Overwintering Pepper Plants Part 2 - What I Missed

I saw your overwintering pepper videos about 10 days after I had pulled all of my plants out for the year. I was really wishing I’d seen the videos sooner. But I thought what can it hurt to try. I went out and got three of those plants- none had any leaves on them, the root ball was still there but they didn’t have any dirt on the roots for the last 10 days. I trimmed the branches like you said to do and struck three of those plants in a pot to see if they would come back to life and two of them have new growth on them. I’m pretty excited - thank you!

My organic heirloom tomatoes grow back every year from my compost bin from the tomatoes that drop the previous year and I get a ton of cherry and roma tomatoes from that I dont even have to plant tomatoes anymore

zone 5 here. Was given an early girl tomato by a relative last fall in a pot. Put it in front of a west facing window and it not only survived but produced some little tomatoes inside in January. It survived until spring and I planted it out the day after mothers day (may?) It took off and I had tomatoes in June, super early for zone 5, long before any of my other nursery grown tomatoes. Its worth it if you plan ahead IMO. This year I pulled suckers and potted them up. Just pulled my plants from the garden and brought in the tomatoes. We will be having another batch of early tomatoes, cherokee purples this time.

Great video as always. I appreciate your dedication to the channel and the fact that you bring us high quality information frequently. Thank you!

Thank you in advance for talking about ornamentals. I've often admired the background in your videos and can't wait to learn about the plants.

a couple of years ago I planted new tomato plants from seed, they survived through the following summer. Last fall I planted again from seed , in December I had over 150 green tomatoes ripening in my living room because the temp was below 60 degrees. In the spring I had another great harvest of tomatoes from the same plants. This year I have set seeds and have nice seedlings ready to plant as soon as I can to see how they do. I have realized that as gardeners we are scientists, our gardens are our experimental labs. Thank you for helping me learn and do without having do all the experimenting myself.

Another great video packed full of information. Starting the process of overwintering today ❤️👍🏻

This was the perfect follow up video. Thank you!

So behind because I am traveling for vacation. Love how you addressed further questions. And, of course, mine was one of the greenhouse. I've been thinking I would like to get my greenhouse wired for the ability to heat. Now I am convinced that I should. So, thank you so much for that!

Thanks Brian! Very helpful info! I have never saved my pepper plants but will try it this winter. Mine are still producing.... still have many poblanos on the plants. Love these grilled and on top of pretty much any meat.

One thing I do is always use either mosquito dunks or liquid version of Bacillus thuringiensis. If you crumble the dunks into the upper layer of soil or spray the soil, you will never see another fungus gnat. The bacterium kills the larvae. I have even bought sterile peat moss that had fungus gnats. And they can and will kill your plants. As well I mix my Neem with pyrethrin (not pyrethrum) and spray the plants before overwintering. Tomatoes also overwinter well.

Thank you so much for these two videos. I desperately wanted to save my peppers last year and failed epicly. Now I have the tools and education to pull it off! I could never thank you enough!!!

I'm stoked about over wintering several pepper plants! Since it's cooled down at night, I have been covering my summer crops nightly with row covers while temps are in the 40's. They are VERY happy about it, too! 😄

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INFO., I WAS WONDERING WHAT TO DO WITH MY PEPPER PLANTS HERE FOR THE WINTER IN GEORGIA, THEY ARE STILL PRODUCING ALOT

Love the idea of the starting the grow super early for next season. I have to start mine indoors from around Feb under LEDs to get a jump on our spring (London, UK) otherwise the flowering starts just as we lose the heat of summer. Just brought my habaneros indoors last week as evenings are super chilly now (mine are in pots) got them under lights to see how long I can have the flowering phase hang on for 😝

Thank you! I have played with overwintering but you gave me a lot of new ideas. Will try again.

Looking forward to the ornamentals. Bloodleaf plant is gorgeous.

Love the blood leaf!! Thank you, again, for always going the extra mile! We're grown ups, we could Google, but it's awesome that you work so hard to make these videos for us. I'm still trying to decide if I would harm my peppers by starting my overwintering process now. I'm just worried they're going to try to put on new growth because it's still pretty warm here in Texas but like I said my leaves Are yellow and moddled (SP) looking. It's not like a fertilizer. They're getting a balanced diet.. I think the squash bugs really damaged them. I guess really if I cut them back and they grow new growth I can just cut off the new growth whenever it starts getting even cooler lol.

Your hook trial intrigued me and since I was growing heirloom brandywines from seed for the first time I wanted a scalable trellis system. Like you I only needed a small number of hooks so I just got some thick wire by dismantling an old, wire tomato cage with a grinder. Then I saw a video in which the grower screwed two heavy lag screws into a block of good wood and bent the wire between the two screws. Not pretty and not uniform, but was fast and cheap! I swirled the hooks around the trellis like you showed and I have some pretty awesome indeterminate Brandywines. Our Vancouver, Canada spring and summer were crap so my huge tomatoes are still green and on the vine. Hoping for some late season sun and ripening. Thanks for the videos, your suggestions are great and the presentation is A+!

Zone 8a- texas: I thank you so much for this video. I have just started growing food for the first time this summer season. I have not tried any peppers yet though. I do have some seeds (not the sweet jabanero). Now that you have shared this info I will give it a try with the seeds I have. You are a wealth of information 👏👏👏👍🦄