Overwintering pepper plants in the greenhouse and indoors
Вставка
- Опубліковано 2 жов 2021
- I have had such a rollicking success with my pepper plants this year that I really don't want to have to start again come January. So I've decided that since pepper plants are perennials ( in the right climate) I'm going to try overwintering them so that they will be strong healthy plants ready to grow early next year. Hopefully meaning I'll get a jump in things and start off early.
So join me in the greenhouse and we are going to chat about two methods of doing this, one is to take the plants inside and one is to leave them in the greenhouse to go dormant.
▶ALL THE PEPPER EXPERIMENT VIDEOS◀
• Pruning and Overwinter...
▶SUBSCRIBE◀
Please subscribe and we hope you enjoyed this video - it would be extra lovely if you could also SHARE it around - that would be the best present ever.
LINK: bit.ly/eliandkate
▶ELI AND KATE ON THE WEB◀
As well as youtube you can find us here
Instagram: / inthegardenwitheliandkate
Patreon: / eliandkate
▶LINKS TO TOUR GARDENING TOOLS AND KIT ◀
eliandkate.com/our-gear/
▶ CHANNEL BRANDED SWAG ◀
/ inthegardenwitheliandkate
#pepperplants #overwinteringpeppers #growingpeppers #autumngreenhouse #scottishgarden #ukgardening #greenhouse
See all the videos for this experiment series
Pepper experiment 2022
ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4n9Wk2hKzsRD3rrzCAkp6R4.html
How did it go?
Ha ha ha go watch and see 😂😂😂😂
@@eliandkate All the other videos are about pruning young plants, no mention of overwintering in the titles! Which has the results for this?
The last video is the results.
The serious was about the peppers and all the different things I was trying. Over wintering was only one thing
Brilliant, thank you. @@eliandkate
I'm also in the UK and my birds eye chilli plant has been growing strong indoors for 3 years. This year I got a bumper crop of over a hundred chillies from the plant. In the winter I cut off most of the leaves but not entirely. I have successfully planted cuttings and have given a few small plants away. I found that using a child night light works well in providing more light and used this with a small plant grown in an office without windows. Very nice informative video.
Hi eli for last 3 years i have been bringing my chilli plants indoors pruned and kept them by the window all winter there survived and been giving lots of fruit happy days 😘🇬🇧👌
Perfect timing and you already answered my question about compost reuse in this video so it saves me asking.
I have a couple of chillies that were started late and also got a lot of sun scald so I never got fruit from them. Instead of giving up totally, I’m going to try and overwinter them to get the maximum chance of a crop next year. I figure that if they don’t survive, it’s no loss really as they’ve already been a minor disappointment this growing season.
The variety is Norfolk Naga so it’s going to need maximum growing time to get a decent yield.
I’ve already ordered next year’s chilli seeds and seeing the staging and planning videos you’ve done previously, I’m reworking how I use the greenhouse for chillies, tomatoes and sowing & potting up space. Already looking forward to it.
In the meantime, it’s turnips and carrots for Christmas time.
Awesome. I can't wait to see how we all do. I think I might try turnips next year 😀
I now wish I had kept my pepper plants. To excitement with you! Can’t wait to see how it turns out.
Well this way, if we all fail... you haven't wasted any effort 😀😀😀
Thank you I'm trying to overwinter my pepper plants this year x
Thanks Eli - really good informative video, love your Scottish accent too!!
Thank you for the taking care of peppers, I did fine just didn't trim for dormat
Thanks Eli for this video. I am going to try this year.
Best explanation on storing pepper plants , I have seen up to now.
I hope to save mine this coming winter .
I have watched many utube films on doing this ,most did more chatting than doing .
This was a great experiment! Thanks!
It was fun to see the outcome at the end 😁
Very informative. I prep'd 3 Lancer chillies and 3 Chocolate bell peppers yesterday. Pruned but left the roots alone. Added some new compost on top with a little slow release fertiliser. On my unheated sand bench surrounded by bubble wrap. First attempt at overwintering so fingers crossed. Cheers!
Good luck 🤞
I just found your channel today, you’re informative, real and fun! You have great energy and an amazing accent.
Ha ha ha glad to have you with us Eric 😁
Great vid, so excellent tips. I binned my plants last year but I’m tempted to try this now.
