Bought this plant mid 2024. When I first got it everything looked normal but the first time I did a heavy trimming out grew a ton of flowers that kept dropping off, and this time I'm getting a bunch of weird leaf growth and no real branching. Is this fixable, or should I just give up on it?
Last picture is a seedling off of that same plant.
by ALxRmeR0
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I had a similar issue with a couple of “rescue” over watered Trinidad Scorpions”, after a while they came right and are now happily branching out and fruiting.
This looks like a conditions issue. What are the temps and how much light is it getting?
This is very very similar to how my ghost looks that I pruned back and moved inside under lights for over wintering. Figured mine was just waiting to get back outdoors and in the ground again when temps allow.
I’ve had overwintered peppers do this. It seems like it’s normal, and the roots are still very alive. Wait and see how it grows, and if the new growth doesn’t look unhealthy, the plant should be fine barring other issues. It’ll be a bushy one tho
In the canna community this kinda thing is normal when the plant transitions from flowering (producing fruits) back to vegging (like after an aggressive pruning). As others have said, the new growth will likely be weird/abnormal and all over the place until it gets itself sorted but it should return to normal.
Lots of people go through this “revegging” phase to save a desirable plant after harvest and because the yields can be better in the next round. It’s called “monster cropping” lol.
In trees they call this a witches broom.
I think you’re in for a good year. Please update.