Overwintering Peppers - Grow This Year's Peppers again NEXT YEAR!
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- It's time to prepare your peppers for winter. Yes, you can keep your peppers year after year. In any climate!
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I live in the Midwest, and came across this video two years ago. I cannot put into words how hopeful it made me to learn this method. "You will need courage and an icy-cold heart" is quite the description. For several weeks, I wasn't sure my year-old jalapeños would survive this degree of pruning. Today, they are going into their fourth year, they all survived, and they've come back even stronger every season.
I hope the universe finds ways to give you back some of the joy you've given others like me 🌼 thank you!
Thank you for your input...I appreciate hearing of your success! I am in the midwest too (Michigan) and since I just saw this video + your comments = I am now hopeful also to keep our peppers going for next year. 😊
Me too! Western NY. Excited to see what happens next year!
do peppers plan reproduce veggies. I am reading they dont even after you re winter them?
Hope ya'll saved seeds because we can't foresee any future problems. My Bell pepper, bought from garden center is too leggy/bred for pots. I think we were just late buying shorter ones and no grow light yet. Waiting for Sept. for seed starting in the house. Anyway. They are so delicious I saved seeds. God bless our gardens and the weather we need for success.
@@smas3256 If anyone wants to save seeds from peppers, it's best to go organic because GMO seeds are engineered for the most part not to grow. Plus, there was actually a case that went to the Supreme Court over someone saving their pepper seeds and regrowing them. Monsanto won...they patented the vegetable and the court says the seeds belonged to them. I almost choked when I read that. SMH
I've got a good tip for you to stop white fly! Anywhere you have plants prone to getting white fly plant a marigold next to them because they attract black fly that eat the white fly! 👍💚💛❤️
Thank you so much!!! I am doing that tonight.😊
I didn't know about indoor, sterilized potting soil. Thank you for that tip.
I have a potted five year old jalapeno pepper plant. It is in a 14-inch terra cotta pot on a rolling base. It gets pruned hard at the end of the season (north Texas) and moved into our indoor plant space with lights before the temps get below about 50 F. I refresh the soil or maybe repot it early spring and then move it out when temps stay about 50 at night. In my area it stays, like most of my garden plantings, under at least 50% shade cloth from about July into late Sept or Oct. I don't feed or fertilize while the plant is indoors, just enough water to keep it going. Fertilized after it goes back outdoors with a balanced slow release organic blend and watered generously to start. Key points seem to be not keeping it too wet during the enforced dormancy, pruning properly to plan for the future growth, paying attention to temps.
This plant now looks something like a small bonsai tree. Its age is evident. but it still produces a huge harvest of green and red sweet, mildly spicy, very flavorful peppers of good size every year. The actual variety name is lost in the mists of time. I have no idea how long I'll be able to keep it going. It's become almost like a pet now.
Thank you for this comment! The video was super helpful, but he left out information about watering during the winter.
I'm getting elderlier all the time but this old dog just learned something new.
All these years and I never even thought they could be perennials. Beginning this fall, they will be treated differently. As they deserve. 🙂
Me 2 ;)
Me Too!
'Elderlier' 😁 - Me too - and it's a gas!👍
I'm 51 and just discovered gardening this year (also the year I moved from a zone 7 to a 5b, I know what that means now, yay). Wondering if this will work with my bell peppers as I have a growing season of just over 100 days, will find out. :)
@@micheljeanrie1800 I have almost a decade on you and have only just begun.
I moved from zone 9 to 5a/4b!
We'll see how it all goes!
I was today years old when I learned that peppers are perennial 😮
That's great... I'm 57 and just finding out now, lol.
Me too!
Me three!!! 😃
so are petunas they are warm climate perenials but killed by cold weather. You can cut back you petunas and transplant in a pot and grow them in the house and in spring have them growing faster and putting on flowers quicker than others.
@@whosme8221 I didn’t know this about petunias 😲
Thank you from The Bronx. 57yr old Cuban lived in Jersey since age 3. In NYC/Bronx past 12yrs. Always wanted the farm life. Closest I’ve got was growning
Basil and avocados plant in the window. Now you have expanded my knowledge with this video. Thank you for the manner and explanation and step by step approach. Being someone who basically learned in my formative yrs depending on the level the teachers would teach depended how much I learned. Sadly an undiagnosed learning problem and teachers that just told us to read and hand in assignments. Meant I learned mostly everything from trial and error during my entire life.
But to wrap it up. Thank you, the way in which you explained everything in detail allowed me to visually imagine the whole process. Which is that’s how some people like me with a learning disability learn. So thank you my friend. Have an amazing day.
♥ from 🏴 and ✌
Keep us posted! I'm growing a Meyer lemon tree inside.its really growing g fast!
@@simmiedavissimmiesings8185 my Meyer lemon tree, for some reason is taking forever to grown. I’ve had a dream years and it’s only about 6 inches tall. I have seven different avocado seeds in one pot. And it’s about 4 feet tall. That’s about it.
I use grow bags, but I ran out when doing this year's planting. I ended up using some old Trader Joe's bags with some holes cut into the bottom for drainage and they work GREAT! My tomatoes actually grew and produced better than the one grown in the commercial bag. lol! Life changing.
my chilis are 11 years old and still producing!
I thought my six year old Aji Lemon was an oldster. Kudos.
Wow! I would love to see them! 11 year old peppers is amazing!
Amazing!
@ibelivinu, do you take your chilli's out of the garden into pits, or leave them where they are? Thank you
@@VK-qo1gm my chili's are in pots inside my house, you have to keep them in a semi warm room,keep them semi watered with light,mine is natural through a window and trim them once a year because they keep growing!
