Figs trees will thrive in your neck of the woods bromigo…all you have to do is winterize them…my 2 fig trees were pruned, covered in straws and I put tarp over them for the winter…just took this picture now and it was snowing earlier today.
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They either really love you, or are trying to kill you!
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@WubbaLubbaDubDub, Second that!! Right on!! Watch out for option #2! It ain’t called a Reaper for no reason!!! 
A tiny piece of it at lunchtime, may mean ecstasy or agony, dosing the difference between medicine and poison!! 
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I did prune. did just straw one year then straw and tarp the next. but that winter was bitter. this xmas was 61F for frak’s sake. screw it I’m gonna look for seedlings.
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The friend that gave them to me loves hot sauce, he has a mouth of steel. He bought 4-5 varieties of his peppers and decided I should try a pack out.
He uses bottled nutrients and has always liked my soil results, most of any crop will probably go to him lol unless I start to build a heat tolerance
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@WubbaLubbaDubDub Start them extra early indoors, they are hard to get going and extremely easy to kill during the seedling stage.
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Fair enough thanks for the warning, I’m gonna try to keep them alive over the winters and put them out each summer
Started 3 to see what they do
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@WubbaLubbaDubDub The ones I’ve grown don’t start growing well until the temperatures are in the mid 80’s and warmer nights.
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@BRMTreefarmer and @WubbaLubbaDubDub, 2 of 3 plants are thriving, temps around here are like that and it’s been raining a lot!! High humidity!! Congrats brother!! You won’t regret it, unless you misuse it!! lol! 
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Oh wow they like it warm eh?
I’m keeping them in my 25-27C tent(77-80.6F)
I’ll either have to put a heat pad under them on a timer for the ‘night’.
Or just keep them in my inside tents that stay a bit warmer
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Seeds might take a long time before you get fruits…check out ebay for fig cuttings bromigo…I actually sell mine at ebay but I dont have any at the moment…
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Some Like it Hot, lol! I keep the seedling tray on a heat mat set about 80°F, 24/7. A couple of screw-in leds over them 10-12 hours.
They should start to pop up in about weeks. I don’t use a dome, don’t want 'em to damp off.
I’ve never soaked them, it will be interesting to see how yours do. You’ve got me thinking of trying to germinate some in a paper towel!
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How much growth do you see in a season after cutting back that far?
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Fig trees will grow 15+ ft. tall if you let them…I got my figs from an old retired Chicago school teacher who was Italian and he got his fig cuttings(clones) from his father’s fig tree… My friend’s tree is over 15+ ft. tall and he has to bend it over and cover it with tarps…it takes him 1.5 wks to bend it over slowly without snapping the main tree trunk…
I personally don’t want a big ass tree in my back yard so I keep mine no taller than 5-6 ft. tall…you can also keep it in a big pot and bring it in your house during winter but it has to be covered in a black plastic garbage bag so it stays dormant for the wintertime…
Mine is a lot more bushier because I will get more branches growing out of the main trunk…the last 2 pix are my fig trees, the first 2 pix are clones from my fig trees…
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I ordered plants from these guys a couple years ago. They were well packed and delivered on the date I requested. Later that year they announced they were retiring/shutting down. But, they are still there, so I am not sure if it is the same owners. They have a pretty good selection:
https://www.chileplants.com/
When it comes to digging them up - I have a process for it. I dig them up, trim the branches down to the fist 2-4 nodes. I trim off ALL leaves. I also trim the roots down and rinse most of the soil out of the root. I then spray the trunk/branches with a neem oil solution.
At this point I repot. Most of that is to remove pests/eggs. I don’t want to bring spider mites or aphid eggs in the house, and so far for 4 years I have not.
At this point you can take two routes. Pot them in a dry soil and put in a cool (40s F) place. With luck they will go dormant like it is winter, and revive when planted outside. I have heard this has a 50% success rate.
Instead I pot them in a good potting mix, and put them under lights/fans. They will put out new leaves pretty quickly (1-3 weeks depending on the variety). Then just water and maybe fertilize. For short season varieties I will often get flowers and peppers and have to trim the plants back to fit their shelf.
Doing it this way I have only lost 2 of about 25 plants I have dig up over the last few years. I had a reaper that was on its 4th season this year, but didn’t do well this year so I decided not to keep it again. I have a jalapeno that is either 3 or 4 seasons old (tags got mixed a couple years ago so I am not 100% sure).
This is a jalapeno from summer 2018, dug up in early october 2018. The pic is from feb 2019, just under some shop LED tubes on a shelf. It has some edema as I didn’t have good airflow, but otherwise healthy and waiting for spring.
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Ha, I think peppers really do want to be perennials! I whacked the tabasco I brought in back to about 8," no repotting, in a SIPs bucket… in about 3 weeks it was putting out new shoots!
I may give your way a try this year, it’s nice to get a jump on the season, and to be sure we can get what we need.
The site you posted looks great. We’re going to try Reapers, Paper Lantern Habs, Fataliis, and Mustard Habs this year. Chileplants actually has them all! I’ve never ordered plants in the mail. That’s pretty cool! Thanks for that!
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My wife thanks you. I guess I do too, even though now she will have me planting fig trees out here. 
That’s OK though. I like figs. lol
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I was a bit worried too, but they all came in well. They were 4-10" plants, all labeled, and had a piece of cardboard (with a slit for the plant stem) over the soil so it wouldn’t come out of the pot. Like I said, it’s been a couple years, and may be different owners/management - but I had a good experience with them. I even found a picture of them
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haha, all good…You´re not too high 
my Buddy took that pic,dunno why he turned it upside down
Carolina Reapers can live for a long time just bring them in during winter and self pollinate and you will get peppers during the wintertime…they wont big huge peppers but it still has the heat…
Pepper leaves. … The leaves from sweet pepper and hot pepper plants (Capsicum annuum and Capsicum frutescens) are edible and they are downright delicious. They have a milder pepper flavor than the peppers themselves, and taste a little like white pepper—delicate and fragrant.
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