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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
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I am tempted to start mine. I wonder if I would have enough time in the season to get peppers and mature seeds?
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
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Not in Illinois, you won't. I would start them in Dec, and get them to a good size indoors before planting them out. Or you could start them now, plant them out, and over-winter them inside. Both would work and would give you a huge head start next season. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: So Cal
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I started some of them yesterday but then I am in So Cal and still have a couple of months before I have to even think about the weather Mike
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: 2 miles south of Yoknapatawpha Zone 7b
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Seeds arrived Monday. Thanks again Scott. Claud
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Wichita Falls, Texas
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MMMM, refresh my memory again, please, on how to over winter pepper plants?
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Omaha Zone 5
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Wichita Falls, Texas
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
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There are large threads on this - see http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...ght=overwinter. Basically, I either plant in pots and move them into the greenhouse after pruning before the first frost, or dig them up from the beds, wash the roots in a bucket of water, and replant in container mix for the winter, then repeat in the spring to go back into the ground. I keep them under minimal lights, becuase I don't want them to grow, just survive. I guess about 70% make it through the winter and then pop back to fast growth once back in the ground and fertilized. |
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Wichita Falls, Texas
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Thank you, that helped a lot. |
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Join Date: Feb 2015
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Sunol, CA
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These really look cool.
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
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That said, our winters are short here in Atlanta, so we are talking about late Nov to mid March, and then back out. So this would work well in Texas. For longer winters, I imagine it is harder to over winter.
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Wichita Falls, Texas
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Yes, it should work well enough here, and I have the "green house" to keep them in unless we get a snow winter; in the house in that case, back room that is quite cool. I read through that thread and will give this a try.
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
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Your lovely fresh seeds arrived today, just in time for my seed starting. I promptly sowed 6! Many thanks!
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
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And the kambuzi makes a nice pepper jelly.
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