#pepper plant

[balkanradfem]

So I had this pepper plant randomly grow on my balcony, I'm not sure if I even planted that, sometimes edible plants will grow without my intervention because seeds get lost in the soil. Anyway I didn't pay any attention to it, because it's too late to transplant it to the garden, it was growing in the middle of the summer, and I just put it next to my other plants so it would get watered.

I noticed the other day that the plant was starting to grow little fruit on it! It had tiny little peppers! They were adorable, and quite admirable because that plant had only tiny bit of soil to grow in, it was ambitious to go and try growing peppers from basically no nutrition.

Peppers can actually survive the winter if you grow them in a pot and put them inside, you can have them next spring producing peppers again! They're not gonna produce in winter when there's not enough hours of sunlight, but they can be a nice ornamental plant. So I decided, this would be the destiny of my little volounteer pepper. I moved it into a bigger pot that happened to be empty, and took off all of the tiny peppers, so the plant would focus on producing bigger roots instead. Once a plant produces seed she can call it a day and die because she fulfilled her purpose. If you take seeds/fruits away, she will re-evaluate her situation and try growing bigger. That's what I want!

See this little grey plastic pot I'm holding, that's where the plant managed to grow to this size and grow fruit. I think that shows a level of stubbornness and resilience I'm looking for in a plant. This is going to be my pet pepper growing in my kitchen during the winter and hopefully, possibly, she might give me peppers early in the spring.

#pepper plant #pet pepper #overwintering pepper #growing food #accidentally grew a pepper #plants #gardening

[ecopunkfox]

So many peppers! And this is a few days ago, there’s even more now. I have a total of 11 pepper plants this year, 9 different varieties.

#plantblr #my plants #garden #gardening #urban gardening #plants #plant #plantcore #plantwave #gardencore #peppers #pepper plants #chili peppers #cayenne #pepper plant #container gardening #container garden #urban garden #urban farming #container farming #container farm

[bird-o-doom]

Random garden stuff!

#mine #personal #garden #gardening #lime tree #banana tree #pumpkin #pumpkin patch #pineapple #wildflowers #flowers #pepper plant #fast butterfly

[separatist-apologist]

So tragically, my tomato plant did not survive an Amazon driver kicking it over after delivering something BUT look at my pepper yeild

#i will never shut up about this LOOK!!!AT!!!THEM!!!! #aren't they beautiful?? #pepper plant

[pineartppland]

Inktober Day 12 : Spicey

#my art #inktober 2023 #inktober day 12 #inktober #spicey #pepper #pepper plant #plant

[tiffyfoundsomething]

My S.O. brought home his pepper-in-a-can last year after it grew for him, made a few peppers, and then started to struggle.

He hadn’t put any effort into learning about the needs of a pepper plant and had no idea they like to get big.

After some treatment and care on my part, including loosening the tightly bound roots and repotting with room to grow, the plant started to recover

(This picture was immediately after repotting where it had already started to perk up after getting its first good drink while I was rinsing old dirt from and massaging the tight root ball loose again. Some of that green is a poinsettia in the background.)

grew

and bloomed.

It’s produced a decent amount of peppers but recently it started to falter again, dropping leaves at an alarming rate.

When I sent him to buy new dirt, he’d bought a high-nitrogen brand that’s meant to be mixed into your top soil outside instead of dirt for a pot.

It helped the plant grow, but wasn’t the right kind of nutrients to sustain it.

As soon as the first peppers started to ripen, many of the leaves turned sickly yellow and most of them fell off. Again

So, I had to save his plant again.

Though really, at this point, it’s my plant since I’m doing 100% of the work. He still thinks of it as his.

I went looking online for potting soil since that’s the most accessible option for me, and came across Foxfarm brand.

https://amzn.to/473Zqbc

Looking at the summarized details it seems pretty well balanced to someone that doesn’t know anything about growing vegetables. That’s me.

The biggest draw for me, though, was that people who grow pot indoors seem to really like this dirt, and serious pot growers are very picky about their soil.

That seemed like a good option for Peppe dePeppa, the Maybe Carolina Reaper in Distress. I’m not sure this is a reaper. The peppers aren’t wrinkly enough which makes me think it might be a hybrid between a reaper and a red habanero.

It’s certainly too spicy for me regardless.

