2025 Peppers Started

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Re: 2025 Peppers Started

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Post: # 142742Unread post karstopography
Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:57 am

I haven’t overwintered peppers myself. I do have the 2 jalapeño plants currently in the garden that have some fruit on them, but we are supposed to get some near certain extended sub freezing weather next week so they will be surely done and dead after that. I like starting new peppers each year.

Maybe someone that has experience overwintering peppers will pipe up.
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Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:05 pm

@bower I know you get a lot colder than I do, but I would leave pruning until the spring, letting the existing leaves serve as protection for the stem further in. Ugly to look at, but it works.

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Re: 2025 Peppers Started

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Post: # 142814Unread post rdback
Tue Jan 14, 2025 9:52 am

bower wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:14 am I have a question about overwintering peppers.
My two biggest plants of Tres Long des Landes came into the greenhouse with many peppers still. Although it was cool they still ripened some of those, but eventually they wilted and stayed droopy, and I took the other peppers off.
The plants though are still in the greenhouse.
I know the air there will drop below freezing at some point but the soil will not freeze. My rosemary plant survives it, in the same size of container. So the plan is to prune back (and I'm not sure how much) and see if they make it.
Any thoughts about that?
How hard do you prune overwintering peppers?
In my experience with peppers, you can (and should) prune them back pretty aggressively, and they'll survive it, BUT if the temps go below freezing, they won't. Peppers are not known for generating new growth from below the soil. Rather, new growth forms at nodes along the mature trunk/branches of the plant. If these older branches/trunk freeze, the plant won't regenerate. Here's a video of how to prune a pepper plant for overwintering. Just focus on the pruning itself. He does a pretty good job. Look at the plant before pruning, then after pruning. Hopefully this will help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNuXNwW ... dGarden%29

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Re: 2025 Peppers Started

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Post: # 142911Unread post karstopography
Thu Jan 16, 2025 8:51 am

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I moved these inside to warm up a little for a couple of days to let more get a true leaf or two before going back out into the cooler garage. I still intend to cold treat the seedlings in 50-55° temps, but they need to have a little warmth now to get growing a bit.

I don’t think I want much more than 18 pepper plants so I will likely pick the strongest seedlings and thin out and discard the rest. There’s five eggplant pictured there too and that’s enough eggplant.
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