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.
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.
@@rosabandera_home 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.
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
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!!
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.
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
@@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.
@@priestesslucy3299oh 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!
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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
@@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'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)
Friend in SC showed me 5 year old ghost pepper plant in large pot on the patio. They treat it like a house plant and take it indoors for the winter. Pots are trickier to maintain, but peppers are definitely perennial.
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Me, from a tropical country watching this. And I got very confused in the beginning of the video. Then it made sense later when you realize that he probably gets winter in his area.
My moms trick is talking to our peppers. Well I mean threaten, “if you don’t give me any peppers this season you’ll get cut down!” And we always get peppers.
The peppers aren't hurt by cutting them back like that. They are programmed to respond by coming back better. They get eaten by things like deer, rabbits, mice, and horn worms.
I am growing in zone 10a and I leave my peppers and eggplants all year around in the ground. They survive preatty well , with hardly no casualties. I have a 2 year old Chocolate Habanero, several 3 year old Jalapenos and Cayenne peppers, too.
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!!
It took so much effort to grow my scorpion and ghost peppers from seeds that i did this for 3 years. Works great. Just have to have an indoor place to winter it.
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 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
Huh, thought everyone did this. Learned about it in a game about growing food on mars, and when I asked my grandma about it she showed me how. I’ve helped her with it, and every time she gets a new pepper plant, she buys way too many so she can choose the juiciest/most producing one to keep.
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.
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 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!
And you'll also bring all the bugs inside your greenhouse and have to deal with them during the entire winter and until the next season. Instead, get rid of all the soil. Remove all the leaves and 2/3 of the plant + side branches, or cut it really shorty like a small stump (leaving growth nodes). Cut the roots so they are not longer than the pot width, repot into sterilized soil and make sure soil runs through all the roots and the base of the plant.. Shake the pot, tap it and run water into the soil. Place inside your grow tent or under natural light, you will only need minimal light but set your timer to 12-16 hours a day. And make sure it's not cold in there if you want the pepper plant to survive.
got a habnero 8 years ago when i had a garden... then moved in a flat...and let it grow on the window.... its still alive and give me every years nice habaneros :D
I live in the part of mexico where peppers were first domesticated, we still havw a variety called "Chilpaya" (a tiny tear drop sized pepper) that is probably the closest to the wild ancestor of all peppers, there's a plant of it in my grandpa's yard that's older than me, and it has given fruit all throughout my lifetime, thought there was a 7 year gap where it didnt give anything and looked half dead.
According to wikipedia, that pepper plant goes by different names. They call it Pequin pepper, and said that it's highly valued in Mexico, and often 10 times more expensive than other peppers. They say it hasn't been commercialized because of the low germination rate and being prone to disease. May I ask, how old is your grandpa's pepper plant, and is it growing in the ground ? Thank you in advance !
@@SpringNotes i'm unsure if it has been a single plant all throughout, but i'm 28 and it's older than me, also, there's a wild bird here we call Pajaro chilero (lit. "Pepper Bird") and they absolutely love the stuff, they eat it and you can usually see a new vine sprout where they drop their feces (that's why i doubt wether it has been a single vine all throughout) also, Piquin is the chilpaya but dried, here we call fresh and dried peppers by different names
@@RichyArgThat's interesting, that y'all have a different name for fresh and dried peppers. Are the sweet peppers as popular as the hot peppers ? Apparently, these original chili peppers can live for decades ! And will grow to a shrub, or a small tree. This fact is mind blowing for people living in colder winter climates 😂
I have a black vampire chilli plant on my window sill from last year,I didn’t cut it back and it fruited again this year to my surprise,didn’t know it could do that but have now cut it back and repotted it for next year. ✨💕
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.
Nice! Free feet vid! Maybe it depends on the type of pepper plants, but my mom's Trinidad Scorpion pepper plants are over a decade old. My late grandmothers pepper plants were decades older.
My stepdad had a buddy who had a family pepper plant where they took care of it inside the house for 105 years the grandpa passed down to him and like the peppers were so hot they make your eyes water for hours
😮Wow ohh wow!! I still have a few jalapeños and bell pepper growing. Well, they may not be growing much but I couldn't pull myself to dig them up. Now I know what I'll be doing this afternoon. Thhhaanks!
