winter.
i am so going to try this
Many, many thanks. I just finished my Tabasco’s. I’ll let you know how I did in the spring.
When I lived in Palmdale California thankfully our Winters aren't that harsh so I heavily mulched my plants and put Home Depot buckets on top of them. During the day I would take them off, and put them back at sunset. I was so happy when they came back in the spring!
Now I live in Las Vegas Nevada and I have a container garden so I just moved the buckets inside of our shed that has Windows during the winter.
Good idea with the covering. I'm planning on dragging everything under the covered patio but the bucket would keep the cold dew off.
Great guide! I'm going to use it to overwinter my apocalypse scorpion plant I grew from seed this season.
Excellent information 👍thank you ❤
I had 2 out of 7 peppers come back from last year. The Burnish Bush and Jalapeno made it the King of the North bell pepper didn't. I love the Burpee Burning Bush hot pepper plant. It's coming in again in zone 5a this year as well as Aji Rico.
Overwintered for the first time this year, just put the plants back into the sun a few weeks ago. Out of 11 plants, 10 made it so pretty happy with that. We only have light frosts, so I left them potted in one of those cheap plastic greenhouses. For reference here in Melb, Australia we get 850-1000 chill hours and the capsicums did fine in that temp range overwinter (0C - 15C is our night/day temp range during winter). If you get below 0 a lot I would take them inside, ours did ok with about 4-5 days of below 0C.
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What month did you do this? In melb also.
Thanks for this. I was sitting here wondering how I could keep them at 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Glad to know that they will probably be okay with much colder temps.
I'm in a similar location, I got a couple of hard frosts this year and I thought it had nuked the plants. All the leaves scrunched up. Do you think with similar heavy pruning they'd survive over winter unprotected? Or would I need to make a poly tunnel or similar for them. I plant in raised beds.
Another 5 star video with pro tips for days....kind thanks to you.
Thank you very much this was very helpful. I have a bunch of indoor plants that aren't doing anything for me at the moment and I wanted to downsize everything so I could make room for my new seedlings and the platform for them for the new season but also wanted to preserve the plants as well and this greatly helped. Now I got a few hours of work ahead of me LOL.
Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. I will try this. My peppers are doing great this season!
The only drawback I can see is that my living room is already jammed with bananas, guavas, citrus and more. A few more plants and I won't be able to walk in there. 😄
Also - a tip: Get a Felco #2 pruner. You'll never look back! It's the cadillac of pruners. Will set you back about 70 bucks but with care you can leave it to your grandkids. Sharpening blades is easy. Replacing blades is also easy. Cheers.
Where i am, fall & winter are the best seasons for starting to grow them, this year i planted 2 bacatum varieties, ghost pepper plant, a naga viper, moruga scorpion and a Thai orange. Were in for a wet spring.
Just what I needed thanks!
Good to see you outside for once
Perfect timing and you answered every question I had on overwintering. Thank you for another great video!
Perfect video!
Thank you for all the info! The season went too fast, I can't wait til next year
You're not alone, we're already planning varieties for next year's grow ;)
I loved this video!! Give me a lot of information about replanted chili pepper 🌶 I never know I can save my money that way!! Thank You very much
Just what needed as it is harvest time for my various peppers in Hamilton, Canada. hello and thanks for a detailed video on chili plants. thks. I have a 3 yr old cayenne pepper that is just loaded with peppers. Now i know i can do this gng fwd confifently. thks again
Would you do a follow up on how your over wintered pepper plants shown here? What they look like in the spring/summer?
Thank you. I'd have never thought about washing the roots... - This year I planted my two peppers too late in May amids a slug invasion and they ended up rather small with one tiny and no peppers. So I planned to dig them out and to put them into the garden-house along with the vines and the peach, so they might continue growing, but I fear it might get too cold for them, so I imagined they might be better kept indoors, to develop a 'proper' size and perhaps a pepper, that is not nipped in the bud by a greedy slug.
Ok, I have to try this out!
Great great video. Presented the info quickly while still very detailed. Subbed. I can't wait to save my ghost and habaneros!!
I’m using my peppers in flower arrangements. I already made a ton of hot sauce and dried more than I can use for years. I’m gonna try to overwinter them for the 1st time.
