Last year I overwintered this guy by chopping it all the way back and just bringing the whole pot and everything inside. I didn’t want to do that this year because I have an indoor garden and I didn’t want to even chance any pests making it in. So I pulled it out washed the roots with hose and sprayed it down with spinosad then transplanted in to a new pot. Last year I saw at least a couple small green nubbs at this point but right now it just looks like a stick in the dirt lol. How do you tell if it’s actually dead.
monkeybawz
I still see green. Who knows what the spring will bring?
Astral_Peppers
General rule is if its green, its alive. Even then, the whole top half can be dead and the root system may still be alive and send up new growth in the spring.
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Last year I overwintered this guy by chopping it all the way back and just bringing the whole pot and everything inside. I didn’t want to do that this year because I have an indoor garden and I didn’t want to even chance any pests making it in. So I pulled it out washed the roots with hose and sprayed it down with spinosad then transplanted in to a new pot. Last year I saw at least a couple small green nubbs at this point but right now it just looks like a stick in the dirt lol. How do you tell if it’s actually dead.
I still see green. Who knows what the spring will bring?
General rule is if its green, its alive. Even then, the whole top half can be dead and the root system may still be alive and send up new growth in the spring.