How are your overwintered chillies doing?

[RobintheBobin]

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!

I looked at my gardening notes from last year and my dead twig had sprouted leaves by the beginning of April; I think a dead twig now is probably a dead twig forever

[Newbie]

This is my first year at attempting to overwinter chillies, i tried it with a "bonzai" chilli that i potted on waaay too late last year as as a result it was weenie. It has lived on top of the T.V in the sitting room all winter and is looking great, its kept its leaves all winter & is currently flowering, although the flowers are dropping off rather than setting fruit. I'll slowly start moving it back to the greenhouse soon.

[COMPOST CORNER]

I have one that survived the winter, bought from Focus DIY last year and consequently labelled "Chilli" I suspect it's a Jalapeno. I kept it on a window sill in the kitchen and two weeks ago re potted in a slightly bigger pot, pruned off those branches that were showing no signs of life and put it in a South facing window.
It now is producing leaves, is about 18" high but is only producing leaves from the very top shoots, so I may end up with a quite tall, straggly, chilli plant.
Still regard this a success though

[northepaul]

I overwintered my alba - infact it produced chillis throughout the winter inspite of an attact of some nasty bugs in the soil.
Its still ok, not flowering currently, but still a bushing little thing.

I overwintered my border one too, this is approx a foot high now, didnt produce flowers until March, but even with a little help, doesnt seem to have set any fruit.

I am quite busy growing some chillis for the school's summer fayre along with some from the seed swap for myself

[Caro]

I've kept one over-wintered razzamatazz and one cayenne. They have leaves, and the cayenne even has one flower. I suspect though that they're crying out to be repotted and placed in a warmer room, at which point they'll take off.

[Shadylane]

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.

Dunno, I assumed it was the aphids but seeing as you don't have any maybe it's just lack of decent light.

[Seahorse]

I overwintered a starfish and a birgits locoto, both in my south facing bay window. I can't say they look great but both have new growth. Definitely a way off flowers and fruit though!

[womble]

My cayenne, which was the first one I've got through the winter, produced tiny fruits all winter, I cut them all off and repotted it, gave it some fertiliser and I'll now wait and see what happens.
It is starting to grow new leaves, but on the whole, looks a mess, I've cut it back alot as well.
I've already had greenfly on it and squashing them is a daily task.

[Mrs Jackson]

My overwintered chillies are doing really well! They don't really go dormant in my house, I think it's too warm and sunny. One of my Orange habs is still producing chillies but I think it's due for a break soon. Lots of the other plants are flowering and I had to repot a few of them yesterday. I cut them all back in January but I've got quite a few that are back up to 4' ish. I'm having a bit of a hard time with aphids though, they just luuuuuuurve my house. I really wish I'd overwintered my rocotos, but I didn't have space. We did lose one plant, which was an Apache that was about 4 years old, but I think that was because Mr J forgot to water it. Still, one out of about 20 wasn't too bad!

Mrs J

[jacob]

Dead... Too cold and dark, even indoors, I think. Plus a helping hand from red spider mites, I suspect.

[JennyGiraffe]

I've had two chillis plants growing over winter. Both have kept healthy living on the kitchen windowsill, and are still looking good. Wasn't sure they would survive as the kitchen is probably the coldest room of the house during winter.

One produced 2 flowers a couple of weeks back, one of which has turned into an odd shaped chilli, so I'm pretty impressed really!

[Incy]

I overwintered 2 plants, the rest either died of some lurgy (possibly botryitis) or were not what they were supposed to be and were relegated to the compost bin.
As you can see they are doing really well. Unfortunately as I was not great at labelling last year, I can't be sure which varieties they are but I believe one is a jalapeno and the other a hungarian hotwax.

[HeyWayne]

My overwintered Jalepeno has fruits!!

[cupcake]

I have a chocolate hab with some buds, and a Fatalli which is pushing out leaves. The Bhut Jolokia is sitting looking at me and is a twig. The stem does appear to be alive tho.

[tamsin]

My chili is leafing up and covered in loads of flowers. My sweet peppers have baby peppers developing.

I pruned them back and repotted them (same size pots just new compost) when they started showing signs of new life and that really spurred them on.

My overwintered tom is looking less healthy. It had a big of a bug issue but hopefully with those removed and being repotted it will put some new growth on.