I left mine in the raised bed and just trimmed it back as he showed. The weather doesn't get too cold and it's sheltered near the house so it's alive just waiting for spring.
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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 👏
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? 😊
@@rosabandera_home 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.
Took me a second to catch the "feet for free" line. Hilarious.
I missed it!!😂😂😂😂
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?” 🤣
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!
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.
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
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
🤣🤣🤣
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..
@@priestesslucy3299oh 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!
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.
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.
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?
@@priestesslucy3299 Dooo it 😁
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😊
Seeing you workin in your garden, and walking in the soil barefoot, truly makes me smile and makes my soul happy!!! ✌🏽💚
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.
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
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.
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'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)
Hi Jody how are you doing today 😊❤
@@kenhartman9981Stop being creepy and only replying to women
Please tell me how you succeeded with basil, I look at my basil wrong inside and it dies 😭
Friend in SC showed me 5 year old ghost pepper plant in large pot on the patio. They treat it like a house plant and take it indoors for the winter.
Pots are trickier to maintain, but peppers are definitely perennial.
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.
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 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
“The feet for free” I am done 💀💀💀
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!
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 left mine in all winter. Still got peppers end of winter. Zone 10
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 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 🇦🇺
The free feet made me laugh. Thanks for sharing! I anna plant peppers!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Me, from a tropical country watching this. And I got very confused in the beginning of the video. Then it made sense later when you realize that he probably gets winter in his area.
My moms trick is talking to our peppers. Well I mean threaten, “if you don’t give me any peppers this season you’ll get cut down!” And we always get peppers.
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
@@safilisha 🥁😂
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.
The peppers aren't hurt by cutting them back like that. They are programmed to respond by coming back better. They get eaten by things like deer, rabbits, mice, and horn worms.
I am growing in zone 10a and I leave my peppers and eggplants all year around in the ground. They survive preatty well , with hardly no casualties. I have a 2 year old Chocolate Habanero, several 3 year old Jalapenos and Cayenne peppers, too.
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 😊❤
Does it need watered through the winter? Keep it in the dark or in sunlight?
sw pennsylvania?
*Takes notes for my mother who enjoys peppers and grows a few bushes each year*
I’ve done that and it worked! The next year my Thai pepper produced so much better than the first year.
That's one of the reasons why I 'Container Grow' almost everything..
Eazy-Peazy..
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
It took so much effort to grow my scorpion and ghost peppers from seeds that i did this for 3 years. Works great. Just have to have an indoor place to winter it.
I grew up in Hawaii. We just leave the bush in the ground for generations, and just continuously harvest all year
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.
How did you dig barefoot 🦶
I do this. Just be careful.
I do this all the time 🤷🏼♀️
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.
LOL the feet for free bit gave me a good chuckle.
Never thought i'd hear a gardening Chanel talking about feet pics
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
I need a greenhouse like you have❤
Huh, thought everyone did this. Learned about it in a game about growing food on mars, and when I asked my grandma about it she showed me how. I’ve helped her with it, and every time she gets a new pepper plant, she buys way too many so she can choose the juiciest/most producing one to keep.
Perfect timing - will try this tmw on my chili pepper and overwinter it in my shed. Thanks!
I'd try to grow all those branches as additional plants.
I had a pepper plant near my front door for about 7 years. Many people thought it was plastic.
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.
My Chili pepper plant just grew by itself with almost no love but still giving so many peppers! ❤
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 😊
My pepper plants were absolute hell to germinate (pepper seeds are so finicky) so I’m definitely doing this 😅
HI Katla where are you from ❤😊
I've never had a chilli plant die... My habenero plant basically just perpetually produces fruit
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 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!
Peppers in my garden act like bushes
“I’m giving you the feet for free” 😂😂😂😂
I have a foot page so this tickled the hell out of me lmao
My grandmother just leaves them in her little garden and the just chills since we dint really have cold winters
And you'll also bring all the bugs inside your greenhouse and have to deal with them during the entire winter and until the next season.
Instead, get rid of all the soil.
Remove all the leaves and 2/3 of the plant + side branches, or cut it really shorty like a small stump (leaving growth nodes).
Cut the roots so they are not longer than the pot width, repot into sterilized soil and make sure soil runs through all the roots and the base of the plant..
Shake the pot, tap it and run water into the soil.
