Wow there are some BIG Birgit's out there, checked my plants today and they have grown a couple more inches and are podding up, I think I will tie mine up a bit and give them some more ferts to get them back in the growing mode. the pods do look tasty I do have a orange Aji that is almost as tall as the Birgit's I will have to tie it up and stake it, along with my Bishop hat as they are starting to lean over, Last year I didn't have them caged or staked and we had some 60 mile a hour straight line winds come through and snapped off limbs and whole plants right at ground level I hope that we don't get them this year too.
The worse thing was the winds broke off tall the limbs on my favorite peach tree that was full of peaches I ended up cutting all the broken limbs off and harvesting 50 pounds of green peaches, now it will take another 3 years to grow back into a strong tree again.
--THAT HURTS!
, my big mouth shot me in the foot !!
no matter what the height of individual plants. I am now happy that I did not prune my plant to a single stem. 
