pepper beauty pageant time!

[edenfalling]

We've had really warm weather in Ithaca this past week or two, but as of this weekend the forecast drops to the 50s and low 60s during the days, and down into the 40s at night, so I think I will bring Mom's pepper indoors. (It's only just flowered; it's the most delicate.) I will probably bring the others indoors as well within another week or two, to give them extra growing/ripening time. My kitchen doesn't get the best light in the world, but at least it's warm.


all my peppers, Wednesday Oct. 1, 2014



Mom's pepper, slightly nibbled but I think this time the flowers might actually make it all the way to tiny veggies!



my bonsai pepper, which seems to have thrown in the towel without ever blooming :-(



kinda funny-looking, but hey, they're growing!



also funny-looking! apparently the smaller, later blooms produce these weird-ass brown-streaked and scabby peppers



my biggest pepper, slowly approaching the size of my fist



second-biggest pepper, catching up to its competition



and then there's these guys, photographed sideways to show you just how ridiculous the smaller one actually looks :-)

Comments

[heliopausa]

I enjoy following your slow, slow peppers soap opera. (My vegetable love will grow, vaster than empires, and more slow.... ? which in turn makes me think of the slow TV movement, as linked by cofax.)

Looking forward to the next update. :)

[edenfalling]

It is SUCH a slow soap opera. But very dramatic, when taken as a whole. Leaf blight! Marauding squirrels! Pesticide overdoses! Inclement weather! The struggle to grow and reproduce despite all obstacles! And then at the end, I get some food. :-)