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Can plants be hardened off while fruiting?

I started my plants indoors a couple of months ago.  Some of them started flowering about a month ago.  I pinched off the buds on most of the plants, to encourage more vegetative growth, but I let a couple flower to see what would happen.

Three of them successfully pollinated, and now have peppers growing (a purple jalapeno, a sugar rush peach, and a vezena piperka).  

Last frost here is in mid-to-late April, so I was going to start hardening them off next month.  There's no way that the existing peppers will be ripe by the time I planned on taking them outside. 

Is there any harm in transitioning them outside while they're actively fruiting, or should I leave them inside under the grow lights (and in a temperature controlled climate) until the first batch of peppers is ready to be harvested?  
 
Marruk said:
I started my plants indoors a couple of months ago.  Some of them started flowering about a month ago.  I pinched off the buds on most of the plants, to encourage more vegetative growth, but I let a couple flower to see what would happen.

Three of them successfully pollinated, and now have peppers growing (a purple jalapeno, a sugar rush peach, and a vezena piperka).  

Last frost here is in mid-to-late April, so I was going to start hardening them off next month.  There's no way that the existing peppers will be ripe by the time I planned on taking them outside. 

Is there any harm in transitioning them outside while they're actively fruiting, or should I leave them inside under the grow lights (and in a temperature controlled climate) until the first batch of peppers is ready to be harvested?  
There should be no problem hardening off your plants with pods on them. I do it every year.
 
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