cold hardy pepper

Minnesota Mato · November 10, 2013

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

Worth1 · November 10, 2013

We have one here in Texas that comes back from the root after 10 degree weather and a light freeze wont do anything to it.

Some times you can find it growing wild.

More than likely this one.
http://www.tomatogrowers.com/CHILTEP...ductinfo/9148/

Worth

livinonfaith · November 11, 2013

We had a freeze a few weeks ago and I didn't have time to get out and cover or save anything. Most of the peppers dropped all or most of their leaves, but the Beaver Dam pepper didn't even slow down!

I finally got a chance to get out there and grab some of the plants to overwinter in the greenhouse. While I found several with a few leaves left, most of them were little more than sticks with no leaves.

I wasn't going to save those at all, but then I realized that the stems were still green and had what looked like tiny little leaf buds in some of the joints. I decided to cut off the dead parts and bring them in anyway, in the hope that they would grow.

In contrast, the Beaver Dam was full of green leaves and was still flowering! Think I may have to grow more of those next year!

November 10, 2013	#1
Minnesota Mato Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: minnesota Posts: 175	cold hardy pepper 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

November 10, 2013	#2
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	We have one here in Texas that comes back from the root after 10 degree weather and a light freeze wont do anything to it. Some times you can find it growing wild. More than likely this one. http://www.tomatogrowers.com/CHILTEP...ductinfo/9148/ Worth Last edited by Worth1; November 10, 2013 at 11:05 PM. Reason: Add Link

November 11, 2013	#3
livinonfaith Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina Posts: 1,332	We had a freeze a few weeks ago and I didn't have time to get out and cover or save anything. Most of the peppers dropped all or most of their leaves, but the Beaver Dam pepper didn't even slow down! I finally got a chance to get out there and grab some of the plants to overwinter in the greenhouse. While I found several with a few leaves left, most of them were little more than sticks with no leaves. I wasn't going to save those at all, but then I realized that the stems were still green and had what looked like tiny little leaf buds in some of the joints. I decided to cut off the dead parts and bring them in anyway, in the hope that they would grow. In contrast, the Beaver Dam was full of green leaves and was still flowering! Think I may have to grow more of those next year!