I made this video last year and made a series of follow ups. It might be worth catching up on things.
Generally I wasn’t convinced it was worth the effort
Definitely going to try this!!! ☺️
Yay.... we have a merry band of overwinterers now....
This is perfect, since I want to try it next year.
you can sit back and watch us all have a go and get all the info before you try it then :D
I’m gonna try this! Thanks
Let me know how you get on
Greetings from Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Thanks for this video, Eli. I have two sweet pepper plants my neighbor gifted me that got off to a really slow start. They are beautiful and healthy but just now in October are they beginning to bloom and set fruit. It's wonderful news that I don't have to throw them into the compost bin! Yay! I want to try overwintering at least one of them indoors (no greenhouse, sadly). But, I have to decide which of my houseplants has to give up its home in my sunny south window. 🤔
Oh no…. You’re having to pick a favourite child!
I definitely want to try to overwinter mine. Thanks for the tips. Cannot wait to see how it works out next spring. Thanks for another wonderful video.
We are going to have an army of overwinterers at this year 😀😀😀
Best of luck with them Eli, I tried this once and one out of about 7 ot 8 pulled through. The freshly grown plants from seed that I needed to grow far outgrew the one saved root. But that is hardly a decent experiment or comparison in anyway. Chilli peppers however seem to thrive indoors over winter, not something I do but I have friends who keep their chilli plants on their dining room table as a feature plant..ripening chillis and all!! I'll be following to see results next spring...Steve...😃
Thanks Steve, I'll take all the well wishes I can get. I tried it last year with no luck but figured a wee experiment will be fun.
@@eliandkate Thats for sure, I would join in also if I had not composted all mine now !😁 For anyone just looking in it is worth subscribing here just to see how this experiment turns out...Steve...😃
😀😀😀
Another new favorite channel 🙂
Awwwwwwwwww
Not sure if you’ve realised, but that was only the first video in a series. I followed all my pepper experiments throughout the year and concluded my results a couple of months ago 😊
Eli, Your presentation is so genuine and relatable. Just the right amount of chat and personal way of presenting info. Your videos give my husband and I the gifts of learning and inspiration and smiles every time. This one especially. Gonna try it with my Poblanos. Do you think you might do “dormant pepper” updates in the winter for the indoor peppers? All the best to you and Kate from Rhode Island
Awww thanks Kate. I'm glad you've enjoyed the videos.
Yup there will absolutely be updates over the winter of both the dormant peppers in the greenhouse and the peppers I've brought indoors which will not be dormant but slowed down a bit and treated like houseplants
Waaahh..I didn't know you could do this.. imma gonna try next year!Thanks for sharing!
awesome, at least you can sit back and watch the rest of this year to learn from our mistakes :D
Thank you Eli, this has helped explain it better with my house plants. It's exactly the same thing. I'm so nervous with winter and my rare tropical house plants. 🙈
House plants are one of those weird things... there's no such thing as a house plant. They are just plants that are from a warmer climate so we can bring them into the house. Means they don't necessarily have seasons like they would outdoors (central heating etc)
Great advice! Something to try down the road! 😁
We have a good crowd of us trying it this year so it should be really interesting 😀
Thanks so much for this guide, Eli! I have a10 healthy sweet pepper plants which I doubt will fruit well this year as I was very late sowing, but if they develop a good root system and there's a chance I can rescue them and get a head start for 2023 that would be fab! Enough to trial - fingers crossed for indoors. Greenhouse too far away to heat so we'll see. I'm in Edinburgh area, too - but 500ft above sea level - up for a challenge, though!
oh someone near by, that's awesome so at least you can watch me and know I'm roughly similar to you... :D
I've done a wee update since this video and I'm about to do another one soon.
This is the very latest... but there's been so much change since then so there'll be another in a couple of weeks :D
ua-cam.com/video/_3QcdjCvCvc/v-deo.html
I really value the reality and honesty that you bring to this channel and I'll be giving over wintering peppers a go but my plants are a bit weedy due to slug damage and I'm betting the stronger the plant the better chance of success with this. Not sure my partner is going to be happy about me turning the living room into an overwintering greenhouse though but they love veg so a small price to pay if works.
ha ha ha I suspect you may be in the dog house if you do that :D
I wish I seen this video last week I would of tried this, im excited to see the outcome
Well stick with us over winter and then you'll be all set for next year 😀
This has been so helpful thank you!
