Great news for short-season pepper growers!

bitterwort · January 28, 2012

Have you tried overwintering the long-season pepper plants in the house? I usually take in a few of the long-season C. chinense, baccatum, and pubescens peppers in the house to spend the winter indoors. I cut them back and root-prune them fairly severely, putting them all in one or two large "Noah's ark" pots in my sunniest window. They tend to lose leaves and look awful, but if they remain alive until spring, they usually take off when I pot them up and put them outside--and they seem to fruit sooner. Might be worth it for just a few that you'd really like to try.

January 28, 2012	#16
bitterwort Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MN Zone4b Posts: 292	Have you tried overwintering the long-season pepper plants in the house? I usually take in a few of the long-season C. chinense, baccatum, and pubescens peppers in the house to spend the winter indoors. I cut them back and root-prune them fairly severely, putting them all in one or two large "Noah's ark" pots in my sunniest window. They tend to lose leaves and look awful, but if they remain alive until spring, they usually take off when I pot them up and put them outside--and they seem to fruit sooner. Might be worth it for just a few that you'd really like to try. __________________ Bitterwort