I dont pinch flowers I pinch fruit if the plant is too little.
Reason, I hardly ever see early blooms set fruit.
I have seen tomato plants just sit and do nothing with one tomato not doing anything because they were too small.
As soon as the tomato was removed the plant would practically explode with growth.
Most of the time but not all of the time I dont debate what people do for peppers and so on that live in a different environment than me.
As for the peppers like hot weather thing, that can get out of hand where I live big time.
Hot weather in Maine or Germany is ((NOT)) hot weather in Texas.
Sure you guys might get a heat wave but our heat waves in the upper 90s and low 100's F last for 4 months.
We call it summer.
Ghost peppers DO NOT like that kind of weather.
Also if you look at the geography of where some of these peppers came from it is by far different than the Hollywood version of the hot desert Mexico with the cactus, rattlesnakes and thirsty dying horses and cowboys.
If it weren't for the drug cartels these areas would be a weather paradise compared to where I live.
It is no wonder these are the places civilizations thrived.
In short, hot weather and heat loving is only relative to what people think it is.
Worth