pepper update, June 26, part two
And here are some individual pepper plants! The first is the poor plant that got hit most dramatically by the leaf blight I mentioned in my previous post. (Don't worry; it survived!)
The second is the biggest and healthiest of my first batch of peppers, gearing itself up to bloom. I fully expect blossoms by next weekend. :D
Then we have my two problem children, both of which failed to properly split their seed coats back when they first pushed up through the dirt. I rescued the first, but accidentally halved its cotyledons in the process and the resulting shock (and loss of photosynthetic power, since the mutilated cotyledons did not grow much past their initial size) slowed its subsequent development by about two weeks. Also, it kind of sprawled outward rather than aiming upward once it finally started to grow again. Hopefully fresh air and 360-degree sunlight will agree with it.
The second problem child had defective cotyledons that failed to separate. Since the stem and true leaves are supposed to grow from BETWEEN the cotyledons, this presented it with a bit of a conundrum. After some heavy thought, it sprouted a single leaf at a sideways angle, and now, after another bout of heavy problem-solving, it's finally sprouting a pair of true leaves off the side of that first leaf -- that's the little blurry green blotch in the center of the V-shape made by the stems -- and ignoring the cotyledons as a bad path. I am cheering it on!
And HERE IS THE LINK TO THE PICTURES, yay!
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The second is the biggest and healthiest of my first batch of peppers, gearing itself up to bloom. I fully expect blossoms by next weekend. :D
Then we have my two problem children, both of which failed to properly split their seed coats back when they first pushed up through the dirt. I rescued the first, but accidentally halved its cotyledons in the process and the resulting shock (and loss of photosynthetic power, since the mutilated cotyledons did not grow much past their initial size) slowed its subsequent development by about two weeks. Also, it kind of sprawled outward rather than aiming upward once it finally started to grow again. Hopefully fresh air and 360-degree sunlight will agree with it.
The second problem child had defective cotyledons that failed to separate. Since the stem and true leaves are supposed to grow from BETWEEN the cotyledons, this presented it with a bit of a conundrum. After some heavy thought, it sprouted a single leaf at a sideways angle, and now, after another bout of heavy problem-solving, it's finally sprouting a pair of true leaves off the side of that first leaf -- that's the little blurry green blotch in the center of the V-shape made by the stems -- and ignoring the cotyledons as a bad path. I am cheering it on!
And HERE IS THE LINK TO THE PICTURES, yay!
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