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Well well well! It looks like my Karma isn´t too bad after all! :-)   Briefly: All the indoor plants survived and thrived (except for the Kratky tomato, It survived and suffered, but it has put out 2 small tomatoes!) Lemon tree is looking good again, and 2 of the chilis have exploded with...

Oh! And here I was, all happy believing the honour was mine...!

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Congrats to your 1000th post, @Podz!

Yup, one more week to go here. In the middle of nowhere, about 2 hrs northwest of Athens.. Rumour has it that in Sweden, at least the yaki blue and Jalapeño is ripening. Report will follow!

... and we have fruit! The tiny Marbles is flowering and fruiting, about 20cm high.. For a couple of weeks I think nothing happened. Usual after transplant I reckoned. Then I saw the Yellow giant had branched out. Checking with the out jug, yes it did grow quite a bit!

Thanks Paul, good to hear. Ought to be good then since I'm at about 39° lat!

And here they are! The Rocoto isn't getting much direct sun at all. Miscalculated where the sun would be, not at all like home...! But, I am on vacation, so it will have to do...!

With the lemon tree I will make a scratch on the trunk with a knife, if it's green under the bark it's not dead yet. That's about what happened, I cut the stem at about half a meter to make it easier to handle while throwing away. And saw quite a lot of green and said to myself - That doesn't...

Ha! Good question! No, we took a direct flight, although greek authorities claimed that would not be possible...! https://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2020/06/29/no-direct-flights-from-uk-sweden-to-greece-until-july-15/ ... Never trust a greek politician...! The EU rules makes it ok to...

Oh I squeezed all right! and tapped. and knocked. And so on. Never had this problem this much before. might be these particular pots which are giving me a hard time!

... And then, on July 1st, I went to Greece. Going to stay here 5 weeks, so the destiny of my plants are with other ppl and my karma. Couldn't resist bringing a few small left over plants though. Never saw such hard and heavy clay soil in my life. Trying to dilute it with some organic left...

Also, Kratky tomato in 2l/half gallon container going crazy. Have been refilling every day, it drinks almost 1l per day on hot days. giving it sometimes water, sometimes hydronutes, totally randomly. Over 1m high in 6 weeks!

2 weeks later, inspection. Almost all plants happy. Those which were smaller than about 20cm (2/3') seem to struggle a bit and get eaten by slugs. Rocoto, Yaki Blue and Jalapeño setting pods nicely! Meanwhile: Started to dig up the Lemon tree in my balcony a week earlier, after it dropped...

Well well, wouldn't you know, it happened to me too! Got busy, lost habit of updating. A summary in a few steps: Because of ever changing plans, on 10th of June, I packed a big bunch of plants, and moved them to the summer house. looks like this isn't going to be an indoor glog after all...

So, I went and checked, and it seems everyone made the transition into the outdoors! Except maybe a little tomato. At the end of the Rainbow... A purple Bhut Jolaki! Built a ghetto growbox, out of weed barrier stapled to scrap wood. Put some wood shavings and old cow shit with the quite...

Quick update: A number of plants have been moved outside after all. Plants in the garden of my parents summer house, an hour away. The gamble, assuming the quick hardening off works, will be risk of drought, at some points they might be on their own for 2weeks. Although, most of the time that's...

Small updates: -Rocoto flowering! -Jalapeño also. A lot coming! -Kratky, so far so good. Lots of new roots in a few days. Biggest challenge is to not burn it under the halogen spot. I keep it a bit off center...! -Another Rocoto finally sprouted after 2 weeks - Giant Arequippa...

Well, indoors the weather is the same. It seems yesterday I didn't check on the little ones. 9-year old teenager took all my focus and energy. Result: 1 dead rosemary which had just gotten first true leaves. Not important, but I realize that grodan cubes can dry up too...! Big surprise...