yield Increasing yield - how to achieve?

A question to those in the know, with more knowledge and experience than I...
 
How does one achieve something akin to the photo below? What are the principles involved?
 
Hmm, principles - OK - that may be a bit much / more than what I mean... But for example is it as simple as intelligent pruning? Or is it also attention to pollination? Is it achieving many points for the buds to sprout? Obviously appropriate water, light and nutrients would I imagine be a good starting point, but what then?
 
I'm keen to try out a technique or two to see whether I can make it happen.
 

 
Thanks in advance for any pointers.

nice.chili said:

A question to those in the know, with more knowledge and experience than I...
 
How does one achieve something akin to the photo below? What are the principles involved?
 
Hmm, principles - OK - that may be a bit much / more than what I mean... But for example is it as simple as intelligent pruning? Or is it also attention to pollination? Is it achieving many points for the buds to sprout? Obviously appropriate water, light and nutrients would I imagine be a good starting point, but what then?
 
I'm keen to try out a technique or two to see whether I can make it happen.
 

 
Thanks in advance for any pointers.

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The pic you posted is a C.chinense(note 4 pods per node, a common trait.) Your question is how to achieve this? My answer is to grow a variety that does this, see below for a  Habanero I grew in 2015 with similar growth trait.
 

When you want to increase yields, you have to offer the plant the optimal environmental conditions. How does one do this? You either grow the plants that are ideally suited to your environment, or you grow indoors, and control the variables.
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There is a lot of hype and bullshit out there about miracle amendments, and switching nutrients, blah, blah, blah. The simple fact is, if you give the plant the basics, and provide it with the ideal growing conditions, single plants will give you more in a season than you can use. (for most varieties)

The_NorthEast_ChileMan said:

 
The pic you posted is a C.chinense(note 4 pods per node, a common trait.) Your question is how to achieve this? My answer is to grow a variety that does this

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Yup, this ^^^
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Grow a variety that does this, in an environment that lends itself to letting the plant do this.
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I can't typically get this kind of yield in our hot, humid climate, where night temps are often almost the same as day temps.  But even one or two states north of us, there's a huge difference in plant habit and growth, just by virtue of conditions, alone.  I could do exactly the same thing as you, and you'd outgrow me on most varieties, all season long - except during our "winter", where my temp differential is ~15-20 degrees different between night and day, and humidity drops way off.

Sorry, this post irrelevant.