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This blog is essentially my documenting (photo and textual) of my pepper crops this year. My intent is to use this for documenting varieties and materials I used, growth progress, dates, problems encountered, pepper humor and funny news stories (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_india_chili_grenades), and (hopefully) peppers yielded.



I hope you enjoy this blog as much as I've enjoyed putting it together. Feel free to comment, share stories, or give advice. This will be my first time experimenting with the Chinese Capsicum family of peppers so I'm looking forward to seeing the potential results!



Thanks for dropping by and sorry if you thought this blog would be more entertaining ;)



Thursday, April 22, 2010

Update: Thinning

Alright a couple of things to update today. First off I went ahead and began the proccess of "thinning" the crops. Essentially I selected the best plant per bunch and chopped off the rest. Also, since the Pepperochini were down to 1 plant and the Bhut all died off I have ordered 4 of each as a plant to compensate for the loss.

Overall I 'd say the thinning went rather well, and most of the plants are no longer looking like they are trying to compete with one another and the spacing is back to looking normal again. I'll post a few more pictures if I get the chance to tomorrow.

Also, I have not yet decided to transplant them to a larger container and may instead just transplant them to thier final resting place in my planter boxes instead. More to come tomorrow hopefully... Planting day at the moment is estimated sometime the first week in May.

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