pepper update, Monday 12/12/16
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edenfallingI went down to NJ for the weekend, so they had two and a half days to themselves; they seem to have come through fine. (I left the kitchen curtains mostly open and the thermostat set to about 66F.)
1) four peppers, Monday, 12 December 2016
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2) the Lazarus pepper, still shiny and green
3) the decapitated pepper, its fruits no longer quite so squishy
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4) the repotted pepper, still ripening nicely
5) the pepper that lost an entire branch to squirrels, making a sudden late bid for 'brightest color' :)
It appears that the decapitated pepper's fruit went squishy because the plant itself was slightly dehydrated. I have been watering it more and the peppers have firmed back up. Meanwhile the repotted pepper and the squirrel-debranched pepper are both well on their way to a nice vivid red. In the former, this is just a continuation of what it's been doing for the past two weeks. In the latter, this is a sudden and dramatic change! I mean, that thing was solid green last week, and now look at it!
The Lazarus pepper still has those four tiny undeveloped buds, but at this point I'm mostly just going to keep it alive in a spirit of curiosity (and, you know, sympathy for its struggles) rather than any real expectation that it will flower again, let alone fruit in... well, it would be January by then, wouldn't it? Which is just ridiculous. *wry*
Next year I am planting my seeds on March 1st, in hopes of getting ripe peppers sometime in October.
(While I was down in NJ, I also got a new phone -- this had to be done in NJ because my parents and sister and I are on a family cell phone plan to save money -- which is why these pictures are sized and shaped a little differently from all my previous photos.)
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1) four peppers, Monday, 12 December 2016
. 2) the Lazarus pepper, still shiny and green
3) the decapitated pepper, its fruits no longer quite so squishy
. 4) the repotted pepper, still ripening nicely
5) the pepper that lost an entire branch to squirrels, making a sudden late bid for 'brightest color' :)
It appears that the decapitated pepper's fruit went squishy because the plant itself was slightly dehydrated. I have been watering it more and the peppers have firmed back up. Meanwhile the repotted pepper and the squirrel-debranched pepper are both well on their way to a nice vivid red. In the former, this is just a continuation of what it's been doing for the past two weeks. In the latter, this is a sudden and dramatic change! I mean, that thing was solid green last week, and now look at it!
The Lazarus pepper still has those four tiny undeveloped buds, but at this point I'm mostly just going to keep it alive in a spirit of curiosity (and, you know, sympathy for its struggles) rather than any real expectation that it will flower again, let alone fruit in... well, it would be January by then, wouldn't it? Which is just ridiculous. *wry*
Next year I am planting my seeds on March 1st, in hopes of getting ripe peppers sometime in October.
(While I was down in NJ, I also got a new phone -- this had to be done in NJ because my parents and sister and I are on a family cell phone plan to save money -- which is why these pictures are sized and shaped a little differently from all my previous photos.)
[[original Tumblr post, for when the embedded images inevitably break]]
