You can over winter your peppers. Bell peppers, sweet peppers, hot peppers. 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'm in Ontario Canada. I overwintered one jalapeno for 3 seasons. I was just "winging it" with that plant but it was okay. The 7 pepper plants I have in the garden now, I will overwinter. Thanks for the tips on pruning.
I wish I could be able to over winter, but I only have 1 big south window in my frontroom, but it doesn't get any kind of sun in it because I have a cover porch in front of it and I have a couch inside in front of it and I can't rearrange it around. Then I have 1 regular size south window in my bedroom that's on the second floor and 1 in my bedroom closet, which won't work out either. I have other windows, but none of them get 6 hours of light and nowhere to put a plant stand, and the only other windows I have down stairs is in my kitchen where my table is in front of and the other one is being turned into a door for my deck that's going to be built next spring. So i'm pretty much out of luck!
I had no idea!
I didn’t know you could overwinter pepper plants and I’m looking forward to following your excellent tutorial and giving it a try. I live in Ontario, Canada so this should be very interesting. Wish me luck!😊🌶🫑
Here in southern New Mexico. We have an extremely long growing season. I just take mine out of the ground or pot and put them in my home office for a couple of months and stick 'em back outside in march
I grew all my peppers in my greenhouse this year. I’m in zone 9b/10a but coastal fog keeps temperatures in mid 70s My peppers love the heat of the greenhouse which is about 90° I’m going to overwinter them in the greenhouse which in winter stays about 50° while outside might dip into the low 40°-high 30°
What about repotting second year peppers I started from seed and then potted into 1 gallon pots . Should I up pot to 3 or 5 gallon for next year? They were very happy and prolific in the one gallon this year but want to keep them happy for multiple years 🌱💚❤️🌶️🫑
Always discarded pepper plant…usually with semi-ripe fruit…going to try this now. 😮
I never thought of peppers as perennial but I have a greenhouse and plan to bring them in this year. See how it works next year. Thanks😊
I've known about doing this but never did but I'm going to try this this year, thank you for such a great video!
You are such an excellent teacher! You seem to answer all questions as you go! I needed this!
Last winter i tried this, with dismal results. Vowed to never do it again. But after watching this video i am excited to give it another try. I have identified a lot of mistakes I made (root pruning, using too small containers, over watering and fertilizing, too warm in basement) and am eager to see if I can do better. Thank you for this video.
Brian… I'm Definitely trying to overwinter Many of my pepper plants this winter.. at least one plant of each type, color, etc..
So…minimum 6 plants.
I live zone 5, southern Ontario…
Yet again, another challenging season, lol… tho I think there are challenges Every season, lol..
We have had successful small hot peppers harvests in the past. We can get green bell peppers, but have yet to get them to mature into colors, lol..
But.. thus summer.. 😢.. every full moon we have had since April > which has been many times actually.. our night time temps have dropped down to 5°C (40F) lwith every full moon, this summer.. sometimes for a few days.. even in July 😢!..
I've had pepper flowers.. even a few small peppers form.. but zero bell pepper harvest this summer.
We have managed to harvest a few chili, cayenne & jalapeño peppers, so we'll get by as we don't use much of them..
But.. I'm hoping to overwinter this summer's abused plants & get better production next summer.. lol…
Thanks for the lesson…
❤ a Canadian fan
I think my big pepper fail last year was keeping saucers under the pots so the soil in the pots was saturated outside all winter in my mild 10a climate. The jalapeno pot was the only one with no saucer and is now 3 years old. So I drilled holes in the saucers, plugged them with corks for the dry months, and will remove the corks for winter. Fingers crossed for the cayennes, aleppos, calabrians, and poblanos. 💚
I overwintered last year, first time. Had an amazing early harvest this year… 😊
My overwintered bell pepper plant survived the winter, but not the late spring transplant. I believe I made the mistake of bringing it out too early in the season (leaves were yellowing as I transition from indoor to outdoor), and transplanted it into bad soil (said soil bed had nothing but struggling plants so I need to mend it).
TOMATO plants can over winter as well ,, just an fyi
Excellent! This is great news. Thank you.
I do, yet, I prefer to start fresh in the fall (inside w/lights, heat mat). I sometimes start pollinating inside, so when I plant my spring planting, my peppers begin to produce in June/July, I cut back get a bumper crop. 👍 My winters now are in the 20's, ice, sometimes it snows. Summers now can climb to 120 🏜️
I over winters peppers a couple years ago.. best pepper harvest I ever had that second year but I did get gnats in my sunroom. So didn’t try it again. I want to d9 it this year and try this way!
Thanks for the shearing 👍🏆👌
I knew because the Millenial Gardener did something on it! i’m sooo grateful for both of you . The two of you are my go to garden advisors!
I followed your previous video in instructions last year. unfortunately the plants went brown and woody in late winter even tho kept in greenhouse. I removed the soil and rinsed the roots under water, but I didn't use peroxide. I didn't have any fungus gnats. I didn't pot it in seed compost but I did use new multi compost.
Any tips other than use sterilised soil?
Yes😊
Great tips. I will be doing this with my peppers this year
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I had no clue! Ty! 🎉
Is it safe to eat the peppers after they have been growing with Mosquito Bits in its soil when you are over wintering them ?
I’ve never tried this before, didn’t even know this was a possibility! But this year sounds like a great opportunity to try! Thank you!
Great video! I've seen several while looking to do this for this seasons plants, and yours is the simplest and most I formative one I've seen. Thank you so much and I love your channel.
I've tried this for 2 years now….with dozens of plants and have never had one grow foliage again☹️
Thanks Brian, I knew it but never done it, I don't remember why. Can I sterilize the potting soil I have?
CRAZY!! Out in garden today's and Said to myself "Time to get my COLD ICY heart ready." Trying this again. So as long as it's still green it's alive?
Yes i used to over winter my peppers in my basement when i lived in NEPa. It is pretty cool how tough they are
Great video my problem is where do I put the outdoor plants in the house. My indoor plants have the sun.