I’m in Los Angeles, have a three year old Jalapeño that’s about 7’ tall. It puts out about 150 peppers at a time... too many for one family.
How big is the pot, and what kind of fertilizer does it get?
Are you growing in a pot or in-ground? Do you do anything for winter to the plant? Thanks
Its in the ground not a pot. I really mistreat it... no fertilizer at all, and it only gets incidental watering. Occasionally I deliberately water it... but I suspect it never goes dry as its near the lawn. I do nothing to overwinter it, but it does lose virtually all of its leaves each year, and occasionally a small branch. I don't prune it deliberately at all, but occasionally a branch snaps off when I am pulling peppers.
Most righteous..
That was a spicy 'a block party!
Wow! Talk about a green thumb!
Several years ago, I tried bringing my peppers indoors. They started producing peppers much earlier and it was a big success. I had forgotten about it until I saw your video, and now I understand a lot more about what is going on. Great presentation!
Do your pepper plants get bugs growing indoors?
Aphids?
Thanks
I have not had a serious problem with aphids in the house. Drain flies on the other hand got out of control, but they were in the drains of course. Any plant can get an infestation, especially if you have water sitting on top. I had a bad infestation of tiny fly like insects one year. No matter how many I killed, large numbers of them kept flying out from my small potted plants soil every day. I finally took it outside, discarded the dirt, and washed the roots which were sustaining them. Since then, I have kept the bulk of my plants in the garage. I water infrequently and very lightly. In the case of peppers, they are going dormant, so that will be just right, and your chances of infestation go down. Good luck! 🪰@@cheesecakefan4880
Yes, you have to watch out for aphids. I sprayed a little need oil mixture on my plants.
My dad had a HUGEpepper plant 4 years old we are in Canada ,it was grown as a large houseplant INDOORS for winter but outside all summer he only needed that one plant 😊
I had no idea. I can't believe I've been pulling up and composting perfectly good plant all these years lol.
Same here!
Probably because I'm originally from a northern state dude lol. The temps usually get down to the - 20s, so we would garden until the frost kills things off, and then replant once the ground thaws. I live in the south now, so i can just put plastic over frost sensitive plants since the temps rarely go below 25 here.
@@selinamularz9194 I'm from Canada, and I put a potted pepper (basket of fire) inside this winter and now it's FULL of flowers. And it's just April, it freezes every night, but that thing is ready for action!
@@johnquest1044 how could you not know the difference between 'your' and you're'.
@@JesusLovingHomesteader I love him and his father Jehovah very much
I ACCIDENTALLY found out that pepper plants were perennials this last year. I dug up a bell pepper plant last summer because it never produced, but the foliage looked good, and I felt bad just letting it die. I brought it inside, and it sat in the window all winter, and then in the spring - to my surprise - it started growing again! And it has actually been quite a surprising little producer this year!
These plants just become more productive with every passing year. Just take good care of it, and easy on nitrogen, they get too abundant in leave production. Potassium from banana peels promotes flower production. Soak peels overnight and water the plant in the morning. Or chop up banana peels small, and add it to the dirt, on top. Outdoors only, because fruit flies love to come inside too.
I found this out , when I grew my tomatoes and chile pepper plants and could not take good care of them ,since my job took me away from home and someone else cared and watered my plants,. This was in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico,,,,,they lasted for 5 years,,,and were still going strong when I came home to the US,,,,,
Thank you for the excellent advice, with clear words, and even shared the emotion part with which I can identify with. Thank you. I took seeds out from a store bought pepper plant . Plants one tray of 24. Nothing happened for a month as I faithfully watered them. It wasn’t too warm outside yet but nothing happened so I thought nothing will happen, failed experiment. So I put them aside in my planting tent. No water , nothing. One -3 weeks later, 4 little sprouts came up 😱😱😱
I was so surprised 😮
Now they are in my cold frame, huge! And many peppers! So now I’m excited to hear that I can plant them next year. THANKS TO YOU🌟🌟🌟🌟💕
I wish I read this comment sooner I just throw my beautiful bell pepper plants away. So sad! 😭😭
@@nittayaj OH BUMMER! Well, there's always next year, right?
Like you said tomatoes and peppers are from the same family. I grew a Cherry tomato plant for six years in my house had a south window. We live in a zone three. Thanks for all that great knowledge!
This process is the same for stripping off the leaves on grape vines, cutting off the leaves on raspberry and blackberry canes, gooseberies, currants, kiwi, after fruiting at/before the first frost. This stops further plant growth and fruiting activity, sets them up to sending energy back down into its roots, and starts putting them into overwintering hibernation and sleep - with strong and healthy roots leading to greater growth and foliage in Spring. Removing the leaves also stops furtherance of powdery mildew, fungus, molds, bacteria, soil blight continuing to grow on the leaves but getting onto the stalk and down into the cambium infesting the plant/shrub/vine. Remove these leaves to a separate composting area away from all other composting piles for a separate recycling.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and information that’s awesome. I hope you have a blessed life
I have kiwi plants, they are about 3 years old. So I take all leaves off … then prune some? I live in the Pacific Northwest. Snows about 1 week.
@@carmenromero5109 I grew up in PNW. Post-Fruiting - stripping grape vines etc allows them time to store up sugars in their roots for a healthier over-wintering. Having post-fruiting leaves on vines continues making sap and sugars that become wasted - unless the vine puts those energies into making anthocyanins (antibacterials) and sugars/vitamins in the red, orange, yellow leaves - that don't usually dissolve into the soil by spring time. Stripping the plants- then macerating the leaves, putting into a watery composting system - releasing these ingredients - then irrigate that macerated compost vine manure onto and around the plant's roots. And use the vine leaves coposted fibers as coverage over the roots - protecting them from the snow and cold. Eventually, grapes and other vine leaves will fall off - but why wait and give the plant an immediate and healthier dormant sleep.
