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I grow cayenne pepper in container on my balcony in Florida, and it is windy on my balcony (facing ocean). Sometimes i bring my pepper inside with orchid, but it seems that they don't like to be inside. So i strapped the plant with gardeners thread - it was secure! ( i used to grow sunflower there and had to strap it too.)
My mistace was that ididn't go all the way to the top of the plant i thought to give him some flexibility and room, so with strong wind gusts it would just bend and wouldn't brake in the middle... but it was wobbling too much and i had to tighten lines a little so it had little less room to wobble.
Tonight it was raining and my plant already has some small peppers on it... and a lot of leaves on top. Apparently wind was strong and it snapped the pepper right in the middle but it was holding on hairline... i brought it inside and put splint on it... while i was doing that that hairline connection snapped and top part detached completely.. but anyways I put splint on it (made of chopsticks) and I watered that spot and the whole plant. But couple minutes later it looked like the plant got weaker and leaves kind of hanging there like cloth... What should i do????
Should i cut it with scalpel and put it together then secure it with splint? Should i use teflon tape should i use piece of cloth?
Should i just leave it without top part? But it has some small peppers just started growing peppers... Would be really sad to kill it... And definately i do not want it to die! Would really love to see peppers get bigger and ripen on plant...
What should i do? How to connect it togheter right????
BTW: this is a Red Cayenne Pepper. Plant is couple months old.
I know that peppers are tender shrubs, and the base should branch out and fill out again. The top, I guess you could try to root the tender shoots (not woody), but you would need to remove the peppers and flowers if you would have any chance.
My top part of plant is unforunately not going to make it. I put it in vase with water, but it gets weaker and no way will be better. But i did try littler peppers - they are not HOT at all... maybe cause too young to be hot. I'm not even thinking about rooting top part... I guess to root it i need healthy plant then put it in water and then wait for roots, right?
The bottom part is fine, but i don't think it will give me any peppers. The plant was ~18" tall overall, now top part(dead) ~12" tall and bottom part - just stick with leaves is 6" tall.
Would it give me any peppers in the future? I probably will give it a chance, but i doubt I'll have peppers.
You think it will branch out again?
Cause if it will i'll leave it in this pot and not going to plant new one. If it won't i'll start the seed and then replant this broken one in smaller container and new one in this big container.
Start a seed, but give this one a chance. I would love to know what your results are. I think that the pepper can produce after it puts on a new flush of growth. I am guessing that it will. Some plants don't do so well after the leader is damaged, but I read about people pruning their peppers to try to increase yields, so a wind pruning will probably grow back too.
I have a 2 year old pepper plant in the garden that has broken off due to the weight of the peppers, the wind, my carelessness, etc. It will branch out from the remaining part and will produce peppers. Just be patient.
