How Long Will They Produce ?

[Johnch]

I like to add peppers to many of my meats and some of the vegetables
So I started Jalapeno , Poblano and Yellow Hungarian peppers in December
I raised the plants next to my wood furnace through the winter and have moved the plants to the picture window
There I have a solar heating set up to keep the plants warm
I have had a grow light light over the pepper plants set so they get at least 14 hours of natural or man made sun light a day

I keep the peppers removed so the peppers don't get mature

My question
How long will the plants keep producing peppers ?
This is my first year of growing peppers through the winter

As if they will start slowing down or stopping
I will start new plants to plant in the garden so I can up my supply of peppers

By the way my Male cat likes to eat any plant he can
But he learned the peppers are not the best to snack on :smile:

Thanks
John

[gwpercle]

I grow peppers outside so they produce until the first frost and if we have a mild winter and the plants aren't killed by a freeze ( they are not freeze hardy at all) they will continue and grow another year .

Pepper plants are in fact perennials and if protected from the cold and given the right conditions , will happily over winter and continue growing next year .
But , even in Louisiana it doesn't take much cold to kill them ... so we usually just pull up the dead winter killed ones and plant new .
Keep warm and they will carry on .

Farmerjim can tell you all about pepper growing ...he's a real farmer ... I'm just a backyard plant piddler .
Gary

[ryanmattes]

They'll keep producing peppers as long as you keep feeding them and keep them warm.

In my outdoor garden, I usually keep 2 hot jalapeno plants, 2 jumbo/mild jalapeno plants (for stuffing), 2 sweet banana plants (also for stuffing), and then a few other peppers (bells, anchos, cubanelles, sweet italian, etc).

We are never short on peppers from late spring to early fall. I usually end up giving away a pound or more a month because we have too many. In the fall I harvest all the remaining fruit, and they go to pickling or salsa.

Hot pepper plants are very productive.

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[waksupi]

I found mine produced for around five years before they gave up.

[gwpercle]

WOW ! 5 years ... they can hang in there when old man winter doesn't get to them .
This year I have planted :
Gypsey Peppers
Green Bell Peppers
Jalapeno
Pepperoncini Italian Pickling Heirloom (first time)
Lunchbox Sweet Snacking Pepper

I chop and freeze some for cooking and pickle the rest .
Gary

[jakharath]

Mine last till the first freeze.

[LenH]

I usually have a flower pot garden for pepper plants. My son had me get a couple of ghost pepper plants and those made more than we could use.
Toward the fall I brought one of the ghost pepper plants and a jalapeno plant indoors. I had them on a table next to a big window for sun.
We had an ice storm and lost electricity for a couple of days, the temp got down to 46 at the coldest. I thought both plants died but left them alone and all the leaves
turned brown and fell off. That year we had an early spring and I put the plants in the front flower bed on the south side of the house and to my amazement both plants came back
and produced another year. I don't think the root system were affected by the cold snap. but these days I gather pods until the first frost.

I am rather fond of Candied Jalapenos aka Cowboy Candy.

[Txcowboy52]

Love me some peppers !!!

[nagantguy]

I’ve kept pepper plants alive indoors for about 5 years; thought that was something special but looks like many others have as well- have found the hotter the pepper the longer it produces indoors with out going dormant for a time.
And as others have mentioned it don’t take much cold damage/kill them even on a windowsill during a freak June frost.

[Johnch]

Thanks
Then I can put them out later
I am thinking of putting them in 5 gallon buckets
That way I can bring them in if it is getting cold
I also can then just bring the 5 gallon buckets into the house before any frost

John

[BJK]

You might find this of interest. I've been using this system for a few years on the deck. It sure does make watering easy!

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[waksupi]

I kept mine in one gallon containers, worked fine.

[Gator 45/70]

I grow peppers outside so they produce until the first frost and if we have a mild winter and the plants aren't killed by a freeze ( they are not freeze hardy at all) they will continue and grow another year .

Pepper plants are in fact perennials and if protected from the cold and given the right conditions , will happily over winter and continue growing next year .
But , even in Louisiana it doesn't take much cold to kill them ... so we usually just pull up the dead winter killed ones and plant new .
Keep warm and they will carry on .

Farmerjim can tell you all about pepper growing ...he's a real farmer ... I'm just a backyard plant piddler .
Gary

Same here, I keep an Jalapeno plant alive for a good 5 years in a pot, It would get cold I'd roll it inside.