Fertilize NOW in Fall before rains and snows of Winter/Spring. Fertilize Fall, grow in Spring, and harvest in Summer. Fertilizing in Spring only makes more growth vs fruit production - so proper timing of fertilizing is important.
For me ... "I" wouldn't prune any kiwis - (no knowledge on them) but raspberry and blackberry canes done in the frost and dormant period of Jan/Feb/(Mar) is when pruning is best for them. Excellent YT vids out there about how to do that.
Thank you for sharing this information. This will be my first year planting raspberries and marionberries and I did not know that I should be including this in winterizing the plants. 🌿
@@nostromo7928 Removing the leaves (which do not ~naturally~ fall off like deciduous tree leaves) provides greater options for winter-spring pruning of the vines - some are new growth or old growth pruning (KNOW YOUR vines pruning protocols) ... and this gives easier pruning and removing canes than fighting all of the leaves grabbing everywhere.
I live in Erie Pa, snow capital of Pennsylvania, and have start my peppers indoors mid-spring under grow lights. First year peppers always seem to produce few and tiny peppers. But wintering them indoors under grow lights really pays off. Wintered peppers are ready to go as soon as its warm enough to place them outdoors. They produce abundant and LARGE peppers the following years. Just make sure to feed them.
Are Tomato plants able to do this wintering over, too???
I dont believe tomatoes are perennials. Maybe indeterminate varieties.
You could always being in some runners from your plants, saw that in a different video. 🤷
erie area too!!...
Do you cut them back and remove a lot of leaves when overwintering or leave them as they are? Do you feed them when overwintering?
I feel like I'm watching retired ryan reynolds teaching me gardening. Great video 👍
Ohhh THATS who he looks like! Lol
His doppelganger lol
Lol ... Now I can't unsee that.
I’m overwintering my pepper plants for the first time and devouring this video as if I’m in college, 😂!!! Wish me luck! Gardening under this channel’s guidance has been a joy! Thanks for everything that you do! 🤗
Me as well. Wishing u luck!
Watched this when it was new. I still have a plant that was saved that year. This year my sister is making garden so I'm sharing this video with her.
When I was employed, doing floral delivery, 2 or 3 times a year, for several years, in the summer, I delivered flowers to someone who lived in a mobile home who had a pepper plant over 5' tall on her deck. Like a tree! Always loaded with green peppers!
I have grown lettuce inside in winter.
And I experimented with growing potatoes in the house. I had some potatoes in the bin that had sprouted. I took 12 sprouts and planted them in a small window box in the beginning of November. I put them in an east facing window. I kept them watered along with my regular houseplants. Towards the end of February, I dumped out that window box and had 12 little potatoes size if salt potatoes. They were delicious!😊
You CAN grow food indoors in an apartment. This past year I found a website that showed growing fruit trees as bonsai. About a 3 foot tree, it yielded regular sized fruit.
There doesn't have to be a "food crises" for anyone!
What's the web site. Just saved apple ...lemon...lime...
pear...peach pit...and avocado seeds. Also starting ginger and termeric in the house for next spring.
Did you get lettuce enough for salads all winter? Can u point me to a site?
@@superkatertot5425 i just took one of the live lettuces (they have their roots )from the grocery store. Used all but the center stuck it in soil . It now has one leaf .
Could you divulge the web site for growing food indoors.
@@getcrackin6778most of those will not come true from seed, meaning they will not produce fruit the same as their parent tree, and may not produce anything at all. Most trees grown from avocado pits are sterile.
I think I'll be hearing your voice reassuringly saying "courage and a cold, icy heart" as I'm standing in front of the plant, clippers in hand. 😄
I don't have the fortitude for it...yet! I am not sure which is more stressful: 1) Watching those little fingers and toes get frostbite and slowly wither and fall off or 2) Chop those fingers and toes off and bring the stump inside so I can stare at it daily and feel guilty. Hmmm, I might need a new hobby.
🤣
Ikr!?!
It's so worth it though. I did it last year and if not for the slugs eating off my new leaves as they were trying to come in I would have had peppers much sooner. It worked very well.
Bo B , just cry for a few minutes and remember if we are lucky this next year we will have another spring and another chance, to go to the store and get baby geraniums in any color we want, and try keeping them alive for another winter.😉😉🌱
@@BoB-rf2dv Be Brave Bo, be brave.
Never knew they’d grow for more than a season 😱
Thank you Brian. I did not know pepper plants were perennial. This was a perfect teaching video that included step-by-step instructions with the facts needed to know how and why by zone! You are a fabulous and generous teacher.
Pepper our not perennials this guys facts our off
Peppers are perennials in tropical country and can be in cold countries if you have the right condition in the cold country. I have been growing hot peppers on my balcony and during winter I bring them inside & place them to east window and it has been 3 years with the same plant.
17 years in the landscape industry, I can promise you'll never find better pruners than Felcos.
Okatsune Bypass Pruners are better. Way better 😁
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Grew my first pepper plant from seed this year and it's great to learn that they grow more than one year!
I like how he talked about trimming it so delicately and looking for different things when trimming it and then just basically cut the whole plant down to right above the ground. Lol.
