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I'm also in the UK and my birds eye chilli plant has been growing strong indoors for 3 years. This year I got a bumper crop of over a hundred chillies from the plant. In the winter I cut off most of the leaves but not entirely. I have successfully planted cuttings and have given a few small plants away. I found that using a child night light works well in providing more light and used this with a small plant grown in an office without windows. Very nice informative video.

Hi eli for last 3 years i have been bringing my chilli plants indoors pruned and kept them by the window all winter there survived and been giving lots of fruit happy days 😘🇬🇧👌

Thanks Eli for this video. I am going to try this year.

Thank you for the taking care of peppers, I did fine just didn't trim for dormat

Thanks Eli - really good informative video, love your Scottish accent too!!

Best explanation on storing pepper plants , I have seen up to now. I hope to save mine this coming winter . I have watched many utube films on doing this ,most did more chatting than doing .

Thank you I'm trying to overwinter my pepper plants this year x

I now wish I had kept my pepper plants. To excitement with you! Can’t wait to see how it turns out.

Living my life vicariously through both you and Kate untill I have enough saved for a Greenhouse!! So I'm as excited as you to see how these do over winter 🤣 sorry..... not sorry!

Perfect timing and you already answered my question about compost reuse in this video so it saves me asking. I have a couple of chillies that were started late and also got a lot of sun scald so I never got fruit from them. Instead of giving up totally, I’m going to try and overwinter them to get the maximum chance of a crop next year. I figure that if they don’t survive, it’s no loss really as they’ve already been a minor disappointment this growing season. The variety is Norfolk Naga so it’s going to need maximum growing time to get a decent yield. I’ve already ordered next year’s chilli seeds and seeing the staging and planning videos you’ve done previously, I’m reworking how I use the greenhouse for chillies, tomatoes and sowing & potting up space. Already looking forward to it. In the meantime, it’s turnips and carrots for Christmas time.

Great vid, so excellent tips. I binned my plants last year but I’m tempted to try this now.

I just found your channel today, you’re informative, real and fun! You have great energy and an amazing accent.

I definitely want to try to overwinter mine. Thanks for the tips. Cannot wait to see how it works out next spring. Thanks for another wonderful video.

Can't wait to see the results Ps I'm up to date watching your videos, no more late nights lol

Waaahh..I didn't know you could do this.. imma gonna try next year!Thanks for sharing!

Thanks so much for this guide, Eli! I have a10 healthy sweet pepper plants which I doubt will fruit well this year as I was very late sowing, but if they develop a good root system and there's a chance I can rescue them and get a head start for 2023 that would be fab! Enough to trial - fingers crossed for indoors. Greenhouse too far away to heat so we'll see. I'm in Edinburgh area, too - but 500ft above sea level - up for a challenge, though!

Greetings from Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Thanks for this video, Eli. I have two sweet pepper plants my neighbor gifted me that got off to a really slow start. They are beautiful and healthy but just now in October are they beginning to bloom and set fruit. It's wonderful news that I don't have to throw them into the compost bin! Yay! I want to try overwintering at least one of them indoors (no greenhouse, sadly). But, I have to decide which of my houseplants has to give up its home in my sunny south window. 🤔

Eli, Your presentation is so genuine and relatable. Just the right amount of chat and personal way of presenting info. Your videos give my husband and I the gifts of learning and inspiration and smiles every time. This one especially. Gonna try it with my Poblanos. Do you think you might do “dormant pepper” updates in the winter for the indoor peppers? All the best to you and Kate from Rhode Island

This is perfect, since I want to try it next year.

Very informative. I prep'd 3 Lancer chillies and 3 Chocolate bell peppers yesterday. Pruned but left the roots alone. Added some new compost on top with a little slow release fertiliser. On my unheated sand bench surrounded by bubble wrap. First attempt at overwintering so fingers crossed. Cheers!

I really value the reality and honesty that you bring to this channel and I'll be giving over wintering peppers a go but my plants are a bit weedy due to slug damage and I'm betting the stronger the plant the better chance of success with this. Not sure my partner is going to be happy about me turning the living room into an overwintering greenhouse though but they love veg so a small price to pay if works.

This was a great experiment! Thanks!

