pepper plants

[xxfordxx]

what do you do with pepper plants at the end of the year.

do they keep growing or die off or back and grow again next year?

[Jeanied]

Which kind of pepper, xxfordxx? Sweet or chilli?

[Safhyre]

easy.....both
i use both probably the same amount if times....based on what I planted, then it would be sweet

[xxfordxx]

well i have several kinds.

1)sweet banana pepper (which i didnt know was part of the chilli peppers family untill i ate a whole one about 15 mins ago)
2)jumbo sweet pepper

[rogesse]

Couldn't say on sweet peppers, but I overwintered the chillies. All the leaves dropped of and I was left with 3 green stalks per pot!

They lived in an unheated 'sunroom' with minimal water until the weather warmed up then I watered more regularly. They very soon sprouted new growth and are now bigger than last year with a more abundant earlier crop - well worth the (minimal) effort!

[Alison]

They are both pretty tender so won't survive our UK winter outdoors or even in a cold greenhouse. I find that most of the plants get pretty big so take up too much space to bring inside but I do have a Prairie Fire chilli plant on it's second (or third, I can't remember) year which is covered in fruits. I tend to let them dry out quite a bit over winter and then cut back, repot and let them get going again in the spring.

[HotStuff]

I have 3 Chilli plants that are celebrating their 3rd summer and half a dozen more that I've overwintered from last year. I just bring them inside onto a sunny windowsill.

[Caro]

I have a sweet pepper plant that I overwintered as an experiment. I just brought it in the house and put it near (ish) a window, and watered very lightly. It currently has 2 large peppers ripening nicely and two smaller ones getting ready to take over.

[coreopsis]

Everything I tried to overwinter is always getting eaten by some bugs-peppers,parsley and chives.Grrrrr

[chilliking]

i've not tried it with sweet peppers but if you are talking about hot peppers then you should definitely over winter them.

[9641roger]

Chiili peppers are good to over winter;cut the stem to a couple of inches,trim the root ball and pot in a smaller pot;ideally,place on a nice window sill.Most won't survive in an unheated greenhouse-particularly the very hot ones.Once Spring comes,they wil start growing again-and will be way ahead of newly purchased plants.Once they are growing well,re pot into bigger pots with some good new compost.Don't water much during the winter

[tamsin]

Sweet peppers overwinter just as well as hot chilli ones

[nomis]

They lived in an unheated 'sunroom' with minimal water until the weather warmed up then I watered more regularly. They very soon sprouted new growth and are now bigger than last year with a more abundant earlier crop - well worth the (minimal) effort!

Im going to do this with my 4 Chocolate Habs and my two Bhut Jalokias this winter. They can stay in the house in fact as I have them in nice pots, maybe with the heating on etc they might re-fruit though the winter