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Originally Posted by velikipop
I have never tried pinching first flowers, but will give it a try this year to see if it does increase yield.
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As you have noticed peppers produce in flushes. Each flush is usually more productive then the one before if all goes well.
By removing the first one or two flushes you are gaining time. Instead of the plant using 3 weeks let's say from flush 1 to 2 (since it has to grow those peppers), now it uses only one week, so you get directly to flush 3 faster. So you can gain one high flush per season instead of two weak ones.