I'm so glad! 😍
We just published the final part of this series, looking at the results.
ua-cam.com/video/ggTa1vr1LqM/v-deo.html
@@eliandkate i tried to do this last year, failed miserably, read up on but seeing it being done is much better, i have an idea of where i went wrong.
Just watch my update before you make a decision 😀
I won’t be bothering again 😍
Love your channel I cannot wait for my own garden
😍😍😍
Hi Eli! Second time seeing your video..I live in zone 7 in Ontario,Canada..This is my second year planting some vegetables.. I really like your
simplicity and love for gardening..After watching you in this episode..I am going to winterize a few of my plants..I am hoping that they survive..if I don't try your method..they will die anyway..so..THANKS U!
for sharing..God Bless!
👍❤️🥰🇨🇦
I agree Bonnie, I always think its good to give something a try. If it works, hurrah, if it doesn't there's no loss and plenty of learning and experience for next year.
@@eliandkate
I will let you know what happens..next year 🤣..
God Willing.. Thank U Eli❤️
Some brutal pruning! :) I had a bad season for my peppers so I’ll try it with the ones I have left. Maybe next season will be better. As always, thanks for the lesson.
It's all learning..... Next season you'll romp it
I just winterized my first three pepper plants :)
Me too! 😁
Hi Eli & Kate, i never knew that peppers are perrenial & recently found out. So, im overwintering my peppers for the first time. I googled a video to help & and knew you would have one. Love your videos, always full of very good tips and support along the way. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
Oh good luck Christine.
If you watch the full playlist you’ll see mine at different points that following year and then again the big conclusion video you’ll see the harvest
@@eliandkate will do 👍
Are we going to over-winter our Chilli plants?
We are now!
You are adorable!
Thank you xx
Ha ha ha might be worth watching the others in the serious to see the results too 😂😂😂
Pepper experiment 2022
ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4n9Wk2hKzsRD3rrzCAkp6R4.html
Can't wait to see the results
Ps I'm up to date watching your videos, no more late nights lol
Just discovered your channel, its fantastic. Im a relatively new gardener so still learning! Got a greenhouse last september (unheated). Your channel is so informative and the fact you are in Scotland is fab
Welcome aboard! So awesome to have you with us :D
Might be worth mentioning if you haven't noticed already, but that video was only the first in a series.
Check out the video description for the link to the whole playlist
@@eliandkate I watched bits of loads of your videos last night. I was like a kid in a toy shop. So many to watch today and take notes. Loving gardening now( took me till lockdown to discover the joys of it) but it is a minefield and finding straight forward advice can be impossible.
We’ll I’m so glad you found us and we can help with your garden love 😍😍😍
Where are you? What’s your weather like?
@@eliandkate im in rhu near Helensburgh. Its been crap recently so much rain. Would love just a little sun. My roses are suffering the most. Black spot is rife and also noticed some rust so thats todays job!
Thanks for such an informative video. I'm going to try overwintering 2 pepper plants in my garage which has windows. Never falls below 15 degrees in there.
Awesome..... fingers crossed we'll all come out of winter with living plants 😀😀😀
Wow this was very interesting. Due a health crisis (non covid) I have been missing my favorite channels. TFS
we'll glad to have you back :D
Nice video covering how to keep your pepper plants alive over the winter which is doubly important if you intentionally cross pollinate your peppers by hand and have found an exceptional specimen you don't want to lose.
Oh wow, absolutely. All that work over the years… you don’t want to lose that
Lovely accent ! greetings from mauritania
Lovely to have you with us 😍😍😍
Hi Eli..you have inspired me to have another go this year, but had 4 pepper plants overwintered in our conservatory last year, with no success
It was you who jnspired me to try last year Barrie... hoping this year is better
Northern Indiana here; gonna try your technique!✅
Hey Eric 👋
In the spirit of honesty, I wasn’t overly impressed with the results. It might be worth watching some of the other videos in the series before you decide
@@eliandkate ok will do ✅
I have hot Hungarian, sweet bell, Carolina Reaper, and Ghost pepper plants. They were just starting to really fruit out at the end of this season, but we now have a 10’x 12’ greenhouse and heated mats to use.
