pepper update, Monday 11/28/16

As you can see, the remaining peppers have moved indoors for good. I am doing my best to make sure they get enough light, misting them from a spray bottle to keep them from drying out, and occasionally fanning them to simulate gentle wind.

Despite those efforts, the Lazarus pepper lost its blossoms and did not replace them with fruit; the little stems just withered and fell off. It does have a few more undeveloped buds, but at this point I doubt anything will come of them. :(

The other peppers are doing pretty well, though. The repotted pepper is just starting to ripen -- there's a tiny flush of what will be red at the bottom of one lobe, but at this point it mostly looks brown and also doesn't photograph well at all. Meanwhile, the pepper with the miraculous good-luck shield is almost completely ripe. I mean, look at that beautiful red color!

This is very exciting for me, since I've never managed to get a pepper all the way to ripeness before. (Squirrels are the main problem, which I'm sure comes as no surprise to anyone who's been following this saga.) One time I got a pepper to about the shade the lower good-luck pepper was this past Thursday, but it was going soft and funny as fast as it ripened so I had to pick it before it started to actually rot. These two peppers, in contrast, are still firm and healthy.

I am going to pick and process them pretty soon anyway, but until then I am getting such a kick out of seeing them all red and tempting amid the green leaves. :D



1) five peppers, Monday, 28 November 2016


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2) the Lazarus pepper is not fruiting, alas :(
3) the decapitated pepper, doing well


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4) the repotted pepper, just starting to ripen (the color change didn't photograph well)
5) the pepper that lost an entire branch to squirrels


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6) the pepper with the miraculous good luck shield, Thursday, 24 November 2016
7) and again on Monday, 28 November 2016


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narcissus update, Monday 11/28/16

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1) Monday, 21 November 2016
2) Monday, 28 November 2016


My narcissus continues to grow apace, as you can see from the first two photos. :)



3) Monday, 28 November 2016


In other plant news, my mom wanted to get rid of her last spider plant, and I told her that instead of throwing it away, she should give it to me. (I am a total sucker for spider plants. I do not try very hard to correct this weakness.) Unfortunately for the plant, as they were unpacking the car last Tuesday, it got knocked loose and fell into my driveway, tipping the plant and soil out of the pot in dreadful disarray.

I managed to mostly clean and repot the plant, though one section had completely snapped free of its roots and had to be dunked in a container of water instead. I don't currently have a hook from which to hang the pot, but I am pondering my options and hope to get something set up within the next week or so.

I should probably do some repotting work on a few of my other spider plants while I’m at it...


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