If I pick the pods off my habs, will it encourage the plants to grow more before they produce pods again? When I bought the plants, they already had pods on them, and produced even more after I repotted them. They quit blooming about a week ago, and started putting on a little new growth. They are currently about 10 in tall, and each plant has about 20 pods on them all of which are fairly large, but I noticed my other plants without pods are rapidly producing new growth.
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to pick or not to pick
- Thread starter rds040800
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I don't remember the exact number off the fertilizer i used, but the n&k were the same and p was a little lower. If I remember correctly, this should make it geared toward growth, which is what I am actually looking for. I live in southeast texas and we are about to have our hottest part of the year, and I would prefer not to have the plants producing pods during that time.
rds040800 said:
If it gets real hot, the plant probably won't set new fruit anyway. It will however, continue to grow. So you might as well picks some pods or wait for them to get ripe and pick. 20 on the vine right now is not bad. It will make a lot more if it gets bigger and the temperature cools down a little.
it stays warm enough here, that they should produce pods till around thanksgiving. I think since I have 4 of these plants, I will pick all pods off 2 of them, and leave them on the other 2, and see how different the growth is on them later in the year. Since they are all the same size and variety, and I only spent $2 on the 4 plants.
