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Old March 24, 2017   #7
SacFly
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Sorry about your plants. I'm not sure what happened either. I've been overwintering chilies for the last 5 years or so. I'd say that about 75% survive, and the ones that don't I usually attribute to me forgetting to water at some point mid winter.

I know that plenty of people do prune back as much as you did, but I don't. I leave most of the main stem and a number of secondary branches with a few nodes each. 95%+ of the foliage is removed.

In addition, I don't think that my plants ever go fully dormant. It's just that their growth slows way down mid winter. When the days begin to get longer again they begin to grow stems/leaves again. They get some indirect light in a hallway throughout the winter. When I put them outside again in May I trim them back again.

Here are a couple of mine. When I cut them back in the fall I left almost no leaves.
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