karoo said:You might be confused.
Cotyledon are only the first two leaves that develop in the seed .
Now I see them , at the base of the stem ,lek said:
nope. i don't confuse. this pepper plant still has cotyledon.
i got perfect soil and there is little worm living inside this small cup.Gonzo said:I snip them off,i don't like leaves touching the soil as it can transfer possible diseases
juanitos said:if your plants are in a protected indoor environment with 0 stress / 0 bugs / 0 animals / 0 inclement weather then sure the cotys might stay on.
in normal / wild / outdoor plant they do fall off.
mrgrowguy said:The plant would drop them if they didn't contribute to the plant's system, or if the health of the plant (overall system) isn't good. However, your plant seems very healthy and looks to be making good use of all of it's assets. Kudos on keeping your plants ultra happy.
I might remove lower leaves just to give myself room to stick the spout of my watering bucket. Other than that, you can leave them be It will not harm the plant any way at all whether they're there or not, and their presence (or lack of) is not a sign of any problems either.
Keep doing whatever you're doing... it's working.
lek said:
the amount of flowers on my plant is still very little. if i get rid of all the flowers right now, will my plant set more flowers in the near future?
Thank you very much for your suggestion. I will try to create more nodes/branch by using other method. In this experiment, i didn't cut any leave / branch of the plant.mrgrowguy said:
If you want to increase the number of future flowers, you will need to strategically prune your plant to create more nodes, that is where the flowers are produced, so having more nodes means more flowers. If you know how to prune to increase nodes, great. If not, then the basic objective is to get the plant to grow as many branches as possible. Pruning in this way will stall flower production now, but is likely to increase the number of flowers in the future.
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