pepper update, Monday 8/15/16

twelve peppers, Monday, 15 August 2016


( four more photos under the cut )

I posted this on Tumblr last night and then went to bed rather than deal with crossposting a bunch of embedded images over here. But the photos themselves are definitely from Monday. :)

Anyway, my plants did well for themselves while I was away in New Jersey from Wednesday to Sunday. The early bloomer is now growing two itty-bitty teeny-tiny actualfax peppers, as illustrated in photo #2. Meanwhile, several other plants are getting ready to bloom real soon now. Yay flowers!

My tiny zombie pepper seems to have genuinely recovered from its extended near-death battle with fusarium wilt... which suggests that I should probably stop calling it a zombie. Perhaps Lazarus would be more appropriate? ;)

As you can see, the central pepper in the row closest to the camera in photo #1 has taken on a slightly unhealthy yellow tint in its lower leaves. I think this is because it catches the edge of the waterfall that pours from the malfunctioning gutter over my kitchen windows, and so is suffering from too-wet soil and also nutrient leaching. I gave all the plants a small drink of fertilizer this afternoon, and mixed some ground up eggshells into the soil for good measure. (Apparently the calcium is good for them? *shrug* I've been cooking and eating a lot of hardboiled eggs this year so it's not exactly hard to save the shells.) Hopefully that will help my brave and adorable peppers as they shift into producing fruit. :)

[[original Tumblr post, for when the embedded images inevitably break]]

wherein Liz drags her feet about internet housekeeping

I need to go edit chs. 1-8 of "The Courting Dance" over on ff.net, and post chs. 9-13. But I'd either have to edit in their terrible rich text interface or create thirteen new, clean files (while making sure to copy any relevant author's notes from the currently posted versions), plus replace all my page breaks with ones ff.net won't eat and strip out all my html coding, and I just... really, really do not want to deal with all that.

I haven't posted new stories on ff.net for years, for various and sundry reasons, but I do update WIPs over there because I dislike leaving things unfinished. It's untidy and it itches at me.

But oh god, I hate their posting interface SO MUCH.

*slumps melodramatically onto laptop*