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I only have two pepper plants left at this point: the Lazarus pepper and the decapitated pepper. The former seems to have lost its buds (three of them are definitely gone; I am not quite sure about the fourth) while I was away for Christmas. I suspect it was a combination of low humidity and lack of light -- I left the curtains open and water in both halves of my kitchen sink, but when I'm home I've been turning the dim, supplementary ceiling light on every morning (it is right over what has become my de facto gardening table) and also I soak towels and hang them over my clothes drying rack to act as a no-electricity-required humidifier.

The decapitated pepper's fruits went a little squishy again during my absence, but I have watered the plant a bunch so hopefully that problem will once again fix itself. Textural issues aside, its two fruits, though small, both seem on track to ripen within the next week or two. The 'big' one was already just starting to turn brownish-red at the base of one lobe last Wednesday, and as you can see from the picture below, the red has continued to spread. Meanwhile, the tinier secondary pepper is also starting to shade brownish-red, but too faintly to show up in photographs yet.


two pepper plants in terracotta pots on a kitchen table
1) two peppers, Monday, 26 December 2016


a small pepper plant . two small bell peppers, one turning red, with human fingers for scale
2) the Lazarus pepper, probably not going to flower after all
3) the decapitated pepper, ripening at last!


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