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Just saw my pepper plant has put out its first blooms! ☺️☺️☺️ (media.piefed.zip)
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I have no idea what kind of pepper plant it is, my neighbor gifted it to me after I helped her take out her recycling and she said she can't remember what kind it was lol

I'm very excited to have another shot at successful fruiting. Last year my cherry tomato got blown off the ledge taking with it the single fruiting blossom and never fully recovered, and my strawberries all got eaten by bugs and then after keeping it alive through winter I accidentally gave it transplant shock and then overwatered back to back (it rained for like 3 days so I couldn't get it to dry out 🥹)

I've had to be hypervigilant of the wind, Including getting soaked just now moving my plants off the ledge as a severe thunderstorm rolled through (our 8 billionth one the past week or two 😅). I'm on the third floor and close to an airport so we've got decent elevation and not much around to break the wind lol

Just saw my pepper plant has put out its first blooms! ☺️☺️☺️

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[–] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Looks good! Go little plant go!

I just pulled the first few peppers off mine to put in mac and cheese yesterday. (Nadapeno pepper in case you're wondering).

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    I've never heard of nadapenos! what are they like?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They're jalapeno peppers bred to have zero of the spice. They really do taste like a green bell pepper with that jalapeno grassiness mixed in.

    It doesn't look like I'll get too many due to the heatwaves almost killing everything but I'm going next year to do nadapeno poppers for the wife since she can't handle spice

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 months ago

    Interesting! Myabe I'll try growing some at some point. I love spicy and the taste of jalapeños, but its a mild rosacea trigger for me so I've been cutting back unless its a neccisary part of a dish (I'll give up Lao Gan ma fried chili in oil, or Korean Thanksgiving with family friends when I'm dead)

    Yeah the heat waves have been a challenge, especially for my friend Hannah who gets like full sun all day on her balcony. But on the upside my basil survived when hers died, so I'm very excited I can give her back baby basil plants from the one she gifted me early in the season 🥹

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    • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    That is awesome! You got this little pepper friend!

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Looks like a bell pepper plant to me, but hard to tell — be sure to post updates!

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    • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Pinch them off otherwise they will start setting peppers too soon and stunt your plant. The first set of blooms should always be pinched it’s true for every type of pepper. If it starts putting energy into fruiting this early in its development your plant will never recover and you will have a very small and short lived harvest. It sucks but trust me, pinch them off and wait for the plant to mature more before you allow fruit to set. Personally I pinch off the first 3-4 rounds of buds and I get A LOT of peppers every year.

    Think of these like a teen pregnancy, sure it’ll make a baby but it’s better if mom is more mature

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago*

    I've pinched off a ton of buds already to get the plant to a size I feel decent about, I'm ready to let it start fruiting now. I considered letting it go longer but I'm worried about not having long enough for them to mature, and honestly I probably don't have a good place to put a normal 100% full maturity pepper plant while keeping it in the sun and safe from the wind. Nor do I have a big enough planter (I think I've heard people use like 5 gal buckets? Thats way bigger than I have a good place to put, I don't actually have my own balcony at my complex so its shared space on a ledge in the breezeway. I'm not technically supposed to have belongings there and a 5 gal bucket up on the ledge visible from the parking lot would be kind of a lot lol)

    I am new to growing stuff so I have no idea if I'm at the point of blooms late, or early relative to what you'd want lol

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