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It’s very exciting to see the vegetables starting to form on a plant. But sometimes they arrive earlier than they should. When a plant starts to produce fruit, it puts most of its energy into creating that fruit, rather than into growing and maturing.

Take this red sweet pepper plant, for instance. It was maybe 6-8 inches tall and already this growing pepper was weighing down the plant so that it could barely stay upright and other peppers were not forming at all. Additionally, this tiny little pepper, the size of a small plum, was already turning red, as though it had just about reached its fully size.

So off it came. Now that the pepper is gone, the plant’s precious energy and resources are freed up for growing and eventually producing more and bigger fruit.

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