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I overwintered several types of peppers over the years, but ran into some real problems. One of these problems is aphids, which love pepper plants, and can manage to hide for quite a while before you know they are present. Once you find them, they're extremely difficult to completely eradicate organically, in my experience, since they seem to be able to survive in the tiniest nooks of the growing tips. But even more insidious and potentially devastating are broad mites, which, unlike spider mites, are invisible to the naked eye. In the spring of 2020 I brought my overwintered peppers out onto my patio, where I also was hardening off my vegetable seedlings which I had grown completely isolated from my overwintered plants. One of the overwintered peppers appeared to have a virus, so I kept it away from everything else. Just about the time my in-ground peppers had set lots of fruit, several plants began showing virus-like or weed killer-like symptoms. An entomologist friend suggested that I might have broad mites, and with his direction, and using a 60x hand lens, I confirmed the diagnosis. Unfortunately, once you see symptoms of broad mite damage they are well established, and even more difficult to control organically, as they lodge within the meristem where they are able to avoid topical sprays. I mention these issues not to discourage anyone from trying to overwinter vegetable plants, but to alert everyone to some of the possible pitfalls.
Dear Gerard Ziegler.
Very good, interesting, valuable &
WELL WRITTEN INFORMATION!!
Thank you so very much!❤
Outstanding comment!
You mentioned damage with appearance of weed-killer. I recently learned of another cause. I had to cull over half of my garden and dispose of several inches of soil which I had just amended (and was very excited about until I saw the damage) with compost that I made. Turns out that some of the aged manure that I sourced came from horses and cows that were grazed on pasture that had been treated with graze-on, a persistent pesticide. Ruined all that work, made a literal ton of more work and looked like someone had hit the plants with Roundup.
One more thing to look out for if you compost.
@@matthewellisor5835 that happened to me too!!!
I did a mild soapy water rinse of the soil...drenched it... first I watered heavily, following the soapy I drenched it again with fresh. That made all the difference with bugs! Worked like a wonder!
Dust the plant food grade Diatomaceous Earth..
This is the first year I managed to save and replant my sweet pepper plant and it out performed the two extras from the garden centre. The sheer size of them was encouraging. I’m bring all three inside this year. 👍🏻
I have 12 beautiful plants! I can't overwinter them all. 😢I just don't have the space, but I'm going to try at least one of each kind.
@@annamineer2521I am in ID, my 1st real garden 15:58 and love my peppers. This video made me anxious. He was truthful.
Did this last year with a single ghost pepper plant. I'm in Minnesota. My garage is heated to 45° in the winter. Was skeptical but come early spring, the plant started sprouting dozens of new branches and was far and away the first plant to harvest. Will be doing this again this winter for the 10 different varieties I have this year. Thanks for the video
what do you do with ghosts? sauces?
The algorithm did me a huge favor showing me this today. We will be getting our first frost any day now. I have just enough time to save my plants.
Did you save them?!
I have found that a thin layer of sand will keep the fungus knats away!
Would the sand go on the bottom?
Tiffany Mysticstorm it goes on top of the soil.
any type of sand?
That's an awesome tip Scott! Thanks!
the fungus knats will just use the drain holes on the bottom after a while.
My Boss has a Ghost Pepper plant in the office.. We put it outside in the summer, inside in winter,, he's had it here for 5 yrs now, and it was 3 yrs old already!! And it puts on more peppers than 6 of us can use!!!
Third year of over-wintering, and successful. Great advice. 2023.
Hand pruners, are actually called secateurs. When using secateurs with a flat anvil, the anvil MUST be up on the stem being removed. This stops tissue damage and so prevents disease risk. BTW I use a pair of German secateurs made 90 years ago, I've been using them for 20 years after finding them in a potting shed.
What country are you from? I’m my they are called pruners or clippers
I have old pepper plants. I over-winter them in my basement under florescent light. Not the best I know, but I just don't have room by a window. I prune them back a lot about two weeks before I transplant. Then I let the plant start to recover, so new leaves are already out. Then I transplant. I don't know if this is better or not but I found that pruning them and potting them at the same time is too much for some of the plants, probably because I don't have a good light source. Also, I put 5 or so plants into a 5 gallon bucket to conserve space. I have about 75 pepper plants and I only lose about 5 over the winter. then I reseed in the spring whatever I lost. I'm not sure exactly how old my plants are but I'd guess some are about 7 years old. I have a restaurant so that is why I have so many plants. Also, I do not get any yield over the winter, but the older plants produce a lot more and have a sweeter flavor. I also leave one big leaf on between pruning and transplant to encourage growth.
Thanks for sharing! 75 pepper plants, wow!
That's an excellent tip. It will be very useful here in London, UK!
I have a bunch of first year plants that I'm trying to figure out what to do with...I have built a lit and heated + insulated cold-frame and also live in the UK...I'm thinking I will wrap the roots with only some of the soil in hesien cloth and then place them into some coco-fibre with high PK pepper food...I'm hopeful that they will be ok over winter and that I can plant them onwards next spring.
Be gutted if not 😑
@@weedfreer I'd love to know if it works out. Just make sure they get some light. I've treated mine pretty badly at times and i thought they were dead, but in the spring they grew back.
This is my first year growing peppers. My plants are outside in the garden (5 pepper plants) and I didn't know I could overwinter them. This may be a stupid question, but here goes: can I put the plants, with root and all in freezer bags and freeze until spring?
I didn’t realize shishitos were perennials & bought transplants 6/tray. Only to find out, the older plant survived & thrived on its own over winter! Ditto for the Chinese eggplant I bought, to replace my Japanese eggplant. My eggplant didn’t die over winter. It just was dormant. Neither nightshades were winterized. (Live in Ojai, CA.)
This past year, both over produced MORE than I expected. 100 shishitos/week during summer & 50-70/week in fall & 1-5 eggplants/month in summer/fall. (I had to give away 4 of 6 transplants), as all 6 grew very rapidly in my 14 inch pot. My July planted, cherry tomatoes are producing still! Will see how long they last!
