Red Bolivian

7 days later I'm happy to showcase my first red pods that still remain unpicked as I'm waiting whether or not they still turn a bit darker tone of red. While the balcony is in full pod making mode my Prairie Fire is flowering nicely indoors. I've been doing some reading regarding easy hydroponics as trying out either a bubbler or ebb&flood system would be interesting, maybe I'll get to try building one in the future.

Prairie flowers

It's been about a week now since I told that my Prairie Fires are showing signs of recovering from the shock of being replanted and now they have opened their first delicate white flower. The weather has remained nice and sunny so I have a few more yellow pods and some orange ones on the balcony. It won't be long until I have my first fully ripe ones as long as nothing drastic happens with the weather.

Turning yellow

My two Prairie Fire plants took some time adjusting to their new shared pot and during that time all visible growth halted but now they are both branching out quite aggressively. Meanwhile a rise in temperature brought by the current heatwave has encouraged my Bolivian Rainbows to start ripening their first 5-7 pods which have now entered "the yellow stage". I might have to trim the ones growing on the windowsill a little as some of the branches are reaching over my chair.

Purple pods

Nothing too radical happening on the chillie front, just steady growth on all the plants. So far all of my plants have remained bug free. I think it's largely due to the fact that I live so high up from the ground floor and perhaps I've gotten a little lucky with the other plants on the balcony as they seem to have been bug free. Last week the 4th plant started to grow its first pods so all of them are producing fruit now.

Getting fruity

Past weeks heatwave has persuaded the Chichen Itza to ripen its first and so far only pod. It's a small one falling about 6cm short of the average size of the fruits in this plant. The plant hasn't been looking well lately so getting a ripe pod still feels nice even if it is only 2cm one. On the balcony the first Bolivian Rainbow has begun to grow pods. The first plant to germinate grew the first pods too, makes sense.

Rainbows everywhere

After confirming that the 5th sprout which I gave away was Bolivian Rainbow too I sent an email to the grower asking if he knew any similar cases. He didn't and his personal batch of Bird's Eyes had turned out to be alright so I just got extremely unlucky. On Saturday the mail brought me some seeds that I chose as compensation and he had put 2 extra bags with them so it looks like I already have plants for my next season.

Purple flowers again?

The Bolivian Rainbow on the balcony seems to be doing well and I like how dark the leaves have turned due to the plant getting more sunlight. My current unresolved issue is that the 4th plant has started to turn it's flower buds purple. Something is off here since I have only planted 3 Bolivian Rainbows in the first place. So even if I had made a mistake with the name tags and gave away the wrong one only 3 plants with purple flowers should be possible. The two Prairie Fire sprouts moved in an under watering pot together and are shown on the first picture.