Timber!!!

Okay, out inspecting and decided that it was setting far too many pods for this stage of the game, and as I was removing the pods I decided I might as well go ahead and do a partial chop on the top.  Not too likely that the roots will get significantly better now, and it'll do better recovering with good sunlight.  So, off with it's head!

Now, as you can see this wasn't a full chop.  A full chop would have gone down even lower and removed of those high branches, but I want to be playing it extra safe on this one.  So, a half chop that leaves plenty of leaves and nodes for it to recover with.  The idea here is that it will now start putting out branches lower down that I can then start shaping into a canopy later on.

Wasn't kidding about playing it safe, either.  Large cuts on peppers that drastically weaken the plant can become infected with a type of mold/fungus.  It causes the plant to start dying at the cut, and then starts eating it's way down inside the branch towards the roots.  It makes the stems hollow like a straw, and if you look down inside them you might see a fuzzy white substance.  When that takes hold, there's only one answer, cut below the infection and pray you got it.  There is no saving anything at or above the infection point, so you gotta amputate.  And just like with human cuts, a good squirt of hydrogen peroxide will sterilize the wound without hurting the plant.

A few customary update pictures after a few more waterings have exposed the teeth a little better.

And just because, a glamour shot that I'm calling the Peter Capaldi:

No, all 13 of them!