I ended up needing to put one plant per pot bc they needed the space to grow. So, now will keep them outdoors, as the main stalks are THICK & I know the microclimate I’m in Ojai has no frost, and spring is here (March)! So, I’ll follow your steps to prune back my shishitos!
I tried this with no advice a few years ago for peppers I had growing in 5 gallon buckets on my patio. I did a nice watering, followed by a mild soap water rinse, let that sit, then a fresh water rinse - that worked very well to get rid of insects! I pruned it back a little (not as much) and put it in a window for winter. It stayed alive and in fact bloomed all winter (NE Kansas) but the blooms were puny & didn't produce. Once spring arrived the blooms started looking healthy again...it knew it was spring! :). Once no danger of frost I took it back outside and it did well producing again. I think it would "turn into a tree" quite easily...it's "trunk" was thickening up quite a lot.
This year I'm definitely bringing in at least 1.. maybe 3 of my pepper plants! Definitely got earlier produce by doing this!
Thank for your video! The pruning advice and fertilizer and bag use advice especially helpful.
You can also take a cutting and easily root it in the potting mix, kept very moist and in the shade, it grows roots in days, new leaves show soon after. So don't give up on cuttings. About 4 weeks and you got a new plant. A perfect clone.
You can do that with most any plant
@@tomrobards7753
I do know. But most folks have forgotten the basics. So I keep sharing, maybe a couple of people look up how to do this.
Do peppers need rooting compound or just put it straight in the potting mix?
@@pingpong9656
🫑🌶 I never used any of that fancy stuff. Just a cutting, good potting soil, or triple mix, or just plain dirt from the garden if that's what you have. Needs to be kept wet, it will drop leafes at first, expect it. Then new growth appears. Keep it shaded until then. If you did this in a garden bed, place a chair over it to provide the needed shade at first. About 3 to 4 weeks, and you have a new plant. Protect it from frost and freezing temperatures, by mulching and covering the plant overnight with a large plastic bag, according to the forecast, or bring it inside for the winter. If the plant drops the leafes, it soon grows new ones in the spring. You can trim both the roots and the tops to plant it in a container to move it inside. 🪴
I had no idea peppers were perennials, and didn't know that about the roots air-pruning either. Actually, there is SO MUCH info in this video. I wish I could like it more than once! Thank you for this.
You're welcome!
Me too!
Never knew peppers were perennials -gonna try this.
air pruning is not new. Look at this from only 15 years ago. depts.washington.edu/propplnt/Chapters/air-pruning.htm#:~:text=Air%20pruning%20happens%20naturally%20when,container%20in%20a%20constricted%20pattern.
@@tbillyjoeroth I am in zone 5 Ohio near the lake. So I will try this. Thanks for the encouragement what do I have to loose. It may have to be a anaihem.Fresh made chicken enchiladas Sante Fe style.,comfort food.
Here in Virginia, peppers are perfect for me because I'm a lazy gardener and always start late in the season and I don't have to spray for insects and I don't have to worry about forgetting to water them because the morning dew will take care of them during our humid, rainy summers.
I never knew that pepper plants were perennials. Hi, from Western Colorado. My husband loves jalapenos. I've grown 4 plants at a time and canned them. This year, I will be growing more, but not as many now that I know I can just harvest from the same plant for years. Thank you for your gardening experience.
I dug up my peppers (mostly the small sized ones) and put them in pots and brought them inside in the last few years. I now just keep them in pots year round, putting them out decoratively around the garden in the warm months. They keep producing year round and are producing a bumper crop right now. I gave them an organic liquid fertilizer called big bloom and they went crazy! Some of my best producers are 4-5 years old and resemble little pepper trees.
Interesting but how do you deal with the soil considering it can have fungus and pests to take indoor? Do you change to indoor soil each year? Thanks
WhT size pots?
How big of a pot do you need for one that old?
I keep mine in 5-7 gallon pots year round and they also look like trees now. Especially my jalapeños. I put them in the storage building in the winter with a grow light and also a heat lamp set to come on when Temps dip below 50°.
They make beautiful house plants!!! My son and I took seeds out of some of the seeds from those red, yellow, and orange mini bell peppers that we bought at a grocery store and we planted them in nice big containers... About 3 gallon .... and they have been growing for several years now!
Do they fruit well?
@@louellen7271 yes but I have to use a grow light for part of the day during winter because they need lots of hours of light. Right after the last frost I put them out in the garden and I have peppers already! The mini bell peppers seem to produce non stop once they reach maturity.
Does it matter what time of year you start them indoors?
@@mrs.kilmersclassroom3768 not really, as long as they get enough hours of light. You have to keep in mind that peppers are a slow growing veggie so if you want to put them outside in spring you definitely want to start them quite early, even in winter. The other thing is, they like to be warm so seeds won't germinate very quickly or as well in a drafty cool home. I also check the moisture of the soil often because the artificial heat indoors during winter dries the air thus causing the water to evaporate more quickly from the soil.
Do you know what brand of mini peppers you bought, or from what store, as I have tried to grow cantaloupe from store cantaloupe and watermelon too, and none of them produced fruit as they are bred by Monsanto to reproduce plants but no fruit.. so it would be betst to know what brand worked?
Been a master gardener for decades. Did not know this!
I live in Oregon. Over-wintering the peppers is something new to me, and I thank you for making me aware of that. Usually I plant the peppers in the second half of April, and it takes a long time for them to establish themselves. Serious production does not start until early August and it can go on, sometimes, to early October. By over-wintering the peppers, I might start picking them in early July. Thanks again.
Yeah, I'm in the same climate and get my most production in October.
Perfect video with perfect timing. My wife is out of town and I think this is the perfect time to expand my indoor winter garden in the basement. I never knew I could overwinter my pepper plants. Thank you. Don't worry, we have been married for 42 years. When she gets back, she will just say...."Now what are you doing?"
