The Jalapenos are doing wonderfully! I haven't picked any since the one about a month ago, but the time is drawing near. They are growing big and fat. There is a very minor stippling pattern on the skin of some of them, but I'm not too worried. It doesn't look like enough to affect the taste or texture. I am curious what the cause is though.
Meanwhile, the tomato wilt (or whatever problem it is) really slowed after I applied the baking soda solution a coupe weeks back. However, leaves/branches continue to slowly die. A couple of the main stems are also looking pretty sick. Therefore, in order to try and get just a few red tomatoes from this experiment I have seriously cut back the number of off-shooting branches, leaving enough green to maintain photosynthesis and a productive plant process for what is left. More importantly perhaps, I have snipped the top of all the shoots so there will be no more vertical growth. My hope is all the energy will go into ripening the few tomatoes which are on the plant. I have left some flowers on, but most of them haven't been bearing fruit anyway. Amazingly, (fingers crossed) since applying the CalMag supplement there has been no blossom end rot. A small victory perhaps.
Lastly, the rosemary is dead and was culled Today. A very sad day.
I will look forward to new experiments. A look through the Territorial seed catalog brings excitement for new possibilities!
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| This is an example of the stippling on the pepper skin. It seems to only show up on the oldest peppers. |
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| Big and Juicy! |
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| A butchered tomato plant with all my hope lying with a few tomatoes. |
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| These tomatoes look a little better than the ones above. |
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| Poor Rosemary! After all that effort. |
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| Not quite as jungle-like anymore thanks to the trimming of the tomato plants. |
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