DON’T pull out your peppers – they can survive winter! Learn how to winter-proof your pepper plants whether you’re in a cold or mild climate, keeping them alive for a faster spring harvest. Follow this guide so you can protect your peppers from frost and enjoy fresh harvests earlier than ever and get a jump on next year’s garden!
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00:00 Introduction
00:22 What is over-wintering?
00:48 When to start the over-wintering process for southern gardeners
01:06 When to start the over-wintering process for northern gardeners
01:45 Step 1: Harvest peppers
02:03 Step 2: Trim lower leaves and branches
02:07 Step 3: Prune stem
03:02 Step 4: Southern Gardeners: leave in garden and mulch
04:13 Step 5: Northern Gardeners: dig plant up
04:54 Step 6: Northern Gardeners: kill bugs
06:37 Step 7: Northern Gardeners: plant in a 1 gallon pot
07:34 Step 8: Northern Gardeners: put in sunny window or near grow light
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08:33 Step 10: In Spring: Southern Gardeners: fertilize
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I have some kind of a pepper plant that I that’s two years old. It’s very tall. It’s like about 3 foot at least tall and my raised bed. It’s putting on many many peppers right now. There are red, hot pepper, skinny kind of peppers only about 2 1/2 to 3 inches long and so far I hardly ever get them to get ripe on the vine. I have to take them off green and wait until they get a I take them off and dry them wait until they read and then I dry them in the house, but I’m wondering if it being two years old already and it’s very tall. I still overwinter it. I’m in Phoenix Arizona area so we are very dry and so far we only had two rain this whole summer which only lasted about 20 to 30 minutes in my particular area which is kind of a donut hole not really expecting a lot of rain this year for the winter, so unless things turn opposite what I go ahead and prune it the same way only because it’s taller go a little higher cause it’s the bottom of it is woody and about probably a foot up so I’m thinking if I trimmed it there if anybody has any ideas on this, I really would appreciate it. Sorry I, long message my ADHD thinking thank you
My pepper plants have some yellowing on their leaves. Is that normal for this time of year?
I have a couple of Datil peppers plants that grew a long single stem (like 30" long) before branching at the top only. Would I prune it 6" above where it branched? Or would I cut the single long stem down to above the second leaf node?
I will be overwinter some of my peppers, sending hugs specially forMac I love seen him ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Hoping this will help with getting actual peppers in our short warm season growing season next year.
I will give that bug killing solution a try.
I over wintered my CA Wonder peppers this year and they did better than last year!❤
Nice to show us how to save peppers 🫑 plants 🌱 .
Another couple of channels said to keep the plant in the dark and not to water, now I am concerned.
I’ve heard mixed feeling about taking all the growth off so I did a few like you did and trimmed one back and left smaller branches and leaves on which will die off any way
Nooooooo! This video is one day too late for me. I dug up my peppers just yesterday 😭😭😭
Ahhhhh I'm catching this right after I just watched the Doyers win the series! 🎉 (from an A's fan I'm happy since the Giants fans are upset😅). I have done this with several pepper plants successfully. My Rocoto peppers are from the Andes & acclimated to colder climates. They will actually turn into a woody perennial (tree. The seeds are hard black (rare for pepper). They must be practically fermented to germinate. 🌶🫑
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I never thought about uprooting it! I usually just cut them back and leave them in the pots. But this is a good idea!!!!
I will try this, great tips! What are those pink and white flowers, pretty? ❤
What kind of flowers were by that pepper? We have a small space around our patio, and I always plant flowers that get to big, lol. Need a tidier, colorful flower to fit in there. I loved how easily the pepper came out of your awesome soil.
I failed miserably twice to overwinter pepper plants indoors, I think it was because I put them in the basement without enough light. Going to give it another go this winter with two favorite peppers Corno de Toro and Golden California Wonder. Hopefully I get a jump start on peppers next year.
Enjoy your videos, Stay Well!!!!
Overwintering my 6 jalapenos, 6 bell peppers and 12 tomatoes this year for my first attempt.
Have 160 sqft of raised beds in Zone 6b (WA). Transferred the peppers to the garage which never gets below 45 and the tomatoes to a basement utility room which is in the low 60s over winter.
Each group will have a grow light for a few hours each day though the tomatoes will be a few feet away from the light in the otherwise dark basement room.