Pepper Medley
Tomorrow I'm going to try to Transplant a Ghost Again!
(Edit - 10723 1615 - I’ve posted some updated images on the plants I’m trying to keep alive….it remains uncertain, but some fruits have ripened)
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Well, the temperature is going to decrease rapidly in a few days and it is “now or never” for the peppers, so I’m at the Getaway Place to get the crops, but I’ve decided to try to save a ghost pepper plant as well, because I know I can do this. I’ll provide some updated images on that, but first - here it is:
“Ken’s Peppa Medley - 23 Season”
Many peppers are still on the plants and you can see the ghosts (in the middle) are all basically still green and that is not ideal. So, going clockwise from the left, besides the ghost got sweet (only one sort of ripe), sweet chocolate, (skipping a bit), jalapeno, tobasco (the smallish one and there are so many green ones out there still), banana, and cayenne. The one I skipped is that seriously red one near the ghosts and I believe this is a hybrid special and I’m pretty pleased to have gotten this gift. Seeds have been saved.
I’m pleased with the ghosts as well given how far behind they were (due to aphid issues) when planted in the ground. Here is an image - there are many peppers. If they had a few more weeks they would get even hotter as they changed in color from green to red.
Well - that is the plant I intend on digging out of the ground tomorrow. Wish me luck and this time there ain’t going to be no aphid issues assuming this baby survives.
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Hey - an edit with two images and two questions:
How many peppers are in this image….or lets make it easy - how many ghosts?
Do you discern a difference in this image versus the one at the top of the article, and if so, what is the difference?
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Hey can you discern a difference now:
By the way tomatoes picked today as well have been added and the stuff in the plastic container is an upside down Bundt cake - I kid you not! The candle is self evident and that seedy thing to the left of the Bundt cake as viewed by the observer is the leftover remnant of a pepper I ate today and it was pepper sweet hot good.
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Plus, I was going to go to Lowe’s to buy something to put the Ghost Pepper plant I intend on saving plus to be honest I’m gonna save that hybrid plant as well if I can…..but then it occurred to me - I got a perfect, or good enough container here that ought work fine - so that saved me a trip to Lowes. OK, I think the freaking email has finally arrived with the picture that will be posted above.
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Cheers to all readers with a sense of humor…which I’m thinking (hoping?) here must be approaching 100%
As I said I would do - here are the images…….with no commentary
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It ought be evident
Anybody want to come over and pick some pepper?
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The peppers have mostly been picked and here is an update - it is October 7, 2023 4:17 pm as I type this and the images are below:
The peppers are maturing.
This plant may be dying - I’ll know for sure in a few days, I hope the peppers are maturing, but not much evidence of that yet and that informs sentiment.
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Now a few bonus images:
This is the other pepper plant I “saved” via happenstance.
This is the porter just after it got transferred rather easily into the secondary fermenter. I smelled it - some good porter on the way for sure!
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the Bill’s are down 11-7 and odds are they lose this game in London after the long flight unfair, but whatever….if you are good you figure out a way to win.
Now, I wasn’t planning on doing this, but I will now show the “flaw of calculus”….
look at the image below of a picture from above - this is just a snippet of it:
What you see is the table circular (blackish in tint) and the edge of a pepper, but what you may not have thought of before is this graphical image is made up of “pixels” and the pixels do not align in a perfect arc on the blackish table if one can look close because the pixels are an approximation of the real thing - and that my friends is the “flaw of calculus”, but if you want a “proof” of it, then let me just say this - even the smallest number imagined….if you square it….it still is NOT zero. That is the flaw and it used to be it didn’t matter, but now it does.
BK
Looks like the prepper's peppers in full display! ;-)
I transplanted the peppers as indicated in the images above (per the latest and probably final edit from this morning). I dug them out of the ground with the soil basically "as is" - I didn't water them before hand, but I did try to minimize air exposure to the roots during the transfer process. That ghost plant in particular was a little weighty and one branch did break off.....the other pepper, my hybrid baby (cayenne with something else...maybe jalapeño maybe banana) that is special, and I'm not fooling, it tastes just so proper when deep red purely ripe which you see the picture - that is one fine pepper and no pesticides, no herbicides, no "industrial" chemicals were used for it to grow healthy. So this baby is the real deal and I want her to do well. That is why I'm trying to save more than just its seeds - I'm trying to save the momma plant for next season.
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I declare the 23 Season a success!
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Warm Regards to all readers and if you want to know something about peppers, I can either answer or likely can refer you to somebody who knows better in regards to the question if I'm not sure, cause one thing I learned early on in my career.....if I wasn't sure about something, I just said I wasn't versus worrying whether others thought I ought know or not - if I don't, then I don't know and I ain't gonna pretend I do cause that just leads to future difficulty when inevitably you get revealed as an imposter more worried about what folks think than about the truth.
Plus, for me pretty much the main purpose of being alive is to learn and if you care more about what others think then the truth, that is step #1 to the end of learning and becoming a zombie, a dimwit, or an old fart pompous.
BK