Oh sounds like an exciting year coming up then 😍
I’ve grown my peppers in a raised bed in my greenhouse , I live in North Cornwall so although we can get cold strong winds we don’t usually get hard frost , so I’m going to try to overwinter them in the bed. Thanks for the idea and showing the technique.
No hard frosts at all???? 😲😲😲
No, I leave Dahlias in the ground and I have a Bougainville I’ve overwintered in my unheated polycarbonate greenhouse for 6 years . But as I said the wind especially if it comes from the East is quite evil, but I’m surrounded by hedging and a high banking that divides my garden from fields which sometimes have a layer of frost but it us usually gone by mid morning. Sorry Eli may be you need to move nearer south 😂
Lol stick the kettle on… getting in the car
Definitely will do this. I have brought them indoors before and had reasonable success but I did not trim them back to a node. My Habaneros had a good crop this year, made lots of pepper jelly for Christmas gifts and the plants are quite healthy so I hope this works. My Ghosts and Reapers did not thrive well this summer so I will start them again in the spring.
If you are taking them indoors you can just treat them like house plants… don’t prune them so heavily as they won’t go dormant… they’ll just become like your house plants
Have saved a good 30 pepper plants from last year to grow on in 2022. Should have a much better start than last year when I lost pretty much all of them in the greenhouse. I didn't bring them in as they had bugs/thrips on them, only one survived an orange bell plant. Great tips :)
Wel ome to the big pepper experiment gang 😀😀😀
Most of UK bedding plants are perennial. I’ve managed to overwinter osteospermum purple spoon (rare) and purple sun, I then took a few cuttings for a few new plants. I over wintered a chilli plant, I had a Y in the windowsill all winter and then in spring it regrew but it had tiny leaves and loads of fruit (it was the ugliest plant) so I never did it again, I have more valuable things to keep over winter so I won’t be overwintering mine. Another informative video
Indeed
Hi, thanks for that great tip, I'm still letting my peppers finish turning red, but I'm going to try your experiment, as soon as I've picked my peppers off. Ive had 20 peppers from 3 plants this my first year of growing them.
Hopefully next year we can get that quadrupled 😀
Thank you :) Im in south Aus and I have a whole bed in the greenhouse with california red capsicums. I've over wintered them and they're quite big, plus I've planted lettuce and spinach in between the plants amongst new compost.... will be really interesting to see how they go!
I imagine you should be fine.
I’ve been doing updates on mine since that video… it’s defo inteeesting
Hi Ellie,
Love your videos, we are in the south east ofEngland. Our weather is not as bad as yours. I love the way you have your tomatoes supported, the spiral things. Can yo tell me where I can purchase some, looked in my local garden centres with no luck.
You're in luck. Like always, there's a link on my kit and gear website. Link to the site in the video description 😀
Loads of fabby advice in this one Eli! Interested to see how they do - will you be growing any from seed to compare with your overwintered ones? Now I've got the conservatory ill definitely be overwintering a few of my chili plants!
Thanks JB
I will defo grow from seed again, more to make sure I have good plants than a comparison although I think a comparison is going to be interesting. I just have to work out space in the greenhouse 😀
I'm as interested in the result of this as everyone else. I tried overwintering last year with no luck so fingers crossed.
Going to give it a go with a couple Friggitello sweet peppers indoors. Going to copy you with your King if thd North next year 👍
I do love that variety 😀😀😀
Think I'll be sticking with them permanently
I did this last year and had peppers way sooner! I’m doing it again this year!
Oh that's good to hear
Living my life vicariously through both you and Kate untill I have enough saved for a Greenhouse!! So I'm as excited as you to see how these do over winter 🤣 sorry..... not sorry!
😂😂😂
Hey that's perfectly ok :D
I've got a lot more interesting greenhouse stuff coming up over the next few months 😀
@@eliandkate sounds awesome 👌 hoping to get one installed by summer 2023. Up here a greenhouse often doesn't cope so I'm going to see about a Polycrub. They use em in Shetland and since I'm pretty much similar to their weather, I think I need to go down that route
Oh I haven't heard of those.... I shall go look
@@eliandkate you'll see why im saying....2023, small fortune!! Lol but they're cool!
