Does anyone here, have any experience with moving pepper plants indoors for the winter and re-planting in the spring?

I have been doing a little online research, and the Mrs. and I are going to try it this year, just wondering if any of y'all have any tips tricks or advice.

She tried it with some Geraniums, last year, and had about 75 percent survived. I just put them on the top shelf in our attached , but unheated garage, and we forgot about them.

My research so far indicates that there might be a little more to it than that, with peppers.

Have a great day everyone.

Potted peppers can be brought in of course, but in ground I'm not sure how that would work...As you said geraniums will usually mostly come back, we'd pull them and hand in the basement to dry....soak and replant in the spring....

If you want to try, and what harm can it do, lol, I'd prune heavy and place them in sand in a basement...be interesting to hear what might also work...

Well here in North Texas. I have best luck with a couple weeks before first frost I trim ALL the little branches off the main trunks . So the plant looks like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree. If your plants are in the ground you will need to put them in a pot of just soil. No growing type soil. Water them every so often. Not near as often as during growing season . Think of the bare minimum. Your just trying to keep the plant warm and in dormancy. NOT growing leaves or anything. i place next to a south facing glass door but not touching so plant gets sun just not a bunch. As far as my success ? i am currently eating peppers off a dozen chili pequins I rotate through the house and back out in yard every spring after last frost. then let em aclimate for two weeks in their pots. feed em fertilizer and start regular watering to jump start em. best of luck !

Slick...those peppers are in pots year round? or do you replant in the ground?.

Done it several times. Trim them way down, to basically just the main stems with a few leaves, and put them under a good 4' shop light on a 12 on/12 off timer, and they'll do fine. I never had any problems digging them up at the end of the year, and replanting them in the spring.

Slickster said it. We prune a few of our Best-looking peppers back, when you think you cut enough off, cut some more! It should look like a bald twig with 2 stubby branches. I like 3.5gal pots but use what you have. The more roots you can preserve the better, so I use a larger pot. I put in indirect sunlight (East Facing Bay window) and water lightly 1-2x a month. Around the 1st or 2nd week of February, I start the rest of my pepper seeds (we are on the border of zone 6B & 7A). I will move the potted peppers and the seedlings to the greenhouse around the same time (March usually). and fertilize the potted peppers with fish emulsion. This kickstarts them into putting on green growth. It's not uncommon to have peppers months before anyone else.

You cut them off so each branch is like a hand width so its short and stubby down at the bottom with just a few branches.

You dig it and the root ball up and plant it in a gallon pot with some extra soil if you need it.

Then you put it in your crawl space type area.

Then in the spring instead of buying starts pull that thing out plant it and start watering it after last frost like you would anything else.

The gain is a two year old plant is bigger, bushier, and produces more... not mention grows the same pepper you liked last year.

I been wanting to do it for years and never do but i read up on it and might try again this year.

My wife and I saved a half a dozen for the first time last fall. The bad part was we did not plan to do it until we had pulled them. We just trimmed them back hard and stuck them in a pot with dirt. I watered them once in a while over the winter. When we planted them back out side we should have trimmed them hard again. They all lived but I can not say they produced as good as the new ones we planted.

See those shotgun holes in the leaves
early summer? That's why I wont carry over,
borers.
I'm sure this is regional. Mine are not clean enough.
BUT, healthy plants in good environment can overcome
the cooties.

Depending on how big the plant is . I f its in a big pot that takes a dolly to move pot around I just leave it in pot. IF it is in a smaller pot Ill dig a hole and prep soil for transplant . My problem is I can get buckets of them little Pequins and no body wants to eat them little firecrackers! LOL . Banana peppers and mild jalapenos my neighbors and buddies keep them cleaned up pretty good. i dont really care to transplant those as I can get fresh transplants too easy.

Thought about this more.
I have 2 hots that did not produce
and doing well now.
I'll try and carry over in place.
If you want, bring this up next season and compare.
Nothing to lose.