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Elizabeth Culmer ([personal profile] edenfalling) wrote2013-08-20 01:06 am

peppers in pots :-)

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.

peppers front view

bell pepper

jalapeño

baby jalapeños

jalapeño blossom
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[personal profile] askerian 2013-08-20 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
success! actual peppers, wow. they look almost too big for the plant XD