Low growing chili varieties?

Deroar

Deroar

Hello!
 
I'm nearly at the end of my first good chili growing season. Below is few pictures from few weeks ago. Now I'm wondering what to do for those plants, like how to overwinter them. Probably I will only cut them to very short stems and hope for the best. But for the next season I'm wondering if there is any chili varieties that grows low (even in bigger pots and height tops 50 cm)? My current pots on those pictures are 0,8 litre just to keep plants small so that my balcony doesn't expand to jungle. Cajamarca and Datil Sweet seemed to grow nicely low on those pots.
 
Btw, does chilies ripen even after cutting them away from plant, like tomatos? Temperature here is between 10-15 °C day and night and the pods doesn't seem to ripen anymore on the plants.
 
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/palmqvist/Chilit2015/Chili_2015.jpg-Chilies 2015: Lemon Drop, Datil Sweet, Cajamarca, Pimenta Morango, Cheiro Roxa and Champion.
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/palmqvist/Chilit2015/Champion.jpg-Champion.
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/palmqvist/Chilit2015/Lemon_drop.jpg-Funny Lemon Drop.
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/palmqvist/Chilit2015/Cajamarca_and_Champion.jpg-Cajamarca and Champion.
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/palmqvist/Chilit2015/Cajamarca_and_Datil_sweet.jpg-Cajamarca and Datil Sweet.
 
Hybrid Mode 01 said:
     Lemon drop and cheiro roxa both have a pretty low-growing habit.
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One of my Cheiro Roxa grew ~1 m of height (without topping) on those small pots. And Lemon Drops and Champions grew a little lower but they grew weak stem so they did bend all over and tip over many times. I'd like to keep Cheiro Roxa since it looks quite nice and does fair amount of pods but I have to keep it topped then.
 
Deroar said:
 
One of my Cheiro Roxa grew ~1 m of height (without topping) on those small pots. And Lemon Drops and Champions grew a little lower but they grew weak stem so they did bend all over and tip over many times. I'd like to keep Cheiro Roxa since it looks quite nice and does fair amount of pods but I have to keep it topped then.
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     Weird. I never top my plants and my cheiro is only about 12" tall with a span of about 36". Half of that plant is literally growing on the ground (actually it is growing over the edge of the raised bed it is in - about 8" lower than the root crown). It has no desire to grow upward through the canopies of neighboring plants. It just trails along the ground, catching sunlight through the gaps between other plants. I'll post some pics tomorrow.
 
My Peruvian white hab grew like a carpet, lowest growing hot pepper I've ever had.  Not sure if this is normal or if mine was just an odd-ball.
 
Bonnies Dragon cayenne hybrid stays pretty squat, excellent producer and damn tasty :-). I have tons of seeds from the peppers but since its a hybrid who knows what may emerge.

Why not just use any pepper and prune to keep it the size you want?
 
My Coyote Zan White plant has stayed very short, un topped, and put in a 3 gallon container with good soil.  The only pods of mine that seem to ripen after I cut them are Reapers.  If I pick a ziplock bag full of some fully red ones, and some orangish ones, and keep them all together for a couple of days in a ziplock, they will all be nice and red.
 
Guess what im gonna say :d Explosive Ember woooooo
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e45/ErolDude/nute%20def/9C2E952D-A374-4F90-9DFF-EA43A11F7309_zpsdzeu6tua.jpg
This is after a serious overwatering btw
 
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