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No red ones here. I did snap a pic of my non-competition plant. I can tell already it's going to end up much larger than the competition one, which I made a rookie mistake on and crowded too much. This one has been in the ground about half the time that the other has:
Looks like mine has stopped expanding and is putting all its energy into pods. I was really hoping I could get another foot or so of lateral growth. Oh well, it is starting to ripen up nicely.
You ate a pod already?? Nice!! My plant was like the second to start podding but I turned the heater off in the room it is in and successfully have managed to keep it from ripening any pods! I now have tons of full size full grown pods that are all staying nicely green without ripening. Now I just have to time it so that I can heat up the room and convince it to ripen all at once! What do you think? Probably not going to succeed...
Nice pod Scratch, don't know if I have ever mentioned it, but this variety has a high number of freak pods with the extra growths on them. Always seems to happen early on.