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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Dec 6, 2017 2:26:45 GMT -5
Can Peppers be reliably grown inside during the winter, etc?
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Post by khoomeizhi on Dec 6, 2017 5:01:20 GMT -5
I've successfully overwintered peppers indoors a number of times, but with no flowering/fruiting. Maybe they could be convinced with supplemental lighting?
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Dec 6, 2017 12:32:34 GMT -5
Thanks. I asked the same question on OpenAg forum and the answer was YES! But lighting does seem to be key. And that guy was growing them hydroponically... go figure... Absolutely. Had great success with Deep Water Culture. I can verify that the lights in the MVP/$300 PFC would work for it as well. It’s all in the lights! Also, I recommend weekly water changes with fresh nutrient as they mature.  |
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Post by walt on Dec 6, 2017 12:32:53 GMT -5
My mother used direct seed bell peppers in her garden and get a fair crop. Then she'd pot them up in the fall so they could finish ripening. I don't know that they set new flowers or fruit, but the plants thrived. I think they only finished ripening what they had.She'd put them back out in the garden in the ground their second summer. They would produce a second, smaller, crop, and those wouldn't be taken in again come fall. Rather the new seedling plants from that summer would come inside.
I like to grow chiltipins, wild peppers. They are photoperiod sensitive and begin flowering about frost time. So they are potted up anddcome inside and continue blooming, setting fruit, and ripening fruit for a while into the winter. These are small plants, about a foot tall. Quite attractive and productive. Hot as a habanero but different flavor. Fruit is the size of a pea. Three fruit does a quart of salsa, together with garlic, a bell pepper, onion and tomatoes. I've kept two of these plants going for 5 years. One winter, I took them to work with me and set them near a window. I didn't say anything about them, and nobody commented. Come spring I took them home again, nobody commented.
After 5 years, I lost them to a stupid error on my part. I think I would still have them otherwise. Wild peppers are long-lived perennials.
Those two kinds of peppers are the only ones I have actual experience with inside. I would expect others to do well, given light and heat.
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