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    Should you remove side shoots from chilli and pepper plants as you would with tomatoes?
    A bad days fishing is still better than a good day at work!
    There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.

  • #2
    Short answer = no need.
    Happy Gardening,
    Shirley

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    • #3
      Why is that then Shirley?
      A bad days fishing is still better than a good day at work!
      There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.

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      • #4
        Peppers are fine with side shoots - it will increase the crop they carry. The reason for removing sideshoots from Toms is - strange as it sounds - to increase the crop! If you allow leafy side shoots they grow at the expense of fruits - this is not generally the case with peppers.

        Terry
        The weeks and the years are fine. It's the days I can't cope with!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by brooklynodog View Post
          Why is that then Shirley?
          What Terry said. They are bush plants and if you take off the side shoots you will get a very poor crop.
          Happy Gardening,
          Shirley

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          • #6
            Thanks for that, I am growing lots of peppers and chillies this year, and want to get it right.
            A bad days fishing is still better than a good day at work!
            There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.

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            • #7
              Chillies and sweet peppers are grown as bush plants, leave the side shoots on. Some tomatoes are grown as bushes, some as cordons (tall upright plants with no sideshoots - all depends on the variety)

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              • #8
                Thanks Rustylady - I was somewhat unclear there! It is important to check the variety of tom - if you took all the sideshoots off a tumbler tom you'd never get a crop!
                The weeks and the years are fine. It's the days I can't cope with!

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                • #9
                  I had better check about my toms then. I am growing Ailsa craig, sub artic plenty and gardeners delight. These are all cordons I hope?
                  A bad days fishing is still better than a good day at work!
                  There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.

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                  • #10
                    Sub arctic are bush - leave the side shoot ON these!
                    Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                    www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                    • #11
                      Thanks Flummery, will do so.
                      A bad days fishing is still better than a good day at work!
                      There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.

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