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Taking cuttings from pepper plants...
Hello all. I have a question I hope you can answer. In my garden I
have jalpeno, habenero, and cayenne pepper plants. They have been producing for a month or two now, and I was just wondering if it is possible to take some cuttings from these to keep indoors for the winter(or did I have to do this before flowering? If so, what do I have to do to keep them alive? Will they have to be kept on a certain light schedule to keep producing, or can I get them back into a vegetative state(what I want to do) until next spring? Thank you for your time, and I greatly appreciate any advice! |
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Don't waste your time with cuttings. I would suggest preparing some good
potting soil and amend it with a little organic fertilizer. Dig out your plants with as much root as you can and transplant them into pots. Add some lava sand if it's available in your area to help retain moisture. Let them establish in the pots and give them as much sun as possible. Do not over water. Most people tend to over water plants indoors in pots. I don't know what your zone is, but I would suggest that unless you are in zone 8-10 they will not continue to produce. The goal would be to keep them alive and overwinter them so you can replant outside after soil temps have warmed. Then you will have a huge head start on next years production. I live in zone 8 in Texas and have a chili pequin plant that stays in the ground year round. It freezes back to the ground in the winter, but has come back for 3 years in a row. I have harvested well over 1000 plus peppers and sun dry them for use on pizza or whatever. Some I dry in the toaster oven for a more "toasted" taste. They are great. Previous to having acreage we kept a chili pequin in a large pot for 7 years and even used it as a Christmas tree a couple of years. Your plants have only been producing for a month or two? Hmmm. I've been getting peppers since late April...but again...it is paradise..( oh sorry....TEXAS) lol..hope this helps. Thomas "Lost" wrote in message om... Hello all. I have a question I hope you can answer. In my garden I have jalpeno, habenero, and cayenne pepper plants. They have been producing for a month or two now, and I was just wondering if it is possible to take some cuttings from these to keep indoors for the winter(or did I have to do this before flowering? If so, what do I have to do to keep them alive? Will they have to be kept on a certain light schedule to keep producing, or can I get them back into a vegetative state(what I want to do) until next spring? Thank you for your time, and I greatly appreciate any advice! |
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Don't waste your time with cuttings. I would suggest preparing some good
potting soil and amend it with a little organic fertilizer. Dig out your plants with as much root as you can and transplant them into pots. Add some lava sand if it's available in your area to help retain moisture. Let them establish in the pots and give them as much sun as possible. Do not over water. Most people tend to over water plants indoors in pots. I don't know what your zone is, but I would suggest that unless you are in zone 8-10 they will not continue to produce. The goal would be to keep them alive and overwinter them so you can replant outside after soil temps have warmed. Then you will have a huge head start on next years production. I live in zone 8 in Texas and have a chili pequin plant that stays in the ground year round. It freezes back to the ground in the winter, but has come back for 3 years in a row. I have harvested well over 1000 plus peppers and sun dry them for use on pizza or whatever. Some I dry in the toaster oven for a more "toasted" taste. They are great. Previous to having acreage we kept a chili pequin in a large pot for 7 years and even used it as a Christmas tree a couple of years. Your plants have only been producing for a month or two? Hmmm. I've been getting peppers since late April...but again...it is paradise..( oh sorry....TEXAS) lol..hope this helps. Thomas "Lost" wrote in message om... Hello all. I have a question I hope you can answer. In my garden I have jalpeno, habenero, and cayenne pepper plants. They have been producing for a month or two now, and I was just wondering if it is possible to take some cuttings from these to keep indoors for the winter(or did I have to do this before flowering? If so, what do I have to do to keep them alive? Will they have to be kept on a certain light schedule to keep producing, or can I get them back into a vegetative state(what I want to do) until next spring? Thank you for your time, and I greatly appreciate any advice! |
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by the way...that is 1000 peppers per season. They are small. :-)
"Thomas" scythicon311@yahoo(dot)com wrote in message ... Don't waste your time with cuttings. I would suggest preparing some good potting soil and amend it with a little organic fertilizer. Dig out your plants with as much root as you can and transplant them into pots. Add some lava sand if it's available in your area to help retain moisture. Let them establish in the pots and give them as much sun as possible. Do not over water. Most people tend to over water plants indoors in pots. I don't know what your zone is, but I would suggest that unless you are in zone 8-10 they will not continue to produce. The goal would be to keep them alive and overwinter them so you can replant outside after soil temps have warmed. Then you will have a huge head start on next years production. I live in zone 8 in Texas and have a chili pequin plant that stays in the ground year round. It freezes back to the ground in the winter, but has come back for 3 years in a row. I have harvested well over 1000 plus peppers and sun dry them for use on pizza or whatever. Some I dry in the toaster oven for a more "toasted" taste. They are great. Previous to having acreage we kept a chili pequin in a large pot for 7 years and even used it as a Christmas tree a couple of years. Your plants have only been producing for a month or two? Hmmm. I've been getting peppers since late April...but again...it is paradise..