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title: "Please help, they’re only a week old. I was watering daily and it was…"
description: "Please help, they’re only a week old. I was watering daily and it was looking like too much at the roots so I let them go two days without watering and they’re…"
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published: "2025-07-29T01:19:46.167679Z"
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# Please help, they’re only a week old. I was watering daily and it was…

_Posted by Newbie on 2025-07-29_

Please help, they’re only a week old. I was watering daily and it was looking like too much at the roots so I let them go two days without watering and they’re just getting sadder. They are in full light

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## 8 comments

### Twinn commented on 2025-07-29

Try to provide some sort of shade for them. And as for the bell pepper I'd cut that pepper off so the plant can concentrate on grow instead of providing all it's nutrients to that little pepper. I have a personal rule to cut the first vegetables off the plant and bury them in the ground for the plant to use as nutrients to grow bigger

#### Newbie replied on 2025-07-29

Thank you!

#### Twinn replied on 2025-07-29

Your welcome. And I'd also recommend watering them in the morning ever day that gets over 90°F

### Twinn commented on 2025-07-29

This habanero sees temperature over 100°F just about every day

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#### Newbie replied on 2025-07-29

Amazing! Thank you again! We live in New Mexico and it gets over 100 almost daily!

#### Twinn replied on 2025-07-29

I'm in south Georgia so we have high humidity on top of high temperatures like 100° with 86%+humidity

### Ji11 commented on 2025-07-29

As others have said.. plus they seem a bit small to have so much fruit on them already. In the future I recommend pruning a bit more before allowing them to fruit, also removing flowers until the plant is larger.  
These desperately need water but it also looks like they were planted in an area that hasn’t been established long enough as a garden bed and the soil underneath the topsoil is dense, dry and depleted of nutrients therefore the roots have nowhere to go and aren’t established enough.

### Mike commented on 2025-08-04

It’s kinda late now, but I would avoid planting that close to a brick wall. The temperature that comes off walls and brick can cook plants. I had this issue and my plants perked up as soon as I moved the planters away from the wall.

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