Sounds great, good luck with the overwintered plant!
I have had success in growing peppers indoors purely by trial & error. First time, since they did not yet bear fruit when the frost came, I brought them indoors and had peppers in January. Last season, I put them all in pots, and brought them inside to a cool but sunny room. They began to get lots of aphids, so I sprayed them with castile soapy water to keep the plants alive. In spring, I put them outdoors, and my hot ball pepper plant has blossomed beautifully into many little red peppers. I am so glad I watched your video. Now, I will prune them all back, and bring them indoors to winter over. Thank you!!!
That is exactly how I discovered peppers being able to overwinter and now I have had some of my pepper plants for a little bit over 5 years the longest one I ever had was 7 years and like he said sometimes it does give peppers in the winter I never put mine in any special light or anything it just gave me peppers sitting in the sunny window I live in North Dakota so that's exciting because we have such a short growing season
This will be the second winter for my one pepper plant, I was surprised how easy it was to keep alive over the winter. I'm looking forward to trying this with more peppers. I live in zone 2b, so a very short season. This sure helps to have a jump start on pepper growing here.
Thank you. I'll try this with most, if not all my peppers.
Eggplants work the same way except you don't cut off all the foliage. They cut themselves back so you just cut back weak or skinny branches.
Yippy! Someone who has done this with eggplants. I'm on the edge of zones 3&4...we're getting into freezing nights and my half-dead when I bought it eggplant is showing off again. I don't have the heart to kill any of my plants...learning techniques for my zones are really hard to find. My single eggplant had 13 crops which all went to the food pantry. I asked for saved seeds but nobody listened so if you could explain what you mean by "they cut themselves back" I'd be grateful. Cheers, ~ Covah
We are turning our shed into a overwintering grow shack. Currently working on insulation which will be our biggest issue I feel since we are in zone 5b. We have 3 grow lights, adding some reflecting material on most walls to help, adding a heater and a heat lamp.
We will also try to do around 100 starters for our raised beds we are putting in in the spring. Let’s see how it goes!!
Sounds like a great use for the space! Good luck :)
I just started trying overwintering
Thanks again second time watching this… about to pull my whole garden here in kc. Trying to decide wich to keep. Stay safe guys
Very interesting video! Thanks for all that Information.
Have You ever considered waiting a few weeks between the harvest of the peppers and the cut -back of the plant?
Many plants pull back a lot of sap with nutrients and chlorophyll from the leaves before the leaves dry and fall in autumn.
I'm new in growing peppers, but when I make my other plants ready to overwinter, I wait with the cut until the leafs are fallen or at least brown.
I'll adapt many of Your recommendations, (thanks again, that will certainly help me) when Ill make my peppers ready to hibernate, but I'll cut them way later after the harvest.
This worked so well. This year I replanted about 10 plants. What was super crazy, every variety grew fast and went to red almost immediately. I have a bush of jalapeños that all went red. I had cubanelles that went all red too. Was amazing. Can’t believe the plants now look like trees with bark.
That's great to hear - they can really take off fast with a strong root system.
@@PepperGeek now the question is do I take them to 3rd year? I did have a really bad bout with fungus gnats and I put them in a grow tent because my garage is too cold. Now my grow tent has a sundew (carnivorous plant) so that may help. They wanted to flower so badly. I also made a bonsai out of one. That was pretty cool.
@@DanielMerk23 i use Mosquito Bits for gnats, it works wonders to keep them out of my houseplants.
@@DanielMerk23 You should try it, I believe he said some can go 4-5 years or longer.
@@DanielMerk23 Fruit Fly Sticky Traps are about 50 cents a piece and work pretty well to keep gnats in check but won't eliminate them. I had fungus gnats with my seedlings this spring. Just to give the plants a bit of relief I hung a couple around my trays with an oscillating fan blowing the gnats onto the traps. Killed hundreds of them without any chemicals touching the plants. I used the "Gideal 20-Pack Dual-Sided Yellow Sticky Traps", $8-9 on Amazon for a 20 pack. I don't like them outdoors without some sort of guard because removing a suffering bird from a sticky trap is an awful experience.
Great video, thank you !
I just converted over a extra closet in my new place for my peppers in the winter :) going to buy some new potting soil this next week
Thank you so much for this video! I have a habanero plant that did amazing this year and was hating the thought of pulling it!
