My chilies (cayenne) are living in a plastic greenhouse with the tomatoes during the day, but I'm still bringing them in at night. The one time I did leave them out, the lower leaves went all floppy. Will they be alright outside overnight at some point?
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You only need to protect from frost really, I'm already leaving some things outside overnight even now.
There is a chilli thread on here already, it will be worthwhile looking at that there's plenty of great info on there.
Thanks for that. My tomatoes basil and marjoram seem happy outside, but my chills really didn't like one night at about five degrees. Maybe I'll wait a week or two yet.
Chilies and peppers really need a minimum night temperature of 12C to grow really well. From my own experience, anything under 5C can kill them, or at least badly stunt their growth and they take a long time to recover from having their growth 'checked' like that. I'd keep bringing them in at night until June.
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Excellent thanks. I'll wait a bit then. Average lows for May here are 7.4C.