So I know the pots are too small – I’ve learned that lesson! So many more of them grew than expected and there is no room to repot them into larger pots. These are almost all cayenne. They grow up and up but won’t fruit… I have been sparing with plant food – should I use more? Or are they too leggy now to fruit?
Planted mid-April.
by rythaslequin
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They need more light.
Holy Hell man. Damn plants been only doing leg day at the gym.
Fruit requires a lot of energy for a plant. Those are leggy as heck. They don’t actually have that many leaves. They will eventually fruit, but they may be lacking nutrients required for the fruit. The very limited soil would likely require some kind of fertilizer to make them fruit. If you do plant them out anywhere, they will absolutely require some kind of support or they will fall over, and possibly break, the second they get any top fruit.
Having had plants half that tall and just as leggy this year, they probably need bigger pots for their roots and some wind (I had mine next to a cracked window, but apparently fans work too) to start bulking the stalks up a bit or they’ll just fall over when they do fruit from the weight
They need more light and ofc bigger pots if you want any kind of real yeld from them.
Op these plants are so leggy I thought this was a shitpost. They definitely need more light.
Change for bigger pots, maybe?
Bigger pots, more light, larger spacing between plants.
They have enough light there. Mine flowered almost immediately after transferring to bigger pots. The ones still in small pots have yet to grow a single flower.
If you have “learned that lesson”, why are they still in small pots? When people use the phrase lesson learned, it means that they have actually rectified the problem.
BIGGER pots and more light! Their roots need space.
They need way more light (that’s why they are leggy and reaching) and if you want to yield anything, you need bigger pots (its better to throw away half of them or more and use that same space for bigger pots)
lol
More light!
They are leggy as crazy. Those windows doesnt do them any good. Either fix a growing light or place them in a greenhouse with sunexposure.
And as you said, those pots are way to small. Just by repotting will give them tons of nutrients to grow bigger. But they need more light.
Get rid of 75% of them. Put the rest into appropriately sized pots.