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No topping necessary?

So today I noticed that my Carolina Reaper is growing well which I already knew but it appears to be acting like a plant that was topped. Ill post a pic tomorrow but it was quite cool to see these 2 heads developing as if I had topped it (it has never been trimmed). Out of curiosity has anyone had this happen to their plants? If so, what breed if you can remember?
 

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I have never grown reapers before so take this with a grain of salt, but my chinense varieties tend to be more bushy than my annuum varieties. This may be what you are observing.
 
Nice plant. Haven't grown reaper.
I have a 7 Pot Yellow x Douglah that forked at the second node.
It was caused by chance. The new growth tip curled under and around the first true leaves creating an LST effect.
I guess they were both getting enough light that the main shoot didn't stretch to correct itself.
 
I wish I would have topped my reapers. I think I'm going to bury them pretty deep when I put them in the ground.
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Boarider said:
I wish I would have topped my reapers. I think I'm going to bury them pretty deep when I put them in the ground.
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I know the feeling, both my reapers grew tall and top bushy. Im gonna have to say that I will topping every plant moving forward. My reaper had no topping and grew top bushy and my infinity got topped because some bad growth and now its a bushy beast top to bottom. The crazy thing is that some of my peppers had heavy white fly infestations and when I cut the tops all of a sudden the bottoms started getting limb growth. I can upload pics tomorrow if you guys want to see what Im blabbing about
 
Scoville DeVille said:
They're all forked up. :Rofl:
nice, and some are. Today I took some pics of my no topping peppers which will be obvious and pics of my topped peppers and how they started branching at the bases. Last ones are the casualties of white fly invasion 2018
 

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