pepper update, Monday 3/6/17

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I can has SPROUTS!!! :DDD

I have decided, for convenience of discussion, that I will name the sprouts on a grid pattern. Columns are A through F while rows are 1 through 6, which means the lower left square from the viewer's perspective is A1 (and also empty) and we go from there.



1) pepper sprouts, Monday, 6 March 2017 (~7:45am)


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2) sprout E4, morning
3) sprout A6, morning


As you can see, sprouts E4 and A6 had begun to peek above the soil in the morning.


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4) pepper sprouts, Monday, 6 March 2017 (~8:00pm)
5) sprout E4, evening


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6) sprout A6, evening
7) sprout A4, evening


By the time I got home from work, E4 had started to unfurl its cotyledons, and A4 had also begun to push into view. This is so exciting! :D



8) the Lazarus pepper, Monday, 6 March 2017


Meanwhile, the Lazarus pepper continues to bloom, but some of its leaves are going a little yellow and sad, so as before, I do not really expect it to produce an actualfax pepper fruit at this point. I am impressed enough that it pulled off a flower.

And in other gardening news, I bought a packet of summer squash seeds today, which I think I will plant next weekend (once I have enough applesauce cups to use as pots). I will eventually transplant them to the yard below my back porch, where my former upstairs neighbors attempted a garden some years back, and where my current upstairs neighbor is attempting to grow raspberries. We shall see what, if anything, comes of that experiment.


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