Heyall

I've been growing a bell pepper plant in my growroom for about two months now. the leaves on it are massive, but the plant is short. Its finally flowering now, with at twenty flowers. question is, should i prune some of the flowers off to control the fruiting or should i just let it be? im thinking if the plant ends up with this much fruit on it it couldnt be a good thing. Anyone with bell pepper experience? I will try to post pics soon.

thanks!

ok, so heres some pics. as you can see its starting to flower, but there is at least 30 budsites which seems like a little much. should i prune them, and if so when? thanks





also, a little bonus. the buddies! they love the growroom, but dont worry, they dont mess with the other babies!

anyone have anything to say? could use a had if anyone knows

Aww cute birds!

Anywhoo, I've been doing a bit of reading. I can't find anything that says you should prune the flowers. This link may answer your question (read the paragraph right above Harvest Time) Pepper Gardening 101

Here is another link which may be useful as time goes on if you start to see your flowers dropping off. The Growing Edge Community - Indoor pepper flowers drop off...

After reading I think you should keep the flowers on, and when the peppers start to grow, pick them sooner rather then later to get the maximum yield from the plant.

I have a bell pepper outdoors and am impressed with its growth.I bought it 3 weeks ago and it was like 6" tall and after replanting in organic soil its around 16" tall now. What kinda light are you using ?

im using about 400 watts total of cfls. The plant is an experiment, i treat it exactly like a bud plant just to see what happens, same lighting schedule, nutes, feeding schedule etc... and so far its the easiest and fastest growing plant ive had so far. I wish mary-j grew like this. I also have a sensetive plant i grew from seed thats doing pretty well.

thanks for the info it really helped. From what ive read bell peppers have two kinds of growth, somewhat similar to marijuana but a little different. there is vegatative growth and fruiting growth. the plant will concentrate on one or the other more, but it isnt determined by lighting like with cannabus but genetics (from what i understand). you can sway the plant in one direction by doing certain things. So what it seems like is if there are too many fruits the plant will do an "abortion" and drop some of the fruit to concentrate on the others.

How are the peppers doing ??

after a week and a half i was ready to give up. The plant had so many flowers but all of them would blossom and fall off. But just today I looked an saw a flower dying and a tinsy little pepper was coming out of it. This is awesome. Finally, it almost takes longer than bud because at least with bud you can see the flower and know its ready to go.

Going to post an update for us ??

I'm trying some tomatos and cucumbers myself (outdoor flood and drain).