My dog came in and demolished my left pepper plant. Is there any point to me keeping it?

by Doom_solider

23 Comments

  1. SoMuchMoreOutThere

    it’s a new young plant it will recover just let it be and chill, and keep your dog away obviously.

  2. Due_Platform_5327

    It will bounce back, it will be a little behind the other but it’s not a complete loss 

  3. Yes. Plants can be very resilient. It will start shooting out new growth in no time.

    Not a pepper plant but my cousin had a cannabis plant that was almost entirely eaten. He debated throwing it away but kept it. End of the season it was his largest plant. I’ve had pepper plants get destroyed by hail and they made a complete recovery.

  4. FoundAFoundry

    It’s actually very common to “top” a plant like this, carry on! You’ll be surprised with the results

  5. zeroes_n_ones

    thats nothing but an aggressive pruning on your dogs part.

    the plant will be fine just be patient.

    leave it be, stay calm, soldier on 🫡

  6. Kooky-Negotiation591

    Yeah you just get two stems instead of one. It’ll be fine.

  7. GraftingRayman

    I would do the same to the other one, does not look like it was topped

  8. Totally. A deer ate my buddy’s pepper plant almost to nothing. Still got hundreds of peppers by the end of season

  9. peteavelino

    You will be surprised how resilient Mother Nature is.

  10. Not only will it bounce back, but the stem will probably make a bunch more shoots and branches for even more pepper.

    My cat did this to a habanero plantling one year and it was the biggest crop I’ve ever had

  11. SoftwareSource

    Better now then when the peppers came in.

  12. I think the fact that they are in the sane planter may make it easier for the right to overtake the damaged one. I could be wrong it will survive but probably be stunted more than normal bc the other one is competing

  13. mightymitch1

    Half of the plant is roots so it should be fine

  14. timperativ

    Don’t really get why you want to keep a wild animal which kills peppers 🤷‍♂️

  15. WerewolfNew4007

    I would, it looks ok and plants are resilient., grow it out.

  16. Flimsy-Passenger-228

    Yes they are very good at bouncing back ✌️

  17. dammit-smalls

    It’ll be fine. You won’t even remember this happened.

  18. hamorbacon

    That’s what happened to one of my pepper plants. The wind broke the top off but it was still kinda hanging in there, I felt bad and didn’t want to remove it completely so I just left it that way and the plant suffered for while. I finally decide to cut the broken part off and the plant started thriving again

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