btrowe1
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How & Should I Prune Indoor Ghost Pepper Plants?

I brought in from the outside my ghost pepper plant/bush, wondering if I should prune it back a bit. Getting colder up this way and I'd like for this plant to produce a few more peppers next year. The Plant/bush is close to 2 1/2' tall.

If yes how should I go about it, also the plant is losing a few leaves, I attribute this to the shock of coming in from the outside.Only a few leaves are dropping.

Thanks

tomc
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You can coppice a pepper in order to make it fit indoors. See Fatali's peppers.

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rainbowgardener
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Here's a thread we have had for a long time about wintering peppers over indoors:

https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/vi ... hp?t=31055

Here's the reference to what tom was talking about:

https://www.fatalii.net/Bonsai_Chiles_Bonchi

Understand that just to keep them alive over the winter will require some kind of supplemental lighting.

btrowe1
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That is so cool, chile bonsai"s.. who would have thought of that..

Thank you rainbow..



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