( oh sorry....TEXAS) lol..hope this helps. Thomas "Lost" wrote in message om... Hello all. I have a question I hope you can answer. In my garden I have jalpeno, habenero, and cayenne pepper plants. They have been producing for a month or two now, and I was just wondering if it is possible to take some cuttings from these to keep indoors for the winter(or did I have to do this before flowering? If so, what do I have to do to keep them alive? Will they have to be kept on a certain light schedule to keep producing, or can I get them back into a vegetative state(what I want to do) until next spring? Thank you for your time, and I greatly appreciate any advice! |
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"Thomas" scythicon311@yahoo(dot)com wrote: Don't waste your time with cuttings. I would suggest preparing some good potting soil and amend it with a little organic fertilizer. Dig out your plants with as much root as you can and transplant them into pots. Add some lava sand if it's available in your area to help retain moisture. Let them establish in the pots and give them as much sun as possible. Do not over water. Most people tend to over water plants indoors in pots. I don't know what your zone is, but I would suggest that unless you are in zone 8-10 they will not continue to produce. The goal would be to keep them alive and overwinter them so you can replant outside after soil temps have warmed. Then you will have a huge head start on next years production. I live in zone 8 in Texas and have a chili pequin plant that stays in the ground year round. It freezes back to the ground in the winter, but has come back for 3 years in a row. I have harvested well over 1000 plus peppers and sun dry them for use on pizza or whatever. Some I dry in the toaster oven for a more "toasted" taste. They are great. Previous to having acreage we kept a chili pequin in a large pot for 7 years and even used it as a Christmas tree a couple of years. Your plants have only been producing for a month or two? Hmmm. I've been getting peppers since late April...but again...it is paradise..( oh sorry....TEXAS) lol..hope this helps. Thomas You are cruel... lol I have a 5 year old Chili pequin also, (a wild volunteer no less) in the back of the main garden. It's nearly 3' tall and almost as wide, and produces more than I can use, much to the delight of my cockatoo. ;-) She adores the things fresh off the plant! It also freezes back each winter, but comes back strongly and I do NOT prune it! The exsisting branches come back. ;-) I'm experimenting with doing some cuttings from it. I did 5 earlier this spring but the plant was already blooming. 1 of the 5 cuttings survived and is rooting. I just snipped, dipped, and stuck it into miracle grow potting mix. Snip it and dip it into liquid rooting compound. I DO have a greenhouse. Oh, and I am also in Paradise (central Texas) On an interesting note, my neighbors _never_ clean their rain gutters and there are a variety of plants growing in them. There is a small chili pequin at one end that is producing! It's maybe 1' tall. I'm considering taking a ladder over there in the middle of the night and pepper-snatching the plant. G K. -- Sprout the Mung Bean to reply... ,,Cat's Haven Hobby Farm,,Katraatcenturyteldotnet,, http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...user id=katra |
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"Thomas" scythicon311@yahoo(dot)com wrote: Don't waste your time with cuttings. I would suggest preparing some good potting soil and amend it with a little organic fertilizer. Dig out your plants with as much root as you can and transplant them into pots. Add some lava sand if it's available in your area to help retain moisture. Let them establish in the pots and give them as much sun as possible. Do not over water. Most people tend to over water plants indoors in pots. I don't know what your zone is, but I would suggest that unless you are in zone 8-10 they will not continue to produce. The goal would be to keep them alive and overwinter them so you can replant outside after soil temps have warmed. Then you will have a huge head start on next years production. I live in zone 8 in Texas and have a chili pequin plant that stays in the ground year round. It freezes back to the ground in the winter, but has come back for 3 years in a row. I have harvested well over 1000 plus peppers and sun dry them for use on pizza or whatever. Some I dry in the toaster oven for a more "toasted" taste. They are great. Previous to having acreage we kept a chili pequin in a large pot for 7 years and even used it as a Christmas tree a couple of years. Your plants have only been producing for a month or two? Hmmm. I've been getting peppers since late April...but again...it is paradise..( oh sorry....TEXAS) lol..hope this helps. Thomas You are cruel... lol I have a 5 year old Chili pequin also, (a wild volunteer no less) in the back of the main garden. It's nearly 3' tall and almost as wide, and produces more than I can use, much to the delight of my cockatoo. ;-) She adores the things fresh off the plant! It also freezes back each winter, but comes back strongly and I do NOT prune it! The exsisting branches come back. ;-) I'm experimenting with doing some cuttings from it. I did 5 earlier this spring but the plant was already blooming. 1 of the 5 cuttings survived and is rooting. I just snipped, dipped, and stuck it into miracle grow potting mix. Snip it and dip it into liquid rooting compound. I DO have a greenhouse. Oh, and I am also in Paradise (central Texas) On an interesting note, my neighbors _never_ clean their rain gutters and there are a variety of plants growing in them. There is a small chili pequin at one end that is producing! It's maybe 1' tall. I'm considering taking a ladder over there in the middle of the night and pepper-snatching the plant. G K. -- Sprout the Mung Bean to reply... ,,Cat's Haven Hobby Farm,,Katraatcenturyteldotnet,, http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...user id=katra |
