Gotcha, is there a way to control the width of the plants at all?peppamang said:Topping at 2 feet is way too late, unless they're super leggy. Top young at around a foot if you want bushy plants. Fair warning though, while your crop may increase, it's going to get really wide if you have a good light setup, so be prepared.
Âjuanitos said:you can top it at any point as long as you have some nodes to regrow from.
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i imagine at 2ft you already have the Y split so you have 2 tops..
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smallest size plant can produce pods is VERY small don't worry too much about it.
here you can see a small about 6inch medusa pepper plant producing.
ÂTarzan said:I have had a plant this year which was only a couple of test seeds from a fresh pod in late fall. They sprouted in a couple of weeks and I've kept one of them growing with no light and almost no water. Long story short, fast forward to early spring - I brought the pot with the seedling outside with almost no protection from the cold. I believe there were even some frosty mornings and 20cm of snow that fell over it and did some pruning for me.
All the leaves got white as soon as I brought it out and it seemed as it will die and stay dead. It did not. It started growing 5 or 6 large stems from the soil level when morning temperatures got above 10°C, and became one of the plants with largest number of pods (and the pods are also larger) on it.Â
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If you, or mother nature for you, prune it all the way to the lowest nodes, it will grow like a clump of chillies and develop nicely.
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Other chillies were pruned at 5th or 6th pair of leaves and they also got bushy and tall, but with one difference - they still look somewhat tree-like with large trunk on the bottom and strong branches growing from it.
For that person/post....yea. My experience with the 2 plants I overwintered 2014/2015 no.....Jeffcontonio said:I've always cut my plants back during my overwintering, but now I have been hearing a plant that has been excessively topped will produce many smaller pods rather than fewer larger ones.
Is this true?