broken bell pepper plant
I came back from a weekend trip and moved my bell pepper plant. Snapped off the stem above the first leaves. it is an indoor plant Will it continue to grow or is it done?
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I have to chime in here, I did the same to one of my green bean bush seedling plants, but instead of snapping the stem, I somehow managed to snag the little buds of the seedling where the first set of true leaves were coming in but I let it go to see what it would do and it regrew a new set of buds and now all my bush bean plants, green and lima, are growing up their first sets of true leaves, I thought I had killed it but my fiance said to let it run its course and it regenerated and survived.
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that's true, I wish someone had told me to do that before years ago, my plants always got hugely tall and I never could understand why (my pepper plants one year got about 4.5' tall! they started falling over and I had to tie them up to keep them upright and the peppers on them were never very big, I think had I done that before they too big and mature I would have gotten bigger peppers (keep in mind the one's I did get were awesome as far as thick walled and sweetness taste and texture) I will be doing it again this year to make sure they don't get too tall and produce bigger better fruits/veggies (whichever people call them these days lol)