How To OVERWINTER POTTED PLANTS Easier Than Bringing Plants Indoors

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

How do you overwinter your cold sensitive potted plants? Let us know in the comments below!

[@grovermartin6874]

One year I bought a couple of figs in pots. One Brown Turkey, don't remember the other. They prospered outside, and I wheeled them inside on dollies to overwinter in the sunny, high-ceilinged great room, intending to wheel them out again in warm weather. Lyme disease intervened, and the figs spent the next 6 years in the great room, fruiting nicely. Never any insects or diseases, never losing leaves. I lucked out! (Well, except for the Lyme disease.)

[@sylvia10101]

That’s a great idea! Thank you😊 I have ordered the Gorilla wagon through your Amazon storefront. It’s a useful wagon👍

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

Thank you! I appreciate the order. I’ve been using mine for over 3 years and it is still awesome. I filled all my raised beds with it!

[@ramonajolley1966]

I am so glad that I have found your videos. I just wish that I found you sooner.

[@carmellayates2503]

Good advice , I'm in zone 9 and my citrus and figs and berries and a few veggies are on the south side of my house rather close to each other but they're all happy , I have to move most in summer to semi shade because it gets to darn hot .

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

I leave my citrus and figs blasted in 12 hours of sun on my black weed barrier here on the SE tip of North Carolina. They seem to enjoy it. Not sure how much further south you are than I am, but they're pretty tolerant of the full sun. I think the key is exposing them to it all year, though.

[@debbiedavid4392]

Great video. I have 2 Lemon trees purchased this spring. Brought them inside and have grow lights I use with overhead lights. They seem to being doing well so far. I just don’t know much about them. I grow many diff. Plumeria plants, that overwinter in a spare room, where they go dormant until spring. Thanks for your informative videos !

[@youglowjohn]

Thank you! This tip will save me so much time and effort to overwinter my lemon tree.

[@valariezacharias4776]

Wish I'd seen this video earlier! The pest problem is something I hadn't thought of... Just flushed my 3rd brown widow ( didn't know they even existed), apparently, they love to live under the lips of containers. I'm just grateful that I didn't discover them WHILE carrying them inside!! Lesson learned!

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

Bringing plants indoors is challenging. So is re-acclimating them to the sun in spring. If your climate is warm enough that you can truck them outside during the day, putting them in a cart and pulling them in and out is certainly an option. I’ve been doing it for years, but here, I only need to do it maybe 30-40 nights a year.

[@valariezacharias4776]

@@2MinuteGardenTips yes, lessons learned! Honestly, this used to be hubby's domain, but he passed away recently, so I'm trying to learn on the fly!

[@vintagelady1]

I am so lucky to have a winter greenhouse (or limonaia, as the Italians so elegantly say!), & my delicate lemon, lime & houseplants grow very well there in the winter---a little too well, all I want them to do is go dormant & survive, but they just love the grow-lights! But what I really want to say is---WHOA, Buster, an AVOCADO? Planted where it gets really cold? Now I have to go back over all your old videos to find this rare beast. I've heard of hardy avocado but I always thought it was a myth, & I miss the avocados from my California friend's tree so much. Off to do research!

[@valerie362]

Neat idea! Thanks! I was debating if I wanted to over winter anything. We've got another month at least before hard freezes, if we even get one, so it's not super crucial. This will make it an easier decision though.

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

That's a nice long growing season. Are you Florida, Texas, Arizona or California?

[@liberta2570]

Good idea with a wagon. Last year was my first year in zone 5 from living in zone 8. What a nightmare with mealy bugs, tiny flies and other bc I we brought special plants that we didn't want to leave. Well the damn mealy bugs killed some. Our special citrus came back thankfully.

[@valoriegriego5212]

Great tip! Thanks.🙂

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching.

[@georgemckenzie2525]

I have seen 46 below zero here in Vermont. My citrus is happily fruiting and flowering no far from my woodstove

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

46 below zero??? I didn’t know it got that cold anywhere in the Northeast 😱 Personally, I can’t stand anything below 42!

[@chanthana7694]

I didn't know citrus survive in the winter cold, let alone the 46 below.

[@georgemckenzie2525]

@@chanthana7694 they are indoors this time of year

[@dopehunterkilo12]

This is a great idea! I really didn’t want to bring mine inside the house because I was afraid the dogs and cats would become too curious of them! I have just enough plants to fill my wagon!

[@doggiefamily908]

That is an awesome tip!

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

I'm glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!

[@aliabdelaziz905]

I can’t trust you without a hat

[@va1445]

😂🤣😂🤣

[@chanthana7694]

😂

[@hazeysgarden]

What if you live along the gulf coast where it barely gets cold at all? I’m pretty sure this past winter the temps almost never went below freezing

[@jantellfowler5883]

Just subscribed, great tips

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

Thank you for subscribing!

