I bought a habenero Chilli plant a couple of days ago from a garden centre (in a pot). Almost straight away the topmost leaves started to curl in on themselves. The leaves are not drooping, just curling in at the top to about a third of the way down. The plant otherwise looks healthy. There are lots of chillis at various stages of development. The plant has stayed this way ever since.

I thought it might need watering but the soil was moist and more water did not help. I put it in direct sunlight which did not help. I water sparingly every day.

Does anyone think this is a problem and if so do you have a suggestion?

Thanks.

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I bought a habenero Chilli plant a couple of days ago from a garden
centre (in a pot). Almost straight away the topmost leaves started to
curl in on themselves.

I've grown quite a few peppers and chillis in the greenhouse this year.
At some stage, almost all of them seemed to get something like the above
to one extent or another. I think the causes were one of two
infestations:
first and the main cause, early in the season, was little green aphids -
removed by hand;
second, lots and lots of tiny little green caterpillars - making lots of
tiny holes, too - also removed/squished by hand. Checking every leaf on
a lot of chilli/pepper plants was not great fun, but things seem ok.

Some of the leaves seemed to stay pretty curled - and some after the
infestation seemed to come out curled. No seeming affect on
productivity though

If there's no sign of pest, my experience stops there, I'm afraid.

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regards andyw

Thanks, I've been monitoring it for the last few days and productivity is not affected; chilli's continue to ripen and new ones are forming so it seems I was worrying about nothing. There is no sign of pest.

Alex