Some studies show that bell pepper plants do not respond as well to this method as other types of peppers. They really are quite similar and you will use the same technique. When it comes to topping pepper plants, you can use the same method whether you are topping chili plants or topping bell pepper plants. Your pepper plant will direct its hormones toward the healthy branches so that the plant becomes more full rather than taller. What this does is encourage your plant to put more growth into each branch rather than by continuing to grow upwards. You need to make this cut above two healthy branches.

Topping refers to a technique used by some gardeners to remove the main stem of the plant before it gets too tall. Hopefully my plants will survive in my glasshouse, especially if I use a shroud during the coldest parts of Winter.No products found. If the humidity is very low, the plant can actually sustain much lower temperatures as the internal contents of a plant cell will not freeze so easily. Frost is normally associated with the dual action of cold and high humidity resulting in the formation of ice crystals on the surface of plants which then damages them. Now that I know what the origins of my plants are and how to prune them, they do need to be kept somewhere free of frost, such as a glasshouse or conservatory. The Carolina Reaper was then created by crossing this plant with the Red Habanero. For example, the Bhut Jolokia ভোট-জলকীয়া), is an interspecies hybrid of C.

The 'Super Hots' are generally perennials, which means that they will keep growing and producing fruit for a number of years.Īll hot chilli peppers originally came from the deepest darkest depths of the Amazon from where they spread and expanded in diversity through central America, the Caribbean and on to India.The species that I grow are essentially 'Capsicum chinense' but the true lineage is slightly more complicated than this. My plants were sown from seed at the beginning of April this year in a propagation box and potted on into the glasshouse where they thrived and even produced a few fruit, which is very good going in the first year. Super hot chilli plants such as the 'Carolina Reaper' and 'Bhut Jolokia' need to be pruned every now and again and more specifically, pruned for surviving the Winter in temperate climates such as in the UK.

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