240509 Cutting Peppers Back

Everyone knows that I love to grow peppers. Over the last couple of years I've started to top some of my chile crop. This does a couple of things. Topping promotes bushier growth. This also will delay harvesting until later in the summer. I'm not mad about this because I believe the productions of peppers is better late summer/early fall.
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[@PepperGuru]

"If i prune out these tops, that will release the laterals and it will become a bushier plant" "That's the whole idea about this, I'm trying to make a better structured plant, for later in the season" .... Ooof I remember those days my friend. I do. Trust me though, the plant knows what to do. Pruning will never increase yield potential or any "stability" that is any better than providing the plant what it needs to do that on its own. No amount of human manipulation or thinking we are smarter than the plant will make the plant objectively better. Now you can argue aesthetics and subjectivity all day. Sure. No argument there, but in terms of objectively better? Nope. Pruning doesn't solve any problems that don't even have to be problems in the first place. I highly recommend you get into cages and larger plant spacings if you truly want the strongest and highest yielding plants.

[@HeritageCottageUrbanNanoFarm]

Thanks