My pepper plants. The ladybugs saved them again. A lot of flowering, but no fruits yet.

Well, I had a pretty tough start with the plants in my yard this year. I guess I planted them outside way too early. I got tricked by the weather, because when I put the plants outside it was very warm already, but after a week a pretty cold temperatures came. My plants outside barely managed to survive.

For instance this was a very nice young plant with a lot of leaves. Since then it had a very difficult start, but I think it already started to develop a bit faster. Hope to see a warm autumn and the plant will have time to flower and deliver some beautiful Cayenne peppers.

Well, let’s take a look at another plant with a different story. Last year I had a relatively small Carolina reaper plant, which gave only 2 peppers, because the temperatures started falling too low in the autumn ‘21, so I put it inside for overwintering.

I thought that it was pretty much dead in this year’s spring, but new shoots started growing from the base. I planted it outside too and it’s now doing really good. I think that it’s a bit late with its development too, given the fact that tomorrow is July.

Again, let the weather be with us and give us a pretty warm and long autumn. I want these Carolina Reaper peppers so much!

The plants on my terrace are doing the best of all. I have the advantage of having a south terrace so it’s pretty much sunlit all day long. One issue that I had was that there were a lot of aphids on the habanero plant. I desperately needed a good way to save it. Last year there were a lot of ladybugs around and I put some on my plants. The problem was solved in a matter of days. This year though, there weren’t many ladybugs around, but after a couple of days looking here and there and chasing them, managed to find a place with rose plants that had a lot of aphids and of course, ladybugs having a feast there. So a bunch of ladybugs were put on my habanero plant.

I think they got a pretty sweet job so now the plant is very healthy and grows very well.

The other plant on my terrace is a Carolina Reaper again, which has a lot of flowering, but no fruiting at all. I remember all the Carolina reapers that I had last year and the year before, had the same issue. They start developing fruits about a month or two after the first flowers show up.

Last, but not least, one of the branches of this Carolina Reaper plant got chopped by a broomstick, and I decided to put it in water. Eventually some roots grew and I was able to plant the new plant in my yard too. It already starts to show some quick progress too.

I hope that it will also give me super hot peppers eventually.

Does someone know if I had to do something with the pumpkin flowers? I know that there are male and female flowers, and logically the male flowers’ particles have to meet with the female flower ones. I don’t know if some bees will make this happen naturally or I have to do it manually?

I really want to have some pumpkins in order to make Halloween lanterns in the autumn. The kids will be ultimately happy. 😁

That’s for now, have a good day and I will be happy to exchange some knowledge with the community.

Bye!