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Originally Posted by PA Wolf
Did you prune it back at all?
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Hi there,
I did prune it back when I took it out of the bed at the end of the summer- I'm in New England and assumed I'd have a lot of die back over the long winter if I didn't. I pruned it to just above the two forks above the main stem fork and left a few thin shoots with leaves on it. Probably pruned it back to a quarter of the size it was in the bed and root pruned accordingly.
It started to look a bit rough by new year and had some mite issues, but I put it in a south-facing window and it held on under the days grew longer.
Since I posted this a couple weeks ago the plant really took off. It was setting fruits and flowering like crazy. I decided to pull the first set of blooms to push a bit more vegetative growth before resources go to a major fruit set but definitely didn't need to- just did it out of curiosity to see how much I can push the plant this season.