Place inside your grow tent or under natural light, you will only need minimal light but set your timer to 12-16 hours a day. And make sure it's not cold in there if you want the pepper plant to survive.
Thanks better than the video
got a habnero 8 years ago when i had a garden... then moved in a flat...and let it grow on the window.... its still alive and give me every years nice habaneros :D
Yep! I grow mine in containers already so they just get trimmed and brought in for the winter. I’ve got 4 types!
I have followed your step and I am happy with the result.Thank you for your guidance and information.
I hope you, in more southern climates, know how lucky you are..
***quietly mourns last year’s full and luscious pepper plants***
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.
This makes SO much more sense than cutting back and rinsing the roots! I’m going to try this!
I live in the part of mexico where peppers were first domesticated, we still havw a variety called "Chilpaya" (a tiny tear drop sized pepper) that is probably the closest to the wild ancestor of all peppers, there's a plant of it in my grandpa's yard that's older than me, and it has given fruit all throughout my lifetime, thought there was a 7 year gap where it didnt give anything and looked half dead.
According to wikipedia, that pepper plant goes by different names. They call it Pequin pepper, and said that it's highly valued in Mexico, and often 10 times more expensive than other peppers.
They say it hasn't been commercialized because of the low germination rate and being prone to disease.
May I ask, how old is your grandpa's pepper plant, and is it growing in the ground ?
Thank you in advance !
@@SpringNotes i'm unsure if it has been a single plant all throughout, but i'm 28 and it's older than me, also, there's a wild bird here we call Pajaro chilero (lit. "Pepper Bird") and they absolutely love the stuff, they eat it and you can usually see a new vine sprout where they drop their feces (that's why i doubt wether it has been a single vine all throughout) also, Piquin is the chilpaya but dried, here we call fresh and dried peppers by different names
@@RichyArgThat's interesting, that y'all have a different name for fresh and dried peppers.
Are the sweet peppers as popular as the hot peppers ?
Apparently, these original chili peppers can live for decades ! And will grow to a shrub, or a small tree.
This fact is mind blowing for people living in colder winter climates 😂
“Wouldn’t you like to be a pepper too?”
-Johnny 5
This is why I grow my tomatoes and peppers in my livingroom.
I'm in zone 6 and am trying this. Overwintered indoors and fingers crossed they come back!
“Im giving you the feet for free” 😂😂😂 i had to go back and see if i heard that right
I have a black vampire chilli plant on my window sill from last year,I didn’t cut it back and it fruited again this year to my surprise,didn’t know it could do that but have now cut it back and repotted it for next year. ✨💕
I had the same jalapeño plant for three years before it died, and it produced peppers for me every summer in abundance.
He sounds like the detail geek car detailing guy 😂
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.
In New Orleans you can literally find pepper plants in nearly every other yard. Just growing wild all year round
Great advice. I didn't know you could do this. Thank you.
This is the time I’m glad the algorithm listens because I’ve been wanting to plant some peppers for a while now
Nice! Free feet vid! Maybe it depends on the type of pepper plants, but my mom's Trinidad Scorpion pepper plants are over a decade old. My late grandmothers pepper plants were decades older.
My stepdad had a buddy who had a family pepper plant where they took care of it inside the house for 105 years the grandpa passed down to him and like the peppers were so hot they make your eyes water for hours
Wow 105 years ! Do you know what type ? Thank you in advance.
😮Wow ohh wow!! I still have a few jalapeños and bell pepper growing. Well, they may not be growing much but I couldn't pull myself to dig them up. Now I know what I'll be doing this afternoon. Thhhaanks!
the feet for free killed me lmao. thanks dude imma go try to save our jalapeño baby
Mine just keeps growing. Trimming it makes it thicker with a higher yield but if you just leave it grow, it keeps on going.
" im giving you the feet for free" bruuuh 🤣
I had a chilli plant for about 3 years, didn’t even try and look after it, hell even was away one summer for a few weeks, survived and it got hot.
I have a Chile Pequin next to my window that’s been there for about 10 years and still going strong and stronger by the years
I left mine in the raised bed and just trimmed it back as he showed. The weather doesn't get too cold and it's sheltered near the house so it's alive just waiting for spring.
My friend is a champion at keeping her pepper plants going from season to season😊