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Been there and done that.

I have found it is far better to just save a few seeds from a superior plant and replant in spring. The resulting plant will be significantly more productive and vigorous than any overwintered one.

I have done this with jalapeno for many years and as a result have plants that are incredibly productive and disease free...producing over 300 jalapenos per plant over a single growing season.

You will not get that from an overwintered one.
 
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I believe that last yr i had a haberno plant that was started from seed from yr before
It produced nice peppers really came on towards end of summer little better but we had habernos in December of this yr it was in a greenhouse that helped for sure
 

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I had my peppers in containers so I decided to overwinter them to get a quicker start the next year. I kept them in a shaded area of my unheated greenhouse but closed off the area around the peppers and kept them at 45-50 degrees. 18 plants all died. So now I just seed early indoors to get an earlier harvest.
 
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I decided to overwinter a Jalapeño plant and a Habanero plant last year.

I over-wintered a potted bell pepper plant. Put it back out the first of April (I live in Vegas). It began putting forth fruit last week, almost before my tomatoes. When i brought it in i cut it back and kept it watered. I didn't think i would get any fruit.
 

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I have gotten peppers off of them but never as much as fresh grown plants. not worth it for me
 
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I decided to overwinter a Jalapeño plant and a Habanero plant last year.

I have overwintered chillis in the UK, habanero and Rocoto or Capsicum pubescens. I trim the rootball to 6” and the stem to 6” on January first, then put back in a 10” pot. They soon sprout, and I used to get two harvests a year indoors, far better than starting from seed. I had one Rocoto for 7 or 8 years. Incidentally Rocoto are far more cold tolerant, I had one survive several light frosts before eventually dying. Habanero would be dead after one light frost.
 

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