February

Yesterday consolidated 3 kinds of pothos into 3 pots. Made some room for seedlings.

Also put callas in fridge, in moss, in crisper.
Put damp moss on acidenthra bulbs.
I have lots more flower seed I didn't count upstairs and and downstairs.

Got more new tomatoes from Jaggers.

Went through bromeliads the other day. Casablanca rotted and is gone. We are out of the mini pink brom.
Planted iron cross oxalis in hanging pot, half our bulbs.
We have 8 pots of purple oxalis.
Get oxalis ready to sell in march.
Found an oxalis bulb jar full of bulbs. Probably green. Maybe purple.
Planted 2 peppers: manzano and lemon drop.
Will plant naga pepper soon.

We want to put broms in our aquarium too free up room.

Also going to start a dozen or so perrenial seeds outside, very soon, to cold stratify.

we had thrips. 2 days ago, we saw the black crawlies on the calla lilies. we think they might have killed our lime shrimp coleus. still keeping a few alive. on the first day, we put a cottonball with mint on the calla leaf. the next day we closed the bathroom door and hotboxed it with a diffuser of camphor, clove, mint etc.

it seems there are less thrips.

we just have to repeat this every couple days.

almost time to plant tomatoes!

my lemon ajis have sprouted very recently, we have at least a dozen. nothing in the rocoto pot yet. choc habs have true leaves but only half are left. maybe 5 or 6. got a free bag of black earth topsoil, not even opened, on the way to Jags.

PEPPER GROW LIST MARCH !:
Black pearl | 10
Brazilian starfish | 20
Chocolate habanero | 10
Chocolate scorpion | 10
Jimmy nardello | 20
Lemon aji | Done
Manzano Rocoto | Done
Orange lunchbox | 5
Orange mini bell | 10
Poblano | 10
Red cayenne | 10
Shishito | 20
Sugar rush peach | 20
Variegated piquin | 5
Yellow jalapeno | 20
Yellow lunchbox | 5
Yellow mushroom | 20
Yellow naga | 10
yellow bell | 20
purple blot 20
orange cayenne 20

= 17 pots

Going soilless for indoor plants and seedlings. Thrips seem to be under control. Need to get: vermiculite, perlite, sphagnum moss, sand.

Planted Naga seeds today, from one pepper. Most of the seeds were brown. 2 or 3 looked good.
Lemon aji has a dozen plants. I moved them closer to the light. Haven't lost one yet. Though grew a few mushrooms. Chic habs only have 3 left and they look terrible.
Lots of purple oxalis coming out. No iron cross yet. Dwarf Cavendish is almost dead. Didn't like being transplanted in January.

Put flower packets into freezer yesterday. Planted pepper seeds today: Trinidad scorpion, poblano, starfish, Marcello, orange cayenne, purple pepper, sugar rush peach, mini orange bell, yellow lunchbox?
Still have to plant shishito. And our peppers: variegated piquin, pjurple peach ghost, wiri wiri, black pearl.
Soon planting tomatoes. Getting soil soon. Used soil from a palm tree today.
Saw thrips on my lemon aji, so I sprayed it with mite spray. Hope it works. Replanted more manzano seeds as they havrent come up yet. Only 3 choc hab plants left alive now. Don't look good.