cold hardy pepper

[Minnesota Mato]

Every fall I dig up about 20 of my 120 pepper plants and bring them inside for the winter. Most are crosses or wild peppers that need more time or something I really need the seed from. I only have so much room inside so I have to be picky. So our first frost here was more like a freeze and it got down to 29 deg. The next mourning I walked out to the garden and I had one plant that was still alive! Everything was slumped over and froze but one Eximium cgn-21502. I have never seen any pepper even close to surviving this cold so I dug it up and brought it inside. It has dropped some leaves but then started growing some new ones. I think I have a new breeding project now! craig