Why we like to over winter peppers - Page 11

ScottinAtlanta · March 21, 2020

How did everyone's over wintered peppers do? Mine are mostly just sticks, but are popping out new leaves as fast as my grandma used to spit snuff juice.

Nan_PA_6b · March 21, 2020

I've got a Sweet Pickle little ornamental pepper that is almost 2 years old. It's doing very well, full of ripe & ripening peppers.

Goodloe · March 22, 2020

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Originally Posted by ScottinAtlanta

How did everyone's over wintered peppers do? Mine are mostly just sticks, but are popping out new leaves as fast as my grandma used to spit snuff juice.

Very nice analogy!

clkeiper · March 23, 2020

I have an amazing row of peppers still in my greenhouse. My dear husband forgot to turn off the little electric heater (oops. that was very expensive) and they seem to have survived in the greenhouse where I planted them after my spring plants were emptied out of there... green sticks with a few buds starting to swell... hip hip hooray. I would have never thunk of trying this....

kath · March 24, 2020

I couldn't keep up with the aphids when I tried it.

NewWestGardener · March 24, 2020

I tried with one Jalapino, but it died a tortured death, by aphids. I tried to plunge the plant upside down in a bucket of water to soak the aphids but their babies still made through and continued the work.
Tomato plants are not bothered by aphids.

ScottinAtlanta · March 24, 2020

Where did you keep them and how warm and humid was it?

NewWestGardener · March 24, 2020

Scott, what do you do with 200 pepper plants? how much can you consume?

ScottinAtlanta · March 25, 2020

They are generous plants! Sweet peppers are easy to consume or give away.

Superhots - fermented pepper sauces, pepper jellies, dried and powdered, frozen whole for future use, use fresh in cooking......

kath · March 26, 2020

Mine were kept in DH's cactus greenhouse.

luke · April 4, 2020

I over-wintered two jalapenoes (a chichimeca and a TAM) and one super-hot. They both did really well, and are back in the garden, but still in their pots.

I have a good friend who I associate with a good bit in our fields of work. He eats jalapenoes like I eat tomatoes (in the winter, a half gallon of the pickled jalapenoes lasts his family less than a month.) I called him today to disucss something work-related, and he told me that he was leaving the co-op and they didn't have any jalapenoes (people are making a run on plants around here, apparently for their "victory" gardens.) I told him I had a few left that I'd started from seed, and he was welcome to them. I dropped them at the back door of his office this afternoon.

I realized this evening that the seedling peppers I've planted out are more than I'll need this summer, and that those over-wintered plants belong in my friend's garden. I plan to drop them at his mailbox tomorrow.

March 23, 2020	#154
clkeiper Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: ohio Posts: 4,350	I have an amazing row of peppers still in my greenhouse. My dear husband forgot to turn off the little electric heater (oops. that was very expensive) and they seem to have survived in the greenhouse where I planted them after my spring plants were emptied out of there... green sticks with a few buds starting to swell... hip hip hooray. I would have never thunk of trying this.... __________________ carolyn k

March 21, 2020	#151
ScottinAtlanta Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Atlanta, Georgia Posts: 2,593	How did everyone's over wintered peppers do? Mine are mostly just sticks, but are popping out new leaves as fast as my grandma used to spit snuff juice.

March 21, 2020	#152
Nan_PA_6b Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 3,194	I've got a Sweet Pickle little ornamental pepper that is almost 2 years old. It's doing very well, full of ripe & ripening peppers.

March 24, 2020	#155
kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 5,664	I couldn't keep up with the aphids when I tried it.

March 24, 2020	#156
NewWestGardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 564	I tried with one Jalapino, but it died a tortured death, by aphids. I tried to plunge the plant upside down in a bucket of water to soak the aphids but their babies still made through and continued the work. Tomato plants are not bothered by aphids.

March 24, 2020	#157
ScottinAtlanta Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Atlanta, Georgia Posts: 2,593	Where did you keep them and how warm and humid was it?

March 24, 2020	#158
NewWestGardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 564	Scott, what do you do with 200 pepper plants? how much can you consume?

March 25, 2020	#159
ScottinAtlanta Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Atlanta, Georgia Posts: 2,593	They are generous plants! Sweet peppers are easy to consume or give away. Superhots - fermented pepper sauces, pepper jellies, dried and powdered, frozen whole for future use, use fresh in cooking......

March 26, 2020	#160
kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 5,664	Mine were kept in DH's cactus greenhouse.

April 4, 2020	#161
luke Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: Mississippi Posts: 177	I over-wintered two jalapenoes (a chichimeca and a TAM) and one super-hot. They both did really well, and are back in the garden, but still in their pots. I have a good friend who I associate with a good bit in our fields of work. He eats jalapenoes like I eat tomatoes (in the winter, a half gallon of the pickled jalapenoes lasts his family less than a month.) I called him today to disucss something work-related, and he told me that he was leaving the co-op and they didn't have any jalapenoes (people are making a run on plants around here, apparently for their "victory" gardens.) I told him I had a few left that I'd started from seed, and he was welcome to them. I dropped them at the back door of his office this afternoon. I realized this evening that the seedling peppers I've planted out are more than I'll need this summer, and that those over-wintered plants belong in my friend's garden. I plan to drop them at his mailbox tomorrow.