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"Thomas" scythicon311@yahoo(dot)com wrote: Don't waste your time with cuttings. I would suggest preparing some good potting soil and amend it with a little organic fertilizer. Dig out your plants with as much root as you can and transplant them into pots. Add some lava sand if it's available in your area to help retain moisture. Let them establish in the pots and give them as much sun as possible. Do not over water. Most people tend to over water plants indoors in pots. I don't know what your zone is, but I would suggest that unless you are in zone 8-10 they will not continue to produce. The goal would be to keep them alive and overwinter them so you can replant outside after soil temps have warmed. Then you will have a huge head start on next years production. I live in zone 8 in Texas and have a chili pequin plant that stays in the ground year round. It freezes back to the ground in the winter, but has come back for 3 years in a row. I have harvested well over 1000 plus peppers and sun dry them for use on pizza or whatever. Some I dry in the toaster oven for a more "toasted" taste. They are great. Previous to having acreage we kept a chili pequin in a large pot for 7 years and even used it as a Christmas tree a couple of years. Your plants have only been producing for a month or two? Hmmm. I've been getting peppers since late April...but again...it is paradise..( oh sorry....TEXAS) lol..hope this helps. Thomas You are cruel... lol I have a 5 year old Chili pequin also, (a wild volunteer no less) in the back of the main garden. It's nearly 3' tall and almost as wide, and produces more than I can use, much to the delight of my cockatoo. ;-) She adores the things fresh off the plant! It also freezes back each winter, but comes back strongly and I do NOT prune it! The exsisting branches come back. ;-) I'm experimenting with doing some cuttings from it. I did 5 earlier this spring but the plant was already blooming. 1 of the 5 cuttings survived and is rooting. I just snipped, dipped, and stuck it into miracle grow potting mix. Snip it and dip it into liquid rooting compound. I DO have a greenhouse. Oh, and I am also in Paradise (central Texas) On an interesting note, my neighbors _never_ clean their rain gutters and there are a variety of plants growing in them. There is a small chili pequin at one end that is producing! It's maybe 1' tall. I'm considering taking a ladder over there in the middle of the night and pepper-snatching the plant. G K. -- Sprout the Mung Bean to reply... ,,Cat's Haven Hobby Farm,,Katraatcenturyteldotnet,, http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...user id=katra |
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I don't know where you live, but here in SW Ohio where hot pepper plants
totally freeze out in the winter, I too tried keeping plants inside and growing over the winter. I never tried cuttings, I usually just dug up the whole plant as they were not too large and I would just prune them back a bit. I did this for about 3 years. What I found was that I often had huge problems with whitefly or aphids. Even when there was no significant bug problem, they did not produce much earlier than the plants grown that year from seed and ususally were not as productive either. It also helps to have more light than just a windowsill provides. So now, I just start seeds in Feb. to get a good headstart and I get all the pepper I and all my friends can use. However, I would be the first one to tell you to go ahead and try bringing both cutting and whole plants in for the winter anyway, as I think experimenting in this way is a great learning experience. Linda Lost wrote: Hello all. I have a question I hope you can answer. In my garden I have jalpeno, habenero, and cayenne pepper plants. They have been producing for a month or two now, and I was just wondering if it is possible to take some cuttings from these to keep indoors for the winter(or did I have to do this before flowering? If so, what do I have to do to keep them alive? Will they have to be kept on a certain light schedule to keep producing, or can I get them back into a vegetative state(what I want to do) until next spring? Thank you for your time, and I greatly appreciate any advice! |
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I don't know where you live, but here in SW Ohio where hot pepper plants
totally freeze out in the winter, I too tried keeping plants inside and growing over the winter. I never tried cuttings, I usually just dug up the whole plant as they were not too large and I would just prune them back a bit. I did this for about 3 years. What I found was that I often had huge problems with whitefly or aphids. Even when there was no significant bug problem, they did not produce much earlier than the plants grown that year from seed and ususally were not as productive either. It also helps to have more light than just a windowsill provides. So now, I just start seeds in Feb. to get a good headstart and I get all the pepper I and all my friends can use. However, I would be the first one to tell you to go ahead and try bringing both cutting and whole plants in for the winter anyway, as I think experimenting in this way is a great learning experience. Linda Lost wrote: Hello all. I have a question I hope you can answer. In my garden I have jalpeno, habenero, and cayenne pepper plants. They have been producing for a month or two now, and I was just wondering if it is possible to take some cuttings from these to keep indoors for the winter(or did I have to do this before flowering? If so, what do I have to do to keep them alive? Will they have to be kept on a certain light schedule to keep producing, or can I get them back into a vegetative state(what I want to do) until next spring? Thank you for your time, and I greatly appreciate any advice! |