They are very cool
I've had some success in overwintering chillies for the last 11 or 12 years, but it's been a bit hit and miss. Some years when they failed were years when perhaps my house got too cold, others I'm quite sure was my failure to ration the watering properly. I eventually settled on weighing the dried-out plant (including plastic pot), then adding 20% by weight of water whenever it dropped to about that level once more. It only takes two minutes once a week to weigh each of four plants on a kitchen scale and note down the results. This seemed to account for the brighter weeks where the pots were perhaps getting more sunlight than cloudy weeks (I only have windowsills to keep plants on where they'll be safe; no conservatory or shed or greenhouse) or the difference between the upstairs pair being exposed to more direct light than the downstairs pair. If two plants survive the winter then it means I'm off to a good start in February while I'm waiting for freshly-sown seeds to germinate. I don't keep a plant more than two years, though, as I have to rotate all the pots between the front and the back of the house throughout the summer which must be stressful to the plants. But the harvests are well worth the effort!
Unfortunately last winter was a total failure, compounded by zero germination from my kept seeds; after a second batch also failed to germinate it was too late to try again with new seeds. Consequently all my windowsills saw this last summer was a riot of radishes and spring onions, but I'll be starting off with a new batch of heritage chilli pepper seeds this February.
Wow that's a lot of good experience for new folk to learn from 😀
I have to say I'm surprised how well my peppers having been faring this October. Although the fruits have been stunted, the plants otherwise look as healthy as ever, despite experiencing some 2-3C temperatures a couple of nights. The tomatoes, watermelon and okra have been holding up much more poorly, with a significant decline in the health of the plants since late September, and the ground cherry, cucumbers and zucchini haven't been looking particularly great either. The next healthiest looking plants I have (among the frost tender ones) are the eggplants and cucamelon, but they are still showing some signs of stress on the leaves whereas the peppers are not. I'll be digging up my in-ground peppers today to move into the house though because the next few nights will all be 0-2C and the plants aren't really growing (despite looking healthy).
So who is trying to overwinter their peppers this year?
Me!!!! Started off let so I still have flowers. Should I just cut them off?
If you are in the UK or similar climate (first frosts are coming) then yes. The plant won't be able to thrive or produce fruit once the temperature drops, so we cut them right back so there is less strain on the plant.
Basically we are just trying to protect them and keep them alive, we're not hoping to keep them as beautiful plants... until spring 😀😀😀
Me! I've trimmed everything off and wrapped them in horticultural fleece, I have my thermostat probe in and going to teeter the greenhouse to around 5 degrees also 😁
Hurrah. It's going to be really interesting to see if we all have amazing pepper plants next year
@@eliandkate thank you for ur reply. Yes I live in London so it's very similar to you. I shall be doing this Tomorrow.
I had a pepper plant at home all winter and it was fine!
Hurrah the joy of safe plants
I’m taking it as a success that I managed to keep one alive
That's great, and the crop is much bigger in the second year!
I shall report back
@@eliandkate Yes please!!
Thanks for that Eli, I wasn’t sure what to do with mine. I’m going to try this, going to bring a couple indoors. Can you do it with chilli plants too? 😁
Yup, a lot of folk do this with chillies
😂😂mine are growing again after mahoosive haircut so I most likely will have to do it again before bringing in the house. Thank you for sharing ✌️🇨🇦🐝 safe
Yeah if it's warm enough they will. If you are taking them indoors it's not such a big deal. They will keep growing because it will be warmer.
Yes am overwintering mine for the first time in Sunny Barnsley 😂
Yay.... how they looking so far?
@@eliandkate Havnt trimmed it yet going to do it this weekend, will take photos of it before and after and will add to my Instagram page 😊. I was going to leave it with all its branches and leaves until I watched your video last night, so thank you 🤞🤞
I’m going to try; one of mines still only got green ones on and one didn’t fruit at all so I’ll try and give them a chance next year if they pull through
We have a whole group of folk here with their fingers crossed 🤞
I wonder if you can do this with grape plants. I’ve got some young plants which haven’t fruited yet but want to keep them going
I've just pruned mine back for the winter. I have them in an unheated greenhouse house. What im trying is that ive put a cheap mini pop up greenhouse inside my greenhouse to try and keep them frost free fingers crossed.
Fingers crossed.
