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Pepper update!

fourteen pepper sprouts, 18 April 2016
my peppers on Monday, 18 April 2016


fourteen pepper sprouts, 25 April 2016
my peppers on Monday, 25 April 2016


thirteen pepper sprouts, 2 May 2016
my peppers on Monday, 2 May 2016


Last week I removed the dead/unsprouted peat pucks from the tray. Between last Monday and this Monday, I had a scare with the three sprouts in the upper left corner -- they got horribly dehydrated and wilted to the brink of death. I was able to successfully (...so far) revive two of them, but the third (which had previously had trouble shedding its seed coat, and had consequently not been growing terribly fast/well) only made a partial recovery for a day or two, after which it shriveled for good. :( I have since removed its puck as well.

I like these peat pucks for rapid sprouting, but it is really hard to judge appropriate water levels in 'soil' whose consistency and color don't match anything I'm used to.

Ah well, perhaps it's just as well to weed out the weak before I start subjecting them to open windows and fans and such, to say nothing of repotting them and moving them to the wild environs of my back porch. And the survivors so far are doing quite nicely! They're growing their first proper leaf pairs and everything! I am so, so proud of them. :)

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