14.5 weeks Peppers / 12 weeks Tomatoes

Updated text, but original post from Feb 23...

Jalapeno Harvest Count: 9

Well, we decided to replicate the "Jalapeno Chicken" dish from our favorite Thai restaurant (Siam Cuisine on Dimond, for all you Anchorage-ites). I even asked the waitress for the ingredient list, and she gave it to me! Regardless, here is a picture of the 5 beautiful mature peppers we used. Note that there was some other camera setting activated on my Ipod for many of these pictures this week.

Yummmm

All sliced up and ready to cook :)

The finished product...DELICIOUS!

OK, on with the show. I decided to follow Shaun's lead and give the Tomatoes a serious haircut. I am tired of how out of control and space-consuming these plants are in my limited 8 sq. ft grow space. Also, in the sad but realistic hope of getting just ONE or TWO tomatoes to ripen, I killed all the other flowers and buds. Here is the before shot:

As you can see, much of the plant was not even under the lights and obviously not going to photosynthesis optimally.

Pepper plants doing awesome, as always. TONS of peppers. I mean dozens, literally!

Here is after the tomato haircut. Much more manageable.

So I left 2 tomatoes on each plant to grow and HOPEFULLY turn red. We'll see!!!