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If there was one thing I didn’t expect from this project up ’til now, it was that ever single seed I planted would germinate. That every single seedling I so carefully transferred, twice now, would thrive.
I expected a few, if not many, to shrivel up and perish underneath my inexperienced hands. They didn’t. They don’t.
Indoors, photo taken just now.
And outdoors, in the foil house. I keep it open during day time and closed at night.
At this point I still shield them from too much sun. Let’s say I’m gradually increasing their exposure to it. The foil greenhouse is probably what saved me; we’ve had some strange, cold weather. Highly inappropriate for this time of year. Suffice to say I ordered another one.
If this keeps up, I might just have to let some of them go, give them away to friends and neighbors, because there’s no way I’ll be able to house them all once I have to start transferring them to 5 gallon buckets.
To those of you familiar with growing pepper plants; are 5 gallon buckets really what they need, or could I get away with something perhaps a bit smaller?
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You’ll have to be sure to make Columbian Aji (salsa!) with all those jalapenos! Recipes call for around 10 jalapenos! You’d think it be incredibly spicy – but it isn’t always! Great with skewered chicken or tacos!
I always grow them in my veggie plot, but by the size of their root system my guess is that any pot more or less the size of a regular bucket per plant will do. The only thing is, the smaller the pot, the more frequent your watering will have to be… and if you choose a pot a bit larger, you could fit in 2 plants….
An 8 to 12 inch deep pot should do it. Their mature root ball is around 6 inches in diameter. Watered, fed, and kept warm and you should have blossoms pretty soon.
The earlier plants are actually starting to grow flowers! Wasn’t sure if I had to pinch them off and allow the plant to put its energy in building a decent structure first, so I measured them and the plants are almost 5 inches tall so it should be okay to leave them on.
Hi Kay…I´m following your project step by step…I planted some seeds of roman tomatoes and they are growing fine. I will send you some pictures when they are bigger.
Respect to your doubt, I think that right now you have the “gold chance” of experimenting…Get just some flores out to see what happens (only from a plant)…What do you think?
I am very curious, too.