This year we had a great turnout out with our plants; scorpion, reaper, devils tongue, and habaneros (orange, red and chocolate).
Unfortunate we live in Colorado so it gets too cold to grow year round, but I learned that you can trim and bring inside for the winter months
Question. Anyone else who does this. Do you continually trim off new growth or just let it ride?
They live in the basement that stays pretty cool/low 60s next to a North facing window
by Xjitis
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Best of luck, I regret planting mine in a raised bed 🙁
I’d say cut off 1-2 inches under the new growth at any of the tips and they should stop doing that, also water a little less. You basically want the plant to go into hibernation and then you just get a jump start on next year with a skeleton and root ball right? You can still hack off a ton, usually people cut them back to 8-10 inches from the soil if they’re being really aggressive so you got some leeway. That being said I grow indoors and just continually cycle, so I trim back and immediately go back into a veg leaf growth phase. So you can go right back into growing but I would try and get it to slow down until you get it light. If that’s outside then try to get it to stall till spring
I’ve tried winterizing twice, and I was unsuccessful both times.
I didn’t try this year because I didn’t want to go through the work of digging them up to pit them in the basement, just to then get thrown back into the compost pile come spring, lol.