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I don't know where you live, but here in SW Ohio where hot pepper plants
totally freeze out in the winter, I too tried keeping plants inside and growing over the winter. I never tried cuttings, I usually just dug up the whole plant as they were not too large and I would just prune them back a bit. I did this for about 3 years. What I found was that I often had huge problems with whitefly or aphids. Even when there was no significant bug problem, they did not produce much earlier than the plants grown that year from seed and ususally were not as productive either. It also helps to have more light than just a windowsill provides. So now, I just start seeds in Feb. to get a good headstart and I get all the pepper I and all my friends can use. However, I would be the first one to tell you to go ahead and try bringing both cutting and whole plants in for the winter anyway, as I think experimenting in this way is a great learning experience. Linda Lost wrote: Hello all. I have a question I hope you can answer. In my garden I have jalpeno, habenero, and cayenne pepper plants. They have been producing for a month or two now, and I was just wondering if it is possible to take some cuttings from these to keep indoors for the winter(or did I have to do this before flowering? If so, what do I have to do to keep them alive? Will they have to be kept on a certain light schedule to keep producing, or can I get them back into a vegetative state(what I want to do) until next spring? Thank you for your time, and I greatly appreciate any advice! |
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Penelope Periwinkle wrote:
Unless they're difficult to get varieties, I wouldn't bother. The time, money, and effort you put into keeping the plants alive would far exceed just buying new ones in the spring. My overwintered chiles always produce fruit months sooner than the ones I start from seed. They also produce far more over the course of the summer than plants that spend months building a root system. -- programmer, author http://www.midnightbeach.com and father http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs |
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Your bird story reminds me when my plant was in an 8" pot in my back yard.
I would come out in the morning and have to constantly do battle with a local mockingbird that felt like all the ripe peppers were his. I'd yell at him and he would just sit there and stare at me. He got up lots earlier than I did so he got the harvest first usually. Guess that's why they call 'em "bird peppers".... Thomas "Katra" wrote in message ... In article , "Thomas" scythicon311@yahoo(dot)com wrote: Don't waste your time with cuttings. I would suggest preparing some good potting soil and amend it with a little organic fertilizer. Dig out your plants with as much root as you can and transplant them into pots. Add some lava sand if it's available in your area to help retain moisture. Let them establish in the pots and give them as much sun as possible. Do not over water. Most people tend to over water plants indoors in pots. I don't know what your zone is, but I would suggest that unless you are in zone 8-10 they will not continue to produce. The goal would be to keep them alive and overwinter them so you can replant outside after soil temps have warmed. Then you will have a huge head start on next years production. I live in zone 8 in Texas and have a chili pequin plant that stays in the ground year round. It freezes back to the ground in the winter, but has come back for 3 years in a row. I have harvested well over 1000 plus peppers and sun dry them for use on pizza or whatever. Some I dry in the toaster oven for a more "toasted" taste. They are great. Previous to having acreage we kept a chili pequin in a large pot for 7 years and even used it as a Christmas tree a couple of years. Your plants have only been producing for a month or two? Hmmm. I've been getting peppers since late April...but again...it is paradise..( oh sorry....TEXAS) lol..hope this helps. Thomas You are cruel... lol I have a 5 year old Chili pequin also, (a wild volunteer no less) in the back of the main garden. It's nearly 3' tall and almost as wide, and produces more than I can use, much to the delight of my cockatoo. ;-) She adores the things fresh off the plant! It also freezes back each winter, but comes back strongly and I do NOT prune it! The exsisting branches come back. ;-) I'm experimenting with doing some cuttings from it. I did 5 earlier this spring but the plant was already blooming. 1 of the 5 cuttings survived and is rooting. I just snipped, dipped, and stuck it into miracle grow potting mix. Snip it and dip it into liquid rooting compound. I DO have a greenhouse. Oh, and I am also in Paradise (central Texas) On an interesting note, my neighbors _never_ clean their rain gutters and there are a variety of plants growing in them. There is a small chili pequin at one end that is producing! It's maybe 1' tall. I'm considering taking a ladder over there in the middle of the night and pepper-snatching the plant. G K. -- Sprout the Mung Bean to reply... ,,Cat's Haven Hobby Farm,,Katraatcenturyteldotnet,, http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...ude=0&user id =katra |
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