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what do you do with pepper plants at the end of the year.
do they keep growing or die off or back and grow again next year?
do they keep growing or die off or back and grow again next year?
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Which kind of pepper, xxfordxx? Sweet or chilli?Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to? -
easy.....both
i use both probably the same amount if times....based on what I planted, then it would be sweetComment
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well i have several kinds.
1)sweet banana pepper (which i didnt know was part of the chilli peppers family untill i ate a whole one about 15 mins ago)
2)jumbo sweet pepperComment
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Couldn't say on sweet peppers, but I overwintered the chillies. All the leaves dropped of and I was left with 3 green stalks per pot!
They lived in an unheated 'sunroom' with minimal water until the weather warmed up then I watered more regularly. They very soon sprouted new growth and are now bigger than last year with a more abundant earlier crop - well worth the (minimal) effort!Comment
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They are both pretty tender so won't survive our UK winter outdoors or even in a cold greenhouse. I find that most of the plants get pretty big so take up too much space to bring inside but I do have a Prairie Fire chilli plant on it's second (or third, I can't remember) year which is covered in fruits. I tend to let them dry out quite a bit over winter and then cut back, repot and let them get going again in the spring.
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I have 3 Chilli plants that are celebrating their 3rd summer and half a dozen more that I've overwintered from last year. I just bring them inside onto a sunny windowsill.There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.Comment
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I have a sweet pepper plant that I overwintered as an experiment. I just brought it in the house and put it near (ish) a window, and watered very lightly. It currently has 2 large peppers ripening nicely and two smaller ones getting ready to take over.Caro
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Everything I tried to overwinter is always getting eaten by some bugs-peppers,parsley and chives.Grrrrr
Last edited by coreopsis; 02-08-2010, 11:02 PM.Comment
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i've not tried it with sweet peppers but if you are talking about hot peppers then you should definitely over winter them.Comment
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Chiili peppers are good to over winter;cut the stem to a couple of inches,trim the root ball and pot in a smaller pot;ideally,place on a nice window sill.Most won't survive in an unheated greenhouse-particularly the very hot ones.Once Spring comes,they wil start growing again-and will be way ahead of newly purchased plants.Once they are growing well,re pot into bigger pots with some good new compost.Don't water much during the winterComment
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Sweet peppers overwinter just as well as hot chilli ones
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Originally posted by rogesse View Post
Im going to do this with my 4 Chocolate Habs and my two Bhut Jalokias this winter. They can stay in the house in fact as I have them in nice pots, maybe with the heating on etc they might re-fruit though the winter
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Been hoping for free p&p, missed out a few weeks ago - we were in Cyprus, where we saw some 'Fernleaf' lavender. Looks really nice. So I thought I'd look for some plugs/plants when we got back. Seems that you start them from seed, only a few places do them. T&M had them for 99p though, but with...Today, 10:17 AM
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