How are your overwintered chillies doing?

[OllieMartin]

Well I tried to save a few plants, but the room they were in got too cold and most of them turned brown.
I moved 2 of them downstairs and their stalks remained green, when scratched they seemed moist, but I wasn't convinced they were going to do anything.
Yesterday I noticed that one of the plants has some new buds growing from the base of two of the 'branches'. So I can assume it's alive.

But it seems a little late on, I would have expected growth sooner, or am I just being my usual impatient self?

All being well I should end up with 6 varieties of chilli this year instead of just the one last year.

How are your overwintered chillies doing?

[Alison]

Mine is doing quite well after spending the winter on the utility room window ledge. It's putting out a lot of new growth and has some flower buds forming. Keep meaning to repot as I normally do in the spring but keep forgetting.

[Jeanied]

Mine's been flowering and fruiting all winter on a west facing window ledge in the bathroom - good little pot plant too!
The gorilla is inspecting the new fruits developed since Christmas - all except the little red one which is last year's. Oops - the red one doesn't show in this picture - silly me...

[Shadylane]

Mine are doing carp. I have a cayenne which one of the veterans down t'lotment gave us and two purple ones. They are not doing great. The aphids keep multiplying as quickly as I can exterminate them, the leaves keep curling and drying up and they don't look partciularly happy. They do have flowers though and the purple ones have a couple of tiny chillies forming. To be honest though I'm not sure it was worth the daily ritual of aphid squashing and fungus gnat hoovering.

[OllieMartin]

Mine's been flowering and fruiting all winter on a west facing window ledge in the bathroom - good little pot plant too!
The gorilla is inspecting the new fruits developed since Christmas - all except the little red one which is last year's.

Always handy to have BigMallly overseeing your plants

I'm completely jealous that you folks have managed leaves AND flowers already. I'm way behind!

...The aphids keep multiplying as quickly as I can exterminate them, the leaves keep curling and drying up and they don't look partciularly happy.

What causes the leaf curl, 3 of my new varieties have odd disfigured leaves, some with holes in. It looks as though a creature has been at them, but they formed that way and I don't see any evidence of anything.
They otherwise look pretty healthy so haven't been too worried. But it'd be nicer if they all had healthier looking leaves.

[danmon_81]

i threw 4 plants away a month ago...after taking up window space and cheese'ing the missus off all winter they died!! Ah well still got my 40 odd new plants!!

[ginger ninger]

I'm completely jealous that you folks have managed leaves AND flowers already. I'm way behind!
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Your not on your own Ollie, some of mine have only just started to form leaves, I've them on the windowsill in the kitchen covered with the top part of a 2Ltr pop bottle's as a cloche's. I wasn't expecting my Medusa to survive this is it's 3rd year.

[OllieMartin]

Your not on your own Ollie, some of mine have only just started to form leaves, I've them on the windowsill in the kitchen covered with the top part of a 2Ltr pop bottle's as a cloche's. I wasn't expecting my Medusa to survive this is it's 3rd year.

It's fairly warm in my house, do you think they'd still benefit from bottle cloches?
I don't even have leaves on my overwintered one, just two new buds.

[Jeanied]

If it is any help my chilli is sitting on the windowsill smack bang next to the shower. Maybe it likes the warm steam.

[zazen999]

Erm, I haven't got any overwintered chillis.

but, from the same family, my overwintered tomato is just about to open its flowers.

Kinda chuffed about that!!!

[Mac]

I've just got one Prairie Fire which is going mental!! Absolutely covered in flowers and chilli's! It's just been sitting on the dining table minding it's own business being watered about once a week all through the winter. There must be about 20 - 25 chillis on it at the moment with the same again of flowers!! Well happy....

[HeyWayne]

I currently have three twigs and one very healthy looking plant with flowers on and everything.

Of the three twigs - one looks/ed as if it might survive - two little leaf buds formed up the main stem, but I think this too has had it.

Jalepeno is my survivor.

Casualties are Twilight, Cayenne and Purple Tiger.

Trouble is I don't really have anywhere sunny enough to grow many more.

[RobintheBobin]

Mine were all extremely successful at dying over the winter

I think they were left out in the unheated greenhouse a little too long last winter "oops" she sighs, and the last one left on the windowsill is looking very twig like, which is a shame as it was one my OH bought me and I can't see to find it anywhere.

Oh well a positive is that this means a trip to the West Dean Chili Fiesta in August

[HotStuff]

Some of mine are showing signs of new growth, a few green leaves here and there, then to my surprise about a week ago I noticed 2 new flowers on the Scotch Bonnet. I am jealous of Mac's Prarie Fire, but I'm not giving up hope yet as I had an Apache which looked like a stick this time last year then put on a spurt in June and fruited really well.

[SueA]

I have one on the kitchen window which looks like a small dead twig at the moment, probably because it is a small dead twig!