I ordered 24 quarts and ended up using a lot of it on other plants before tackling Peppe, though I honestly forget which and whether they’re in containers outside or some of the inside plants.

Either way, Peppe is recovering again, and is feeling so good that he has a second bloom going on While already being covered in ripening peppers.

He’s growing in sub-standard conditions being too cold (our AC is set around 76F) and not enough sun (only direct sun in the afternoons), and is producing rather well, all things considered.

The leaves are darker again, and not falling off constantly.

The existing fruits are ripening fine and I’m interested in seeing how new fruits produced with the new soil compare.

Everywhere the leaves had fallen off has exploded into thick clusters of new, dark, hardy leaves.

This dirt’s alright.

#gardening #pepper plant #carolina reaper #container gardening #affiliate links

[bwabbitv3s]

My three largest pepper plants are doing great. The jalapeño, habanero, and ghost pepper are out for their first day of hardening off. It is finally warm enough for them to go outside during the day. I need to pot up the jalapeño today.

#peppers #pepper #pepper plant #gardening #vegetable gardening

[necroticvessel]

Meaty March 2024 // 15 // Spice

#art #artwork #illustration #artists on tumblr #my art #drawing #pepper plant #spicy

[alf-art]

my baby

#practice #pepper plant

[plebeiangoth]

My ornamental pepper plant has aphids, and a very large bronze jumper to take care of the problem

#garden #gardening #gardencore #spider #jumping spider #bronze jumping spider #pepper #pepper plant #cottagecore

[balkanradfem]

I'm having a nightmarish time with my pepper plant. It's not the plant, she's great, I love her so much, it's the... the bugs.

I've had a pepper plant sprout on my balcony, in a pot, accidentally, she volunteered to grow. Cheered up by this, I decided to see if I can keep the baby plant alive during the winter, by placing her inside, so she could be my first pepper plant in the spring, and make peppers early, which would be absolutely wonderful.

So, by the time it was frosting outside, she was trying to flower, and I brought her inside; I created a little shelf in the kitchen, just by the windows, where she'd be getting plenty of light, and would be the first thing I look at when I enter the kitchen. This worked beautifully, she would cheer me up every time I entered the kitchen, green and big and beautiful.

However, only 2 days in, I realized her leaves are getting little holes in it, and by more observation, I noticed she had an infestation of plant lice. The bugs would have likely died outside in the frost, but since I brought them in, they were prospering. Annoyed, I brought the plant with me to the shower, and hosed down all of those bugs with water, so they would fall into the bath and I could get rid of them.

The plant was a little stressed out from it, but free from bugs. 3 days later, new bugs! I hosed them down again, stressing the plant out, but I think the plant realized that hosing down would not damage her, and she recovered more quickly this time. 2 days later, new bugs.

So now I'm like, okay, what remedies do we know for plant lice? I sprayed the entire plant with soapy water, which I remember was supposed to like, make bugs unable to hold onto the plant or something. No effect. Then I made a nettle infusion, remembering nettle could be poisonous to them, but the bugs did not care whatsoever.

Then, I accidentally saw in a gardening video, the way another gardener was over-wintering the pepper; they clipped all of her leaves, and only the stem was preserved! The thought of doing that to my plant was painful, even if it would get rid of the bugs, as they would have nothing to eat. I tried spraying more, didn't help, so eventually I caved, took some scissors, and cut off all of the big leaves. I left a few tiny ones, that would be too small for bugs to eat, and I wanted the plant to have at least some greenery on her, so it wouldn't be too sad.

The plant got VERY stressed from this, I could tell she wasn't happy. But she was also determined, and started growing those new leaves super quickly, I could observe by the day how much bigger they got. I also monitored them for bugs, and as there was nothing for the first 3 days, I thought we were done. A week in. New bugs.

Now why am I so upset about these bugs if they're only messing with my pepper which doesn't really need the leaves? Well, that is because very soon, after the winter solstice, which is now a week away, I will be planting new seedlings for the next spring. First about 10, then 20 and 30 and then over 60 little plants will be on that same shelf. And the bugs absolutely will attack them all. I could lose my entire garden if I don't get this under control.

I need to either resolve the bug infestation (and I don't wanna cut off these last few leaves! The plant really wants to keep them!) or put my pepper plant somewhere else, isolated and in darkness, which would make us both very sad. So, anyone ever got rid of some plant lice successfully? I've never had them inside before, and I've already exhausted all my ideas.

