Did you peppers left over from the previous year start blooming earlier the next spring? Did they produce the next year? (Maybe I'm asking the question twice?)

If one could get the pepper plants to produce the next year and hopefully earlier than transplants... it would be worth keeping them through the winter just to get a jump start on the next year.

I actually had a few peppers through the winter, but there wasn't any heat in the hot peppers--good flavor tho. They tend to bloom as soon as the weather gets warm enough and I got (bell)peppers about the same time the new ones started to bloom. The hot peppers started producing earlier, but didn't bear as heavily as the year before, but I think if I'd repotted them they would have.

I had fantastic results in potted peppers and eggplants this season. Here is that neon eggplant, and note that was over a month ago - it is even larger now, and produced countless fruits since! And I just harvested over 50 bhut jolokias from one potted plant! And that plant has more than twice that many still on it, orange or green.

Dave

Gorgeous peppers but I never could get the neon eggplant pics to post--Looks like you LOVE HOT peppers! In your opinion--which ones are hottest? I've had the tThai red demons and super Thai and the Vietnamese Multicolors--all hot but still with flavor, not just hot. This year is the first time I've heard of the Bhut Jolokias and have heard them claimed to be the hottest in the world--I've had (grown) habenero's and Scotch bonnets, and for my taste, they're just hot--no distinct flavor--how do the Bhut's stack up?

Peppers in pots did very well so far this year, I just didn't have that many to pot up. The one thai bird I overwintered inside produced a huge crop middle May and then slowed down. Today it has dozens of blooms on, so I'll cross my fingers.
Pepperhead, nice peppers, what do u do with em'?
Also, why do some hot peppers do better in pots?

Now for my October update. Pots are definitely useful for growing peppers. The weather has been cooler than normal for October, the whole year has been cooler. My pepper plants in pots have done as well or better than the ones in the ground.

I have one eggplant in a pot. The plant looks beautiful now, but I haven't had anything off of it. But the plants I had in the ground died in July.

I have one tomato in a pot, but I put it in late, and it's not been a year for tomatoes. So it hasn't done anything.

But the PEPPERS! I'm trying to extend my season with them indoors. It has been convenient having them in pots. I can move them around, put them on the steps for extra heat, use them as an ornamental plant on my fireplace. A Thia Dragon works as an ornamental pepper plant. Actually with the way I have been working, bringing the pepper plants in pots in the house worked for finding peppers on the plants. You can find more peppers to pick when you can leisurely view the plants from the couch. I hauled them in the house as it was getting dark, then I started noticing te peppers them after they were inside.

Peppers are FABULOUS for pot culture - especially the hot chili types. I had several different types of chili plants in large pots that I kept going for a couple of years; bringing them in to a full southfacing picture window for the winter, setting them back out on the deck in the spring. Eventually they had base stems the size of small tree trunks - lol!! But by that time they also were starting to peter out production-wise, so I finally planted them in-ground & let them go when winter rolled around.