Plant update
17 July 2025 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeThe larger chilli is nine and a half inches tall and is now in full flower (and I think has set its first nub of fruit) and the small one is seven inches and growing vigorously, and needs repotting. I have had some tomatoes with seeds in, although there are still coming out seedless; the catch-up towel-tomato is now bushy and flowering, and the others are now looking a bit droopy and past it, though that may be from the weight of fruit having bent down the branches -- the Roma tomatoes are ripening, and that plant is still looking quite perky at the tip. I don't actually know if this is a determinate or indeterminate variety (the others are definitely dwarf bush tomatoes), so that may well be the difference!
The probably-honesty plant in the wildflower trough is now finally flowering after the other things that were dwarfing it have been cut back, although the purple flower spike doesn't actually *look* like honesty to me [checks: no, it definitely isn't!]
The cornflowers have been in riot everywhere and are now mostly finished; a lot of the plants from the purple seed packet turned out to be cornflowers of various hues, as predicted, but another variety has just opened its bud and turned out to be a pretty white flower with a yellow centre that doesn't appear to be *any* of the things listed on the packet!
The plant-that-turned-out-to-be-a-rudbeckia-after-all has opened its first rather scraggly rudbeckia flower, though it is not nearly so vigorous as the overwintered one, which is showing no signs of going over after a month -- which is to say that it is not setting seed, although admittedly I have managed to snap a couple of its flowers off while leaning over it to pick mint.
The kale on the window sill germinated within only a couple of days, to my surprise; a couple of seedlings came up last night in the beetroot tub, but I rather suspect they are not actually beetroot.
The eating peas have definitely finished and the plant dried up, but I can't actually remove it as its stick is currently supporting the neighbouring towel-tomato... The sweet peas have almost finished likewise, but they were definitely a great success. I have left one pod on, but I am not sure it will actually develop into anything before the parent plant simply dies off.
The probably-honesty plant in the wildflower trough is now finally flowering after the other things that were dwarfing it have been cut back, although the purple flower spike doesn't actually *look* like honesty to me [checks: no, it definitely isn't!]
The cornflowers have been in riot everywhere and are now mostly finished; a lot of the plants from the purple seed packet turned out to be cornflowers of various hues, as predicted, but another variety has just opened its bud and turned out to be a pretty white flower with a yellow centre that doesn't appear to be *any* of the things listed on the packet!
The plant-that-turned-out-to-be-a-rudbeckia-after-all has opened its first rather scraggly rudbeckia flower, though it is not nearly so vigorous as the overwintered one, which is showing no signs of going over after a month -- which is to say that it is not setting seed, although admittedly I have managed to snap a couple of its flowers off while leaning over it to pick mint.
The kale on the window sill germinated within only a couple of days, to my surprise; a couple of seedlings came up last night in the beetroot tub, but I rather suspect they are not actually beetroot.
The eating peas have definitely finished and the plant dried up, but I can't actually remove it as its stick is currently supporting the neighbouring towel-tomato... The sweet peas have almost finished likewise, but they were definitely a great success. I have left one pod on, but I am not sure it will actually develop into anything before the parent plant simply dies off.