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  People sometimes argue about this but I say no, leaving peppers on will not inhibit new pods.  Every year I have hundreds of ripe peppers on plants that have hundreds more new blooms and pods produced continually.  There's no way I would ever pick less than 50 pods at a time off a plant after...

Just take it to the garden and till it into the soil now.  All it really needs to compost is to not dry out which being tilled in versus sitting above ground will do.

It does that to increase distance between leaves so they don't overlap and shade each other as much.  They tend to do it more in higher light environments because they're not trying to get as leggy, tall as possible to get taller than plants around it for more light.

  we all have different goals. 

Yeah it can be fun.  I have an uncle who's pretty into hot food and I casually offered some sauce and everyone's jaws dropped when they saw how much he put on his food without him realizing he was about to be in a world of pain.  Other things you can do with excess pods are just leave some lying...

  OH.   :banghead:   :P I turn my excess into hot sauce.

Remember that seed from immature green pods may not be viable.  Save seeds from red ripe pods.   Leaving ripe pods on will not make the plant die, but if you leave too many on it can weigh branches to the point of breaking or dragging the ground, especially if outdoors and a strong gust of wind...

It would help if you put your location on your profile so people know it ahead of time.   $15 a month for lights and fans plus their purchase price, for about 6.5 months until the last spring frost in your area is a little over $100.  I get what you're saying about not needing 1000 pods per...

Why do people have children they can't afford?  It's nature's way to try to reproduce even if conditions aren't the best.   The strange part is you question them being root bound and not enough nutrients plus low light then worry about having blooms?  It's the best outcome in a bad situation...

It's an interesting hobby but I wouldn't go as far as saying they enjoy it.  Surviving something and then having a terribly low yield for all the time and expense means it might as well be any random plant instead of a pepper, and that's fine - house plants are nice to have around.   In other...

It is up to you whether to spend the money and time to provide artificial light over winter.  Sunlight would only be enough to keep it from going dormant if you have an area with enough light.   There is no need to rigorously prune to overwinter.  It steals away the progress made thus far.  The...

Yes it drops some but if it still has a fair amount of light it just continues on at a slower pace, keeping some leaves instead of losing all of them, particularly when it started happening outside from low temp. then you bring it inside.   However it is seldom that the plant will abort any but...

That a plant drops some leaves in response to colder weather or less light, is not necessarily a sign it is going to complely go dormant, especially if it did that outside and then you bring it inside.   Prune before bringing it inside if you need it to fit in a smaller space, or don't have...

Bumpy leaves can also be a sign you have a lot of light and nitrogen so the leaf tissue is growing faster than the veins in the leaf, in which case the leaf will flatten out as it gets larger.

^  No links = trolling.  You can't bully your way to being right on the internet.

^  Not really because now you're thread crapping instead of posting on topic and that's kind of boring.  Give us some more links instead!  :lol:

^  Not my problem if you don't like people asking for sources.  I find the topic interesting as well but that some things can influence capsaicin levels does not allow for sweeping generalizations.  Since I didn't start the topic nor start the claims, it is not my burden to substantiate or...

  I just germinate them in their starter soil cups with labeling applied at that time, never saw a need for an extra step.  You don't need to dry them out first but you will shave a day or two off germination time by soaking them in water for a day, especially if you let them sit in very mild...

I assume when you wrote 550W of CFL you meant incandescent equivalent watts?  Not that it matters but 550W of actual CFL power is a pretty big start indoors and is going to be noticeable on your electric bill.   IMO, the best solution to a short grow season is grow more plants.  50 plants catch...

  Okay but a lot of people seem to fixate.  None of this makes sense.   Grow what   you want to have ....   As for watering every 9 to 10 days, that's a very strange concept to me.  I could not wait 10 days to water if I had 50 gallon containers.  I can wait that long for plants in the ground...