Definitely going to try this!!! ☺️

Love your channel I cannot wait for my own garden

Hi Eli! Second time seeing your video..I live in zone 7 in Ontario,Canada..This is my second year planting some vegetables.. I really like your simplicity and love for gardening..After watching you in this episode..I am going to winterize a few of my plants..I am hoping that they survive..if I don't try your method..they will die anyway..so..THANKS U! for sharing..God Bless! 👍❤️🥰🇨🇦

I wish I seen this video last week I would of tried this, im excited to see the outcome

Thank you Eli, this has helped explain it better with my house plants. It's exactly the same thing. I'm so nervous with winter and my rare tropical house plants. 🙈

Great advice! Something to try down the road! 😁

Another new favorite channel 🙂

I’m gonna try this! Thanks

Some brutal pruning! :) I had a bad season for my peppers so I’ll try it with the ones I have left. Maybe next season will be better. As always, thanks for the lesson.

Thanks for such an informative video. I'm going to try overwintering 2 pepper plants in my garage which has windows. Never falls below 15 degrees in there.

This has been so helpful thank you!

Best of luck with them Eli, I tried this once and one out of about 7 ot 8 pulled through. The freshly grown plants from seed that I needed to grow far outgrew the one saved root. But that is hardly a decent experiment or comparison in anyway. Chilli peppers however seem to thrive indoors over winter, not something I do but I have friends who keep their chilli plants on their dining room table as a feature plant..ripening chillis and all!! I'll be following to see results next spring...Steve...😃

Are we going to over-winter our Chilli plants? We are now! You are adorable! Thank you xx

Hi Eli & Kate, i never knew that peppers are perrenial & recently found out. So, im overwintering my peppers for the first time. I googled a video to help & and knew you would have one. Love your videos, always full of very good tips and support along the way. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

Wow this was very interesting. Due a health crisis (non covid) I have been missing my favorite channels. TFS

Have saved a good 30 pepper plants from last year to grow on in 2022. Should have a much better start than last year when I lost pretty much all of them in the greenhouse. I didn't bring them in as they had bugs/thrips on them, only one survived an orange bell plant. Great tips :)

Hi Eli..you have inspired me to have another go this year, but had 4 pepper plants overwintered in our conservatory last year, with no success

Just discovered your channel, its fantastic. Im a relatively new gardener so still learning! Got a greenhouse last september (unheated). Your channel is so informative and the fact you are in Scotland is fab

Nice video covering how to keep your pepper plants alive over the winter which is doubly important if you intentionally cross pollinate your peppers by hand and have found an exceptional specimen you don't want to lose.

I’ve grown my peppers in a raised bed in my greenhouse , I live in North Cornwall so although we can get cold strong winds we don’t usually get hard frost , so I’m going to try to overwinter them in the bed. Thanks for the idea and showing the technique.

Hi, thanks for that great tip, I'm still letting my peppers finish turning red, but I'm going to try your experiment, as soon as I've picked my peppers off. Ive had 20 peppers from 3 plants this my first year of growing them.

I just winterized my first three pepper plants :)

Thank you :) Im in south Aus and I have a whole bed in the greenhouse with california red capsicums. I've over wintered them and they're quite big, plus I've planted lettuce and spinach in between the plants amongst new compost.... will be really interesting to see how they go!

Hi Ellie, Love your videos, we are in the south east ofEngland. Our weather is not as bad as yours. I love the way you have your tomatoes supported, the spiral things. Can yo tell me where I can purchase some, looked in my local garden centres with no luck.

Definitely will do this. I have brought them indoors before and had reasonable success but I did not trim them back to a node. My Habaneros had a good crop this year, made lots of pepper jelly for Christmas gifts and the plants are quite healthy so I hope this works. My Ghosts and Reapers did not thrive well this summer so I will start them again in the spring.

Going to give it a go with a couple Friggitello sweet peppers indoors. Going to copy you with your King if thd North next year 👍

Most of UK bedding plants are perennial. I’ve managed to overwinter osteospermum purple spoon (rare) and purple sun, I then took a few cuttings for a few new plants. I over wintered a chilli plant, I had a Y in the windowsill all winter and then in spring it regrew but it had tiny leaves and loads of fruit (it was the ugliest plant) so I never did it again, I have more valuable things to keep over winter so I won’t be overwintering mine. Another informative video

Northern Indiana here; gonna try your technique!✅

😂😂mine are growing again after mahoosive haircut so I most likely will have to do it again before bringing in the house. Thank you for sharing ✌️🇨🇦🐝 safe

Loads of fabby advice in this one Eli! Interested to see how they do - will you be growing any from seed to compare with your overwintered ones? Now I've got the conservatory ill definitely be overwintering a few of my chili plants!

