overwintering chillis

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

how well do chilli plants overwinter? Is it best to cut them back a bit? or do they lose the will to live?

they took such a long time to start growing this year i'd like to give them a headstart, and then I might actually get some chillis  ???

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

[JimmyJames]

Never tried with outdoor plants, but indoors they overwinter pretty well.  I give mine a fairly harsh prune, and make sure they dont dry out.

I would imagine outdoor chillis would suffer if was frosty?

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

yes I meant bringing them indoors. Course I forgot there are those ornamental houseplant ones

[Barnowl]

Make sure they are indoors before temp drops below around 6degC. Although some of the East European and South American chillies (like Orozco and Bolivian) are tougher than the Asian ones none of them are really frost hardy. Itried fleece up at the allotment but they didn't make it.

Here's a good guide on the subject...

http://www.thechileman.org/guide_overwinter.php

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

that's very interesting, but why does the webpage have to be black? Not energy saving surely

all mine by coincidence are C. chinense. I'll try some of the others. I wonder are Capsicum pubescens short and curly?

[dtw]

Not energy saving surely

A CRT (old style monitor) would use less electricity displaying
a black screen than a white one.

I don't have much room to have lots of plants indoors, so I am just keeping
a 2 year old bolivian rainbow (mentioned in another thread).
The leaves have started dropping already and making a mess.  :(

The rest will go on the compost heap.

[Eristic]

A CRT (old style monitor) would use less electricity displaying
a black screen than a white one.

How's that then? The screen is only black because the stream of electrons are not reaching the screen but the electricity to heat the cathode that creates the electron stream remains at a constant amount.

When I'm promoted to Minister for the Environment I will introduce an energy saving bill that will require the National Grid to switch off power to all non-essential users 1 hr after dark every night.

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

whatever, but it defeats the object with my CRP monitor. I either spend 3 times as long trying to read it, or just Select All to change the colour.

I'm sure in O level physics they said that black electrons were less energetic than white ones

[dtw]

The high voltage which accelerates the electrons towards the
screen will increase with the brightness.
I'll see if my multimeter can measure AC current and check.

[Eristic]

I don't think so. The eht is fixed and the brightness is adjusted by the number of electrons wizzing through the gate or grid. It may even use a minutely greater power closing the flow through the grid, so minute I doubt it is measureable.

I can assure you that the eht is still present at the anode even when the screen is black but running. Yes it hurts a lot, and yes it is an extremely stupid way to test it. (Touching it to see if its on.)  ::) ::)

[tim]

Overwinter? They'd better!

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

Googles officail blog suggests that energy saving in this way is a myth. They link to a study of about 30 different monitors which suggests that for CRT monitors there is a slight increase in power consumption for black screens, and for LCD monitors-depending on the model and power consumption, an increase in power consumption for black screens. But the whole thing makes so little difference as makes no odds

http://techlogg.com/content/view/360/31/

[bupster]

Tim,

How old are these? Are you planting them now for next year?

[tim]

An experiment, really. Warm kitchen, but close to window after first showed..

Sown 1 Oct - 1 germ 12/10 - 1 germ 20/10 - 2 germ 24/10. We'll see!

[RobinOfTheHood]

Where can I get some of these energy saving chillies?

Sounds like a really good idea to me.   :)

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

Where can I get some of these energy saving chillies?

Sounds like a really good idea to me.   :)

we're still deciding which is the right colour