Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Indoor Plants

I brought my pepper plants inside several months ago, like in October maybe, and they are doing so great!  I got tons and tons of jalapenos and habeneros, and the third one had just been sitting there, putting on leaves all day long. And now, the producing ones have slowed down and the other jalapeno has all these lovely flowers!

A month or two ago, I piled a bunch of worm casting on top of the lefty jalapeno and the habenero.  I didn't do anything to the other jalapeno because it didn't have all that extra space on top.  And after all, it was churning out peppers like crazy.  But the two with the compost have put on tons of leaves and they look so healthy and so good!  They're really full, like little trees!  I've tried to add a little to the not so full one and watered it with worm tea (compost tea?) but I'm sure it's not as good.  In certain light, like the low light right now, I can see that the new leaves are much lighter green on the Habenero, which isn't exactly good, but it's got a lot of new leaves so that's just fine, right?  The Habenero is definitely the fullest, and the prettiest plant.

Last weekend I saw it was going to get stupid cold, so I brought in the Rosemary. I think it's still ok.  I am really hoping it survives the winter inside.  Mike McGrath says it's really tough to keep the moisture level in the soil right.  But when it was outside, it went through periods of heavy rain for days, and no rain for more days, and it seemed just fine.

It's three little plants in a long container, so I don't know what I want to do with it long term.  I mean, I could try to take them out and put them in their own pots, but I am worried about screwing with all these roots probably all mixed up together.  I guess I'll try to keep it over the winter, and bring it outside, and once it starts growing again and proves that it's healthy, I'll feel more comfortable pulling one of them out.

I have these bulbs that I am forcing in the fridge, and some of them are coming up on the requisite 12 weeks.  I am a little worried because I don't know if the fridge is actually cold enough.  So because of that, I should probably aim for more like 14 weeks.  That puts me in the first week in February.  It will be so great to get some Daffodils in February.

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