Fruiting

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Repotted the Demon Red chilli (now eight inches tall and covered in flowers, with its first green chillies pointing vertically up into the air) and the larger of the dark-leaf chillies, which is almost as tall but less well bushed-out.

The rudbeckias sown from seed this year are now in flower -- interestingly, one of them is much darker than the other, which is bright yellow -- and the overwintered ones are finally starting to go over. I took the dried head off one of them, although I'm not sure there is any actual seed in it. (Rudbeckia seed is pretty tiny, unfortunately.)

I also took the seed head off the spring onion that flowered. Very odd that the one I planted out from the stub of one of the greengrocer's spring onions immediately sent up a flower stalk, whereas the ones that were grown from seed at least five years ago have never shown any signs of flowering at all! (Those have now died back to little more than a bulb, whereas the 'adult' one is still growing vigorously despite having flowered.)


The first Roma tomatoes are ready, at about twice the size of the towel-tomatoes -- although the first one I picked turned out to have two small Discus rotundatus nestled in a hole in the back!
Mustn't forget to save seed from one of the remaining fruits...