Overwinter Peppers The EASY Way With This SECRET 🤫

[@GardeningInCanada]

GIC Crew, anyone who has tried this method before please put you jot notes on how to succeed below! It will be helpful to so many others ❤ What video do you want to see next?

[@lidip8700]

Have you tried water wicking method on the over-winterting plants, for less maintenance?

[@stephown5374]

I overwintered a pepper plant successfully without having a bare bush. Just left minimal amount on and kept it in low light conditions with just enough moisture to keep what was left going. Once spring came I exposed it to more light and watered well. It sprang back to a healthy and happy little bush in no time. Your overwintering option sounds interesting, might try a little more tough love as you described.

[@DongusKong]

I do this every year, and I just pop it under a grow light all winter. Hasn't failed me yet

[@bigbang259]

you change the soil ?

[@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123]

Tell me more, I’ve tried several ways and have never had success 😟

[@alexs4446]

"you're only bringing in the pests" tell that to my large booming community of house spiders😂 I haven't had pest problems on my large collection of house plants since allowing my 8 legged employees to stay in the house😂

[@davidray9934]

You know, 🎶🎼 I like big bush & I cannot lie, them hot peppers gonna make me cry 🕺

[@vivb.7161]

My pepper plants were huge this year, 4ft, lots of harvest and I'm in zone 4b! So I'm just gonna repeat what I did this year with next year's starters that i do start from seed.

[@Gardenfrog]

What did you do?? 4 ft monster plants. I wish mine grew like that!

[@1971478]

The video stated at thicker bush and if you’re not in to waxing………. 😂 omg we are talking about peppers!!! Yep blinds closed lights off ….. it’s about peppers!!!! Damn I need to focus on the subject peppers!!!

[@jayla007]

🤣

[@TheAitherArchitect]

Giggity

[@floydcrase625]

Waxing is a term of adding to like wax build up like in waxing and waning of the moon

[@connecticutwormsgardens]

​@1971478 Someone needs to grow up

[@connecticutwormsgardens]

Are you 12?

[@jeremiahbullfrog9288]

Does it make sense to start new pepper plants indoors in the fall for a head start in the spring?

[@DJtheChemist]

Nice, love to see these videos. I've been doing this with mine for well over 15 years now! Because I grow a lot of C. Chinense and they take FOREVER to grow in 8b, I have to keep overwintering them :). I've got a few that are around 7 years old now and still producing well!

[@digemsmacks5690]

I enjoy your sense of humor and appreciate the innuendo 😉

[@Niaru.m]

Would storing them in a basement which has almost no light at all and aboutish +6c all the time, be ok for overwintering?

[@sharontahir9694]

That's my question too.

[@charmc4152]

Another video I saw, said to put an overwintering plant in a place with indirect light with a south-facing window.

[@charmc4152]

Another video I saw said to put the overwintering pepper in a room with a south-facing window in indirect light.

[@the_green_anna]

Thanks! I will dare to try again then! 💚 Last time I infected my house with greenfly(?) and I can't get rid of them. Any tips? I didn't pick of the leaves and I continued to water. Bad idea obviously. It got sick and had to be throw out.

[@timcoolican459]

Little funny anecdote. Right after your video ended, an ad came on for Ashley Furniture. Hope you're getting royalties? Lol!

[@misodinamosa]

Thank you! I thought it would work!

[@francismeowgannou5322]

Just what i was looking for. Thank you!

[@sabrinap4794]

Thank you for the great video! I'm really enjoying your content. ❤ This was my second year growing a large kitchen garden in central Alberta and I'm beyond grateful for all the abundance we're getting. I selected 6 pepper plants about a week ago when we had a cold snap and pruned them as you did and repotted them into smaller pots along with new potting soil. I placed them in my laundry room by a window with northern exposure as we get a lot more sun from all other sides. Within a week they all put out new growth above the nodes. Cute little leaves... What should I do? I have costco shelves with grow lights in the garage, but we're not even in October yet. 😅

[@DragonflyenAmber]

I haven't decided yet if I'm going to over winter mine. Partly because I dont have a lot of indoor space or space that might be dark enough. My dreams for my garden are far bigger than space or budget LOL

[@helenpenner9899]

😂i sooo hear that!!!

