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ETA: I have no idea why my post got split, but I can't edit it!
The Aji Exoticas are finally ripening, yay! This one and Aji Fantasy White are 2 I may regrow next year I liked them so much. Sugar Rush Stripey too. I have a whole big bunch of peppers to de-seed right now and need to find some oompah to get that job started. And I need to find that oompah soon because pepper seeds don't wait.
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I'm relieved that Black Panther is a soybean that will mature in my climate. Growing soybeans these last few years I've learned a few things about these plants which were totally new to me. The bigger the plant gets the more productive it usually is. They'll dry down from a shockingly early stage - I had a plant this year get mold and I pulled it out to dispose of and then forgot about it. A month later I noticed it was all dried up and I cracked open a few dried pods and the seeds were all dried up and of a fairly good size. I pulled them at the edamame stage because I checked when I pulled it and the seeds were still long and very green. I'm amazed they were still able to produce seed. Last of all, I learned this year that if a rabbit eats down the plant but still leaves some leaf matter it will continue to grow but it will never recover fully, it'll stay stunted permanently and will set only a small number of pods. P. vulgaris beans on the other hand will grow right back, and produce just the same if not better for the rabbit pruning.
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I find this somewhat puzzling and curious. This Bolita bean plants were put in rather late and clearly most of the pods won't produce mature seed, yet something is signalling to the plant to shut down. I thought mature seeds was the signal, but this proves that not to be the case. The yellowing is being triggered perhaps by the shrinking daylight hours. At the same time, I have a pole bean that was not planted late but is still green as anything and not yellowing in the least. I wonder if different varieties can have different triggers to shut down and start yellowing.
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I found this today when I was pulling leaves off the remaining pole beans. All these pods belong to one variety - the plant jumped both left and right from it's original pole. I haven't gotten any dried pods yet but I'm impressed with this level of production from 4 plants.
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Harvested some pepper seeds. Unfortunately I harvested the Aji Fantasies a bit early, several of the pods had far too immature seeds. Luckily, I think there is still enough viable seed in the rest of the peppers. I guess white peppers are tricky to estimate for ripeness. I thought this pepper was top rate.
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I gave all the de-seeded peppers to my neighbour who makes hot pepper jelly. I grow some of the hots for their beauty and colors as much as for pizza. My vegetable 'flowers'
. I also love the jelly, which I usually get a couple jars of.
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Harvested the camphor stalks. I searched some of the seedheads looking for itty bitty black specks of seed and have not seen much yet. I've not saved seed from this plant before so all I can do is hope that they don't open up and drop the seeds, or at least not done that yet. I felt like it wasn't that far along since there is still plenty of green leaves on the plants. I need to dry it more indoors and check again I think. My hopes are high to get seeds for this plant.
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Tomato seeds @2024 here we go. Packing these up and labeling them was also an opportunity to teach DS about perseverance on a task which one loathes. He wasn't thrilled, but he was smiling ear to ear to see his final product in the end. Wants a cut now too. lol
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The last of the Morelle de Balbis fruits. These are the later forming smaller ones, the first ones tend to be biggest and they were huge this year. Even the later ones though are bigger than I've seen them. The taste this year has been stellar, just about as perfect as I've had them. Hot weather helped.
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The Aji Exoticas are finally ripening, yay! This one and Aji Fantasy White are 2 I may regrow next year I liked them so much. Sugar Rush Stripey too. I have a whole big bunch of peppers to de-seed right now and need to find some oompah to get that job started. And I need to find that oompah soon because pepper seeds don't wait.
View attachment 60976
I'm relieved that Black Panther is a soybean that will mature in my climate. Growing soybeans these last few years I've learned a few things about these plants which were totally new to me. The bigger the plant gets the more productive it usually is. They'll dry down from a shockingly early stage - I had a plant this year get mold and I pulled it out to dispose of and then forgot about it. A month later I noticed it was all dried up and I cracked open a few dried pods and the seeds were all dried up and of a fairly good size. I pulled them at the edamame stage because I checked when I pulled it and the seeds were still long and very green. I'm amazed they were still able to produce seed. Last of all, I learned this year that if a rabbit eats down the plant but still leaves some leaf matter it will continue to grow but it will never recover fully, it'll stay stunted permanently and will set only a small number of pods. P. vulgaris beans on the other hand will grow right back, and produce just the same if not better for the rabbit pruning.
View attachment 60978
I find this somewhat puzzling and curious. This Bolita bean plants were put in rather late and clearly most of the pods won't produce mature seed, yet something is signalling to the plant to shut down. I thought mature seeds was the signal, but this proves that not to be the case. The yellowing is being triggered perhaps by the shrinking daylight hours. At the same time, I have a pole bean that was not planted late but is still green as anything and not yellowing in the least. I wonder if different varieties can have different triggers to shut down and start yellowing.
View attachment 60979
I found this today when I was pulling leaves off the remaining pole beans. All these pods belong to one variety - the plant jumped both left and right from it's original pole. I haven't gotten any dried pods yet but I'm impressed with this level of production from 4 plants.
View attachment 60980
Harvested some pepper seeds. Unfortunately I harvested the Aji Fantasies a bit early, several of the pods had far too immature seeds. Luckily, I think there is still enough viable seed in the rest of the peppers. I guess white peppers are tricky to estimate for ripeness. I thought this pepper was top rate.
View attachment 60981
I gave all the de-seeded peppers to my neighbour who makes hot pepper jelly. I grow some of the hots for their beauty and colors as much as for pizza. My vegetable 'flowers'
![Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl: 🤣](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png)
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Harvested the camphor stalks. I searched some of the seedheads looking for itty bitty black specks of seed and have not seen much yet. I've not saved seed from this plant before so all I can do is hope that they don't open up and drop the seeds, or at least not done that yet. I felt like it wasn't that far along since there is still plenty of green leaves on the plants. I need to dry it more indoors and check again I think. My hopes are high to get seeds for this plant.
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Tomato seeds @2024 here we go. Packing these up and labeling them was also an opportunity to teach DS about perseverance on a task which one loathes. He wasn't thrilled, but he was smiling ear to ear to see his final product in the end. Wants a cut now too. lol
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The last of the Morelle de Balbis fruits. These are the later forming smaller ones, the first ones tend to be biggest and they were huge this year. Even the later ones though are bigger than I've seen them. The taste this year has been stellar, just about as perfect as I've had them. Hot weather helped.
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