peppers in pots :-)

[edenfalling]

My peppers, as of Monday afternoon. :-)

The bell pepper seems to have settled on producing three good-sized peppers. A couple of the other tiny proto-peppers have fallen off the plant, and the others are kind of in stasis, neither growing nor dying. Perhaps once I pick the three large ones the others will begin to grow again.

As for the jalapeño, it inched upward maybe another couple centimeters, but seems to have stopped growing taller/bushier and is now concentrating on the all-important business of flowering and producing actualfax peppers. As you can see, the first lone blossom has already become a distinct pepper, while a couple others are shedding their petals to reveal tiny baby peppers. The jalapeño flowers themselves are interestingly different from the bell pepper flowers -- for one thing they face downward rather than sideways, and for another their petals spread into a much wider and flatter array.

Comments

[askerian]

success! actual peppers, wow. they look almost too big for the plant XD

[edenfalling]

I have one of the bell peppers cunningly balanced on the ring of the metal stake to which the plant is tied, but yeah, they look ridiculously huge compared to the poor plant. Of course, they are mostly air inside and so not half as heavy as they look, but even so. HUGE!