Maybe use some fleece to protect them from the cold too
I will be trying aswell this year . Possibly a different way though 🤔 . Hopefully video to come lol .
Oh excellent. Looking forward to seeing how you get on😀
Good evening, Eli. Loved your video. I have some beautiful sweet peppers from a friend of mine in Greece. I live in greater London, and have had a really successful harvest since the middle of august from my outdoor plants. It would be wonderful to get them a month or two earlier though as, since they’ve started we’ve had loads and loads. What were your findings in the end? Did any of the plants overwinter successfully? I grow brugmansia and at the beginning of December I root prune and cut back to bare sticks, chuck a dust sheet over them and store in a dark shed before easing out of dormancy on April. I wonder if this method might potentially work?
Ah ha…. jack
I can actually show you :)
I did a couple of experiments and followed it for a few months
ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4n9Wk2hKzsRD3rrzCAkp6R4.html
You should talk about the potting mix you use mixed with compost. Also, where did you put probe within pots to regulate your temp while in greenhouse.
Hey Robert,
Lovely to have you join us
Potting mix and compost are something I've spoken about a lot over the last six years. Compost is my homemade as always as is potting mix. I'll link the video below for you.
I'm not sure if you maybe didn't hear about the temperature probe but its in the soil in the pot. I'm not measuring the temperature of the greenhouse, just the soil.
ua-cam.com/video/F5gQusj_EIk/v-deo.html
Thanks Eli, I will definitely try this, can we do the same with chilli pepper plants? 🌶
Yup lots of folks do 😀
I’m going to try again this year with my Carolina reapers cheers 🍻
😀😀😀
Awesome video👍👍, I use autopots for my peppers habaneros, scorpion, and reaper, but I wanna try hot banana peppers
So give them a try 😀
@@eliandkate yes i know but I have 5 xtra large autopots 25 litres I’m growing 3 sun golds and 2 patio tomato’s I could do some in an earth box 🙂, great video 👍👍😎🌱🌱
Hello Mike what is autopot? Never seen it before. Thanks
Hi Eli,
I've been looking for this kind of help from the UK but most of it seems to be American.
Great information. I've kept a few going in my greenhouse which is controlled to a minimum of about 7 or 8 °C. I've still got good healthy scotch bonnets "on the vine" 16th Feb. '22
When can I start to revive them by feeding? Most of them are just green twigs but I want to get started as soon as I can.😊
I would say wait until the temperatures are the level the plant prefers for growing in and start to flower. Not sure about your plants but mine will usually be around end of April going into may
Although you may not want to listen to me… looks like only one of my 4 is going to make it
@@eliandkate
Ah ... just found your update. 😉 sorry to hear that.
Love your videos. Just built an unheated greenhouse. What zone are you in ?
We’re not in North America Mary, we’re Scotland.
The zones don’t apply outside the US and Canada I’m afraid.
Same here. I got 99 problems but cold plants ain’t one 🤣
Talking about pots that’s what I v been doing washing them in jay fluid
All those end of season tasks 😀
my chillies are in the spare room for winter. It'll be exciting to see what happens next year.
There's loads of us experimenting 😂😀
@@eliandkate I love experimenting with plants. I have some cuttings growing from the sweet potatoes that I haven't tried to harvest yet. I expect the pot is empty, haha, but I'll have some cuttings to try again next year.
And you are learning so never a waste😀
Hi that's very good information. I think I will do the same. I have strawberry plants in pots is it best to put them in polytunnel or just leave them outside but cover them. Could you please give some idea thanks.
Depends on how big the pots are. You can leave strawberries outside here, bit you want the roots and crown to have a bit of protection so as long as they aren't in small pots you may be OK. But if you are worried you can always cover them with a bit of fleece.
@@eliandkate thank you for the good information
great video wish i had kept my pepper plants to try this now 🙈 have you ever thought about growing micro greens ? i am eager to try it but would love to see you have a go too 👍
Well you can relax and kick back, and watch everyone else... give you a year of research.
Hmmm no I've never grown microgreens, to be honest I just don't see the point because we don't eat them. I've got very limited space so I need to be quite clever about what I grow.
I don't imagine it would be particularly difficult so why not go ahead and have a try?
haha looking forward to seeing the results! and oh ok fair enough, maybe i will give it a go then!
