[hubballi]

I still have last seasons chilli plant growing in the kitchen which is now very tall. Is it worth me keeping it going for this season or will it not crop again ?

Ta.

[mumofstig]

Give it a bit of a prune - it will carry on fruiting 

[JayG]

My cayenne peppers are now into their third year - I chopped them down to about 9" in late autumn and they are now flowering again.
The previous year I repotted them but I think I'll just leave them to it this year apart from the occasional liquid tomato feed.

Can't speak for all chillies but I think most if not all are perennial if grown in suitable conditions (i.e. indoors in this country.)
Might have to "recycle" them after this year rather than push my luck, although then again.........

How long has anyone else kept their chilli plants going productively?

[claytonia]

Dam, my other half threw ours out thinking they were only around for a year! Got to starte again this year then!

[surbie100]

Mine are looking very very dead - chopped them down to 9in, watered sparsely as per instructions in the interweb, but the leaves have all died and the stems have gone woody and dry. Is it likely I've killed them, or are they about to pull off a Lazarus?

[sunshineband]

Some are easier to keep going than others.

I have had a lot of success with cayenne types and scotch bonnets, but not with some other sorts.

That's not to say no-one could, just that I haven't 

[JayG]

Mine are looking very very dead - chopped them down to 9in, watered sparsely as per instructions in the interweb, but the leaves have all died and the stems have gone woody and dry. Is it likely I've killed them, or are they about to pull off a Lazarus?

Sound somewhat dead to me - were they in your house or in a greenhouse? (the latter would be far too cold I suspect.)

[hubballi]

I even have a tomato side shoot in the same pot from last season which is still alive.

[surbie100]

Mine are looking very very dead - chopped them down to 9in, watered sparsely as per instructions in the interweb, but the leaves have all died and the stems have gone woody and dry. Is it likely I've killed them, or are they about to pull off a Lazarus?

Sound somewhat dead to me - were they in your house or in a greenhouse? (the latter would be far too cold I suspect.)

They were in my house. In hindsight perhaps I should have left the upper branches on till stronger re-growth started happening this year. They were doing fine till then...I have saved seed so it's not too bad - though they were an F1 and I now realise this might give me erratic results. Worth go though!

[hubballi]

It's a bit like my rubbish small kale, beetroot and chard plants from last year. New leaves are coming up so I may as well harvest them for salad ?

[bravemurphy]

Mine was ok till last week (kept in the house) then noticed some leaves drying out.

The next day i noticed the main stem going black and all the leaves above were daed so cut it to below the blackness and just got me fingers crossed now .

[shokkyy]

I overwintered 2 habaneros this year in a spare bedroom. I don't bother with my Superchillis because they grow on very fast from seed, but the habaneros need a longer season to ripen fruit. One of them looks dead but the other looks healthy and is putting off new growth. I did chop them back at the start of winter but didn't repot. I'll do that this spring so they've got new compost to give them a kick start. But I do hate bringing them in the house because they're always instantly smothered in those horrible little flies and associated stickiness.

[carlrmj]

             Apparently there are 5 types of Capsicum .

   Depending on which type you have ,some are easier to overwinter then others .

  I grew chillis two years ago, then threw them away when they had finished fruiting.

  Last year I grew 6 varieties , and have 17 plants in the bedroom , cut down to 6-9 inches

  with just the stem.

  I am hoping that they will have a good kickstart to the season and produce a better crop
 
 this year .If  they survive this year and are a success I will do the same next year.

[ThatsNice]

I overwintered 2 habaneros this year in a spare bedroom.........I do hate bringing them in the house because they're always instantly smothered in those horrible little flies and associated stickiness.

I grew chillies on my kitchen windowsill a couple of years back and had this. I take it this is really common then having them indoors? Is there any way of stopping the white fly things?

[viettaclark]

The white fly love the new leaves and leave a sticky residue. I get them on my over-wintering chillis on the window sill.
A few spiders have moved in but that's a bit TOO organic for my livingroom so I've resorted to Provado ultimate bug killer.
Not too worried as I've only got a few leaves at the moment but I'll stop it if any flowers bud up before they go outside.