plant-care Drastic Cutback Overwintering...

Pam said:
APHIDS!
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lostmind said:
oi, I foresee a neem oil purchase in your near future! Safers soap too just to be sure!
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Yup, looked like it might have gotten a little too cool down there for the aphids as most looked dead to me. Either that or they didn't like the taste of Chocolate Habanero. :shocked: I picked the few pods left and did a serious cutback on the plant. I'm going to purchase the Safers soap tomorrow just in case they show up elsewhere. Thanks for the help guys - the warm weather is coming.
 
Pam said:
Aphids don't move around very much even in warm weather, they mostly just sit there and suck juices.
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Well, they suck all they want out there in the snow now. :) (that's where I chucked the clippings) Thanks for identifying them for me. Now I know what to look for.
 
Look at my new little friend

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Checked my Chocolate Hab this morning - the one with the aphids. It got cut back 3 days ago and is looking healthy right now. No sign of aphids and it is already starting some new growth. Ordered a small bottle of Neem oil for the future. None of the other plants show any evidence of aphids. I had a Chocolate Hab last winter that died and I'm thinking aphids may have got it. I didn't know anything about cutting back or overwintering last year and should have a bunch more survive this time around.
 
bigt said:
Checked my Chocolate Hab this morning - the one with the aphids. It got cut back 3 days ago and is looking healthy right now. No sign of aphids and it is already starting some new growth. Ordered a small bottle of Neem oil for the future. None of the other plants show any evidence of aphids. I had a Chocolate Hab last winter that died and I'm thinking aphids may have got it. I didn't know anything about cutting back or overwintering last year and should have a bunch more survive this time around.
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Glad to hear your battle with the aphids is going well.
 
POTAWIE said:
I've had aphids bad already but I isolated and/or destroyed the problem plants, I hope.

Here's my overwintered fatalii again. Its growing nicely, and isn't as yellow as it looks, but I don't have room to let it get too big unfortunately
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Potawie,

Are you keeping your plants where they can get light? I just watered mine (do it every other week, once a month from the top and the other time from the bottom) and found a huge bloom on one. It is getting next to no light (1-2 lumens). If it has a pod on it in two weeks, I'm going to rethink this photoperiod thing!

Mike
 
Many of my overwintered plants are getting light now that I've brought them out of semi-dormancy. Personally I pull off most flowers and pods until mid spring(tonnes of them) to make for a stronger more productive plant, since pod development takes away a lot of the plant's energy
 
Here's my last 2 plants to come out of semi-dormancy, and they're showing some nice new growth

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Here's my monster Guadaloupe hab before I cut it back again to fit better under light.

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Looking good Potawie. I pulled one of my plants up from the basement on Thursday and I have not seen any new growth yet. The stem was still green so I expect something. How long did it take for yours to bounce back? Do you have yours under lights? I have mine in front of a window.
 
POTAWIE said:
Mine started out just in front of a patio door, but now they get moved between the door(day) and the floro lights.
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Do you know approximately how long it took to sprout leaves? It should take mine longer without any lights at night but I am just curious. I just can't wait to see that first leaf to know it survived.
 
Most of mine only took 1-2 weeks with natural light, but the last couple took about a month before they had any real healthy growth
 
POTAWIE said:
Most of mine only took 1-2 weeks with natural light, but the last couple took about a month before they had any real healthy growth
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Thanks. Hopefully I will see something in a week and a half but I will hold out as long as a month. After that I think it would be time to let it go.
 
millworkman said:
Mine managed only a couple days before I got good sized green leaves off some overwintered plants.
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Well thanks for throwing that in my face. Hahaa I am just joking. This one actually may be done for. The other 2, which are still in my basement, grew a few tiny pale leaves here and there. It is still too early to give up yet.
 
I don't have an indoors to do dormant over-wintering, just a greenhouse to try and keep them as warm as possible.
I was experimenting with different amounts of pruning and I've found that leaving them too big just makes life more difficult. The only plants that produced any usable fruit were 2 jals and a greek. Everything else kept flowering in the warm spells and dying off when it got cold again. The new leaves are very cold sensitive too. I lost some new growth a few times.

This is my most drastic cutback. It's a jalapeno cut just above the first node and repotted into 1 gal container:

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Yes, that's a flower. :cool:
c.
 
Here's one of my two Manzano reds seeing the light of day after a tough winter in the basement. Both survived, but this made pods all winter and has a huge ripe one on it now ready to be picked. It's in a 5 gallon container. My other survivors (at least I think they made it at this point) are 3 Jalapenos, 2 Chocolate Habs, 2 Japones, 1 Hawaiian Sweet Hot, 1 NUMEX Big Jim and 1 White Bullet. Looks like the only fatalities were a white and a gold bullet. (they are stumps and I think root rot got them - probably too much water) All in all, I think the plants really liked that corner with a lot of natural light. In spite of some vicious aphid attacks fought with Neem oil & Safer Soap, I had a much better success rate than last year. It's going to be a tough decision this year what to keep as I have way too many plants and can't keep them all. Decisions, decisions - I have all summer and then some to make up my mind.
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