Sunday, June 29, 2008

Update

Here's an updated pcture of the whole bunch. That tall one in the back corner is the basil. This is the last picture I took of that before I found myself picking off leaves to eat with some vietnamese takeout food. It was gooooood... Anyway, a couple of the anaheims are now flowering. I've hand polnated them so they should be on thr way...

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Just Cuz

Spanish Spice about 24 hours later...

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Update

The Spanish Spice is flowering and peppering everywhere. Here's a cool pic I took of a flower and a starting pepper. Remember that pepper from a couple post back? Here it in now....

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Crowding

Hmmmm... we have a problem again. With 11 plants at least 1ft tall and spreading out, and one set of sprouting Poblanos in the front, the plants are getting crowded. I'm thinking that the best method to resolve this issue is to build an identical frame and stack it on top of the existing one. Of course this new structure will stand on the...

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Pepper Sightings

The Spanish Spice is growing at a good rate. Friday this particular pepper was still a flower. Now it's about an inch long. There are other peppers forming and more flower buds growing in.The Habanero has flowers everywhere but no pepper formation yet. I've even pollinated the bloomed flowers manually to try and speed it along. But it's...

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Falafel Etc.: Meat Shwarma Plate

Falafel Etc. 39200 Fremont BlvdFremont, CA 94538(510) 795-7170 http://www.falafeletc1.com/ Alright so I realized I still had a picture of a dish sitting in my phone memory that haven't reviewed yet. Right now I'm sitting around in my folk's house for the weekend, bored as heck, so I've decided to take the opportunity to get the review out...

Friday, June 6, 2008

Habanero News

It looks like the habanero was the first to flower. It kind of suprised me when I came home from work....

Monday, June 2, 2008

Upgraded Enclosure

I told you guys last time that I was going to upgrade my system because my Spanish Spice pepper plant was outgrowing the of one. Now, after minutes of planning, a short trip to OSH, and about 6 bucks later: Here you can see my new box from the side with a mylar curtain pulled down so we can see inside. This shot is from another angle looking...