Well the peppers have passed the 3 month mark, and wow are the Jalapenos just dripping off these plants. As of this week, both pepper plants are now tied up since the volume of peppers was causing the plants to fall over! What a nice problem to have. It's hard to capture w/ the camera how dense and glorious these peppers look, but I guess you'll have to take my word for it. I tried to count, and there are between 50 and 65 lush peppers growing...more than half almost full grown. MMMM, I can almost taste the "Jalapeno Chicken" dish I'm going to try out repeatedly!...
Now the bad news..... more Blossom End Rot. My new theory is maybe a Calcium and/or Magnesium deficiency? Though admittedly, that's a shot in the dark. I've been watering more consistently...and it seemed to take LONGER for these tomatoes to rot than the others, but still eventually went that direction. So I applied some good 'ole "Cal-Mag" during some waterings recently, so we'll see if that works. Several times this week I was close to destroyed the plants and simplifying this whole process, but for now, let the experiment go on! It's worth noting that in my reading I have read that it's actually fairly rare for the soil itself to run out of calcium/magnesium...but instead most CAMG problems arise from the plant inefficiently or unsuccessfully extracting it from the soil and moving it upwards in the plant...with the most likely cause for this inefficiency being inconsistent (and usually inadequate) watering. Regardless, I'll give them a little blast of extra because honestly there is nothing to lose at this point. I lost 2 more tomatoes this week :(
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| Still just the 2 plants....seen here sitting on the garage floor. How do these things PLUS the peppers all fit in 8 square feet of growing space???? |
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| BLOSSOM. END. ROT. |
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| My hope for the future (blurry)... |
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