Can you bring annuals, and /or vegetable plants inside during the winter?
I want tο bring іn mу pepper plants аnd mу impatients(potted)inside under light. Wіll thеу bе hарру? Wіll thе pepper produce fruit?
Anу οthеr tips?
Posted in annuals | 
Tags: annuals, bring, During, Inside, Pepper Plants, Plants, Vegetable, Vegetable Plants, Winter
5 Responses to “Can you bring annuals, and /or vegetable plants inside during the winter?”
Leave a Reply
Yes, just remember that annual plants typically have a life span of one year, so they may start to get a bit wimpy on you after a while. Pinch back the impatiens to keep them from getting too leggy. (Plants get leggy when there’s not enough light, so they stretch out to get to the light.) Anything will produce fruit if they’re fertilized (which you’ll need to do by hand if they’re indoors). Be sure you have good artificial light that’s kept fairly close to the plants (not too close so they don’t cook) and don’t fertilize too much (don’t force them into too much growth in such an artificial environment). When it’s time to put them back outdoors in the spring, “work” them out a few hours each day – bring them in at night, and lengthen the time by an hour or so each day until they’re out all the time. You should also probably repot them with new soil in the spring. If all else fails – be sure to keep some seeds so that you can start new plants that will hae the same colors that you like so much.
The impatients will do just fine in any bright window, or close under a florescent light. The florescent can all but touch the plant without burning it.
The pepper plants I’m not sure about. They need full sun and hot weather to produce their fruits.
If you can keep the pepper alive for the winter you will just be that much ahead for next spring. If you have to bring them inside to keep them alive they will not produce unless you have greenhouse conditions in your home.
What kind of peppers? I have successfully brought in chili pepper plants but once bell peppers are done, they’re done. I have found it next to impossible to bring in a mature bell pepper than flowered and made fruit. I don’t think you will succeed here even with fertilizer. I have never known an annual vegetable to refruit once its time is over. You can, however, get seeds from these plants and start them over. My experiencd with impatiens is that they flop when I bring them in. My success stories are parsley, lavender, oregano, and most of the herb plants. I take rather large cuttings from the plants, reroot them and they look great in about one week. I also bring in minature roses and they continue to bloom all winter and I replant them outdoors in the spring.
The scientific answer is NO. You may be able to extend the time you get to enjoy the flowers or get additional vegtables particularly if you have a greenhouse or greenhouse conditions. Annuals are just that, annual. They don’t grow naturally all year long, at least in a way that we enjoy them.
Impatients generally do survive but begin to return to their natural state. (Leggy with sparse flowers and leaves).
Household heating is tough on plants too.
It is reasonable you potentially could get another round of peppers.