You've got the right idea. You can tie or weigh vertical branches down so that they will start fruiting in future years, or if it will be too much trouble doing that, or if there are too many verticals that will just shade the lower branches too much, you can just prune them off. You'll probably need to do the same thing each and every year for the life of the tree if you want to maximize fruiting wood and sunlight penetration into the lower portions of the tree. In the end, it's your tree, and it's up to you how much effort you want to put into training it and pruning it into the form that you want, because the tree doesn't know what's best for you -- the tree basically only knows how to grow either up or out in a response to maximize sunlight to all its leaves, not to the fruit or fruit buds. It is therefore up to you, and not the tree, to shape the tree any way that you want, to maximize fruiting and sunlight penetration, or whatever your goal is. Prune that puppy into shape. Or not. It's your tree and your decision. And you can take pleasure in all of it, from stick to bud to fruit to stomach.

Francis, your plant looks great, though some more light might make it more compact. It is not hanging (yet) because your glossy stemmed plant is a Hatiora salicornioides, the dancing bones cactus, not a hairy Rhipsalis. It will start to hang down eventually, but that will take a while.

Just found your post--I carried over some ivy geraniums from last year and I am letting them fall by their own wt. I had trimmed them way back in the fall after bringing them indoors for the winter. They have filled out real nice. I have them in a sun room that gets lots of light so I just keep them potted. They get white flies in the house so I spray with a soap/alcohol solution about once a week along with a good spray of water. Kathryn

It a pretty good guess that one of the parents was a bell pepper. There are a multitude of Capsicum annuum peppers so you will never know the other parent. Assuming that this is indeed a cross. you have a mongrel. If you like it, you can carefully select the best specimen for seeds and repeat this process for several years until it stabilizes and then name as a new variety. that is how many of the "heirloom" varieties originated.