I did this last year and had peppers way sooner! I’m doing it again this year!

Lovely accent ! greetings from mauritania

I have to say I'm surprised how well my peppers having been faring this October. Although the fruits have been stunted, the plants otherwise look as healthy as ever, despite experiencing some 2-3C temperatures a couple of nights. The tomatoes, watermelon and okra have been holding up much more poorly, with a significant decline in the health of the plants since late September, and the ground cherry, cucumbers and zucchini haven't been looking particularly great either. The next healthiest looking plants I have (among the frost tender ones) are the eggplants and cucamelon, but they are still showing some signs of stress on the leaves whereas the peppers are not. I'll be digging up my in-ground peppers today to move into the house though because the next few nights will all be 0-2C and the plants aren't really growing (despite looking healthy).

Thanks for that Eli, I wasn’t sure what to do with mine. I’m going to try this, going to bring a couple indoors. Can you do it with chilli plants too? 😁

So who is trying to overwinter their peppers this year?

Yes am overwintering mine for the first time in Sunny Barnsley 😂

I will be trying aswell this year . Possibly a different way though 🤔 . Hopefully video to come lol .

I had a pepper plant at home all winter and it was fine!

I've just pruned mine back for the winter. I have them in an unheated greenhouse house. What im trying is that ive put a cheap mini pop up greenhouse inside my greenhouse to try and keep them frost free fingers crossed.

I’m going to try; one of mines still only got green ones on and one didn’t fruit at all so I’ll try and give them a chance next year if they pull through

Awesome video👍👍, I use autopots for my peppers habaneros, scorpion, and reaper, but I wanna try hot banana peppers

I've had some success in overwintering chillies for the last 11 or 12 years, but it's been a bit hit and miss. Some years when they failed were years when perhaps my house got too cold, others I'm quite sure was my failure to ration the watering properly. I eventually settled on weighing the dried-out plant (including plastic pot), then adding 20% by weight of water whenever it dropped to about that level once more. It only takes two minutes once a week to weigh each of four plants on a kitchen scale and note down the results. This seemed to account for the brighter weeks where the pots were perhaps getting more sunlight than cloudy weeks (I only have windowsills to keep plants on where they'll be safe; no conservatory or shed or greenhouse) or the difference between the upstairs pair being exposed to more direct light than the downstairs pair. If two plants survive the winter then it means I'm off to a good start in February while I'm waiting for freshly-sown seeds to germinate. I don't keep a plant more than two years, though, as I have to rotate all the pots between the front and the back of the house throughout the summer which must be stressful to the plants. But the harvests are well worth the effort! Unfortunately last winter was a total failure, compounded by zero germination from my kept seeds; after a second batch also failed to germinate it was too late to try again with new seeds. Consequently all my windowsills saw this last summer was a riot of radishes and spring onions, but I'll be starting off with a new batch of heritage chilli pepper seeds this February.

I’m going to try again this year with my Carolina reapers cheers 🍻

Hi Eli, I've been looking for this kind of help from the UK but most of it seems to be American. Great information. I've kept a few going in my greenhouse which is controlled to a minimum of about 7 or 8 °C. I've still got good healthy scotch bonnets "on the vine" 16th Feb. '22 When can I start to revive them by feeding? Most of them are just green twigs but I want to get started as soon as I can.😊

Love your videos. Just built an unheated greenhouse. What zone are you in ?

my chillies are in the spare room for winter. It'll be exciting to see what happens next year.

I wonder if you can do this with grape plants. I’ve got some young plants which haven’t fruited yet but want to keep them going

Thanks Eli, I will definitely try this, can we do the same with chilli pepper plants? 🌶

You should talk about the potting mix you use mixed with compost. Also, where did you put probe within pots to regulate your temp while in greenhouse.