Go on.... be brave 😁😁😁😁
Hey luke, just saw Steve from Green Side Up's latest video. He's doing microgreens 😀
ua-cam.com/video/UCGxGdpcxxg/v-deo.html
Hi Eli. Great video, very informative. Im going to try to overwinter my peppers. But the only place I have to keep them is a comunity greenhouse where the temperature is optimal for growth. So I won't have any issues with freeze. But the optimal condition in the greenhouse already made them grow. And it's only end of October. So they are not going to be dormant during the winter. Is that a problem and what should I do if they start growing a lot? Should I trim them again or just let them grow? And is that going to be an issue in the spring when I would have to transplant them in the garden? Thank you.
If you have somewhere to grow them that is optimal then you don’t need to “overwinter” theme this process is for people who are trying to prevent their peppers dying over winter due to the cold. 😁
Hi Eli, when you reuse your spent compost do you sterilise it after checking through it, and before adding new compost for nutrition?
Hey Wulver 90, nope. I only sterilise compost when I'm using it for seed sowing. If I've got suspicions about any of the soil, worry about disease etc, I just won't reuse that stuff.
@@eliandkate good to know..thanks muchly 😉😋
as i am going to Australia for 3 months i am going to over winter 1 plant and drip water it from a 5 gal water reservoir
Oh that’s gonna be interesting to see how that goes Joseph 😀
Hi, thanks for the info.
I've cut 2 plants back but starting to see little leaves regrowing from the nodes. Do I have to be more brutal in the chopping ? :)
I'm guessing they're meant to stay in 'stem form' when overwintering ?
I'm exactly the same. It's just cause its still warm. Just leave them be for now. If yiu get a lot of foliage, cur it back again once it turns cold 😀
@@eliandkate Will do, tnx for the reply :))
Next season, "our plants can't spring back to life as truly they didn't die"
My peppers are over 42 inches tall bells and banana peppers and I'm trying to over winter in my garage also in my sunroom which faces the South-East and nothing freeze out there and unheated ( in 8 winters)
Something I've never tried.
Thanks
Oh good luck!
Looking for some help, sorry for the long post! So I'm a complete newbie growing chillies, but I've had a couple of pots growing indoors over summer. The plants have grown HUGE. Really thick strong main stems, good foliage, but the fruit production happened late in the year. It's now coming up to mid October and I've got quite a lot of green peppers on the plants (all different sizes) and I just don't know what to do. I want them to turn red, but now that it's getting colder I'm not sure they'll ripen. Should I strip it back now or continue to wait to see if they ripen? Are there any hard and fast rules on when to overwinter?
Basically go with your gut… you know your situation… is it likely to be warm for a bit and maybe ripen things or are the plants too far behind?
Try not to panic about being perfect, every garden is different and we all have to learn to go with our gardens.
As for overwintering… it’s just about the plant being dormant or slowed down for winter, so as soon as it gets too cold for it you are at risk. So I’d say as soon as you feel it’s too cold… that’s when to react
@@eliandkate thanks you your reply, I'll hang on for a bit then and see what happens! ☺️
I did all of that and set them in my warm garage and also gave them some water and they didn’t survive. I’m in zone 7 in the US
Boooooo
Only one of mine survived that year but it was my fault.
I overwatered
I want to try this. Did you do a video of the result in 2022 by any chance?
There’s a few videos in a serious about this and my other pepper experiments
Just wrapped it up the other week.
ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4n9Wk2hKzsRD3rrzCAkp6R4.html
@@eliandkate but was the overwintering a success? 😁
You’ll have to watch the video and decide for yourself based on what you want from it 😀
@@eliandkate I'm guessing then that as you didn't do a follow up video your experiment was not a success 😁
I just have you the link to the videos
The last one is the final video with my conclusions
What’s the pole you have across the back (I’ve seen a smaller one but can’t buy a seller anywhere). Do the small shelves along the top interfere when you have the tomatoes in?
The pole?
Do you mean the horizontal black thing?
That's the connection tk the gutters that feeds the water barrel.
The shelfs aren't too much hassle. I have the tomatoes pulled forward slightly.
@@eliandkate when I watched you have the hooks, for the thermostat and I thought it hooked on to a pole across the back but it hooked on to the shelve support. I though your gutter was a pole in the greenhouse. Feel a Wally now. I think I’m going to get another shelf for the top to keep seed trays.
