About 1 year old. I've left it in pot and just watched it. The rest of the seeds were grown last year and didn't survive the winter. I did overwinter and put frost cloth over them but clearly it didn't work.
Maybe too big a pot. I water every so often and just have it fertilizer.
Peppers are annuals, they grow and die in single season, about 4-5 months.
Having a plant that’s a year old and looking like that is extremely suspect. I’ve heard of stunting growth, but to double its life and it still have only 2 sets of true leaves with no nodes? Somethings fishy.
Has nodes. It's a jalapeno and they live for 5+ years
https://www.fallsgarden.com/how-long-jalapenos-live/
Not sure about peppers but jalapenos are definitely longer than 6 months. I know since I've had them longer than a year.
It's definitely stunted but I have it in coconut coir which is what the kit came with. I immediately just planted the rest of the seeds in normal compost and after a few weeks planted in the garden. They last until a few months ago. Most haven't survived but a few might still come right.
Overwintering is hard
Yeah, I got you. Peppers are not annuals, just in countries where it is too cold for them over winter. Pretty sure in Mexico they've got jalapeno bushes that produce for several years.
Now, is that the same green growth, or is this the rebound after the original top growth died in the cold? If it's the same vegetation, you need some fertiliser. Coir is inert. It has no nutrients. You need to fertilise.
Yeah they live for 5+ years. Our weather only just hits freezing but clearly that's too much. I had overwintered or attempted but I think I took the frost cloth off too early.
Think it's new green grow. I have fertilized and it looks much happier. The kit it came with came with coir. I've never used it before but it seems to have kept it alive/dormant over winter.
It was inside but it's still freezing inside. Like cold enough for oil to freeze. I kept it on a heat mat and had a container over it.
Annuals can be abused to have longer growing cycles, but they are still annuals.
Making them not be annuals isn’t healthy for them and are why you’re having issues. It’s an extremely advanced technique with a large failure rate, that can also stress the plant out too much making it useless next season.
How is abuse to let a plant live longer ? In their natural habitat they live longer. If anything it's abuse to move them to other areas where they die of frost.
I wouldn't think it's an advanced technique. It's just growing them all year rather than half year.
But thanks for commenting