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To be honest this is the first time I've left one in all winter, it didn't seem to be suffering so I decided to see how long it would survive. It had a few peppers growing slowly on it still, but I removed them a few weeks ago so it can just concentrate on surviving the winter. I usually would start new chilli and pepper seeds each season. I've heard of people giving them a hard prune back and digging them up and storing indoors over winter, but that's usually in places with really cold winters where the ground freezes.
Just give it a go and see what happens! Worst case is you have to buy a new seedling from the garden centre 🤷♂️
Sounds good :)
I do recall someone mentioning a hard prune back to me sometime ago. Hopefully the Auckland temps mean they won't have any problems :)