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my jalapeno plant dropped all its flowers

hi, my jalapeno was small it had 3 flower buds on it and i had to go on an 11day trip, my micro toms had already started to fruit and is doing fine, i had the terracotta stakes doing the watering while i was gone, when i came back the jalapeno plant had used all the water and was a bit droopy, it tripled in size, the room got hot cause the ac was off 105+, it had alot of dropped flowers (11) and 4 that that was still attached, i turned the ac back on (77f) and watered it and re filled the bottles, now a week later the last flower dropped, however i have alot of new flower buds that are still to turn white and open, were the old ones heat damaged and thats why they fell off ? should i prune the plant back ? here is a picture of the last flower that fell i think it was pollinated, was it ? can i have alot of flowers on such a small plant, or should i remove some once they start setting fruit ?




 
Flower drop probable causes:
 
1. Day temp too high >95F
2. Night temp too low <65F or too high >85F
3. Too much nitrogen fertilizer
4. Too much water
5. Low light levels (reduces fertility).
6. Very low humidity (reduces fertility)
7. Poor air circulation (air circulation contributes to pollination).
8. Lack of pollinating insects.
9. Size of pot
10. Too much mineral in feedwater.
11. Too much grower attention/anxiety.
 
Like Willard said, there could be a number of reasons for flower drop, but I don't think drops are a bad thing at all.  When I learned that pollination is really poor when the temps get over ninety degrees, I decided to experiment one year.  I kept my habs in pots in the greenhouse for a couple of weeks longer than normal, giving them plenty of water to combat the 100+degree heat they were experiencing in the daytime.  No blossoms formed at all, but the plants continued to grow nice healthy foliage.  By the time I finally took them out into normal 80-degree Fahrenheit weather, the plant was ready to explode with blossoms, and the plant was healthy and developed enough to support them.  Looks similar to what you have going there with your jalapenos.  You're doing fine!
 
so i got two new flowers drop the past today, again the temps have been constant 75, watering is done using a terracotta spike, i have a big oscillating fan that shakes the plants gently, i sprayed it with epsom salt for the first time ever yesterday after the first flower dropped, they all look like this after i remove the while petals https://ibb.co/bJ3OsQ, is this pollinated ? cause i cant find whats wrong i need to eliminate lack of pollination as a cause.
 
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