This week has seen continued steady growth. I feel like I raise the lights just about every other day. The peppers are such wonderful symmetrical plants, but the tomatoes are just gangly and out of control...growing so dramatically in every direction. There are between 6 and 8 clusters of buds/flowers on each tomato plant...for a total of about 75 POTENTIAL tomatoes between the pair. That would be an incredible 60ish pounds of tomatoes if everything goes perfectly. Hard to believe the plants could support that amount of weight, but Shaun assures me the stalks will become very strong.
Regardless, the first tomato flowers have now set and small tomatoes are forming. If you use your imagination, you can see the beginnings of a fruit in the picture below.
Meanwhile, there are about 40 peppers now growing on the Jalapeno plants, with about 15 more flowers, and dozens of developing buds. Yeehaw!!!
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