11-May:
This week has started with planting the plant in the ground. I hope she likes the soil. Weather is not so good today. Plant has grown 21 centimeter in a week, which is three centimeter per day, we will see what she is going to do next, now that she is standing in the ground. At the moment it is raining so some more photo's will come later today. I uploaded two more photos, one from the side.
12-5
Today there was a reasonable amount of sun, and I measured the plant late in the afternoon. It seemed to be 55 cm, 5 cm more than yesterday morning. A bit of sun makes them grow! Soil around the plant is very wet, the wetness of this spring was on the news this evening. My garden is well drained though, I am not afraid the roots will drown. Muddyness is allso increased by the generous amound of dried cow manure I spread around the area, to encourage worms. Anyway, five centimeters of growth in the first 30 hours after planting is not bad.
Madame Jeanette Peppers.
Something funny is happening to my two pepperplants, two Surinam Pepper plants I picked up from the same table in the store, one said yellow on the label, the other one red, are developing quite differently. One is growing up and making flower buds, and branching. The other is making a carpet of leaves right over the soil. They are sharing a bucket, so the conditions are identical. I think one of them has been in the store for longer than the other, or something else has trigerred one plant into different developement than the other, Anyway, both plants look happy. I am looking foreward to keep on growing these plants inside next winter!
Plant is growing very well under lamps and when available, the sun. The shape of the leaves is different from previous Frisian Dew, the fingers are broader. Does this mean that this one is more Indica?
@DutchPassion_Official,Thanks for your reaction, you do care for your babies 😉 Don't worry, when I had to leave the seedling alone, I covered the soil with a layer of sand, to reduce evaporation. I have a poking hole just above the bottom of the bucket to check moisture.
@Grow4Releaf,The top leaves are still green, the lower leaves are becoming yellow. Would it mean that the cuttings are sacrificing those leaves for the nutrients necessary for making roots?
@WatercanWampa,Thanks! That is allso a bit of perspective, because my shoes are further away from the phone than the leaves, but still, they are bigger than my hands. Because I want my plant to grow high, I pruned all sidebranches this morning, (I am trying to make clones) now all the nutrients and water go to one single growing tip, so she will probably make even bigger ones. She is allso standing in the ground for a week spreading her roots.