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fuzzi said:
There are plants that can't survive the hotter summers of zone 8-10. I'm zone 8a (was 7b). I can't grow tulips, nasturtiums, lilacs.
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Tulips are a one time bloomer here and rot (about 75%). Still a pretty show if you can afford it! I love the currants and goose berries but too hot and humid here in 7b ( i am not accepting the 8a change as the coldest temps in official history here have all been in the last 40 years). If we are really zone 8 now, I should be able to grow olives here successfully and that is not going to happen currently! Bay laurel will grow about 100 miles south of here in the vicinity of Jackson MS. but can't survive our winters more than a odd year sometimes. The weather map makers are more politically inclined than horticulturalist.
 
TJAnonymous said:
I'm doing the same thing with 2 pepper plants. Mine had about 6 or 7 fruit on them when I brought them inside. The fruit developed but was smaller than normal. The plants dropped all their flowers over a month ago. Now the leaves look pale and sickly. I'm keeping them in my sunroom with all the other wintering plants. I do have grow lights about 18 inches above them but the temperature stays between 55 - 65 degrees in that room because of all the windows. I assumed they were not doing great because it's chilly for peppers. I'm debating on pruning them down a lot so they have less growth to support until spring. I did toss some rabbit poop in the bucket (mine are in 5 gallon buckets) since it hasn't been fed since it was planted in late spring last year..
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During the growing season mine were planted in 5 gallon buckets in my greenhouse. At the end of the season I cut it all the way off it was just the main stem including the first fork then up 2 growth nodes if I remember correctly. They were completely bare no leaves at all. Then I uprooted them and removed all the soil from the roots and rinsed the roots. Then I cut the roots back hard I removed like 2/3 of the roots. I repotted it in a smaller container and watered them in really good.

I honestly thought I was killing them but I was following a YouTube video and they said that’s how to do it. So I just trusted the process. I figured I had nothing to lose the winter was going to kill the anyway so I gave it a shot

I keep mine in the basement it’s probably about 60-65 F down there. They have an LED grow light on a timer 10 hours a day no natural sunlight at all down in my basement.
 
Birdsonghill said:
Tulips are a one time bloomer here and rot (about 75%). Still a pretty show if you can afford it! I love the currants and goose berries but too hot and humid here in 7b ( i am not accepting the 8a change as the coldest temps in official history here have all been in the last 40 years). If we are really zone 8 now, I should be able to grow olives here successfully and that is not going to happen currently! Bay laurel will grow about 100 miles south of here in the vicinity of Jackson MS. but can't survive our winters more than a odd year sometimes. The weather map makers are more politically inclined than horticulturalist.
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I have 3 Hinnomaki Red gooseberry plants and I'm in 7B/8A. I just planted mine so they get shade during the hottest part of the day. They seem to be doing great...
 
TJAnonymous said:
I'm doing the same thing with 2 pepper plants. Mine had about 6 or 7 fruit on them when I brought them inside. The fruit developed but was smaller than normal. The plants dropped all their flowers over a month ago. Now the leaves look pale and sickly. I'm keeping them in my sunroom with all the other wintering plants. I do have grow lights about 18 inches above them but the temperature stays between 55 - 65 degrees in that room because of all the windows. I assumed they were not doing great because it's chilly for peppers. I'm debating on pruning them down a lot so they have less growth to support until spring. I did toss some rabbit poop in the bucket (mine are in 5 gallon buckets) since it hasn't been fed since it was planted in late spring last year...
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prune them and they will regrow next spring. that's what I did and kept them outside (in zone 9b).
 
fuzzi said:
There are plants that can't survive the hotter summers of zone 8-10. I'm zone 8a (was 7b). I can't grow tulips, nasturtiums, lilacs.
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I had both nasturtiums and lilacs in zone 9b. actually I picked nasturtiums that escaped a neighbor's garden and continued to grow wild like a weed. they probably got water from the other side of the fence where people watered their plants and trees.
 

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