Cool! I have a habanero that grew out instead of up and gave a ton of pods. I'm planning on overwintering it along with a couple of others types. God bless y'all!!
Good luck with the overwintering!
Thank you, great information as always, U.K. subscriber needing all the help he can get 😀
Hey UK! Happy growing! :)
I will overwinter my cherry bomb peppers this year. They are wonderful roasted and pickled, and make wonderful Louisiana style hot sauce. Thanks for the thorough explanation!
I followed your directions step by step with my habanero today 🤞🤞🤞🤞
Thank you for popping up in my feed because I was thinking about saving a few peppers as the weather is changing. I am going to overwinter a bell pepper, banana pepper, and one hot pepper. Take care.
Sounds good!
im in southern california and have gotten away with a good trim back and just leaving them outside, unless we have a lot of rain, then bringing it inside is a must. I have a 3rd year serrano thats been doing great.
I’m in Wollongong - Australia. One of my pepper plants is in its third year and I’ve never even pruned it. I have plants on my front patio that fruited all winter and have just put on a huge burst of growth now we’re coming into spring
@@joshuafahy218 must be nice to have year-round fruits! Not so much here on the Canadian prairies :(
I live in North Idaho and our season is short so I have been looking Into this.
Great informative video, ty
I’ve been overwintering my Jalepeños for several years with great results! The first year I had growth and even a few peppers and the plant was fine. Last year I put them in the basement and only got some growth right as spring was starting. It’s worth the effort.
Did you have light on them in the basement?
@@ExtravagantFragrances there was some light. They were next to the window.
This is an amazing channel. First time grower and I made many mistakes with my Tabasco peppers. I'm in Georgia and still hoping for my first harvest, with flower buds just starting in late August from a 4' plant.
I am going to give this a try. We live in NW Montana so our growing season is short, 3 months. We grow most of our garden in a high tunnel, unheated so as soon as the first frost hits it's curtains for most of the crops. Thanks for the video.
Last of my peppers for this season
Jack Frost’s visit last night was the reason
White by morning, then black by day
The leaves now limp presage decay
So into the composting bin they go
Those now spent plants of this past summer
What a bummer
But wait! For upon the garden’s earth I’ve just spread
My home made compost from last year’s dead
Come next spring when plants emerge
Upon these organics they will splurge
As nature’s cycle begins anew
What once was frost, now a summer night’s dew
Nature rewards with more than she’s given
When from just a seed life is driven
And so it is of this gardener’s pleasures
That we reap as we sow of these veggie treasures
I love watching your how-to videos on peppers so just wanted to share one of my gardening poems I've written. Keep the great videos coming.
It was 80 degrees yesterday, but dropped to 52 last night. I picked off most of the tomatoes & okra, but the peppers were still green. I’m not picking them until they finish turning red & yellow. I had several poblano & cayenne I left out there in the ground. Turnip greens & turnips will be ok. 🫑
Glad I saw this video post! I'd really like to try to save a couple Scotch Bonnet plants that I started from seed in the house and transplanted to a raised bed. They are producing peppers like crazy and frost is probably coming in the next 3-4 weeks. Hopefully, it will work...I never knew pepper plants weren't annuals...I always pulled them & tossed them after the frost did them in. I'll try your method! Thanks, again!
Great! Glad you saw it too - good luck with the scotch bonnets
Are the Scotch Bonnet peppers hot or sweet or in between? They look interesting.
Thank you very much. I feel like I might do this after all. I didn't realize that you could cut the plant down so much so it wouldn't take up so much space. Great info!
Glad to hear it - good luck! With seeds going out of stock on many sites, it makes sense to keep any prized plants alive
@@PepperGeek
Would keeping it in the house in a bay window with the house around 68- 70° would there be problems??
I am so happy to see this information on pepper plants because I have so many that did well this summer that I would like to keep. I'm in NorCal and we are starting to see some frost. I hope I'm not to late in getting them out of the raised beds. I was going to put them in the greenhouse but the temps in there are 80 to 100, maybe by the window in the garage instead. Well done.
Thanks, Peppergate for my royal black peppers (supposed to be cayenne), which actually look pretty cool. Hope they survive over wintering!😁