[Jemsk]

I have a chilli plant and I'm not sure how to treat it, should i do the same as i do with tomatoes and pinch new leaf growth off to channel growing energy into the chillies?

Thanks

[agapanthus]

No!!   Remove the centre shoot...just at the top to encourage the side shoots to branch out ....to get more flowers....to get more chillies

[Jemsk]

Phew thank god i asked I was about to start hacking away at it and see what happened!! Thank you :-)

[helluvatractor]

at what sort of height should the chili be before you pinch out the growing tip please ?

[corndolly]

Should I pinch out the growing point of sweet peppers to get more fruit also and at what height ?

[splodger]

i always let my chillies and sweet peppers do their own thing - they are outside - unprotected - and left to fend for themselves - i had so many fruit last - i struggled to give em away - but wow - the chillies were hot hot hot!

[agapanthus]

at what sort of height should the chili be before you pinch out the growing tip please ?

4 or 5 inches

[helluvatractor]

thanks

[mum of 3]

i left all mine to their own devices last year and was picking chilli's well into autumn

[DD.]

i left all mine to their own devices last year and was picking chilli's well into autumn

Me too!!

[johnkelly]

After getting worried about mine I followed a tip from here (or possibly elsewhere) about fertilising them myself by rubbing my finger on the flower to get it covered with pollen and then rubbing it around other flowers on the neighbouring plants. I now have a couple of chillis well on the way and quite a few others coming. I've not cut the plant at the top or anything. They've just grown.

[agapanthus]

Should I pinch out the growing point of sweet peppers to get more fruit also and at what height ?

I do pinch mine out......again about  4 or 5 inches