{"id":164,"date":"2009-08-08T11:45:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T18:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2009-11-03T17:53:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T01:53:46","slug":"peppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Peppers!"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThese are serrano peppers. I have a habanero plant in the same pot and found a few small pepper buds on that as well.<\/em><\/p>\n

Just yesterday, Geoff commented that the pepper plant looked like it was wilting. I had noticed the same thing. The white flowers were turning brown and dropping off, the branches seemed to be sagging, and after 3+ months, the plants still weren’t producing any peppers.<\/p>\n

Or so we thought. This morning when I was watering them, I went to pick a dead flower off a leaf and was astonished to realize what what I thought was a leaf was actually a huge green pepper hanging from the stem. This baby is big; it must have been there for several days, at least. I can’t believe I missed it.<\/p>\n

I gave a closer look and realized the plant is full of peppers. I counted at least ten. The pepper plant isn’t dying, it’s finally growing! (The only downside to the discovery was that in my excitement I put my hands all over the peppers, and now they sting. Oops.)<\/p>\n

The tomatoes are still doing well. The branches got so heavy I had to prop some of them up with sticks. The herbs are pretty much gone, even the parsley. Maybe this isn’t a good climate for herbs, or maybe I didn’t give them the care they needed. I’d like to pull them out and plant some berries in that pot but I’m not sure if it’s too late in the season…<\/p>\n

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Left to right: the first pepper I spotted (it’s huge!); this morning’s harvest<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are serrano peppers. I have a habanero plant in the same pot and found a few small pepper buds on that as well. Just yesterday, Geoff commented that the pepper plant looked like it was wilting. I had noticed the same thing. The white flowers were turning brown and dropping off, the branches seemed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-great-outdoors","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}