Problem with dried, curled leaves

Hello,

my name is Zoltan and I live in Slovakia (Central Europe). This is my first post in this forum.

I´ve always enjoyed spicy food and chilli peppers and not long ago, I made the decision to grow my own peppers. The idea came very late (late June), but I´ve decided to plant some relatively easy to grow chillies this year, and even if I won´t get much from them this year, maybe I can overwinter them and most importantly, I´ll gain some experience (I´ve never grown anything at all before). Next January, I´m planning to plant some more interesting peppers (like 7 pots, Bih Jolokias etc). At the moment, I have 8 Kung Pao, 8 Purple Serrano and 15 Hot Portugal plants.

I have a problem with 2 of my little Kung Paos. As you can see in the pictures, their leaves are drying and curling. They were on a windowsill from the inside and they were exposed to very intense sun between 2pm and 5pm. I don´t think that the soil was not moist enough, maybe the strong sunshine damaged the leaves...what do you think? For the time being, I moved them onto a windowsill what gets direct sunlight in the morning.

The other thing is, my Kung Paos have a significantly longer stem than the others and they seem instable. I started to expose them to wind generated by a fan to try to harden them a bit.

Thank you very much for your help and suggestions!
Best wishes!


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Yeah, probably the strong sun was too much for them at this stage. Just keep away from direct light for a while and they will recover. The fan is a good idea, but just a gentle breeze for a few minutes a day at this stage. You can gradually increase it as they get bigger and stronger. The maximum I ever gave mine was 30 minutes every few days before they went outside. Everything slow and easy with peppers regarding exposure. They don't like big dramatic changes to their environment.
 
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