Chillies - Growing and Over wintering 2020

[Plot70]

The weather has not been good for peppers this year.
I had one fruit start going red before rotting off.

[stigs]

Apart from the cayenne, the habaneros and scotch bonnets still stubbornly refusing to ripen.

My reaper is last years plant and the pods have gone green yellow light orange and are still refusing to go red.
I have black pods on a black hungarian for over 10 weeks now, they should have gone red about 6 weeks ago at least.
All in All 2020 needs to be consigned to the dust bin

[annie8]

Apart from the cayenne, the habaneros and scotch bonnets still stubbornly refusing to ripen. Brought a couple of plants inside as an experiment to see if that helps. Reckon it’s in part a result of the pretty rubbish summer we had here but also might start them slightly earlier next year. Looking back I seem to have sowed around 11 Feb so might try January next year.

[stigs]

Can anyone identify this plant, all the pods have quite vivid yellow tops ( it came from a mystery seed bag )

[stigs]

At last the reaper is looking like it means business

[Ms-T]

Opps ...did they not like that one.

[stigs]

I found my only Orozco that was isolating on the bedroom windowsill snapped in half today and when shown to the other half all I received was a grin

[SimpleSimon]

My hot ones are finally ripening en masse. Getting tons of them now.

Lots of 7 pot yellows



Big box of assorted ones



Got lots of different sauces fermenting. The bahmanian goats are finally producing and they are lovely.

[Peteyd]

Is there an idiots guide anywhere on here for how to over winter chillies?

I'd like to give it a go but I haven't been very successful in the past.

I mean, there almost certainly is, and someone will no doubt be able to send a link quite quickly. I did try and search but that is something else I have never had any success with.

[annie8]

Thanks. Am trying to stress them a bit by cutting back on the watering. We shall see

[SimpleSimon]

Do people continue to let their chilli plants flower at this time of year? My habaneros are still full of flower and surely that must be affecting the ripening of the fruit on the plant.

I just leave them to it myself. Least until mid Oct when I'll attempt to stress the plants to ripen all the the fruit that's left.

[Mark Rand]

The recent spell of warm to hot weather has brought on the Carolina Reapers that I was beginning to think wouldn't ripen. I've had an infestation of red spider mite in the chilli&cucumber greenhouse (didn't fumigate it at the start of the season) so I'm not going to overwinter any of the plants. But they're still flowering and fruiting away merilly, even if the leaves look a bit sad. They're certainly coping better than the cucumber plants have!

[annie8]

Do people continue to let their chilli plants flower at this time of year? My habaneros are still full of flower and surely that must be affecting the ripening of the fruit on the plant.

[ameno]

My Beaver Dam and Buquinho chillies are all starting to ripen now, as, finally, are my long sweet peppers grown from saved seeds from a supermarket pack.
Still no signs of my Numex Suave Red (a mild variety of habanero) ripening yet, though.

[ameno]

You can even ripen them by pulling the plant and hanging upside down in your greenhouse. I did this with a few plants last year in November and it worked (least for the ones that didn't rot ).

I think that method depends on fruit size and type. I tried that last year with a small, thin-walled variety and all the green fruits just dried the same as the ripe ones, rather than ripening.