[CH] First fruits!
Jonathan Smillie (jonathan.smillie@gmail.com)
Sun, 29 May 2011 11:08:23 -0400
Speedy results indeed... only two weeks after setting my plants outside,
my Thai plants (a gift of seed from RisaG) have set fruit!
I have 27 plants in the ground this year:
- 4 Thai
- 4 Cayenne
- 4 Chocolate Hab
- 3 Orange Hab
- 4 Fatalii (red)
- 4 Naga Jolokia
- 4 Caribbean Red habanero
The orange habs are the only ones that I didn't grow from seed; they are
reliably available from local growers, so I usually don't bother
starting them. The chocolates are grown from seed saved from plants I
bought last year; the jolokia, fatalii and Caribbean Reds are all
second-generation souvenirs of trips to Open Fields.
The Cayennes are also flowering, and some of the habanero varieties are
thinking about it. Having learned my lesson last year, I'm going to put
veggie cages (like tomato cages but smaller) around the jolokias and
chocolates; they got big enough last year that they nearly choked out
the fataliis.
What's going on in everyone else's garden?
Jonathan