It's that time of year again! Time to share with you all that my 2 Golden Habs are still going strong. If you check my post history, you'll see a post for when they were 3 and 4. Yeah, I fully acknowledge they could benefit from bigger pots, but this has mostly been just for fun. I have 64 other peppers below my deck too! If you're curious, I over winter them in my closet, and I do repot them with fresh mixed soil every Fall. I'll be doing the same this year, and hoping next year will be #6. I'm also considering a more comprehensive post of my process to over winter later this year. Anyway, thanks for the support from last year's post. If you're considering overwintering, it's pretty easy to do. Oh, and the other peppers (3 fatalis/1 sugar rush) are on their second summer. I overwintered them from last year.
by DrGyarados
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I love seeing pepper plants allowed to grow properly. Beautiful plants!
Absolutely amazing 👏👏 – got a couple of ghosts, black pearl and (sigh) a mushroom through last winter but hoping to get Habs and Armageddon through this one.
Wow them plants are amazing I aspire to have chilli plants that age and good looking one day soon. Well hopefully in 5 years time
So cool! How satisfying to see all your hard work pay off year after year. I’m planning to overwinter three superhots; we’ll see how they do in a sunny window in zone 5b….
They’re amazing, such sturdy stems! Only my lemon pepper does well over winter, in a south window, despite the 5 sunless months in the Pacific Northwest. Thinking it needs to go to a bigger pot, because roots are coming through the bottom. My ghost pepper and other ( that I’m drawing a blank on, have been less successful. Please share how you overwinter them. Do they produce all winter?
Very cool, they look great!
How big are the pots?
And what zone?
Wow! Such beautiful peppers. I was thinking about over wintering mine, do you cut the branches all the way back and then resoil these peppers?
Do you get a better yield than previous years?
Yes, please write up the overwinter post. I had one hab going for year 3 but took a misstep somewhere and it produced nothing. I started over this year and want to keep it going again.
Very nice! How was your 2nd year because mine are not producing much fruit like the 1st year
Very nice looking plants I’m jealous 😆. I’m on year 2 my red habanero. Southern California winters are warmer so I leave them outside, I’ll try to cut them back like you did to get a strong stem. Btw are those night sky penutinas? They look great
wow, they look like trees
My God those are trees! 👍
Ah nice, I do a similar process in a small greenhouse (wheel all the pots in before first frost), but I leave them frutiing in the greenhouse all winter and cut them back and refresh soil just before spring growth starts up again.
I’m in mourning currently as my 11yo Chocolate Trinidad scorpion tree finally succumbed to a heavy and early cold snap at the end of autumn last year, but it had a good innings so I can’t be too sad. I think between my 11yo chilli and my equally aged chickens, I’m exceeding the global average age for both species considerably (haha for chickens it’s probably about 31 days 🤣)
Seeing trunks like that on a pepper plant gives me so much hope. Thank you for the motivation.