[@richardr5878]

You get a thumbs up for the wax joke alone!

[@GardeningInCanada]

❤️😂

[@Heather-x7s]

Thank you! So helpful!

[@GardeningInCanada]

You're so welcome!

[@lesfibresfantastiques7265]

When do you restart the watering?

[@GurtGobain]

I had this crazy idea to start a pepper plant from seed in my garage under a shop light around December in a 5 gallon pot, and just keep topping/pruning it to keep it small but grow tons of roots for the spring. Then basically I can put it outside at the end of May and it'll be like a fully grown plant from day 1 and grow like crazy. Or is this a bad idea?

[@iantalmadge3410]

Over wintering my 2 jalapeno plants, but I'm doing a full indoor for all my plants so they won't ever know that winter came and left by the time I transplant out side again lol

[@lidip8700]

1-2 inches of all-purpose sand on top of your soil will keep fungus gnats from hatching, that's already in your soil.

[@iantalmadge3410]

@@lidip8700 wish I could post pictures on here, it's crazy how well the peppers are doing, went from 1 pepper all summer long outside, after I brought it in now I'm up to 6 and the plants love the light! No bugs grubs or mold so far (fingers crossed) sands definitely a great idea 💡

[@TheBreamer999]

I've had limited success. The Aphids always make a return

[@WillyWall1990]

I've heard that soaking and rinsing the roots in 3 parts water and 1 part hydrogen peroxide is supposed to kill all the pests and then plant in an indoor, sterilized potting mix. I just got back from town where I picked up all my supplies, I'm trying this this afternoon.

[@maruad7577]

Dang, I will have to remember this for next year. I already brought mine in for the winter. Just bringing them in worked well 2 years ago but not last year (spider mites).

[@bigbang259]

what's the survival rate? and what's the T you keep them at during winter

[@GardeningInCanada]

60% and under 10 ideally 5 Celsius but above zero

[@bigbang259]

@@GardeningInCanada 60 is a lot! most ppl i asked said 10-20% will try it too, thx

[@TheSteve0583]

So I understood cutting it back. Letting it dry out. Putting it in a cool space. Keeping it out of sunlight. But then I got lost when you started talking about putting it in sunlight and watering it? Is that to bring it back out of dormancy and prepare it for spring/summer?

[@GardeningInCanada]

Oh yes! Sorry so if you want to wake it up put it In light with a small amount of water. Sometimes the start waking up on their Own, if that’s the case you would have to start treating it like a houseplant with light, water etc. you can’t get them to go back asleep unfortunately

[@puckingery915]

Hi, I need advice. I'm in 9B California central coast, I have my peppers on my bathroom vanity, and I'm starting to get leaves growing. Should I keep them with poor light, or should I pinch them off?

[@Gardenfrog]

If you were to repot the peppers that you had in this video using the method you suggested, what size pot would you use? Is a 4” pot big enough if some of the root ball is removed?

[@charleshash4919]

2 L pots with 2 cm of gravel at the bottom works for me

[@jjww7594]

Can you overwinter pepper plants in the dark garage throughout the winter?

[@tamrahawkes3170]

You’re seriously funny!

[@charlenefrench5404]

I don't have room in my tiny house. I have a greenhouse in a shady area, if I put a heater in there do you think it would work?

[@chongli297]

I have a question about reusing potting soil: is it safe to reuse from container-grown tomatoes that were showing signs of disease late in the summer? There was no mention of disease in the potting soil reuse video but I imagine it would be an amazingly difficult to reuse potting soil for a decade without having some disease getting into the soil!

[@DragonflyenAmber]

I wouldn't, high risk of passing that disease/virus/pest on to other plants. My tomatoes got powdery mildew and I will be tossing that soil, very carefully.

