I transplanted this jalapeño plant about 3 weeks ago. It had stayed too long in its pot it came in and started fruiting before I transplanted. Once transplanted, the two peppers grew to pretty good size and the plant itself didn't grow at all. Now, the peppers have stalled and the plant appears to be starting growth? Any opinions on what's going I need on?
by Some-Conversation613
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I’d say it went into shock (in some way) which causes fruiting, but they can grow and fruit at the same time. Some like cutting the flowers until they’ve reached a certain height, or you can let them continue but get slower plant height growth or trim flowers a little longer. Depending on your climate and season though, think it’ll be fine. If you’re coming into spring or summer, consider taking a cutting if you’re happy with it being healthy and want another to try get height first.
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take off the flowers for now and just let it grow. With the coming heat it should take off.
Small plants can generate lots of pods, but the pods will be smaller. Here’s what likely happened: transplant stall is a lag time between transplant and figuring out it can grow bigger. When a plant can grow bigger, reproduction goes on the back burner because more peppers = better chance of a next generation. Once the roots stretch out, flowering will begin again if it’s not too hot outdoors. I also think that transplant stall is the more correct way to view the process. Smaller plants have less resources, so root development comes at the expense of above ground growth. As the roots expand, it is able to gather resources greater than that needed for just developing more root mass and can multitask at that point, adding more leaves, growing, flowering, and spreading more roots.