Pruning Pepper Plants 101: Is It Even Necessary?

Pepper pruning tip of your own? Lemme know what works for you ⤵️

Pruning promotes lateral growth and fruiting yield

Will my bell pepper plant regrow new leaves and stem because it got eaten?

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I have a large chilli plant which I didn’t prune in the early stages and it’s huge now with lots of flower buds at the top but no fruits! ☹️

This year planted 18 tobasco, 12 seranos, 92 cayenne, 4 red bell the 5th turned out funny as I ended up with a kung Pao pepper. I topped everything and I have such an early crop this year on seranos I'm picking alot to save on the heat stress while letting more energy into flowers n more fruit it keeps compounding exponentially. Topping is way to go I tried to top once I had established about 8 main leaves on my plants. Next year I'm getting Anchor, jalapeno, habanero, into my rotation. I make a lot of salsa Verde, fire hot salsa. Love my plants!

My jalapeño plant is 3 plants one container. It has stopped producing. My plants are about 3feet high. It’s looking thin and lanky as opposed to bushy. FYI I live in Las Vegas. I wondered if I need to cut it down?

1. Green Bell Pepper 2. Jalapeno 3. Poblano Pepper 4. Anaheim Pepper 5. Cayenne (for chili flakes).

This is such an easy experiment to do. Grow 20 and top every other one, that way you eliminate all the other variables. The yield is almost double ( 80 percent more ).

Never grew peppers before. Didnt prune them. Just water and fertilizer. I have 18 banana peppers on my plant right now. I've already harvested 9.

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My pepper grows very green and healthy up to 5ft . It has flowers but does not produce too much fruit. But once i prune or pinch them, Got tons of chilies. Yes, pruning does matter. I pinch the leaves for cooking. 4 of My 3 years old pepper bushes is 5ft tall grown from seeds. I fertilized it with carabae.

If you want BIG peppers don't prune the tops!

Thanks Kevin!

Real nice video.

Do you snip the sprouts I have plenty coming from my leafs so do I snip or just leave it ? I want the energy to go to the main branches with the peppers on it

I’m really questioning my choice to top my peppers. We have a very short growing season and I started my peppers indoors quite early. I topped them and planted out about 2 weeks earlier than normal. Well, now our weather has taken a turn with heavy rain and cool temperatures and all the blossoms have dropped. And it will take for ever for it to set new fruit. 😕

I just want to ask if i should prune the offshoots (aka suckers ) like in tomato plants or not ???

It would be amazing if you see this -
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Can someone please answer a ??
I was snipping off flowering pods on my 6 week old pepper plants... i also cliped off the cotyledum leaves. Then learned how important they are. Will it be OK as long as the plant is bigger now? Their 6-7 inches.

This is my second year growing peppers, and the first year growing them directly from the seed. I’ll try topping some and not topping the others. Although, last year I got a pretty good yield without topping them.