[@TheSteve0583]

I see a lot of people say no to this type of question. I would think there's a way to overtake bad with good, maybe compost it, maybe put a natural weed killer on it? I can't see literally throwing it all in the trash...

[@DragonflyenAmber]

@@TheSteve0583 Most cities will not allow it to be put into the civic compost system, for good reason. The spores will survive and infect any plant you put the compost onto. So the risk isn't worth it. A weed killer won't work for powdery mildew, it's not a week it's a fungal disease; so yes you MUST toss out the soil and many say to burn any plants that had it.

[@gospos1]

Ok so I have a well lit indoor room that I would like to move my peppers and eggplants into for the winter and see if they can survive. I know it is chancy. Question is, I would like to replace at least part of the soil that is in my 5 gallon pails so that I can avoid the gnats that I had last year. Is there any scenario that a non-trimmed back pepper plant would survive being transferred to a new pail with new soil?...Thanks so much!...Maybe an idea for a future video?...lol...Paul

[@Raul28153]

When it's putting out leaves and you want to put it in light Do you also water it? your enunciation in this video is so much improved usually I have a rough time following you. Not today.

[@thimovijfschaft3271]

I tried overwintering once. But the plants kept on putting out new growth. So I asked in a forum and they told me it's because it's probably too warm. So I moved them to my shed because that's the only place where it's not room temperature (I live in a ground floor studio apartment). But the next year the plants were all very dead. Because the shed was too cold and too moist. This year I tried growing peppers but I had a really bad harvest. Too much rain, too many slugs, and later on my tomato plants grew so much that they started to out compete my peppers. (I have them in the full soil because unlike my neighbors above me, I am lucky enough to have a garden). But I might try to pot them up and put them in this dark unused corner of my bedroom because my blinds are usually also closed.

[@jayla007]

Haven’t tried yet, but will be giving it a whirl with 3 Jimmy Nardellos

[@TheBreamer999]

Greetings from PEI. I grew them a few years back, prolific little bastards :)

[@jayla007]

@@TheBreamer999 We like ‘em prolific!!! Where is PEI? I’m in the PNW… Pacific NW - Western Washington (State)

[@klimaxg]

When do you restart watering? After you get new growth in jan-feb?

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yea!

[@CyberSERT]

​​@@GardeningInCanada Just to clarify: zero watering until then? Or give them a little until then, and after that you can give them regular full watering?

[@oxigen85]

Dammit. Wish I could've seen this a week ago. They're renovating the balconies so I just cut down my pepper plants 🙁

[@chrstphrr]

On the why you do this method vs overwinter the whole plant: Brought whole peppers inside two years ago, whole, potted from our greenhouse and ... ALSO brought in aphids that invaded our pepper seedlings that made the main grow to put back into the greenhouse. It took a month of fussing with cleaning leaves and insecticidal soap spraying for hundreds of individually potted pepper seedlings. Follow good advice in the video... and heed my tale of woe. Pro-tip: Tag your plants if you have more than one variety you want to overwinter. 'Cause they all look the same when they're just a bare Y with roots, if you don't have them stored separately!

[@rosannaruppert5505]

I get the light levels over winter....what about the watering? I'm not clear on this.

[@plupyduplupydu1369]

Winter started where you live, here its gonna hit hard and fast this year(but nobodys had to cover there tomatoes yet). Start composting in the basement

[@GameTimeWhy]

Composting in the basement?!

[@plupyduplupydu1369]

@@GameTimeWhy yeh, its so cold there, composting in my basement(stack rack style) made awesome soil, with hardly any smell-haircuts and eggs shells disaperd. No bugs, no animals. But they need a basement out there-so freezing.

[@johnransom1146]

If your peppers are planted in the ground, can you save them? I’m zone 6b very southern Nova Scotia

[@thelazynortherngardener7607]

Yes. Dig them up into pots. There are several other you tube videos on all the steps.

