I Moved a pepper plant inside. It is still fruiting. Maybe I can keep it going. I bought it a small stand grow light.

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Peppers are perennial in the tropics. You can keep this thing forever given water, light, nutrients, and non-freezing temperatures.

I am having dreams of having a small pepper tree.

It can be done.

I will. I’ve used them for a pickle pepper recipe. It was real tasty.

I was hoping with a grow light I wouldn’t have to cut it back to just wood.

Good read, but I don’t sterilize anything. I use my own potting soil that I make from my garden. I am just going to try to keep it going. If I get pests, well outside it goes.

They will winter and you can bring them back out in the spring

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I've never tried to keep them going. I just trim them back and let them go dormant for the winter inside. If it's still fruiting then it's probably not ready yet. Once it stops i'd let it rest until spring.

Last year I brought in half and left the other half outside. I brought them inside during any freeze but they never really came back in the spring like the ones I overwintered inside

what is your opinion on how long leaves should sit before throwing them on the garden?

Leaves can go on the garden immediately.

and so they will 👍

Me today. I’ve been trying not to be lazy and get a couple of garbage cans full on days when the weather is cooperative.

youve got all that nice maple leaf diversity. 👍

we live in 100% alder land. but thats fine. lots of nitrogen from alder leaves.

I can never get to the alder leaves because of the ferns and the thicket of trailing blackberries. 🥲

this thread is gold