Picking chillies, will it encourage more

I'd be picking them as I use tons of chillies. They might ripen off the plant if you stick em with a banana in a bowl I don't feed mine twice a week, I scarce feed them at all. I water them once I see chillies forming and then maybe later to keep them going, but I generally treat em mean

I love growing and eating chillies.  I swap chilli plants with my pal so we always have something new try

Take care with your chillies and be careful where you put them. Keep them away from kids and animals! 

My cayenne pepper plants stop flowering as soon as they have set a flush of fruits, and start again when they are picked off when ripe (they do this all year round, although not as quickly in winter!)

What I can't tell you is whether this is typical of all peppers, or indeed whether they would flower again if the fruits weren't removed. 

If I don't water these guys thoroughly every few days the leaves shrivel. I woul be good to be able to get them out of the mini gh on really hot days but there wedged in at the back so it's too much of a faff.