[@bakerbrewz]

Glad you asked the question! I have a similar situation! ❤

[@dwightdaniels8322]

Not a comment but a question. How do I get in contact with the geek crew. I am 75 yrs old and not very tech savvy. Your help will be greatly appreciated.

[@GrumpyUke]

Forget the peppers, I’m more interested in the car behind you!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Hahah that’s my antique!

[@connecticutwormsgardens]

​@@GardeningInCanadaLooks like a 2 door Chevy Impala, between 68-71?

[@connecticutwormsgardens]

Looks like a 2 door Chevy Impala, 68-71 range to me.

[@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123]

I was waiting to see a comment like that 😊

[@itsbasicallybethvlogs6822]

So is it a bad idea to overwinter in your greenhouse? Or it that not actually overwintering.

[@chrstphrr]

Pepper plants tolerate drought and dry WAY, WAY better than they tolerate freezing temps. I think that's a part of why the dormancy trick works. We see -15C to -30C as a typical band of winter lows, and our greenhouse isn't heated. My experience from either trying to overwinter, or being too late to grab plants to overwinter: once the pepper plant freezes, it's done.

[@kanhdahar2]

they didn't like my cold garage they hit below 5 deg celcius (41 F). Im trying cloning this year.

[@theoldguy9329]

So I have tried this a couple of years with a couple of hot peppers. They did not survive so I am doing something wrong. This let it dry out -- how does it grow roots orvleaces with no water. I really ended up with sticks. I have indoor seedlings growing now for the winter.

[@JonathanIsrael708]

My garage window faces North East. Should I bother trying to overwinter my peppers as that's not a lot of light.

[@tripudium17]

Has anyone done this successfully without repotting and adding new soil? Wondering if I can get away with just letting it get "bone dry" before I bring it inside.

[@3moirai]

Doesn't the overwintered pepper need an occasional drink of water, even if it's just a minimal amount? I would think might die before it tries leaf out with no moisture.

[@olefosshaug5565]

I never bring in any whole plant with soil anymore. Instead I take cuttings in August and overwinter these

[@CyberSERT]

Do you root them in water or potting mix ... or something else?

[@olefosshaug5565]

@@CyberSERT I have done both, but now I only plant the cuttings straight in a moist potting mix

[@olefosshaug5565]

@@CyberSERT I have tried both but nowadays I put the cuttings straight in moist soil

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

Over wintering peppers is so hard!

[@connecticutwormsgardens]

I have found it very simple. Little effort with great results. Don't overcomplicate it.

[@artstamper316]

So I tried this last year. Truth is, after repotting in new potting soil and putting it in a corner of the basement I pretty much forgot about it. After six months of almost no light and no water I thought it must be dead, although it was still green, so I tossed it out. I mean, you're supposed to water them to keep them alive, aren't you? So now I'm asking, did I actually throw out a viable plant??? 😢

[@randydaigle]

Can I just grow it inside all winter?

[@CyberSERT]

Yes. But you might want to take steps to make sure you don't bring pests into the house.

[@AmolGharat]

So no water for the whole winter?

[@thelazynortherngardener7607]

Some, monthly.

[@Psychodermia]

Can you FIM these, as well as top them? 👽✌️

[@MichaelJohnson-ig4xp]

I overwintered last year. I also planted seeds this year. I got peppers at the same time. overwintering "for me" it is not worth the work involved.

[@kendravoracek3636]

💚💚

[@robbymarton74]

👍🏽👍🏽

[@amorimontagnus2042]

Meh, those kind of peppers grow well enough, I'm in zone 2, I'll just start a new plant next season.

[@davidgray1515]

Miss Canada needs to stay out of American business.

[@HoneyBerighthere-Saysarath]

Of you wear a Bikini in the video. The plant shell survived all seasons.

[@3moirai]

Doesn't the overwintered pepper need an occasional drink of water, even if it's just a minimal amount? I would think might die before it tries leaf out with no moisture.