pepper update, Monday 11/7/16

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Temperatures flirted with frost last night, so I brought my plants in to stand on my kitchen table overnight. I moved them back outside around 11:30 this morning.

I am trying not to pick any of the peppers until they start properly ripening -- aka, turning orange-red -- both because they taste mellower then and because it provides a more interesting color contrast in anything I cook. (I always buy green bell peppers at the store, because they are significantly cheaper than red bell peppers. Sometimes I get lucky and a few of the green peppers are just starting to shade yellow-orange in a few places.)


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1) seven peppers indoors on my kitchen table, Monday, 7 November 2016
2) seven peppers back outdoors an hour later, Monday, 7 November 2016


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3) the Lazarus pepper, ALMOST BLOOMING
4) the decapitated pepper, with its slightly yellow and squishy fruits


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5) the repotted pepper
6) the waterlogged pepper


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7) the pepper that lost an entire branch to squirrels
8) the sideways pepper
9) and the two peppers with the improbable good luck shield


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