Overwinter your Peppers for a HUGE harvest! #overwinterpeppers #overwinteringpeppers

[Ash_G]

My longest living (bird's eye) chilli pepper plant lived for 3½ years. I trained an elite unit of {kitchen cupboard, toilet and bathroom} spiders to guard them from ants but I guess they took care of other pests too.

[Patricia-cnox]

My yellow pepper plant is at least 3 years now, never done this, it’s just a pot and I just bring it inside in the winter. Keep it near my south facing window and this will be its 4th year. It gets weird and weak shoots in the winter but a good trim at the start of spring will easily fix this. The trunk is now pure wood. I’m convinced peppers can be perennials if cared for correctly.

[Ed]

I just bring them inside and put them outside again in spring

[sshijith]

I just put my pepper plant in Garage, just maintain at 40-50F; it will go in to dormancy, all leaves will fall off and it won't die - no light needed; keep soil moist - spraying once in a month or so. When temperature outside warms up, shoots will emerge - you can now take it outside when danger of frost/low temperature is gone

[Macattack]

That’s not over wintering… that’s pruning and growing indoors… you literally said under grow light for 12hr at 70F what about that says winter? That things gunna be a full bush in like February and not be able to go in the ground for like 2 more months.

[nancyst.john-smith]

Put a pleated coffee filter (the big size that’s shaped like a basket) on the bottom of the pot before you put in the soil. Good drainage, but no loss of soil.

[pdmullgirl]

I kept a bell pepper plant for four years!! Didn’t do a thing to it. It was already in a container and I just left it and it kept on living and growing. It even would produce peppers every summer! I happen to have had the perfect growing place for my plants. They all grew like weeds!! My begonia grew to six feet and bloomed in February!! We sold that house and I miss that room with all the windows. It was like a green house.
❤️💜💚

[kimberlytillson]

I just tried over wintering my peppers this year!
They flowered, I use a q-rip to pollinate between the two plants and I have peppers growing in January !

[SG-muzv]

Dude just bonsai'd the heck out of his chilli plant, respect

[michaeldougfir]

I'm an arborist. It's nice to find someone who knows what a node is.

(A friend of mine always says, I node that!)

[jennifreesjourney]

Hmm I did the over wintering by starting my pepper seeds in the November and they are
Slowly growing in my living room to be brought into my greenhouse in the spring much love I’m in Edinburgh Scotland

[samcresp]

I’m Aussie but I’m from a colder region. I just leave mine outside, do no prep work or anything. They’ve survived frosts and some cold winters and they do fine enough. One of mine was still trying to pump out chillis through the winter. They stayed green though bc lack of sunlight to ripen to red, but still.

[immelting]

Been doing this since the early 70's . The longest I've been able to get one to live is 4 years. I live in Wisconsin

[SheWolffGotSkills]

Every time I do this I end up infecting my indoor plants with aphids and thrips until I cave and throw out my “outdoor” stuff and lose a few “indoor” plants as collateral damage. 100% need more jumping spiders in my life 😭

[bygraceonly]

This is the best short tutorial on this! Thank you!

[mybetterhalf]

Some pics and/or video of 2nd year growth would be cool...

[ThirdCoastGardening]

Can’t wait for a big pepper harvest next season. I overwintered a few of my pepper plants.

[amerzian]

Pepper plants survive our winters here in central California. Zone 9. Only freezes a handful of days in the winter. Tomatoes can over winter too. So fun!

[alphaRomeo]

I live in north FL and my potted pepper plant stays outside unless there's a freeze warning and my plant is 7 years old this year

[petermorhead]

I live in North Florida. I just leave them in the ground and mulch them well and they winter over very nicely. They survived some nights in the low 20's and even one night at 19 F.