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Early forking Ekirike?

b3rnd

b3rnd

This year I'm growing Ekirike peppers. I was looking for an out-of-the-ordinary Frutescens to grow and I found these. It's a Frutescens with roundish pods. I didn't know this beforehand but apparently it forks extremely early without bushing out. I've never had a pepper fork so early at least. I've grown Piri-piri before and it bushed out a lot straight away.
 
Has any of you ever grown this one? What are your experiences with it?
 
Here is a pic where you can it's forking at the second node already.
 
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I have one that forked perhaps too early for my liking and i just cut up the Y shape to a pointy ones and now it have created more side stems:
 
Chilidude said:
I have one that forked perhaps too early for my liking and i just cut up the Y shape to a pointy ones and now it have created more side stems:
 
 
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What don't you like about an early Y-shape?
 
b3rnd said:
 
What don't you like about an early Y-shape?
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Because i like to wait 3-4 leaf pairs before i cut the stem below the y fork to make the plant bushy. The y fork might actually be a weak point later and split apart when the plant becomes too heavy with all the harvest.
 
This plant had multiple leaf pairs before it decided to create the Y fork:

 
Then i cut it below the natural y fork. Now the stem becomes thick early on and there are no early weak point because none of the side stems are in the same plane. But everyone has their own style of doing things, my style is to create many side stems soon as possible but not before the plant have hopefully grown those 3-4 leaf pairs before doing the trimming.
 
Chilidude said:
 
Because i like to wait 3-4 leaf pairs before i cut the stem below the y fork to make the plant bushy. The y fork might actually be a weak point later and split apart when the plant becomes too heavy with all the harvest.
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That shouldn't be a problem for plants with smaller sized pods like Ekirike I think? always love to see the fork. Maybe with loads of heavy fruits it could be problematic..

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Chilidude said:
This plant had multiple leaf pairs before it decided to create the Y fork:

 
Then i cut it below the natural y fork. Now the stem becomes thick early on and there are no early weak point because none of the side stems are in the same plane. But everyone has their own style of doing things, my style is to create many side stems soon as possible but not before the plant have hopefully grown those 3-4 leaf pairs before doing the trimming.
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To everyone their own, for sure. I like the diversity in styles here. I always like to let my plants grow as they want. Sometimes I pinch lower baby branches to get more of a tree like growth.

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b3rnd said:
That shouldn't be a problem for plants with smaller sized pods like Ekirike I think? always love to see the fork. Maybe with loads of heavy fruits it could be problematic..

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Heh, had to google that chili out to see some pictures of the plant..I think you are just fine with a chili pods that small so no topping needed.
 
I think the topping as a early trimming for the plant, as in nature a chili plants might get their stems broken or eaten by some wandering animal and the plant will start creating side stems to compensate for the loss of said stems.
 
I also do it for mazimizing future harvest as i start early and grow inside a greenhouse during the summer, also i prefer the looks of the topped bushy plants.
 
b3rnd said:
This year I'm growing Ekirike peppers. I was looking for an out-of-the-ordinary Frutescens to grow and I found these. It's a Frutescens with roundish pods. I didn't know this beforehand but apparently it forks extremely early without bushing out. I've never had a pepper fork so early at least. I've grown Piri-piri before and it bushed out a lot straight away.
 
Has any of you ever grown this one? What are your experiences with it?
 
Here is a pic where you can it's forking at the second node already.
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Chilidude said:
I have one that forked perhaps too early for my liking and i just cut up the Y shape to a pointy ones and now it have created more side stems:
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So you're growing CAP361?
 
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The_NorthEast_ChileMan said:
 
So you're growing CAP361?
 
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Yeah, I was confused by that too a bit. But I think he just meant he has a plant that forked very early. I tried to read the label of the plant on the picture, I'm pretty sure it says something else.
 
b3rnd said:
 
Yeah, I was confused by that too a bit. But I think he just meant he has a plant that forked very early. I tried to read the label of the plant on the picture, I'm pretty sure it says something else.
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Yes, that is what i meant. I have a Aji cristal that forked too early this year.
 
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