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over wintering peppers

KazareenKazareen Posts: 3
edited December 2020 in Fruit & veg
hi guys i am new to this so please bear with me. last summer i had pepper plant outside in a container in my garden never fruited (it was attacked by various birds so spent most the summer and autumn looking after it) anyways i have brought all my pepper plants indoors to over winter however this one particular pepper plant has started growing new seedling shoots around the edge of the container, im talking like nearly 10 new shoots (and i can see more are growing) and all have leaves and they honestly look like new seedlings!!!? is this normal? and if so should i separate them into individual plants or just keep them in same container as im afraid its going to turn into a shrub soon lol help!!!!

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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Are you sure they're peppers and not something else that's seeded into the pot while it was outside? They can't be seedlings of the pepper if it never fruited (and if it did, you'd have harvested the fruit so the seeds wouldn't have ended up in the pot). If they are offshoots from the pepper growing from below soil level, and not seedlings of something else, you could try separating them (keeping a bit of root if you can).

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • KazareenKazareen Posts: 3
    yeah they definitely look like a young pepper plant.  oh maybe they are offshoots from the previous plant because they all just seem to be shooting up from the sides, i think im just going to have to bite the bullet and go in and separate like you said. thanks
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Certainly worth excavating a bit to find out what's going on. Pepper plants generally get thrown out at the end of summer and new ones grown from seed in the spring, so there's probably not much experience out there on this - so let us know how you get on :)
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • KazareenKazareen Posts: 3
    edited December 2020
    yeah will do 
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