Covering pepper plants is a subject of much debate, with some farmers claiming it’s an amazing way to enhance production, as well as others stating it’s not essential in all. So, who’s right? As with most points in horticulture, IT DEPENDS!

Pruning peppers removes leading growth to promote more branching and bushiness. By doing this, you sacrifice your earliest peppers in favor of expanding more plants and a tougher plant, which can then lend itself to even more flower and also pepper production in the future later on.

I like to top lanky plants to bush them out myself, specifically if I’m still early in the season with lots of time to allow those peppers generate. On bigger peppers like bells or banana peppers, I let them be – it does not seem to do much besides decrease manufacturing.

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