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The Little Jalapeno Plant That Could… Grow All Winter Long!

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Posted:1/22/15
Updated:3/18/18

The Spring garden season has begun already, can you believe that? Seeds have been planted inside that will be transplanted in March. There’s broccoli, cauliflower, kale, onions, bok choy and collard greens planted so far. I’ll be doing a full post on planning soon, so keep a eye out on it!

But for this post, I wanted to celebrate a jalapeno plant. This special jalapeno plant grew all Summer long and somehow as of January 22, in the middle of Winter, it’s still producing jalapeno peppers every single week. How did we do it? Well we didn’t, the plant did it. How did we help it? Well that I an discuss….

The Amazing Jalapeno Plant

First, a little list of dates as you know I love the facts.
Jalapeno seed planted: March 22
Transplanted seedling to the roof: May 1
Moved From Roof to Inside: November 10, 2014
January 21, 2015: Still producing peppers inside…

When cleaning up the garden for Winter in November, we noticed the jalapeno plants were still growing small peppers on them, including producing new flowers.   Knowing that the plant would never survive Winter outside we began thinking how we could save it. I mean wasn’t the plant trying to tell us something?
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So we thought, couldn’t we try moving the plant indoors? Sure, there would be shock, but we’d put it near a window, but would there be enough light? Well there’s only one way to try I guess.  So we moved it from it’s 5 gallon bucket to a regular planter bucket.  We did this so bugs wouldn’t come into the house, and also because the 5 gallon bucket has a watering hole in it. 

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Can we first check out the amazing roots on this one jalapeno plant grown in a bucket?  Amazing!
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So after the meticulous effort of getting the plant from bucket to container without breaking the plant, we finally got it in.
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The new planter needed some additional potting mix so we filled it up.
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So then we hulked up and carried this jalapeno plant down to our apartment.
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We put him (its a boy, ok?) on our wire shelf at the very top next to the window.  At this time it was all a experiment, would this work at all or would the plant be dead within days?
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And then within a few weeks, the plants baby jalapeno peppers started to grow into full size.  The plant itself also slowly starting to change from a yellow plant to a lush green plant. 
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And the plant kept growing… even when it was snowing out the window.
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New flowers started to appear on the plant…
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And then a few days ago, we picked all the jalapeno peppers off.   There was a great mixture of green jalapenos and red jalapenos. 
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And then we sat back and thought “Little jalapeno plant, you are the best!” while marveling at our fresh jalapeno peppers in the middle of January when it’s 20 degrees out.

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Did I mention that as of today, there are new flowers growing on the plant? Again?  I don’t think anything can stop this jalapeno plant from growing!

This is something we’ll continue to do every year now, no jalapeno plant will be left behind, they’ll all move indoors with us!
I hope this caused some garden smiles and also will help you bring some of your Fall garden indoors with you!  Sometimes that little plant can just do magical things…

 

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  1. Shelene Pope says

    September 8, 2021 at 2:30 pm

    My 10yr old son and I are trying to grow some indoors. I wanted him to get interested in gardening and he is into hot stuff, so I thought jalepenos. We planted our seeds with a heating pad and they sprouted wonderfully but I was worried that they would need heat indoors thru the winter in order to produce? I live in MD and it can get pretty chilly indoors even lol. Do you think I would need to find a way to heat the 5 gallon containers I got for them to mature and produce?

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  2. Sonja says

    October 20, 2019 at 9:52 am

    I’m super late to this post (2015 and it’s now 2019!). It did bring a smile and answered my question about my little jalapeno plant. I started a raised garden this year (April), planted my lone plant (just one jalapeno – I have many other plants) and it is still producing (mid October). I do live in South Texas so we are still warm. However, I read that jalapenos don’t produce much at temperatures above 90. Bull!! We were over 100 a lot of days in a row and this little guy (hmmm…they must be masculine) kept on giving!
    I’ve frozen a couple of batches, used some in my cooking and given away tons (well…quite a lot) of them to some co-workers. Still have buds appearing. I’m going to see how long he lasts without bringing him in.

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    • Pamela says

      October 21, 2019 at 11:29 am

      Hey Sonja, don’t you love how much one little pepper plant can give you? Happy to hear your pepper plant is still producing flowers, good luck and keep growing little guy!

      Reply
  3. Rossiva says

    September 27, 2018 at 2:54 am

    It’s encouraging to see/read stories like this.

    I have cancer, and suspect my ‘time’ might be limited… but I still wanted to know if I could raise peppers inside, over winter. After a bit of farm-kid research, I was off to Harbor Freight to purchase their sale advertised, 6×8 foot, fiberglass greenhouse.

    Total investment: floor/foundation – $150.00 On-sale greenhouse – $213.00
    Both totals include tax.

    Hope this works! I’m hyped about it!!!

    Reply
    • Pamela says

      September 27, 2018 at 10:20 pm

      Hey Rossiva, your comment left is really special to me. I wish you all the best and I hope you can share some photos of your peppers growing through the Winter! Also, what a great find with the on-sale greenhouse! <3

      Reply
  4. Victoria says

    April 18, 2018 at 2:23 pm

    I have a couple of plants down in Houston that are doing great!! I never thought about bringing them indoors but maybe ill give it a shot with atleast one of them! Awesome post

    Reply
    • Pamela says

      April 20, 2018 at 2:53 pm

      Good luck to your plants Victoria!

      Reply
  5. Dylan A Stefiuk says

    March 18, 2018 at 9:28 am

    Yo your images are broken.

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    • Pamela says

      March 18, 2018 at 11:53 am

      Server issue, everything is working now. 🙂

      Reply
  6. J.R. says

    November 20, 2016 at 9:38 am

    Amazing! I am Brooklyn and just got a jalapeño plant with three peppers on it indoors, this is inspiring!

    Reply
    • Pamela says

      November 20, 2016 at 9:27 pm

      That’s awesome J.R! Best of luck growing – let me know how it works for you!

      Reply
  7. Tonya says

    May 17, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    I went out to start may garden for this year a few weeks ago and I noticed the same thing… I hadn’t touched my garden since the end of last summer but there it was, two feet tall with 2 large peppers and several blooms?. My other plant looked as if it might be gone but I noticed the bare stem turning green and a few tiny blue blooms starting…..l replanted it near the other one so we shall see!!!??

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  8. Becky says

    January 2, 2016 at 1:31 am

    This is the first year I’ve tried to grow Jalapenos and I just picked 2 new fruits from my plants (2 days before the new year!), so I wanted to see if I could transplant it inside for the winter….granted, I am in SE Texas and we do not get down below freezing much, but I do not want to lose my little pepper family. 🙂 Your story gives me hope that I can keep my peppers all year! They taste SOOOO much better than the ones I got from the store!!! 🙂

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    • Pamela says

      January 3, 2016 at 5:31 pm

      Sending you jalapeno pepper well wishes Becky! I have a feeling your plant is going to do well and you’ll have peppers left for months! Good luck!

      Reply
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