I have no clue what the heck is going on. The Momster doesn't go anywhere near my seed collection. She wouldn't switch things around on me.
I have been extremely diligent in labelling seeds and sprouts and everything very carefully. I paid as much attention to what went where as I did when I was dispensing patient medication while I was a nurse.
Gremlins? I'm starting to think so.
The first, I don't see where a mistake could be made.
The second, it's possible.
The third, I guess.
The fourth, no f'ing way.
I don't have a picture of the first WTF moment of this season, but what I thought were my aribibi gusano seeds somehow grew into something looking more like a marconi. Thing is, I didn't save any of those seeds from last season. The peppers are sold at a local Home Depot, so I just figured I'd buy a few from there rather than go through the process of collecting seeds, storing, germinating, etc.
I don't have a pic of the "gusano" pepper, I'll take one tomorrow and update. It looks nothing like a gusano, and the one pod on it is the size and shape of a giant marconi.
The second is my Antillais Caribbean habanero.
Doesn't look like and Antillais Caribbean. I haven't had one before this year so I have no memory to do a taste comparison. They're tasty, though, whatever they are.
The third is my 7 Pot Jonah, which I've stolen inspiration for and named the NOT 7 Pot Jonah.
It's yellow. It doesn't look like my other Yellow 7 Pot pods. Shape and size are completely different.
OK, up till now, I can maybe chalk it up to human error, though I do not for a second believe that. I can see myself making one error, maybe even two(that's a stretch, I'm very organized), but no way can I see myself mislabelling three batches of seeds. No way at all.
Now, here's where it gets very strange and made me throw my hands up today and say Frak it, I'm done with trying to figure it out.
My chocolate habanero.
It's f'ing RED. What in the nine hells is going on?
That pod looks exactly like the chocolates I grew last year, both in shape and size. The plant is growing in a similar fashion. One of the unripe pods from that plant fell off and I split it open, it smelled like an unripe chocolate hab.
I have never grown a pepper that looks like this. Any seeds I got last fall in trades were kept in a separate drawer, still in the envelope they came in, so it's not a seed I traded for. I'm going to eat that thing, and I'm really hoping it tastes like a choccy hab.
This is the strangest year I've ever had. I have no damned idea what is going on in my garden.
I have been extremely diligent in labelling seeds and sprouts and everything very carefully. I paid as much attention to what went where as I did when I was dispensing patient medication while I was a nurse.
Gremlins? I'm starting to think so.
The first, I don't see where a mistake could be made.
The second, it's possible.
The third, I guess.
The fourth, no f'ing way.
I don't have a picture of the first WTF moment of this season, but what I thought were my aribibi gusano seeds somehow grew into something looking more like a marconi. Thing is, I didn't save any of those seeds from last season. The peppers are sold at a local Home Depot, so I just figured I'd buy a few from there rather than go through the process of collecting seeds, storing, germinating, etc.
I don't have a pic of the "gusano" pepper, I'll take one tomorrow and update. It looks nothing like a gusano, and the one pod on it is the size and shape of a giant marconi.
The second is my Antillais Caribbean habanero.
Doesn't look like and Antillais Caribbean. I haven't had one before this year so I have no memory to do a taste comparison. They're tasty, though, whatever they are.
The third is my 7 Pot Jonah, which I've stolen inspiration for and named the NOT 7 Pot Jonah.
It's yellow. It doesn't look like my other Yellow 7 Pot pods. Shape and size are completely different.
OK, up till now, I can maybe chalk it up to human error, though I do not for a second believe that. I can see myself making one error, maybe even two(that's a stretch, I'm very organized), but no way can I see myself mislabelling three batches of seeds. No way at all.
Now, here's where it gets very strange and made me throw my hands up today and say Frak it, I'm done with trying to figure it out.
My chocolate habanero.
It's f'ing RED. What in the nine hells is going on?
That pod looks exactly like the chocolates I grew last year, both in shape and size. The plant is growing in a similar fashion. One of the unripe pods from that plant fell off and I split it open, it smelled like an unripe chocolate hab.
I have never grown a pepper that looks like this. Any seeds I got last fall in trades were kept in a separate drawer, still in the envelope they came in, so it's not a seed I traded for. I'm going to eat that thing, and I'm really hoping it tastes like a choccy hab.
This is the strangest year I've ever had. I have no damned idea what is going on in my garden.
