Congratulations Mr Farmer, it’s a …..umm, Green Pepper?

Well Sunday here again, another week, another month. There are already Christmas decorations out. But luckily for me Christmas has come early. It is small green and looks like a pepper. Ergo, if it floats lie wood and weighs the same as a duck, it must be a witch !!  Therefore I present to you the first of fruit from the DFT tubes :

Me thinks its a greenie

 I was rather hoping that the majority of the plants in the tubes would be chilli. However, having now got a semi positive ID on what a green pepper looks like, I would say that the majority are the 0 scoville scale variety. None the less, good job all round.

I am also happy that the bushes are positively teaming with fruit set, half the flowers have dropped, and of most of those are setting up nicely.

Even more surprising after I discovered a rather big oversight on my part. The reservoir was almost on empty. so empty that the pump the pumps were almost running dry.

Now, this is a rather strange occurrence, as it is a 110 litre tank, and we have had a few weeks of light rain. The last thing I expected was an empty tank. Obviously now, the PH in the tank was waaay off, down to almost 5. The plants in the gutter had some serious nutrient/acid burn, but the chilli/peppers were rocking.

the miracle of nature/science

So,I performed and unscheduled water, umm, refill I suppose, and all is well on the hydro front. I pondered this development last night , and concluded that the gutter it either holding too much water, or, it is allowing for more evaporation.

Seeing that we have had rain and mild weather, if it is evaporation, we might be in poo come the real summer.

I have put some 90% shade cloth over it now, but I really need to make up a cover of some kind. I will save that for next weekend. (gutter on the far left)

 

More good news, The hot as a penthouse centerfolds big toe chilli’s have decided to join us. Most have geminated now. Unfortunately I only have 1 Bhut jolokia up. I have planted another seed in the trays, and have set up on it a container and am trying to germinate him inside, so we will see, har,har,har. I is excite!!

grow baby grow!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other than that, the only real news is that the tomato is recovering, new leaves have formed and the fruit are growing.  The second tomato bush has got big and is flowering too, so all is well on the lycopene front.

I will leave you with some more photo’s of the progress, and say salaaaaam. I must go and do some work. Busy playing with a GPRS cell phone module, trying to code it to send SMS’s and stuff .

Me thinks its a greenie

hmm, yes.

grow baby grow!!

soon…. eish

the miracle of nature/science :)

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