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Third year, and third try of overwintering a pepper plant dug out of the ground and replanted into a pot after heavy pruning.
In the previous 2 seasons, I always had waited shortly before the first frost (~late November), but by then there had been weeks of 5-10°C highs and 0-5°C lows, so I figured maybe this weakened them. So this time I've dug out a plant earlier and put it on a SW-facing window already today. Hopefully didn't damage too much of the roots, but I've been generous.
It's a C. fruticens "Tabasco", my previous years' tries all had been C. annuum varieties (both bell varieties like "California Wonder" and hot ones like "Cayenne") but all failed. A big challenge here is that being 50°N and oceanic cloudy climate, there is very little light during the winter months (Oct-Feb), the room they're placed in will be ~13°C at night and ~18-20°C during the day, depending on if the sun comes out or not, so I'm aiming for slow, non-leggy growth over the next half year.
This time it's gotta work, right?
