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Post by pickinduck on Jun 5, 2015 18:43:52 GMT -6
Here are some interresting photo of my windowsill garden. This one shows our white window blind. The grow light that I made hangs between it and the window. For us in the apartment it still acts as a blind but when the grow light is on it acts as a reflector for my plants increasing their amount of light.
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Post by pickinduck on Jun 5, 2015 18:48:54 GMT -6
The little creature things you see I call sun dancers. I place them around my plants in hopes that with their movement they will act as scarecrows to help keep bugs away. You can see the pot that I'm going to give to my teacher.
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Post by sherlew99 on Jun 5, 2015 18:50:33 GMT -6
Neat idea, I hope the sun dancers work well.
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Post by pickinduck on Jun 9, 2015 7:56:32 GMT -6
I;m seeing baby peppers now.
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Post by sherlew99 on Jun 9, 2015 10:02:54 GMT -6
Cool, glad they're setting. I've read that sometimes the flowers drop but no little peppers appear. There are ways to deal with that, but I'm glad that you won't have to try any of those.
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Post by pickinduck on Jun 9, 2015 12:06:27 GMT -6
I hand pollinated the flowers with a cotton swab.
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Post by pickinduck on Jun 9, 2015 15:09:05 GMT -6
Baby pepper.
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Post by pickinduck on Jun 9, 2015 17:42:25 GMT -6
I found and bought this at 5 Below the other day and started it last night. It's called Tin Can Garden. They had 3 different hot peppers that you could grow a ghost pepper, a chocolate habanero, and a cherry pepper. I bought the least hottest the cherry pepper. It says cherry pepper but I'm thinking it might be that tepin pepper. The can opens at both ends and you just add water.
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Post by pickinduck on Jun 9, 2015 18:18:44 GMT -6
I just hand pollinated several more flowers.
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Post by sherlew99 on Jun 9, 2015 19:13:13 GMT -6
Cute
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Post by sherlew99 on Jun 9, 2015 19:21:24 GMT -6
View AttachmentView AttachmentI found and bought this at 5 Below the other day and started it last night. It's called Tin Can Garden. They had 3 different hot peppers that you could grow a ghost pepper, a chocolate habanero, and a cherry pepper. I bought the least hottest the cherry pepper. It says cherry pepper but I'm thinking it might be that tepin pepper. The can opens at both ends and you just add water. A Tin Can Garden, love it. Be careful of the ghost pepper and the chocolate habanero. They are among the world's hottest peppers. Check out their Scoville units on Wikipedia.
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Post by pickinduck on Jun 9, 2015 19:37:23 GMT -6
I only got a can with the cherry pepper.
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Post by sherlew99 on Jun 9, 2015 19:46:49 GMT -6
OK, it's probably one of those near the middle of the scale. It also looks and sounds like a Hungarian Cherry pepper.
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Post by pickinduck on Jun 9, 2015 19:51:52 GMT -6
The directions don't say anything about transplanting it so I guess it can grow to maturity in the can.
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Post by sherlew99 on Jun 9, 2015 20:00:42 GMT -6
I suppose so as well. You'd think that they'd have something as important as that in the instructions.
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