May 1, 2012

Project Jalapeño III

And so came the day that our babies grew up to be strong, healthy toddlers. They were almost bursting out of their 4″ pots. Some were already growing their sixth set of true leaves, so it was time to move them to sparkly new 8″ pots. Bought the 8″ pots, and lots of organic potting soil and we set up the foil greenhouse because I’d be needing extra room. Much…

Apr 18, 2012

Project Jalapeño II

This was an earlier batch my son had planted. He just spread them all in this big, blue propagator I had bought him. There must have been 40 seeds in there, at least. I felt he was entitled to making and learning from his own mistakes, so I just let him. Not expecting them all to germinate and grow like weed. I must say he’s taking very good care of…