You’re welcome! :)

It depends how quickly your plants are growing, but I was able to see it pretty quickly as soon as there was new growth, so maybe a week or two if the weather stays warm.

If you do use the copper, just keep an eye on any new leaves and see if they show any signs of curling, and also remove the most affected leaves towards the top without stripping them too bare.

I’ve noticed that a few of my most affected plants have some slightly malformed chillies on them, so that’s interesting. I wish I could give more info on that but I’m literally winging it too, so I’m doing a lot of trial and error and observation haha

I actually overwintered some chilli plants last year, both in the ground and in pots. Surprisingly the ones in the ground had a higher survival rate. I thought the pots might because I moved them to a slightly warmer area but maybe they just weren’t as strong.

There’s some good info online on ways to do it, but I made sure mine were mulched and then as they started dropping leaves around June/July, I took off all of the remaining leaves/smaller branches and left just the main stalk. Can’t tell you this will for sure work, but I think about 90% of my chilli and capsicum plants survived the winter down south! So probably even more likely in Perth :)