For a good and earlier harvest, sweet peppers need to be shaped.
Procedure
Manipulations usually begin from the bottom of the young bush. If the cotyledons have not fallen off on their own, they can be safely removed.
Also, for better ventilation, you can remove the first pair of lower true leaves.
Moving up to the first fork, below it is necessary to cut off all the side shoots. They only delay the nutrition of the plants.
A crown flower usually forms on the fork. This is due to good care. If the seedlings had enough nutrients and grew in care, then several flowers can form. They are all removed.
In the next forks, you also need to remove the growing flowers. They slow down the development of the main plant, taking its strength for their own benefit.
Methods of formation
When the pepper forms into 2 stems, 2 strong lateral shoots are left. Anything that the plant grows inward must be removed.
Having achieved uniform fruit setting and ripening, during subsequent pepper formation, you can move on to "checkerboard" plucking. With this agricultural technique, flowers on the bush are calculated in a checkerboard pattern and are removed alternately by alternation. Thus, the ovaries will form and ripen in a checkerboard pattern. This will eliminate the problem of crowding and crowding of fruits.
A lesser-known method of shaping is in one stem. It is applicable when the planting is dense. The crown bud is not removed here.
Having reached the fork, the stronger shoot is determined by eye. It should be left, and the weak one should be cut off. In this case, the peppers will be able to ripen 2 weeks earlier, and the fruits themselves will be larger and heavier.