Cant wait till me and my partner are at that stage. Currently his only argument against more plants is "well if it doesn't make food why grow it" so we have an array of edible house plants 🤣🤣🤣
Started my first winter/fall garden this year! Can't wait!
Jacqueline Tremblay what edible houseplants are you growing?
@@peaches26t I grow the same plants inside as I do in the garden. I grow Spinach, Swiss Chard, Loose Leaf lettuces, herbs (Tarragon, Basil, Rosemary) and radishes.
@@peaches26t I'm sorry I think I don't think i explained myself right, I was just cracking a joke, all my plants produce something edible from veggies to leaves or whatever 😅 just ment I have a house full of plants and my partner doesn't mind as long as he gets a snack 😂
Lmao @ “And a cold icy heart”. I love the dramatic way you said that, because in all honesty that’s how I feel when I do a lot of gardening tasks that are needed and beneficial to my overall goal. Thinning seedlings, pulling out still-live plants when their time is almost up and I need to get something else in that spot. Feels cruel because I love my plants, but some things just have to be done to be successful. I wouldn’t want an icy cold heart, but geez can it just feel a little easier?!? Lol 😂
ditto....i hate losing a single plant. wish i could bring them all in. i hate even pruning but winter is almost here....no choice
I'm the same way. I loose out a lot cause of my fear of the Icy Heart
The best pruner I’ve ever used is a PVC ratchet pipe cutter! It is fantastic for pruning roses, fruit trees, any plant with thicker branches/stalks. I love it because I have arthritis in my hands, and using regular pruning shears is difficult for me because a) it causes pain after awhile, and b) I don’t have much grip strength.
With the pvc cutter, very little effort/strength is needed because it works on a ratchet.
I usually start my peppers in January under grow lights and have peppers May but I also overwinter my favorite pepper plants too.
I can't wait to try this! I'm in zone 5 so getting a jump start on peppers is huge!
Is zone 5 in your country equal to zone 5 in sweden?
I agree. This is something I will definitely do this year.
@@mattiaswahlstrom3686 All zone 5s are the same climate wherever they are on the planet. Same thing for the other zones.
Did it work?
We are in zone 3
I wish I could show you the AMAZING bell pepper plant that you helped me grow this year!!! It is close to 4 feet tall and is still abundant 11/5/2021. If I could share a picture I would.
Thanks for all of your instruction and info. My garden has truly been blessed due to my finding you on TH-cam ❤️
Wow! 4 feet!!
I’d love that!
what zone are you in?
😱 that is a big plant
Wow! That's amazing!
WhenI lived in TX I was surprised to see a friend got peppers all year long.
I live in North Georgia I have several Carolina reaper plants, 2 of them are 4yrs. old and 2 are 5yrs. old.
I lived on Guam for several years. The “boonie peppers” are, I think, an old strain of Birdseye. Super hot. I would find actual trees, over 5 feet tall, in the middle of the jungle. So yes, I knew they’re perineals . God I miss that place.
My aunt lives there and my family owns the property that the US navy uses for their base on Guam
Never assume anything cannot overwinter… Winter has always been my favorite time to garden… The Brussels sprouts I dug out of 3 feet of snow as a kid were some of the best I have ever tasted… Brassicas and greens (including lettuces) can go super sweet and clean if they get hit with a frost or snow. When that happens they are shockingly good… Having greens and veggies in the winter is great all on its own, but those that get frost sweetened are magical…
I plant my winter garden in the late summer and then put a poly tunnel over parts of it. Some things need additional frost blankets, some do not, some are just left in the open to embrace the cold with the hope they get frost sweetened or snowed on.
But I love trying to get anything I can to overwinter… I have been successful with oregano, basil, peppers, tomatoes, lettuces and all sorts of greens… I grow corn In my tropical greenhouse because my son loves corn on the cob for his Birthday in mid December… But for the most part I try to only grow tropicals in my tropical greenhouse (granted I do use it to get a very early start for all my seed starts).
But seriously, try to overwinter just about anything and everything. If you succeed, you are usually rewarded with a lot more of whatever made it.
Now Brian!! I KNOW you don't have a "cold icy heart". ;) As I watched this I thought of a parable I read once about life's challenges and pains making us stronger. It talked about two neighbors who both planted trees in their yards about the same time. The one man watered and fed his tree regularly...babied it like crazy. He never pruned it so he could enjoy it's fullness. The other man only watered and fed regularly the first few months, but over the years he pruned it at times to encourage new and healthy growth. The one that was regularly watered and fed grew tall and beautiful and full. The other man's tree did pretty well too, but not as grand...and looked a little sparse sometimes after pruning, but always "came back better than ever."
One day a big storm with lots of rain and wind came through. The oak tree that had been babied regularly, was uprooted and fell over. It had been pampered so much that it never developed a strong root system...it's roots had remained near the surface because it didn't have to "struggle or search" for water because it was regularly fed on the surface. Never pruning the tree had made it top-heavy for it's root system. It was easily pulled right out of the ground by the wind. The other tree had developed roots that went deep into the ground to find water. It stayed firmly planted.
The story compared the "pruning" we get in life when life throws health, financial and other problems at us, to a pruning or challenge that makes us toughen up, develop stronger "roots" and enables us to withstand life's battles. I always loved that story.
As tough as it is to cut that pepper back with "courage and a cold icy heart", we could look at it as giving it a future life...otherwise it would likely die in the frost of the winter season. It's tough at the time, but by doing this it prepares them for a whole new year.
I didn't plant peppers this year, but definitely will next year now that I know this trick. How awesome that one of your peppers will be on year four!!! Amazing.
