Rubbish at peppers and chillies... HELP

Dusty? Is that you???

Welcome to the Vine.

Lisa - I also grow in the East Mids and some of my chillis have yet to flower.

My routine is:

Sow in Feb in small pots [about 10 to each pot] and stick in heated prop.

As soon as they germinate, take out of the heated prop, leave on kitchen surface until they have 2 true leaves.

Transplant/prick out into their own pots, leave them a few days indoors and then put into unheated greenhouse as soon a they are an inch or two tall. It is often still early March so I put them on a tray together, and put a few layers of fleece on them.

Repot as they grow - in usual years they start growing really fast once it warms up in May/June but this year they sat there for ages.

Take the first flower out, it causes the plant to throw out a flush more and really kicks the plant into action. I know which ones have had the first flower removed as when I do this, at the same time, I stake it with those green thin stakes and I tie it in.

Keep them on the dry side of damp.

Feed regularly.

I grow some that don't need to colour up, like Numex Twilight - and have been eating them for weeks now.