Great video. Excellent point at 3:45 about trimming the plants. I'm overwintering 100 plants from this past season. I just couldn't let my potted peppers go!!!
Do you do a video of waking them from the basement? Over wintering is easy, waking is hard. I am in Ontario, Canada. For me the waking is where i lose my plants.
Awesome video man, thanks for the tips :) How cold does your greenhouse get down to in winter? Or alternatively, at what temp do you bring them inside?
thank you! I heat my greenhouse from October til late march/early April. even still, some mornings I go in there to find that its just 5ºC when it's -9 outside. The plants don't thrive in there, but they do survive. They really come back to life in April. As for when I bring them inside, I do this any time between October and end of November. as long as the plants don't experience frost, it's not too late to take them in for the winter.
@@smallislandgardener What triggers the plant to resume growth the next spring? I am unclear whether it is mainly just more sunlight, warmer temps, more water or fresh soil/nutrients.
I have a shepherd pepper that's starting its 3rd year now that looks really good. Most of the growth is starting from about 1-1.5ft up the trunk, so it's not quite as low to the ground as you like yours, but there's so many different branches coming out from that height that it's still nice and bushy, like a big oak tree or something. Part of that I think is due to having done a lot of pruning at that height but leaving little branch stubs, with each stub sprouting out 3-4 new branches. So you tend to overwinter in a greenhouse? That wouldn't work here (Toronto area) - our winters are cold and cloudy, so greenhouses would also get cold unless they're significantly heated. How much light do you provide your overwintering peppers? What temperature is your greenhouse? Do you allow your peppers to grow over the winter or do you try to keep them dormant somehow? How do you deal with aphids? My first year overwintering peppers, I left them in only a little bit of ambient light for most of the winter, so they remained dormant or mostly dormant. I lost 3/7 plants. My second year, I provided a bit of artificial light, and they had a decent amount of new growth (still not as vigorous as now that they're outside though), but I had huge headaches with aphids on the new growth, and no natural predators to control them. But I persisted and was still able to get 13/14 plants to survive. This year, I'll probably try to overwinter 15-25 plants, but still looking for advice on the best ways to do it.
Great video! Thanks for tutorial. A few questions: Is it always best to keep them in some type of light - either greenhouse or indoors near a window or with a grow light? Am I trying to encourage the plant to begin its new growth right away? Or go into a dormant stage? I plan to bring some outdoor ornamentals in to the basement over winter with basically no light until shortly before last frost to stimulate new growth before taking back outside in spring. Would this be a good approach for pepper plants, too?
yes. I believe that they would suffer if not completely die if they go the whole winter without any light. I recommend keeping them in a greenhouse or by an indoor window. some say that their plants go dormant, and others say that their plants grow a little. from my experience, they stop growing, but I wouldn't call it a typical dormancy like apple trees for example. they just don't do anything until the environment heats up and they start receiving adequate light. I have no experience taking pepper plants into complete darkness, so this could be a good experiment for you to perform. I do have my doubts that they'll survive though. I wish you luck with this!
I’m in Southern California and the winter temperatures don’t get below 40. Can I leave my peppers out year round? Should I cut them down lower at some point? They’re not looking super healthy right now, as it just started to cool off a bit at night.
I think that 40 is pushing it. Capsicum pubescence and flexuosum can definitely handle a constant low like this, but I doubt other species will survive until spring.
Is your greenhouse not heated? I have a bell pepper plant that I have cut down but I brought it indoors, because my greenhouse is not heated. I was worried that it would die from the cold I am in Courtenay British Columbia.
my greenhouse is heated. because I operate a seed business, it's in my best interest to pay the big bucks to have the greenhouse heated for 6 months of the year. even though its expensive to heat it for this many months, the yield from older pepper plants makes it well worth it. that, and it saves me a lot of time come seed sowing season. so when it comes to your pepper surviving in an unheated greenhouse, you were right to bring it indoors as any temperatures below 0ºC will kill most plants. the only species that can survive lower than this is Capsicum Flexuosum.
Great video. Excellent point at 3:45 about trimming the plants. I'm overwintering 100 plants from this past season. I just couldn't let my potted peppers go!!!
Very nice greenhouse. It's always hard to prune back plants but it's usually so worth it. Thanks for sharing and happy gardening.
its definitely worth it. thanks for watching!
This is great information! Thank You!
