Habanero advice

I could do with some general advice on red Habanero plants.

I’ve 4 plants, 2 have been topped and two fimmed.

The topped plants have split into a nice V-shape and are flowering. They’re in 9” pots.

The dimmed plants are also flowering but I’ve kept them in 5” pots to see how they’ll do, they’re obviously smaller than the other plants.

Question is, should I be pruning them now at all or just let them be? Would you put the fimmed plants in a bigger pot?

First two pics are topped plants and last is a fimmed plant.

All help greatly appreciated!

Stevie

 

Not answering your question, but has the plant in the last picture got an aphid problem.

 

Hi Pete.
No, I’ve just misted them all with some water. Is that what you mean?

 

Its just that the new leaves looked puckered.

 

I have never pruned, fimmed or done any of that to my habanero plants or any other pepper plants. I really don't know why you are doing it. People do that a lot with cannabis plants but peppers?..

To me the last picture looks either like aphid problems or low calcium.

 

I'm assuming fimmed and dimmed is actually trimmed?

 

Fimming is a term I see quite often in cannabis growers' dialogues. You're right, it is just a form of trimming. One is to try to get the top to grow to "main" stems so as to get two giant flowers at the tops. The other thing they like to do is get a thriving seedling, a large seedling and lay it on it's side to encourage a bunch of "main" stems to reach up. It is a production pumper according to the bloggers.

I don't do any of it with anything I have. Perhaps laziness on my part!

 

Yes, they are a bit. We’ve had a bit of an issue with Mealy Bugs but I’m checking every day and they seem clear. It’s just that one plant though.

 

Dimmed was a typo.
Fimming apparently makes the plant think it’s being attacked as you only trim part of the top leaves away. I saw it on YouTube and decided to try it.

 

Apparently, according to YouTube chilli growers it’s a common thing. I’ve grown chillies once before and they got really leggy so wanted to try for a shorter, bushier plant. Tried both trimming options but topping has produced a more substantial plant so far.

 

Never heard of fimming, something new to me.

 

Hi there, I don’t unfortunately. I keep them next to some glass exterior doors so they get lots of light but only get sun for around 5-6 hours a day.

We seem to get more than our fair share of pests so keeping outside isn’t possible, they’d get eaten alive.

 

Does anyone know if I should be pruning some of the larger leaves away or just leave the plants alone and let them do their thing?