Slow pokes or what ?

First time growing chillies and peppers, can't say I'm impressed with my efforts as others seem way ahead.
On the left is a Diablo Pepper and the right is Apache Chilli. They are about 5-6 inches high and I have others which are in larger pots which look roughly the same. I got them going from seed in Mar and they have been in an unheated sunroom (with little sun, due to foul weather).
Am I doing something wrong? Thanks.

 

They are looking better than mine Gay. Like you say, its the lack of sunshine. Mine put on a bit of growth in the past few days, but now its cloudy & grey again

 

They look exactly like my peppers too ! Just no growth, or what growth there is seems minute. I'm sure this time last year in my porch my peppers were standing well taller. Like you say, sun has disappeared again !
I like that little patio area out the back Gay gardener.
gazania

 

glad it not just mine thats not doing much

 

I grow a variety which is desperately slow to grow, so in comparing yours to others you may need to take that into consideration I have other varieties that make [comparatively] huge bushes each year.

 

I would say they look ok. Mine are a fair bit bigger, but they have been in my greenhouse from the start, and on cold nights, I've added some heat, just to keep them above 10c.

 

Its only the chillis that I have moved into the heated conservatory that are just coming into flower now.
I find chillis need more heat to grow than sweet peppers, but its not been good for either this year, up to now.
I've got some jalapenos that are doing OK though.

 

Glad that I am not alone in being behindhand then.
Shiney I might do a trial by putting a couple of mine in a propagator with a bit of heat at bottom too, just to see. Good idea.
Gazania thanks that patio area is a section of garden I renovated from chippings rubbish and turfed it, so thanks for noticing.
I'm also doing a bit of experimentation with different sizes of pots so will see if that makes any difference, at the moment those in smaller pots look happier and healthier.
Hope the weather turns nice soon though it's like October out there today, brrrrr.

Cheers
GG

 

Everyones having problems this year growing theyre chillis. I have only 5 of 105 chilli plants with fruit set at the moment. I also started exceptionally late for the chilli growing season with firsst seeds in 26th march. Chilli growers usually start seeds off between end of january and start of feb

This is how they looked a week ago. Though this obviously isnt all of them about half in the unheated plastic growhouse. The apache your growing should produce loads of chillis, i have 2 apache plants this year, one already has 40 pods set the other 20. Im expecting 200 to 400 chillis per plant.
Dont worry about the slow development, the season may well run past september this year weather dependant so loads of time yet.

 

What do you Chilli growers do with all the "fruit"?

I get that growing chillies can be a hobby in itself, but I grow 4 plants, dry the chillies, and that does me for the rest of the year ... 100 plants though? Bit more than my household could use! hence my curiosity.

 

Dry them, add to food, eat them raw as opposed to fruit, use them for generating cross breeds, and if surplus to requirements sell a few

 

OK, you eat a lot more chillies than I do then!

 

Haha, yes i do but some varieties only produce few chillis per plant so we dont get unmanagable amounts