I may be reacting prematurely, but we've had our first cold snap of the year, with predicted lows down in the lower 40s, so I've started moving some of the more delicate plants into my office (which has a nice sunny window and an officemate who doesn't mind a temporary garden in her peripheral vision).
It'll be interesting to see what kind of continued growth I get. There's a Congo Trinidad plant in here that suffered some pretty bad sunburn and lost its lower foliage; it kind of looks like a truffula tree from Hell at the moment, with a tall, mostly bare stalk, a broad poof of leaves on the top, and one screaming vermilion pod dangling just below the canopy, but all up and down the "trunk" there are little new leaves starting in, plus five more flowers and a green pod. So I'm not sure if it's going to keep filling out happily and give me a few more pods over the winter, or just go into a holding pattern.
The other two look a little more normal in their current growth habits---the Aji Dulce (#2) almost died of sunburn, but came back impressively quickly, albeit without flowering. The habanero "Adalberto" was an incredibly slow starter back in the spring, but finally has a cluster of flowers going, so maybe I'll get a few out-of-season pods from that one as well.
It's kind of distracting to have them in here. I keep trying to work, and then the Congo pod catches my eye and before I know it I'm sucked into that "sit around gazing at the pepper plants" mode.
-NT
It'll be interesting to see what kind of continued growth I get. There's a Congo Trinidad plant in here that suffered some pretty bad sunburn and lost its lower foliage; it kind of looks like a truffula tree from Hell at the moment, with a tall, mostly bare stalk, a broad poof of leaves on the top, and one screaming vermilion pod dangling just below the canopy, but all up and down the "trunk" there are little new leaves starting in, plus five more flowers and a green pod. So I'm not sure if it's going to keep filling out happily and give me a few more pods over the winter, or just go into a holding pattern.
The other two look a little more normal in their current growth habits---the Aji Dulce (#2) almost died of sunburn, but came back impressively quickly, albeit without flowering. The habanero "Adalberto" was an incredibly slow starter back in the spring, but finally has a cluster of flowers going, so maybe I'll get a few out-of-season pods from that one as well.
It's kind of distracting to have them in here. I keep trying to work, and then the Congo pod catches my eye and before I know it I'm sucked into that "sit around gazing at the pepper plants" mode.
-NT
