I've been told that I should try bringing the plant[s] inside and waiting for the fruit to ripen on the branch even if the plant dies, as with tomatoes. (The main problem indoors is lack of light, as I don't have sunny windowsills or indeed any interior windowsills to speak of!)
It's worth a try, but my concern would be that while the fruit might change colour it wouldn't actually ripen its seed to the point of being fertile, which is what I'm interested in -- I just need a couple of ripened chillies to harvest the seed from. For culinary purposes even the green ones are pretty hot :-)
Even last year's seed appears to have been severely sub-fertile, with all the young plants eventually dying off; these two are survivors from seed saved from 2022, though I don't know if that was just a blip, late ripening, or reduced viability after several generations...
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It's worth a try, but my concern would be that while the fruit might change colour it wouldn't actually ripen its seed to the point of being fertile, which is what I'm interested in -- I just need a couple of ripened chillies to harvest the seed from. For culinary purposes even the green ones are pretty hot :-)
Even last year's seed appears to have been severely sub-fertile, with all the young plants eventually dying off; these two are survivors from seed saved from 2022, though I don't know if that was just a blip, late ripening, or reduced viability after several generations...