Un-Overwintering Pepper Plants - Coming Out Of Hibernation - Pepper Geek

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In this video, we take our overwintered pepper plants out from hibernation and allow them to grow. The process is super simple, and if your plants are still alive, they should perk right up and grow again.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:26 When to start transitioning
4:00 Moving under grow lights
4:50 1 month later

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[isobelmunoffilm]

Mine do not look like that 😆… I had a great environment, but I don’t think I watered enough over the winter. I kind of forgot about them…I still have hope and will try again next year. Thanks for this follow up video.

[mygardenofthings]

It would be good to also cover situations when bringing your plant back to life isn't that successful. How long to wait after assuming it is dead if no new leaves? 1 month? Sometimes new grown starts off woody parts so it is very hard to tell for me if there's point to wait. Also please kindly include Celsius units as you did before. Thank you.

[mschari]

Your the only one to post this kind of video

[RobMyself]

I have that same hydrometer for my tent. Great piece and the app works well, along with other products from that same company. What a time we live in!😊

[davidniemi]

I have 3 survivors from my overwintering experiment, which I did a rushed and sloppy job of when a freeze was coming. I gradually started leaving the 3 plants outside in March, bringing them in only when it had a risk of going below freezing, at first in part shade and then full sun. They had no signs of sunscald or damage from 35-40F temperatures (2-5C). So I expect overwintered plants are a lot more resistant to sunscald and cool temperatures than seedlings.
That said, they have not taken off growing again yet. Just within the last week I gave them some fertilizer and a good watering and brought them to a sunnier location. The coolest part of my basement is almost 70F (21C), much warmer than the Pepper Geek basement, and I think that prevented my plants from going properly dormant. I'm monitoring the temperature of my garage to see if it would be a better place for overwintering.

[steveunknown]

I love the way you showed to overwinter the pepper plants, I tried it with a reaper and a Trinidad scorpion I already have full branching the plant looks almost like it did before I trimmed it. Hope this ups my yield this year the last three we're pretty low yields compared to my first reaper harvest 🔥🔥

[pajtognetti]

What if you want your pepper (or tomato plant) to continue producing inside over the winter? Would you still follow all the steps....the difference would be putting them under a stronger, full spectrum LED grow light?

Also, would you add something to the soil mix; worm castings, wood ash, fertilizer, etc. and water them more?

Do you have a video on bringing outdoor pepper (or tomato) plants indoors and growing them under LED lights? I’d LOVE to watch how you did this.

Great video, as usual! I LOVE your channel and learn a lot. You have great explanations!

Thank you for your time and help! ❤️🌶🍅🌺🪴😁👩🏻‍🌾

[k.]

Sadly my 2 year old ghost pepper didn’t make it this winter. Aphids saw new growth first daaaawhhh

[zarahsgarden]

Thank you for sharing! Several of my pepper plants made it through our long winter! Still have to wait almost a month till we're frost free. *Hoping the production on mature plants will be worth it.* I only got one tiny Trinidad Scorpion Pepper last year 🥲 here in zone 4a, with our 90 day frost free growing season, every bit helps!
🌱💕

[pplusbthrust]

We have a Marchant for fermenting that wintered in the shop & now it's out & growing/blooming like crazy. Fingers crossed, aphids are lurking everywhere. It's so cool to have a plant come out into the sun already half-grown.

[cowboyblacksmith]

Thanks for the thermometer tip, you may have saved my basement pipes from freezing! I just bought one I can put in my cellar to know what the temps are, I had pipes freeze (but thank God not burst) last winter when it was -15° outside. Now I can check the app and track my basement temps and set an alert if it gets too low. Love your channel and have had great success with hot peppers and fermented sauce as a result. I hope you keep the beard, it looks great on you.👍🏻

[AJsGreenThumbLLC]

On point and can't wait to try this next season!

[intuitlife]

I did this for the first time
Garage in sunny window
They did great!

[jimhowell]

I'm in Ohio. Still low 30s. But wanted this info. Thank you.

[northyland]

about 2/3 of my pepper plants survived the CA winter outdoors.. Getting some flowers on the Anaheims already.

[caseykish]

I used your technique and it worked! 💗🌶️

[ttb]

Great topic. I was wondering whether it was temperature or light that caused the plants to break dormancy.

[sislertx]

Zone 8b here...i pot my best ones up about a month before first frost time...bring mine in just.before a freeze.light watering because i can barely move them...i.take them out when no chance of a.freeze ...usually just a few weeks..no lights..

The weather.can swing 50 degrees in minutes here...so ya never know...cause the weathermen really never get it right.

[TnT_FX]

I'm binging my Peppers out of Dormancy, just got a 2 dollar 5 arm flex-grow light and made a n shape around the two plants and started watering them a little more heavily for the new foliage. Next three days are chilly, then it's 40-45+ every night... looks like May 1 they'll be outside :D I already have peppers forming, Pepper plants are real troopers.

[playerone]

All plants changed to yellow/brown sticks. Starting a fresh this year.