I have the following questions please

1) I see that people plant new peppers every year but I'm in zone 10 so my pepper can survive all year round. Do I need to plant new peppers every year because maybe the lifecycle of a pepper plant is one year max and it does not produce a lot of fruits after the first year?

2) To make sure I have maximum yield of fruits, do you recommend I need to replace pepper plants? how often should I do it? every few years?

3) Do I need to trim pepper plants at all? If so, when and how much should I trim it down?

Thanks

didn't I just see you in another post? Peppers can live 3 to 8 years in proper conditions. They may get to 6' long and tall...and down in Louisiana where Hot Sauce is best, they never trim the plants - it would kill all the new flush of peppers. Yes, flush - like a rose they can produce peppers several times in a year. I harvest Cayennes from August thru Nov and they rebloom several times after I strip them. Give them a good granular fertilizer like Garden Tone, or even Tomato Tone, and they will be very happy. Don't fall for all the advertising about the fertilizers with triple numbers - they won't be happy - I also have several containers I grow my peppers in - one is a 50 gal water stock tank with holes in the bottom, or 10 gal fabric containers, and last a 19" pot (19" deep, 19" wide) and have no problems as long as I don't take them indoors, chuckl.

I had a ghost pepper plant that lived for like 5 or 6 years...
Eventually it died and I had to plant new seed.

My experience is that they are very productive on the second year...
Down in Florida, you ought to do better than at my house where I have to dig them in the winter.

People replant every year because they die in the cold.
I did have some calico peppers that came back from the roots one year without my doing anything to protect from the winter cold...

I sure wish I'd made an effort to keep that strain going...

Re 6 foot peppers...

Maybe a cage?
I like these home made tomato cages...



I had 6 foot tall plants one year...