Thanks for another great video. I'm definitely ordering the pruners, and am so excited for "canning tomato Tuesday!"
I did this in zone 5 in Fall 2022 and replanted in 2023. It worked for me so I'll be doing this again. 😊
In Zone 7B, never knew Pepper Plants were Perennial!! Thank you!!
Also in case you don't overwinter them, I would use the seeds from my old crop instead of buying new ones, great vid take care
I live on zone 5 & my peppers are in a container, can I just bring them indoors?
I’m gonna try this this year. Especially with my one and only peronccini plant. I had 2 germinate, 1 died, and the other rotted off at ground level. While mourning my poor plant, I had taken it into the green house and set it down on some moist potting mix I was working with and walked away. The next day I was surprised to see it was still alive. That’s when I noticed it had little root nodes at the bottom. So I put it in a cup of water for a couple weeks, then potted it. It has lived in my green house all summer and is doing beautifully. It went from a little 3” sad thing to a12-18” healthy plant! It’s even starting to flower…I’m hoping to actually get a few peppers from it.
Peppers are rainforest plants unlike tomatoes which originated in dry almost desert like regions. So naturally peppers go for warm and humid climate and need much more water than tomatoes do since their rootsystem stays rather flat.
Learned that just recently... Helped me a lot to treat my veggies better this year ... 😊
We did it! 6 pepper plants trimmed and in cloth pots in a mini greenhouse. 🤞 Bell, ghost, jalepeno & habanero all tucked in following your instrux!
You will love the results next year! For the first time I overwintered my jalapeno and habanero plants, and this year I have harvested 5 times what I got last year from each plant!! I am truly amazed it actually works as advertised. This is a must do for us pepper lovers!
I'm 71 and never had a "garden spade" until a uncle gave me a old one with broken handle. It's much better than my and yours old shovel.
Be good to yourself and get a new or second handed one.
You can thank me later Brian thanks.
My peppers did so great I don't believe saving plants can possibly help me.but be helpful to yourself and get a garden shovel for yourself
I followed your directions last year and this year I had the most amazing amount of peppers on my wee plants so thank you I intend to do that again this year! ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ 🫑
I did know that peppers are perennials! I Accidentally kept my favorite pepper plant at my moms. I had a name for it, I just kept it alive, and the next year we got another harvest! Shocked my mom
Hi, I never knew that pepper plants are perennial! I am so thankful I watched your video!!! My daughter will be pleased to hear about this! I live where the winters last longer than summer, and it freezes hard in January through March, so I'll be digging mine up! Thank you for sharing your knowledge in gardening, it has been helpful for me.
New tome that they’re perrineal!! I’ll do this over the week end and bring them into the sunroom. Thanks!! Love it
"Courage and a cold icy heart" MY FRIEND- you made my day with that statement. Also so encouraged by this! (Zone 5b)
now you've got me thinking I could possibly overwinter my tomatoes and eggplants. It would give me a jumpstart on my growing season by almost 2 months
Tomato plants are better when you take cuttings and root them.
Tomatoes definitely. I actually grow a couple of tomato plants through the winter in our conservatory. (Uk)
Tomatoes sometimes overwinter in the ground in So Cal. Especially the cherry types. Turn into very long vines crawling all over
Hi there! Marlene Willoughby here! Been planting all my life! Which is 67! Me and my husband plant and sell a lot of produce,we are commercial poultry operation for years! I drive school bus also! Love to pass on gardening to the kids! Anyway,when I was a young child I remember sewing lots of tomato Seeds in a hug tub( probably something wore out with holes)!This was when it warms up of course! Just throw chicken wire or something over to keep things out.When they came up we just pulled what we needed at the time ,and left the rest till later! Have you ever raised any like this? Love this video, all of them are great! Glad you found your roots and are happily planting! Keep planting,sharing,and inspiring! And keep having fun ! Good luck in our up coming season! Answer when you can ! Thanks! MW
I haven't done that but it sounds like a great method!
I just learned this. I have 5 pepper plants I just dug up and now have them in my greenhouse!! So excited.
You know you were right about the cold heart! I was almost weeping at the thought of brutalising my pepper plants like that.😱 I'll do one. Not doing all, sod that for a laugh!😂😂. If the one I hack almost to death does not make it, you're getting a really snippy message from me in spring. 😂😂. Thanks for sharing, Stella
My pepper plants are going crazy right now (Central TX). So many peppers. Looking forward to a little more time with these lovely plants.
im in az i figured i would be in the same boat but this last week it got into the low 50s at night im concidering butchering(trimming) half of my plants (most of my plants i have 2 of each veriety i selected)that way i know i have a few that will survive the winter im thinking ill prune the ones that are having a slump in production right now.
Mine are still blooming here in North central Texas, hope to get some peppers soon and then overwinter them. First time growing peppers, and definitely first time keeping them going over the fall and winter months. Sounds like fun!
Retha Strom Agreed, Retha! It’s a lot of fun growing peppers.
I’ve got serranos, habaneros, jalapenos, bell peppers, and yellow wax peppers.
I let a lot of them ripen to red to give myself time to use up what I’ve already picked!
They really like this milder (tho still 90F+)weather.
Angella crain-diehl Wonderful! I had no idea it got that cool in Az in September. Good idea - I think maybe I’ll do the same - see what happens!
I'm in NE and my cayenne are still flowering and producing I'm pleasantly surprised I can bring them back next year but my partner isn't going to be happy that I'm filling out front room with pots that look like green sticks for a few months 🤣 🤣🤣
Thinking of this video today while I try this. Started to sing "there's an icebox where my heart used to be" 😂
I have a Felco 2 pruner that I got in school in 1978. Good stuff.