[@kimhouston1234]

Do you water them in garage?

[@robertb2444]

Have you tried to grow avocados? I have some that sprouted in my compost heap.

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

Yes. You can see my avocado tree on my main channel here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5jRnJKvmcqJqck I would advise against growing avocados from seed, unless you have very specific breeding goals. Not only will it take 10-15 years for an avocado grown from seed to become mature enough to fruit, but seed-grown avocado trees have notoriously bad fruit. Some seed-grown avocado trees will not fruit at all, and of those that do, the overwhelming majority will have low quality, stringy fruit. Breeders grow hundreds of trees to walk away with a handful of new trees that will produce top quality fruit. Breeding avocados is a long and arduous process. I only recommend growing top-quality, grafted avocados of known varieties.

[@robertb2444]

@@2MinuteGardenTips Thank you!

[@AndreaM77]

Good for those with a garage.The rest of us just have to drag and bag to protect our plants. 😂😭🌿

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

Citrus can overwinter in front of a sunny window as long as they're transitioned indoors slowly in the fall and transitioned back outdoors slowly in the spring. They can't be brought in all in one shot, or they'll lose their leaves. Same thing with being brought back outdoors. They'll get sun-damaged and drop their leaves if acclimated too quickly.

[@AndreaM77]

@@2MinuteGardenTips Great tip! Thank you!

[@Lvaladez114]

I brought mine in last night it was predicted to be 35 ° it ended up being 28° I don't trust the weather predictors.

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

You are 100% correct. I have personally witnessed the forecast off by 6 degrees dozens of times. Literally dozens. On calm, clear nights, there are massive variations of temperatures. I've seen locations nary a mile from me being over 10 degrees warmer. For me, the cutoff is 42 degrees, because I've seen 42 degrees turn into 36 degrees, and I've seen 36 degrees form patchy frost. I recommend downloading the WUnderground app and looking at the temperature maps with all the personal weather stations out there. You'll see what I'm talking about.

[@Lvaladez114]

@@2MinuteGardenTips have you done a video on your coffee plant. I've seen it available where I buy my fruit trees but didn't buy it because of the zone an wasn't sure of the mature size or how long it takes to fruit.

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

@@Lvaladez114 I have not. It's been on my to-do list for awhile, but most of my videos are on things I'm doing right now, and this is such a busy time of the year. My coffee plants begin looking really terrible at this time of the year due to the cold, and I don't want to film while they're in ragged shape. If I can't get it done soon, may have to wait until the spring, but I do intend to do it.

[@Youngstomata]

That blood orange looks like it can be placed in a magazine it's so robust and plump with fruit

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

I'm afraid I let it fruit too heavy. I should have thinned it. It looks like perfection this season, but I'm afraid it'll alternate-bear next season. It's a gorgeous tree, though, and the fruits are starting to take on that classic raspberry blotchy hue.

[@juliekraft4102]

That may work great,but not for zone 5, unfortunately.😔

[@mtkaren]

Works for you, not here in Montana. Even our garage freezes because we have to open the doors to warm up the cars.

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

Sure it will. You just won't be able to do it all winter long. You'd be able to do this in September and October when the frosts start, and in April and May when things are warming up, but in the dead of winter you'd need to bring them indoors and probably give them a supplemental grow light. Doing the cart method will dramatically reduce the amount of time you need to keep them completely indoors.

[@_anthony_4712]

So you avoid bringing them indoors by... bringing them indoors?

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

If you carry your citrus trees indoors and overwinter them in front of a sunny window, you'll have to develop an acclimation process over weeks. It takes a few weeks to slowly acclimate your citrus trees to indoor lighting, because if you simply carry citrus from outdoor light to indoor light, they'll defoliate. You'll also need a way to ensure you eliminate *all* pests on your plants, or they will overpopulate and breed indoors. Carrying them inside a garage on freezing nights, then wheeling them back out is *not* bringing them indoors. All it is is covering them up. You won't have to go through any of the sunlight acclimation and pest elimination procedures, and you won't need to re-acclimate them to sun in the spring.

[@winrockywin331]

New Englander not included… lol

[@2MinuteGardenTips]

If you have a small greenhouse, this will be doable. One of those hobbyist greenhouses that Harbor Freight sells, or a good pop-up greenhouse, will get warm enough in the daytime when the sun is out to make this doable, if you wish. You will just have to have a thermometer in there to be sure, and you'll need a garage that never freezes inside (or you'd have to add a space heater in your garage). If your garage gets too cold, and a greenhouse isn't something you'd want to deal with, this wouldn't be a good use of your time and probably more trouble than it's worth.

[@malaikahansen]

😁Iam living in north Europe where it can get down to -25c so your method is a big no thank you