Dawn's Pepper Pot - EcoGrower (07/03/2017) ** Term 05/06/201

If in the way I have always trimmed them out. Also I find that when I cut older leaves it regenerates the plant.

A couple weeks ago, I did some rather aggressive pruning on the larger plants in this garden, namely the Vezena Piperka and the Hungarian Wax.  At the time, I cut buds off both (intentionally), hoping to get a bit more branching out of both.  Which was mostly successful.

But now I see some blossoms about to open on the Hungarian Wax, and the Habanero Red right next to it is also showing some nodules that look like they'll be blossoms before long.

The Pepperoncini Golden Greek is still alive after I nearly broke it a few weeks back, but still stunted.  The Scotch Bonnet plant is very dense and healthy looking, but also very short.  I don't know if this is just how that one goes or what.

The Vezena Piperka is by far the tallest of the six, and I keep cutting massive leaves off it to try to get it to slow down and branch out a little more.

And the Jamaican Yellow Mushroom peppers look like an actual healthy pepper plant, albeit about a month behind the others in development.  And, it's a near daily thing to prune its neighbors back so it has room to grow and access to light.

When I first set this pot up, I was wondering if six plants in a 2 foot by 2 foot growing deck would be too sparse.  Now, I'm acutely aware that it'll be a constant matter of pruning these things to keep them out of each others' hair... I mean leaves.

I have pepper trellis supports on the Vezena and Habanero Red.  The Hungarian Wax seems determined to take over the space occupied by the Habanero next door, so it'll probably start latching onto its support, too.  I have another four of those trellises, and I'm thinking I should install one on it to try to train it back to its own space.

Hungarians are larger peppers.  

This remins me I MUST do a dump and refill next week

The scotch bonnet is pretty dense, but not very high:



The Pepperoncini Golden Greek may have survived my abuse, but it's still pretty stunted.



The Habanero Red is looking fine:



And the Hungarian Wax is trying to take over the Habanero's space:



The Jamaican Yellow Mushroom continues to plod along:



And I don't know what to say about the Vezena Piperka.  It's the largest of the gang, but not really that healthy looking:

And I just had my first blossom open on the Vezena Piperka.  Like the others, hiding beneath huge leaves.  I went to hit it with the Be the Bee, but feeling the inside of the blossom, I feel a hard sharp point suggesting to me that it may have already set.  And kneeling down, I can see more fat buds that look like they're on the verge of opening.

As with the Hungarian wax, much larger blossoms than I've been accustomed to with my previous projects.

The Scotch Bonnet has always looked very healthy with substantial foliage, but up until now, it's been rather squat.  It finally looks like it's starting to grow vertically, as well as showing hints of some buds

The Red Habanero seems rather healthy, and while not as tall as the Vezena or the Hungarians, it still looks like it should be ready to start setting some fruit sometime soon:

The Vezena Piperka plant just passed 2 feet tall.  It's been opening some huge, almost leathery looking blossoms.  Sadly, pictures do not do justice:




It's set several peppers, but so far, only one has cleared the blossom and dropped its petals: