Grow the Same Pepper Plant Two Years in a Row!
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Date: 2022-07-18
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handmade
Boy, you just put the brutal part of this process straight out there in the beginning didn't you. I imagine many people cried before the actual video even started LOL. I am looking to do this with my poblanos this year. Maybe my jalapenos now that they seem to be done producing for the year. My bell peppers are finally going now that it's cooled down some here in Zone 7. I've noticed for a pepper plant they seem to be more partial to the cooler weather unlike my jalapeno, banana, and serranos. Poblano didn't fruit until late summer and I think it's because we had a bad windstorm that broke off one of the main stems and it went into shock toward the beginning of the season. As usual, love your instructionals. Looking forward to more.
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Boy, you just put the brutal part of this process straight out there in the beginning didn't you. I imagine many people cried before the actual video even started LOL. I am looking to do this with my poblanos this year. Maybe my jalapenos now that they seem to be done producing for the year. My bell peppers are finally going now that it's cooled down some here in Zone 7. I've noticed for a pepper plant they seem to be more partial to the cooler weather unlike my jalapeno, banana, and serranos. Poblano didn't fruit until late summer and I think it's because we had a bad windstorm that broke off one of the main stems and it went into shock toward the beginning of the season. As usual, love your instructionals. Looking forward to more.
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KC
This is my first year overwintering some of my best pepper plants, and I'm really anxious to see how well they do next spring. I hate how my tomatoes are all ready so much sooner than the peppers, and every year I find myself buying peppers to can my salsas and sauces, and then having peppers later when the tomatoes are slowing down, so I'm hopeful to not have to buy peppers next summer. The one good thing I did this year was freeze tomatoes to can later in the season so I have peppers from my garden to use with some of the tomatoes I froze. Every season I work on several new things to produce more of our own food, so this should be one of our game changers for spring and summer 2022!
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This is my first year overwintering some of my best pepper plants, and I'm really anxious to see how well they do next spring. I hate how my tomatoes are all ready so much sooner than the peppers, and every year I find myself buying peppers to can my salsas and sauces, and then having peppers later when the tomatoes are slowing down, so I'm hopeful to not have to buy peppers next summer. The one good thing I did this year was freeze tomatoes to can later in the season so I have peppers from my garden to use with some of the tomatoes I froze. Every season I work on several new things to produce more of our own food, so this should be one of our game changers for spring and summer 2022!
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Thant
I did this as an experiment last year not knowing what was on this video. so i turned our hot pepper into a house plant at the end of the season last year, i only took off a few of the really long stems and left my self with a good two an half feet tall and about two foot wide indoor pepper. as it was in the diner it was very warm in there (the boiler is in there) it only shed a couple of leaves and then continued to grow. It started to grow rather quick at the end of feb, and now i have the start of flowers already at the end of march, amazing for central england; -)
am now slowly working my way through the rest of your videos lol xx
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I did this as an experiment last year not knowing what was on this video. so i turned our hot pepper into a house plant at the end of the season last year, i only took off a few of the really long stems and left my self with a good two an half feet tall and about two foot wide indoor pepper. as it was in the diner it was very warm in there (the boiler is in there) it only shed a couple of leaves and then continued to grow. It started to grow rather quick at the end of feb, and now i have the start of flowers already at the end of march, amazing for central england; -)
am now slowly working my way through the rest of your videos lol xx
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David
I'm in Scotland so we do struggle to grow them outside and I grow my chillies on the windowsill, using the windows as a kinda greenhouse. This tends to keep them well, I use chilli focus ( a seaweed extract feed) and will use one capful as apposed to two during flowering in a 5L watering can. Though the issues I find are mostly keeping the right moisture level in winter this has cost me a plant or two. I also only cut back after winter, this may have cost me a Habanero plant this year though as it unexpectedly died, to encourage the new growth at the start of spring.
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I'm in Scotland so we do struggle to grow them outside and I grow my chillies on the windowsill, using the windows as a kinda greenhouse. This tends to keep them well, I use chilli focus ( a seaweed extract feed) and will use one capful as apposed to two during flowering in a 5L watering can. Though the issues I find are mostly keeping the right moisture level in winter this has cost me a plant or two. I also only cut back after winter, this may have cost me a Habanero plant this year though as it unexpectedly died, to encourage the new growth at the start of spring.
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Alanna
Hi there, did you ever make an update on this plant?
We've overwintered a jalapeno plant indoors without pruning and has come back great for three years now even though it always sheds all its leaves. We overwintered Jamaican bonnets the same way, and they've also grown back, but they've gotten super unwieldy long offshoots at the top and are not putting energy into the nodes lower down. We live at 60N latitude and Zone 6 so it's normal for plants to be leggy but this is just bonkers! I'm worried about pruning though, in case it won't tolerate it.
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Hi there, did you ever make an update on this plant?
We've overwintered a jalapeno plant indoors without pruning and has come back great for three years now even though it always sheds all its leaves. We overwintered Jamaican bonnets the same way, and they've also grown back, but they've gotten super unwieldy long offshoots at the top and are not putting energy into the nodes lower down. We live at 60N latitude and Zone 6 so it's normal for plants to be leggy but this is just bonkers! I'm worried about pruning though, in case it won't tolerate it.
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Dante
People who say its hard to overwinter superhot chillies havent tried (not that I tried very hard but, I just overwintered a Carolina reaper, gave it a trim, almost forgot about it, when I remembered I gave it some fertiliser, gave it some water when I remembered, and apart from that left it alone, now its growing real nice, it got to -3 c some days -1 for like 3 or more days straight and its perfectly fine, am from Aus so hence why its only just starting to get growth, oh and it was Outside the entire time
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People who say its hard to overwinter superhot chillies havent tried (not that I tried very hard but, I just overwintered a Carolina reaper, gave it a trim, almost forgot about it, when I remembered I gave it some fertiliser, gave it some water when I remembered, and apart from that left it alone, now its growing real nice, it got to -3 c some days -1 for like 3 or more days straight and its perfectly fine, am from Aus so hence why its only just starting to get growth, oh and it was Outside the entire time
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D. A.
I'm doing this with my biggest and strongest plant, but also trying to root the cuttings I clip off of it to clone the best plant. As an experiment, I will prune back and then cover in mulch, some of the others to see if they'll winter over here in 8a/9b Charlotte. This was my first garden, so everything I try is an experiment for future years. I'm just wondering though. if yours was already in a pot, why didn't you just bring it inside as is, and put a grow light over it?
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I'm doing this with my biggest and strongest plant, but also trying to root the cuttings I clip off of it to clone the best plant. As an experiment, I will prune back and then cover in mulch, some of the others to see if they'll winter over here in 8a/9b Charlotte. This was my first garden, so everything I try is an experiment for future years. I'm just wondering though. if yours was already in a pot, why didn't you just bring it inside as is, and put a grow light over it?
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dorebom
Where I live the weather is basically the same as San Diego so I decided to try this on my container pepper that was already yellowing and dropping leaves. Seems like the fertilizer and watering in woke it right back up! Right now after a few weeks and almost into January and my plant already has some flower buds forming! What do I do? I'd bring it in but then it won't get any sun. It won't see below 40 degrees here.
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Where I live the weather is basically the same as San Diego so I decided to try this on my container pepper that was already yellowing and dropping leaves. Seems like the fertilizer and watering in woke it right back up! Right now after a few weeks and almost into January and my plant already has some flower buds forming! What do I do? I'd bring it in but then it won't get any sun. It won't see below 40 degrees here.
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Chris
I am going to try and over winter one pepper plant this year outside and see if i can get it to survive the winter. I have low expectations but worth a try. I am getting to old and tired to keep starting new every year. Just finished getting all my peppers in the garden a couple days ago and my back and knees are still killing me. Luckily though have many months to figure out what exactly I am going to do.
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I am going to try and over winter one pepper plant this year outside and see if i can get it to survive the winter. I have low expectations but worth a try. I am getting to old and tired to keep starting new every year. Just finished getting all my peppers in the garden a couple days ago and my back and knees are still killing me. Luckily though have many months to figure out what exactly I am going to do.
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Jenny
My bell pepper plant is 5 years old. Its stalk has turned to wood. I've never done a hard cut back like you did. maybe I'll give one branch a hard cut and see what happens. I also gave a 2 year old heirloom tomato in the same pot. Well it's not a pot it's a tire and I throw all my fruit and veggie kitchen waste in it everyday and the little rollie pollies make good soil that the plants like.
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My bell pepper plant is 5 years old. Its stalk has turned to wood. I've never done a hard cut back like you did. maybe I'll give one branch a hard cut and see what happens. I also gave a 2 year old heirloom tomato in the same pot. Well it's not a pot it's a tire and I throw all my fruit and veggie kitchen waste in it everyday and the little rollie pollies make good soil that the plants like.
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Crafty
Im wondering about overwintering my peppers in 7a New Jersey. I plan to bring them in and I can either keep them in my garage or in my basement with a grow light. Should I plan to water regularly or is the plant going dormant? (Last winter I had potted peppermint in the garage that I completely ignored and it came back, was that only because it was peppermint)
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Im wondering about overwintering my peppers in 7a New Jersey. I plan to bring them in and I can either keep them in my garage or in my basement with a grow light. Should I plan to water regularly or is the plant going dormant? (Last winter I had potted peppermint in the garage that I completely ignored and it came back, was that only because it was peppermint)
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Audrey
Great video, very simple and informative. I had a delicious cayenne last year from seed that I overwintered, cut it down considerably like you did, brought it inside, and by mid-May I already had a whole bush of green peppers! I live in Baltimore, so no sunny socal, but it's so satisfying when you see that first green leaf poke out in the beginning of Spring!
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Great video, very simple and informative. I had a delicious cayenne last year from seed that I overwintered, cut it down considerably like you did, brought it inside, and by mid-May I already had a whole bush of green peppers! I live in Baltimore, so no sunny socal, but it's so satisfying when you see that first green leaf poke out in the beginning of Spring!
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Duane
Summer of 2020 I got Cayenne plant and I have been growing it inside. It's been blooming all winter! Since it's started warming up it's getting more blooms. But no fruit throughout the winter. So I am hoping it'll get some good yields summer 2021. I don't want to prune it too much because I want it to over grow in order to propagate. Thanks for the video!
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Summer of 2020 I got Cayenne plant and I have been growing it inside. It's been blooming all winter! Since it's started warming up it's getting more blooms. But no fruit throughout the winter. So I am hoping it'll get some good yields summer 2021. I don't want to prune it too much because I want it to over grow in order to propagate. Thanks for the video!
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dorebom
Great video, thanks! In terms of timing, should I be doing this right around now after I take off the last fruits? My leaves are already yellowing. And after watering in the new top dressing, is that it for water until the spring? My pepper is on a covered SE balcony and the climate here is basically the same as SD.
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Great video, thanks! In terms of timing, should I be doing this right around now after I take off the last fruits? My leaves are already yellowing. And after watering in the new top dressing, is that it for water until the spring? My pepper is on a covered SE balcony and the climate here is basically the same as SD.
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jan
Where is the follow-up on this video?
I hate when YT-ers make videos on how to, but never show their proof afterwards.
i could as easily state I can grow gold by putting a coin in the ground, and making a video about it (and never showing any results. wonder how many people would give me a thumbs-up?
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Where is the follow-up on this video?
I hate when YT-ers make videos on how to, but never show their proof afterwards.
i could as easily state I can grow gold by putting a coin in the ground, and making a video about it (and never showing any results. wonder how many people would give me a thumbs-up?
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