Hot Peppers - Indeterminate or Determinate ??

 

Are hot/chile peppers classified in these terms or is that only a
tomoato thing?  And while I'm on the subject, does indeterminate merely
mean that it will reproduce through one growing season, or also that it
is an annual which will carry over through more than 1 season?

Growing habaneros (red savina), jalapenos and seranos and am wondering
what to expect.

 


Indeterminant/determinant relate to vine-type plants with tomato being one
example.   Indeterminant means the vine will continue to grow whereas a
determinant vine grows to a certain length then stops.

 

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Expect a lot of peppers, those are prolific varieties!


Penelope
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"Maybe you'd like to ask the Wizard for a heart."

 

Max Caviar wrote:


From personal experience, habaneros and serranos can overwinter and
fruit strongly in subsequent years. (I have a prolific, ten year old
serrano.) No personal experience with jalapenos.

Keep them from freezing or drying out over the winter, then trim
severely at the first sign of new growth in the spring. "Severely" as
in down to the first bud above the root. Old roots are good; old wood
is bad.

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www.midnightbeach.com

 

Thanks for the responses folks.  I'm in Zone 23 so I'm assuming
freezing won't be too much of a problem.  But the Red Savina is
unfortunately just getting going at this late date.

Jon Shemitz wrote: