Do I bring my chilli and pepper plants indoors now??

[bigscaryorangespiderami]

Daft question for you green-fingered types, but I am clueless

MIL gave me one of each a tiny chilli and a tiny pepper plant - grown from cuttings - at the start of the summer.
They have been in pots on the pation and had a rough life - they were demolished by slugs. But they are now a foot tall, had lots of white flowers last month and I can now see tiny fruits beginning to grow. But the weather forecast for here (South East) is for night-frosts.

Do I bring them in? Will they cope on a window sill?

Any advice would be most most welcome

They will thrive on a sunny windowsill. ut if you have the heating on, make sure they don't dry out too much, or the fruit will not grow. Definitely time to bring them indoors though.

Thank you, that is what I though

Was a bit worried because MIL's ones have grown big fruits by now, and mine are just tiny buds.
Righto - off to clear a space on the kitchen windowsill, right next to the potted living-lettuce which lives there.[need a bigger windowsill emoticon]

thought

God my windowsills are bursting - I am killing house sitting neighbour's plants while she redecorates, I have a zillin green tomatoes ripening, and five chilli plants. I want a new house!

I am thinking a table in front of the dining room window, and starting a potted veg plot on there just to see us through winter. Not sure dh would go for that idea though

I have dropped hints for one of those crappy plastic mini greenhouses for christmas. Not sure I'm being listened to though
I have an allotment but is all finished now. Bar some cabbage. Which I stuck in just so as not to lose interest when it's freezing.

Oooh, I'd quite like one of those...
I look on freecycle regularly for greenhouses, but they are always in the 'wanted' and never in teh 'offered' section.
Will keep looking though

I might be wrong, but I doubt that your fruits will ripen now - I know that tomatoes are supposed to need eight hours of strong light (preferably sunlight) a day to ripen, plus a certain amount of warmth. Chillis are probably about the same?

I picked all my chillis last week and put the plants on the compost heap. I reckon things like this are best kept indoors (mine were in the conservatory) or in a greenhouse even in the summer, unless the summer is a very hot one.

I am afraid of that policy, those pesky slugs caused a serious setback...

But until the whole lot dies off, I am willing to keep the plants indoors to see what (if anything) can be salvaged.

MIL (who lives 10 minutes away, hence has same weather) kept hers on the patio and they ripened beautifully.
But yes, mine have missed teh boat...

Our chilli plant is on the kitchen windowsill. We lost all the flowers when MiL babysat it whilst we went on holiday but then they all grew again and now we have little chillis growing. I figure that if they don't turn red, we can still use them when green.

That is what I figure Janeite. Use them green, or someone told me to dry them and then chop them finely to use in cooking. Either way, I am not prepared to put the plants on teh compost just yet [live in hope emoticon]

no no they will ripen! I grow chillis on windowsill all the time!

E$ven my tomatoes aRE ripneing on widowsill.

Thank you filthy
('Tis bigscary, have gone back to my old halloween name)
I have placed them in teh kitchen in front of the south facing pation doors. (on the floor, they were in big pots)
We have loads of miniature chillis on there now, and am hoping we will get a result
(except that the daft dog has nibbled one or two infant-chillis already - grrr)