Bringing pepper plant in for Winter?
 

Has anyone successfully brought a pepper plant in for the Winter? I
brought one of ours, a jalapeno, in just a day before we got our killing
frost last week. It is transplanted into a 4 gallon bucket near a south
facing kitchen window. I think it needs to re-establish its root
system, but I do see some tiny green leaves here and there. I pruned
back most of the plant, because it had grown far too tall. I felt that
I needed to lessen the demands on the roots in the short term. Plus,
with fewer leaves, I could look them over more easily for aphids.

Anyway, does anyone have any tips or suggestions from having
successfully taken a pepper plant through the winter before? Thanks!

Bringing pepper plant in for Winter?
 

"OhioGuy" wrote in message ...
Has anyone successfully brought a pepper plant in for the Winter? I
brought one of ours, a jalapeno, in just a day before we got our killing
frost last week. It is transplanted into a 4 gallon bucket near a south
facing kitchen window. I think it needs to re-establish its root system,
but I do see some tiny green leaves here and there. I pruned back most of
the plant, because it had grown far too tall. I felt that I needed to
lessen the demands on the roots in the short term. Plus, with fewer
leaves, I could look them over more easily for aphids.

Anyway, does anyone have any tips or suggestions from having
successfully taken a pepper plant through the winter before? Thanks!

Just curious. Jalapenos are easy to grow, and grow quite tall as you've
seen yourself. Wondering as to why your not planting seed next season
instead...
--
Dave

If it looks like fish, smells like fish, its not
a cantaloupe.

Bringing pepper plant in for Winter?
 

Just curious. Jalapenos are easy to grow, and grow quite tall as you've
seen yourself. Wondering as to why your not planting seed next season
instead...

Mostly I'd like to see some green over the next 3 months or so, and I
only have room for a single large plant. New baby on the way for our
family in Feb or March, so I can't really mess with seedlings this time
around.

Bringing pepper plant in for Winter?
 

OhioGuy wrote:
Has anyone successfully brought a pepper plant in for the Winter? I
brought one of ours, a jalapeno, in just a day before we got our killing
frost last week. It is transplanted into a 4 gallon bucket near a south
facing kitchen window. I think it needs to re-establish its root
system, but I do see some tiny green leaves here and there. I pruned
back most of the plant, because it had grown far too tall. I felt that
I needed to lessen the demands on the roots in the short term. Plus,
with fewer leaves, I could look them over more easily for aphids.

Anyway, does anyone have any tips or suggestions from having
successfully taken a pepper plant through the winter before? Thanks!


I've done it a few times with unusual pepper plants (like an accidental
jalapeño x C. chinense hybrid.) It's a lot of trouble. You'll be doing
good just to keep it alive all winter, then when you plant it out in the
spring it will lose all its leaves and then leaf out again and start
blooming -- if you can get it that far.

You probably won't get any peppers in the winter.

Bob

Bringing pepper plant in for Winter?
 

"OhioGuy" wrote in message ...

Just curious. Jalapenos are easy to grow, and grow quite tall as you've
seen yourself. Wondering as to why your not planting seed next season
instead...

Mostly I'd like to see some green over the next 3 months or so, and I
only have room for a single large plant. New baby on the way for our
family in Feb or March, so I can't really mess with seedlings this time
around.

Very unusual, an indoor jalapeno meant for eye appeal. Good luck on the
baby.
--
Dave

If it looks like fish, smells like fish, its not
a cantaloupe.

Bringing pepper plant in for Winter?
 

OhioGuy wrote in :

Has anyone successfully brought a pepper plant in for the
Winter? I
brought one of ours, a jalapeno, in just a day before we got our
killing frost last week. It is transplanted into a 4 gallon
bucket near a south facing kitchen window. I think it needs to
re-establish its root system, but I do see some tiny green leaves
here and there. I pruned back most of the plant, because it had
grown far too tall. I felt that I needed to lessen the demands on
the roots in the short term. Plus, with fewer leaves, I could
look them over more easily for aphids.

Anyway, does anyone have any tips or suggestions from having
successfully taken a pepper plant through the winter before?
Thanks!

I did this one winter with a serrano pepper plant. I put it in a room
with a south-facing window and watered it sparingly. In the spring I
re-hardened it off slowly by putting it outside on my deck on warm days
and bringing it in in the evenings. I remember it flowered much sooner
than the new pepper plants I bought as seedlings, and I received
another nice crop of serranos from it that second year.

Dee

Bringing pepper plant in for Winter?
 

"OhioGuy" wrote in message ...

Anyway, does anyone have any tips or suggestions from having
successfully taken a pepper plant through the winter before? Thanks!


some good reading material:

http://www.thechileman.org/guide_overwinter.php

http://www.thechilliking.com/growing_intro.shtml