So, I was sat minding my own business at work today casually going about my day when I happened to glance over at the Bhut Jolokia plant I took to work last year as part of my over wintering thing, when I noticed…
It’s got the beginnings of what looks to be, a flower… ?
Now, ordinarily I’d be a bit excited, but .. It’s only February. And just that as well. Well, OK, a week in – But, still!
There are a couple of other smaller buds dotted around it as well…
It’s not been in a particularly warm place, just sat next to my monitor. I’ve been dropping it some water every so often when it needed it, about once a week, maybe a quick gulp before I left for the weekend – Nothing special or particularly encouraging though.
After doing a little reading, I don’t expect these to stay – Stumpy did this a lot last year, started off flowers and just dropped them. With it being this early I’m pretty much expecting the same, still a surprise though.
But. That’s not all…
I got home from work and was inspecting my seedlings when I just happened to check on my Komodo Dragon as well…
It’s got a flower!
How did I not see that coming? This one I can understand, a little. It’s been on the windowsill which has had loads of good light recently, and it’s also above a radiator.
This was a picture I posted to my Facebook page on the 4th February this year, and, it’s not changed a lot since then.
(For those that don’t follow my blog regularly I planted the seeds for this plant from some Komodo Dragons when they hit the scene in August last year)
I sent out a Tweet about my surprise at both of todays flowers and got a nice response to my newbie Chilli growing…
@ChilliDiaries Worry less. Chillies and weather will surprise us every time. Enjoy the good, shrug off the bad and try everything.
— Alan Pearson (@HeWhoCaresNot) February 11, 2016
Which is some advice I decided to go with – It’s only my second year growing Chillies, my first really considering the late start I had last year so I don’t really know what to expect.
It’s not the first time I’ve had assurance from a fellow Chillihead on Social Media either, it’s not even the first today to be honest – And, that’s ace.
Seems that the online Chilli community is a great place to be, I’m only a couple of months into this years adventure and I already feel like I’m amongst friends 🙂
I find that many of the flowers produced by a young plant in its early days fall off. Several of my over-Wintered plants have flowers now, so it will be interesting to see if second-year plants do any better.
I’m not expecting any fruit from the Komodo Dragon yet, was just surprised to see a flower so soon from it, especially considering it’s size.
I’ve got a Chilli Plant that I got through 2014 winter – It popped off flowers all last season and didn’t give me any fruit at all 🙁