Pinching flowers - It depends. If the plant is too small to carry the weight I'll pinch off the earliest flowers. If the plant looks strong enough, I don't. Depends on the weather, the type of pepper, (probably) the amount of nitrogen available to the plant, and more variables to count. I'd rather wait a couple of weeks for peppers than risk losing the plant.
Thanks! I was wondering about this (I've never pinched and have recently saw videos saying you should). You have me thinking a lot about the gardening advice a lot of people give, making me wonder why that's supposedly beneficial/harmful when someone tells me what to do, or making me do my research more like when people claim something like sticking a banana peel under a plant. I appreciate your videos so much, I've been going through them all.
I'm sure the answers are different depending on the length of the growing season too. It takes a long time to get ripe fruit here in the north and our growing season is so short. Peppers are a perennial and people in the south can overwinter them without having to take care of them indoors for 9 whole months. I think any science is going to be dependent on location.
I found no evidence that removing flowers reduces BER, which is a watering issue. Removing flowers just lets the plant grow more before it produces fruit.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 The roots can’t sustain the first fruit, I noticed it on my toms last year (ber) on the first truss. You should check out the chilli chump channel, he’s pretty much a professional grower, years of experience in peppers and chillis. He did a beginners series where he explained I can find the link if you like. I’m not saying your a beginner! You obviously know more than me.👍🏻
Everything does not have to rely on a scientific study to make sense, and I can’t see by that paper’s abstract exactly what they did and at what stage of development, and transplanting in particular it discusses. When you transplant peppers that might be 6 or 8” tall and they have flowers that would develop into fruit if left alone, it makes sense to remove them to promote root development and get a good start, this is consistent with other advice for other plants in your other videos. If you you have ever grown a pepper and did not remove those early flowers, and saw it stunted and not do as well as others you did remove them from, you do it, I have and I do. I know they will get 3-4 feet high in my zone 5b/ 6a and there is plenty of time for fruit development. Of course they don’t do that in production planting but the conditions the peppers go through starting under lights in potss, etc. is a quite different condition than production peppers making early flowers are more likely scenario.
Short version is the plant is gonna pretty much do what it's gonna do based on the conditions/inputs pinching buds can make your peppers bigger but similar yield either way. Topping can be good depending on the type of pepper Anda bunch of other shit
Nature has been engineering plants for millions of years. What makes people think we can do better than nature’s best efforts. Let plants grow like they should and give them proper care, water with proper drainage, nutrients when needed and sunlight by careful selection of growth location and everything should be great.
I usually pinch flowers if the plant starts flowering in a pot before being put into the garden. Otherwise, the only pinching of any kind that I do is removing the fruit when it's ready for harvest.
Mine are flowering in the 4 pack seedling tray. Again. Just the last 4 yrs. YT told me to pinch & I've cringed as I pinched (some). This year I might try not pinching!? What should I do!? In Indiana ✌️
My parents have more yellowish soil not so fertile. I have great soil. Their garden Is pretty warm mine not so because of near Forest. Conclusion is i had all fruits better but peppers not. So peppers love hot, yellowish soil. I know that for sure because pepper grow so obvious big at my parents House.
Pinching flowers - It depends. If the plant is too small to carry the weight I'll pinch off the earliest flowers. If the plant looks strong enough, I don't. Depends on the weather, the type of pepper, (probably) the amount of nitrogen available to the plant, and more variables to count. I'd rather wait a couple of weeks for peppers than risk losing the plant.
Thanks! I was wondering about this (I've never pinched and have recently saw videos saying you should). You have me thinking a lot about the gardening advice a lot of people give, making me wonder why that's supposedly beneficial/harmful when someone tells me what to do, or making me do my research more like when people claim something like sticking a banana peel under a plant. I appreciate your videos so much, I've been going through them all.
I'm sure the answers are different depending on the length of the growing season too. It takes a long time to get ripe fruit here in the north and our growing season is so short. Peppers are a perennial and people in the south can overwinter them without having to take care of them indoors for 9 whole months. I think any science is going to be dependent on location.
Saw you hit the big time with an interview with Joe L’ampl! Aka Joe Gardener!
Maybe he hit the big time having me as a guest? :)
@@Gardenfundamentals1 touche ! touche ! Robert
Pinching off the first flower helps root development and prevents blossom end rot in the first fruit as it was removed. Chilli chump did experiments.
I found no evidence that removing flowers reduces BER, which is a watering issue. Removing flowers just lets the plant grow more before it produces fruit.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 The roots can’t sustain the first fruit, I noticed it on my toms last year (ber) on the first truss. You should check out the chilli chump channel, he’s pretty much a professional grower, years of experience in peppers and chillis. He did a beginners series where he explained I can find the link if you like. I’m not saying your a beginner! You obviously know more than me.👍🏻
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Everything does not have to rely on a scientific study to make sense, and I can’t see by that paper’s abstract exactly what they did and at what stage of development, and transplanting in particular it discusses. When you transplant peppers that might be 6 or 8” tall and they have flowers that would develop into fruit if left alone, it makes sense to remove them to promote root development and get a good start, this is consistent with other advice for other plants in your other videos. If you you have ever grown a pepper and did not remove those early flowers, and saw it stunted and not do as well as others you did remove them from, you do it, I have and I do. I know they will get 3-4 feet high in my zone 5b/ 6a and there is plenty of time for fruit development. Of course they don’t do that in production planting but the conditions the peppers go through starting under lights in potss, etc. is a quite different condition than production peppers making early flowers are more likely scenario.
Short version is the plant is gonna pretty much do what it's gonna do based on the conditions/inputs pinching buds can make your peppers bigger but similar yield either way. Topping can be good depending on the type of pepper Anda bunch of other shit
OK. I've my pepper method.
Corn? I'm soon to put peppers and corn in the ground.
Nature has been engineering plants for millions of years. What makes people think we can do better than nature’s best efforts. Let plants grow like they should and give them proper care, water with proper drainage, nutrients when needed and sunlight by careful selection of growth location and everything should be great.
I usually pinch flowers if the plant starts flowering in a pot before being put into the garden. Otherwise, the only pinching of any kind that I do is removing the fruit when it's ready for harvest.
how to get multiple harvests per plant? do we have to harvest all peppers before it can reveg or refruit?
The real truth is that we can never create more biomass by removing the potential for it.
Mine are flowering in the 4 pack seedling tray. Again. Just the last 4 yrs. YT told me to pinch & I've cringed as I pinched (some). This year I might try not pinching!? What should I do!? In Indiana ✌️
My parents have more yellowish soil not so fertile. I have great soil. Their garden Is pretty warm mine not so because of near Forest. Conclusion is i had all fruits better but peppers not. So peppers love hot, yellowish soil. I know that for sure because pepper grow so obvious big at my parents House.
It is not the color of the soil.
Excellent topic; I've been doing tests over the years to try to determine exactly this. Topping and pinching peppers is a waste of time.
Pinching the top out puts the plant back about 4 weeks so don’t do in a short season.
Lazy person that I am I just put out lots of plants and let nature take its course
Lazy but at least not overthinking simple task. Over caring for a plant always causes setbacks