Good evening, Eli. Loved your video. I have some beautiful sweet peppers from a friend of mine in Greece. I live in greater London, and have had a really successful harvest since the middle of august from my outdoor plants. It would be wonderful to get them a month or two earlier though as, since they’ve started we’ve had loads and loads. What were your findings in the end? Did any of the plants overwinter successfully? I grow brugmansia and at the beginning of December I root prune and cut back to bare sticks, chuck a dust sheet over them and store in a dark shed before easing out of dormancy on April. I wonder if this method might potentially work?

great video wish i had kept my pepper plants to try this now 🙈 have you ever thought about growing micro greens ? i am eager to try it but would love to see you have a go too 👍

Talking about pots that’s what I v been doing washing them in jay fluid

Hi that's very good information. I think I will do the same. I have strawberry plants in pots is it best to put them in polytunnel or just leave them outside but cover them. Could you please give some idea thanks.

Next season, "our plants can't spring back to life as truly they didn't die" My peppers are over 42 inches tall bells and banana peppers and I'm trying to over winter in my garage also in my sunroom which faces the South-East and nothing freeze out there and unheated ( in 8 winters) Something I've never tried. Thanks

Hi, thanks for the info. I've cut 2 plants back but starting to see little leaves regrowing from the nodes. Do I have to be more brutal in the chopping ? :) I'm guessing they're meant to stay in 'stem form' when overwintering ?

Hi Eli, when you reuse your spent compost do you sterilise it after checking through it, and before adding new compost for nutrition?

Hi Eli. Great video, very informative. Im going to try to overwinter my peppers. But the only place I have to keep them is a comunity greenhouse where the temperature is optimal for growth. So I won't have any issues with freeze. But the optimal condition in the greenhouse already made them grow. And it's only end of October. So they are not going to be dormant during the winter. Is that a problem and what should I do if they start growing a lot? Should I trim them again or just let them grow? And is that going to be an issue in the spring when I would have to transplant them in the garden? Thank you.

as i am going to Australia for 3 months i am going to over winter 1 plant and drip water it from a 5 gal water reservoir

Looking for some help, sorry for the long post! So I'm a complete newbie growing chillies, but I've had a couple of pots growing indoors over summer. The plants have grown HUGE. Really thick strong main stems, good foliage, but the fruit production happened late in the year. It's now coming up to mid October and I've got quite a lot of green peppers on the plants (all different sizes) and I just don't know what to do. I want them to turn red, but now that it's getting colder I'm not sure they'll ripen. Should I strip it back now or continue to wait to see if they ripen? Are there any hard and fast rules on when to overwinter?

I want to try this. Did you do a video of the result in 2022 by any chance?

I did this last autumn with a pepper plant for the first time. Actually i can't see any life about fresh shoots. So i'm afraid it didn't work. But i will keep on trying next autumn again. 😎 How is your stand on the pepper plants?

I did all of that and set them in my warm garage and also gave them some water and they didn’t survive. I’m in zone 7 in the US

What’s the pole you have across the back (I’ve seen a smaller one but can’t buy a seller anywhere). Do the small shelves along the top interfere when you have the tomatoes in?

Great video. I've already done everything that you've said, but cannot stop new shoots from growing..!! They're indoors, under the table, keeping warm and moist. I've really cut them back and have 10 in a large plastic tub just covering the root stock. They've been in there for about 6 weeks. I don't want to strip them again because I'm frieghtened that they won't grow again in the spring. Is there anything I can do or shall I just leave them.?? TIA

I have six pepper plants, but just for fun, I’m going to overwinter one in the modular (the greenhouse might be too hot here in Redding, CA.) I’m curious, though, Eli: I thought you had a new heating system for your greenhouse. Are you not going to use it? If so, why not?

will this method work for chili plants? jalapeno, cayenne ect... I have a few still fruiting in my heated greenhouse, they have done well shame to see them take a trip to the bin once finished with

Can we leave them in ground if there's no chance of the roots freezing?

How is your pepper plants doing now, I tried couple of times but didn't succeed

What temperature do you have in your house?

But how did it go with the overwintering? What was the conklutions og the experiment?

Did you say that tomatoes are perennial?? Whaaat? I just threw my one existing tomato plant in the compost. But it was all dried out and brown and in a pot. So I could have saved it? Omg...what have I done?😭😭😭

Pots..pots??? What size...

how are the saved plants doing

Found this video while I’m sitting here eating Lucky Charms for breakfast…. How ironic