Chillies 2019

I'd definitely leave them and would be much more optimistic than you about them fruiting. Bear in mind that they are actually a perennial so as long as you can keep them frost free, and preferably warm, they can give you fruit even at Christmas.

If there is no heated area in your greenhouse then you can take the best ones indoors for late Autumn and Winter.

 

It won't be long before you see them like this (the chillies hanging down in the foreground are not Shiney Hybrids but didn't notice they had crept into the picture ). The Hybrids point upwards.

 

@CanadianLori quite correct . The others are from some plants that someone gave to Mrs Shiney to look after whilst they're away on their hols.

 

I said they get going quickly.

We bred them to be prolific and easy to grow. They should be ripening fairly quickly if you have the warmth and sunshine.

 

@misterQ they're looking good. It's a good idea to keep them in those smaller pots as you're obviously a bit short of head height. It concentrates the fruit on a shorter plant In larger pots they could grow much taller but the fruit would be spaced out more.

We had a bit of a disaster with our Nagas (same family as the Scorpions) as they were attacked by greenfly. It was such a serious invasion that we couldn't keep control of it even with washing the plants twice a day (couldn't use chemicals as we sell them as organic).

By the time we came back after our holiday in early June (we have volunteers coming in each day to do all the watering) they were so badly infested that that the leaves we dropping off or stunted. The plants were already 2ft high but looked as though they were on their last legs ( the Shiney hybrids don't get bothered much by aphids). So, as a last resort, we took them from their heated environment and stuck them outdoors in the cold nights.

By the end of June they were free of aphids - but not a leaf on any of them! We then had to decide whether to just throw them away but we gave them a reprieve and put them back in the greenhouse. Now they're 3ft high, covered in leaf, flowering and some have fruit on. We should be able to fulfill our orders (some weeks late) and the charity won't lose any money