Pepper Plant Question

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  1. Bilbo675

    Bilbo675 Total Gardener

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    Hi all, I have 3 very healthy pepper plants, they are currently in 6" pots and the plants themselves are about 5-6" in height. The thing is there are flower buds starting to come at the top, should I leave them or should I pinch the whole tip out to encourage a bushier plant and delay the flowering?. This is the first time I've grown peppers so not sure what's best to do...

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    Normally they bush up by themselves, but might depend on what type they are a bit.

    Pinching them out will, as you say, delay them a few weeks.
     
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    Hi Normaly have two shoots just pinch out the one and as that grow it will produce another two shoots pinch one out again, I learnt this one from Beechgrove garden last year it worked realy well on mine and I had 4 diffrent ones and done that to all of them .
    Or like Kristen said they will bush up them selves


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