Saturday 12 May 2012

Flowers

Flowers, oh so many flowers. One of the jalapeño plants that wasn't as far along as the others has gone into super speed mode, overtaken all of them, has 5 open flowers and is now growing the first chilli :)

This has cheered me up and almost makes up for the massively stressful day yesterday. The wind was incredibly strong and it managed to move the whole greenhouse and knock most of the plants off of the shelves, spilling compost everywhere and damaging quite a few young plants. I'm a very calm person, but I got really annoyed by it. Every time I tidied it up a bit, the wind would come back and ruin everything again. The weather's been much better today though.

This is one of the plants that started off purple. It's not as pretty now that the purple's gone :(
It seems like the purpleness is trying to spread, but the plant is growing too quickly.

The next batch of purple chilli plants, although these have outgrown the purpleness incredibly quickly. There's only 3 left that are properly purple. This picture also shows one of the problems I've been having. As you can see, there's green algae-looking stuff on the surface of the compost. I think this is caused by dampness and bad circulation, both of which I'm now working on improving because this stuff is on damn near all of my plants.

My habanero, ring of fire and hungarian hot wax chilli seedlings. Planted a bit late in the year, but hopefully the growdrobe can get them to grow a bit faster than they would outdoors so they'll catch up with the others.
In the top left of the picture, you can see the beer can reflector I made after reading about cheap ways to improve my lighting situation. It seems to be working pretty well, so I'll put one on each of the lights tomorrow, I think.

The petals starting to wilt and fall off to make way for the first chilli that you can see starting to grow in the center, yay :)

Not sure what to write about this one, I just like the picture.

This is a slightly old picture, but I thought I'd post it because it's my little mutant plant. It has 3 cotyledons instead of the usual 2. I did a little bit of googling, apparently this is the plant equivalent of siamese twins.

In other news, the massively overcrowded radish/parsnip/carrot bucket isn't as bad as I thought. The radishes are actually growing perfectly happily, I've been pulling up and eating handfuls of them every few days. Also, I bought 3 new plants on ebay. Ordered them one day, they arrived the next, it was awesome. They're chocolate mint plants, so they have the lovely smell of mint but with a hint of chocolate. They smell just like After Eights.

1 comments:

Hank Hudson said...

Wow, I hope they turn out well

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