Some great new tips thanks for the video.
Very informative! Will be looking forward to more of your content!
thank you! im glad you enjoyed it.
Loved your video Richard! Can’t wait to grow more varieties from seed and see what our overwintering bbs produce next year :D
thanks wren! good luck overwintering!
Thats one of the ones I am ordering from you.
Do you do a video of waking them from the basement? Over wintering is easy, waking is hard. I am in Ontario, Canada. For me the waking is where i lose my plants.
Awesome video man, thanks for the tips :) How cold does your greenhouse get down to in winter? Or alternatively, at what temp do you bring them inside?
thank you! I heat my greenhouse from October til late march/early April. even still, some mornings I go in there to find that its just 5ºC when it's -9 outside. The plants don't thrive in there, but they do survive. They really come back to life in April. As for when I bring them inside, I do this any time between October and end of November. as long as the plants don't experience frost, it's not too late to take them in for the winter.
@@smallislandgardener What triggers the plant to resume growth the next spring? I am unclear whether it is mainly just more sunlight, warmer temps, more water or fresh soil/nutrients.
I have a shepherd pepper that's starting its 3rd year now that looks really good. Most of the growth is starting from about 1-1.5ft up the trunk, so it's not quite as low to the ground as you like yours, but there's so many different branches coming out from that height that it's still nice and bushy, like a big oak tree or something. Part of that I think is due to having done a lot of pruning at that height but leaving little branch stubs, with each stub sprouting out 3-4 new branches.
So you tend to overwinter in a greenhouse? That wouldn't work here (Toronto area) - our winters are cold and cloudy, so greenhouses would also get cold unless they're significantly heated. How much light do you provide your overwintering peppers? What temperature is your greenhouse? Do you allow your peppers to grow over the winter or do you try to keep them dormant somehow? How do you deal with aphids?
My first year overwintering peppers, I left them in only a little bit of ambient light for most of the winter, so they remained dormant or mostly dormant. I lost 3/7 plants.
My second year, I provided a bit of artificial light, and they had a decent amount of new growth (still not as vigorous as now that they're outside though), but I had huge headaches with aphids on the new growth, and no natural predators to control them. But I persisted and was still able to get 13/14 plants to survive. This year, I'll probably try to overwinter 15-25 plants, but still looking for advice on the best ways to do it.
Great video! Thanks for tutorial.
A few questions:
Is it always best to keep them in some type of light - either greenhouse or indoors near a window or with a grow light?
Am I trying to encourage the plant to begin its new growth right away? Or go into a dormant stage?
I plan to bring some outdoor ornamentals in to the basement over winter with basically no light until shortly before last frost to stimulate new growth before taking back outside in spring. Would this be a good approach for pepper plants, too?
yes. I believe that they would suffer if not completely die if they go the whole winter without any light. I recommend keeping them in a greenhouse or by an indoor window.
some say that their plants go dormant, and others say that their plants grow a little. from my experience, they stop growing, but I wouldn't call it a typical dormancy like apple trees for example. they just don't do anything until the environment heats up and they start receiving adequate light.
I have no experience taking pepper plants into complete darkness, so this could be a good experiment for you to perform. I do have my doubts that they'll survive though. I wish you luck with this!
I’m in Southern California and the winter temperatures don’t get below 40. Can I leave my peppers out year round? Should I cut them down lower at some point? They’re not looking super healthy right now, as it just started to cool off a bit at night.
I think that 40 is pushing it. Capsicum pubescence and flexuosum can definitely handle a constant low like this, but I doubt other species will survive until spring.
Is your greenhouse not heated? I have a bell pepper plant that I have cut down but I brought it indoors, because my greenhouse is not heated. I was worried that it would die from the cold I am in Courtenay British Columbia.
my greenhouse is heated. because I operate a seed business, it's in my best interest to pay the big bucks to have the greenhouse heated for 6 months of the year. even though its expensive to heat it for this many months, the yield from older pepper plants makes it well worth it. that, and it saves me a lot of time come seed sowing season.
so when it comes to your pepper surviving in an unheated greenhouse, you were right to bring it indoors as any temperatures below 0ºC will kill most plants. the only species that can survive lower than this is Capsicum Flexuosum.
Where can I buy seeds
He is on etsy under the same name
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Speak life to your plant . Calling it ugly after you cut it, not good