#gardening problems #pepper plant #plant lice #black plant bugs #plant bugs #pests #plant pests

[ecopunkfox]

Some pepper flowers! 🫑🌶️

#plantblr #flowers #flower #pepper plant #gardening #my plants #plants #plant #garden #plantcore #gardencore #plantwave #urban gardening #urban garden #urban farming #container plants #container garden #container farm #container gardening #bell pepper #bell pepper plant #white flower #white flowers #chili pepper #chili peppers #chili pepper plant

[asphalt-weeds-and-flora]

We traded two green bell pepper starts for two banana peppers, and two jalapeños. We gave a jalapeño away to a nice Arby's drive thru worker. It's honestly been a really good day.

#my garden #gardenblr #plantblr #container garden #food growing #urban garden #urban gardening #personal garden #jalapeño poppers #banana peppers #pepper plant #plant swap #plant trade #greenhouse

[not-a-mongoose]

I AM ASKING ABOUT THE PEPPERS, ARE THEY THE SPICY OR THE BELL KIND? ALSO WHAT ELSE IS COOL ABOUT THEM? COLOUR, TASTE, SHAPE, ETC. ANYTHING ELSE???

sjdklfjlas AN ASK ABOUT THE PEPPERS!!!! :D

They are spicy as far as i know, i think they are Thai Chilli Peppers, because they look similar and have a similar COLOUR!

They are supposed to be RED, but they are currently a shade of DARK GREEN. They are SMALL, and POINTY, and probably pack quite a PUNCH in terms of FLAVOUR!

I grew them MYSELF, from SEED to SPROUT to SMALL PEPPER PLANT, and I am VERY PROUD OF THEM!

I have FIVE of them, and their names in order of SMALLEST to LARGEST are:

ITSY-BITSY: the SMALLEST of them ALL

LITTLEGUY: the SECOND SMALLEST

HONESTLY KIND OF AVERAGE JOE: honestly JUST AN AVERAGE GUY

FLOWER: has AN INORDINATE AMOUNT OF FLOWERS COMPARED TO THE OTHERS

BIG RED: the ELDEST CHILD. also the ONLY ONE WITH RED PEPPERS

I only have pictures of Joe and Littleguy because they're inside now, but hopefully i can get pictures of the rest as i move them inside for winter :D

#tobs talk #thank you for asking about the peppers!!! #I don't know that much about them but i have some assumptions based on my google searches #unfortunately i haven't found enough pictures to completely be sure of what type of pepper they are #but i was really excited that they grew at all #seeing as i got them from some old dried peppers in a box... #pepper plant

[multifandomsoup]

September be like

@cryptic-coven-scout

#flowers #plants #gardening #garden #trees #fruits #fruit trees #pepper #pepper plant #tally's stuff

[katiajewelbox]

“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.” (Macbeth, by William Shakespeare) This isn’t a blood spattered Halloween prop, this is a homegrown Romano Pepper (Capsicum annuum). If that scientific name sounds familiar, it’s because most domesticated peppers belong to this single species. Although they look different and command higher prices due to their fine mellow flavour and texture, the Romano peppers are the same species as the common, mild flavoured but tough-skinned, Bell Peppers. Even the fiery jalapeño and hot cayenne peppers are members of the same species. There are some domesticated peppers in traditional Latin American cuisine that come from other Capsicum species native to central and South America, but Capsicum annuum is by far the most widely cultivated. 

The main flavour difference lies in the concentration of “Capsaicin”, an alkaloid evolved to deter mammals and fungi from eating the fruits. Capsaicin is the chemical that causes the burning hot sensation we feel when eating Chili peppers. Evolutionary biologist hypothesise that birds are better at spreading wild Chili pepper seeds because birds swallow the fruits without chewing. Mammals tend to chew up the seeds while eating the fruit, which destroys the seeds. How ironic that this “deterrent” would lead to humans spreading the plant all over the world due to its exciting flavour!

#katia plant scientist #peppers #sweet peppers #romano #capsicum annuum #pepper plant #greenhouse #still life #harvest #harvest time #grow your own food #latin america #edible plants #capsaicin #red pepper #black gloves #long pepper #chili pepper #chili #green chili #evolution #evolutionary biology #ecology #plant biology #plant science #chemistry #botany #plant facts #daggers