Well yiu are half right. I have a couple of those hooks holding up a bamboo cane on the left that I hang string and things from
Can we leave them in ground if there's no chance of the roots freezing?
it kinda depends on your temperatures. They don't like the cold, so you'd need to be sure it wouldn't get too cold for them
Great video. I've already done everything that you've said, but cannot stop new shoots from growing..!! They're indoors, under the table, keeping warm and moist. I've really cut them back and have 10 in a large plastic tub just covering the root stock. They've been in there for about 6 weeks. I don't want to strip them again because I'm frieghtened that they won't grow again in the spring. Is there anything I can do or shall I just leave them.?? TIA
If they are indoors then just leave them to grow and treat them like a house plant.
They won’t go dormant indoors because it’s warm.
@@eliandkate I was wondering this too, so it's fine if they regrow tiny leaves?
Yeah…. You might have to prune a little to keep them manageable indoors but they’ll be fine
@@eliandkate brilliant news thankyou, hopefully I can get them to survive. I planted them late and only got a few tiny peppers XD
will this method work for chili plants? jalapeno, cayenne ect... I have a few still fruiting in my heated greenhouse, they have done well shame to see them take a trip to the bin once finished with
Yes it will work with chili plants
@@Bev437Sqn this is amazing news! thank you :D
Yes it should work for all peppers 😀
What temperature do you have in your house?
I guess you mean the greenhouse?
It's not heated
I have six pepper plants, but just for fun, I’m going to overwinter one in the modular (the greenhouse might be too hot here in Redding, CA.)
I’m curious, though, Eli: I thought you had a new heating system for your greenhouse. Are you not going to use it? If so, why not?
Ah the heating.... I don't have a heating system, that's a bit posh. I do have a heater that I'll use in spring again, same as I did this year.
I won't use it over winter though as it would just be crazy cost wise and wastage wise. The amount of heat the greenhouse looses would mean the heater would be running near constantly. One of the best things about the bubble wrap experiment I did last winter was that I truly learned the limitations of a greenhouse. It's great on sunny days, but without sun, especially when it's cold outside, the greenhouse doesn't really see any temperature difference to the outside. If its minus 6 outside over night then it's going to be minus 5 or 6 in the greenhouse. So not worth the expense just for a few plants.
@@eliandkate, Eli, I was wondering a few months back when you installed the heater. I thought you were going to use it in the winter, and wondered if you had won the lottery to pay for winter heating.💥
😀😀😀
Oh we can only dream of a windfall like that.
Having power in the greenhouse I super useful for things like lights, powering the camera etc but the heater will come into its own early spring. It's still far too cold here for the greenhouse to house tomatoes etc until very late, or at least plants rather than seedlings, so that's when the heater will help. Prob march till May.
But... I do have something up my sleeve in an upcoming video 😀😀😀
I did this last autumn with a pepper plant for the first time. Actually i can't see any life about fresh shoots. So i'm afraid it didn't work. But i will keep on trying next autumn again. 😎 How is your stand on the pepper plants?
I've got one of three that seems to have survived, although to be fair, my erratic watering is to blame for two I think :D
@@eliandkate 😉
But how did it go with the overwintering? What was the conklutions og the experiment?
Ah you’ll have to go watch the big pepper experiment results video to find out 😂
Can you link it here?
Itthe entire playlist for the experiment is linked in the video description
How is your pepper plants doing now, I tried couple of times but didn't succeed
It's hard to tell as things in the greenhouse go dormant but I think we've got two plants still going. 1 for definite in the house and I think one in the greenhouse
Did you say that tomatoes are perennial?? Whaaat? I just threw my one existing tomato plant in the compost. But it was all dried out and brown and in a pot. So I could have saved it? Omg...what have I done?😭😭😭
It's all learning.... you are now armed with new knowledge for next year
Pots..pots??? What size...
Big enough to give the roots a good layer of compost between them and the side of the pot. You’ll need to make that call based on the size of your plant.
how are the saved plants doing
Check out the update from a few weeks ago 😀😀😀😀😀😀 lots of interesting things
Found this video while I’m sitting here eating Lucky Charms for breakfast…. How ironic
Ironic?