The peppers I moved outside survived the night. I discovered they had all wilted in the early afternoon, so I moved them into a shady spot and gave them a good drink of water. By sunset, they had all perked up again. I’ll leave them in this spot for a while. They’ll get a couple
For one brief, shining moment it wasn’t raining! I did a quick inventory of what plants I have (or think I have) and picked a few candidates to get into pots. I chose plants that had buds or seemed mature and sturdy enough to stand up to being outside.
By the time I got done with work and had time to attend to the plants, it was raining. It’s raining this morning too. At least one of the plants is blooming now, so I’m running out of time. I really wish this constant rain would end.
The buds are close to opening. I’m hoping that I’ll have some time after work to get the more mature plants into proper pots.
I dug out some pots yesterday and did some research on how big the various pepper plants grow to figure out how I want to distribute them. I found a lot of conflicting information, so I’m not a lot better off now than when I started. I thought I might take my best guess and
The baby mad hatter peppers are doing really well. This picture shows the five new ones and an older one in the back corner on the right. The older one has a couple of weeks head start on the newer ones but isn’t very far ahead of the newer ones. I’m slowly figuring out how
The buds are still developing on what I think is a fresno plant. It could be a scorpion instead. When these turn into peppers, I’ll know for sure.
These are a couple of the scotch bonnet pepper plants. I’m just taking a few minutes to look them over this morning. The newer leaves are a little pale, so I’m thinking it’s probably getting to be time to give them a little more fertilizer, and probably give them a bigger pot.
Remember the pale little plant that I replanted in a bigger cup a while back? The leaves weren’t the deep green that the other gator jigsaw babies had, and I thought it might be due to poor nutrition. Here’s what it looked like before. This is how it looks today. The leaves are larger and
Below are two plants that are roughly equal in maturity. Are they the same variety or are they different? I labeled the one on the left as a scorpion and the one on the right as a fresno, but they look very similar. If there are any differences between them at this stage, I can’t