When you asked if we knew that Peppers or perennials, I literally out loud said no I did not!!
Me TOO!
@@lynettehairrell1741 Me THREE! 😀
Shoutout for mentioning both hemispheres!
There's ANOTHER hemisphere?! jk
I plan to bring all of my peppers in again this year, and unlike 2yrs ago I WILL NOT forget to plant them back outside next Spring! Lol those other peppers are STILL in my spare bedroom... producing pepper on the regular! 🌶🌶🌶
Have overwintered my Pepperoncini 3vyears now and it fares very well even indoors blossoming and bearing peppers all through winter. I sprinkle ground cinnamon on the top of the soil to prevent insects.
This was my first year overwintering my pepper and it has been going very well. I added fresh soil as mentioned, kept them in my kitchen in the corner. I watered them maybe twice the whole winter. Around April sometime I began watering them regularly while keeping them inside. That is when they started to grow back. I also hardened them off as mentioned. I will definitely do this again next year and with the help of the good Lord they will be productive again next year!
My mom has a ton of different chille plants and she's had them for almost all my life believe it or not! I'm 22 now and I remember her getting them 12 years ago. I always thought pepper plants last really long long trees.
where does she live: cold or hot climate?
I have left over pepper plants on my nursery table that were *bare sticks* during the summer, now they're growing back like nothing happened.
When I lived in Houston I left a habanero bush outside all winter and oh goodness, hundreds of hot peppers the following year!
I've gardened in 4 different climates, always learning. Thinks for the vid, I will do this with my current pepper plants (in Z5!)
Interesting, because I live in Texas just 8 hours north and worried about my pepper plants, the winter storm killed a lot of people's plant....was going to try a small greenhouse diy but idk
the mrs. here... lived 50+ yrs just south of Fresno CA before moving to Wisc nearly 10 yrs ago. What a big difference in growing a garden! I've always grown my tomatoes in re-enforced wire cages. One yr an early frost hit and I put contractor's trash bags over the cages, raising the sides up during the day. I kept those plants alive all winter. Now I've just got to try it with peppers, lol! I'm game!
you can keep tomatoes alive through a whole wisconsin winter with just plastic bags?
@@joefrancis759 I was wondering the same. I cant even do that in Arkansas. And ive tried!
Thank you for mentioning the REASON you're potting your peppers. I wanted to leave mine in the ground this winter to make it easier to be a lazy gardner...but doing that would limit my already small growing space. I now understand how to keep the peppers but also utilize the space. This was an awesome video!
First time i even heard of it. Thank you for sacrificing the plant early for us to learn.
I just watched this video for the first time today. I will definitely be trying this in the next month or two, because my peppers did so well this year. I want them to live!🤣
Wow did not know!!! Zone 7 here, have to use already started plants….. never knew about this but will def try it! Thanks!
I have been binge watching your videos and I'm learning so much! Lots of notes! Your son is awesome and I'm so glad to have found you! Houston, TX and new to gardening, but I have big plans for our little yard!
I had no idea that pepper plants could be overwintered. I am super excited because I've yet to clean up the garden so mine are still out there. Thank you!
I got this tip from you last year, so glad I did 😊
I have a 2 year old year old jalapeño in a fabric pot gives like 4 a week.
I'm in South Carolina and I overwintered mine last year and it's still going strong!
Just learned this I’m in Northern Maine, naturally a short growing season. Thank you for this information.
I make my own indoor potting soil by baking it in my oven for an hour at 325 degrees, it kills the funguses and pests.
Pain in the ass. Buy a bale from your local grow shop . bake brownies instead
I didn’t know they could grow for another year. Mine are still growing right now. East Texas
Mine are STILL GROWING here in the Texas Hill Country 10/22/23 @ 3:17pm temperature 85 degrees with Wind Gusts of 12mph mostly Sunny.
Blessings to everyone!!🙏🏼🥰🙌🏼💯
Learn something new daily 👏
I didn’t know pepper plants were perinatal!!! And I have two beautiful plants this year that out done the others and I am really happy to hear this !Thanks
I overwintered my Ring of Fire Peppers last year and they produced ripe peppers in early June. I'm in zone 7a. When I dug mine up I rinsed all of the dirt off and sprayed them down with neem oil and placed them in new potting soil. If you use the same soil you could possibly bring in pest that could affect other plants.
Are you saying that you rinsed your roots clean and the pepper did okay? How often did you water them throughout the winter?
Pierre Groussac yes. I had 6 plants and rinsed 5 of them because I didn’t calculate enough potting soil so I didn’t rinse the 6th one and ended up getting spider mites on all of them. I only list 1 plant but I lost that one after I replanted it in the spring. I guessed that the mites were in the soul one but not a 100% sure but makes sense. I placed them in my back room which faces south and they did great. For the first month I gave them a nitrogen heavy fertilizer to promote more greenery. After that I gave it that Neptune’s harvest once a month. Around February I was getting a few peppers but nothing to write home about. When I planted them in the spring in took about 3 weeks for the plants to burst with flowers. By mid to late June I was getting ripe peppers.
@@markmc4800 Thanks for the reply. Did you use a 2 gallon pot for overwintering, or something smaller?
@@groussac I used a 1 gallon but I'm going try to overwinter the same plants so I think I'm going use a 2 gallon for those
Can you put the brand of that grow bag up or let me know what it is please
I grow in Zone 2 - peppers are a real challenge. Had no idea I could multi-year them.
Where do you live? Northern Scandinavia? I live in Canada in zone 4 to 3. It's a challenge here too. The winter is a half year long.
Been gardening for over 20 years and I never, never knew that peppers are perennial. WOW! No one has ever mentioned that in all my research.