I haven’t mentioned about my chilli plants for a while. To be honest, it’s been boring since the very first flower opened up. Now they are just blooming everywhere, but some plants are doing better than others.

The youngest one probably has some developmental delay. It’s the tallest but probably the dumbest among all 5 brothers. It has been producing flower buds, but many of them wilted and died before they reached the stage of flowering fully. Other 4 pots are okay and had at least 4-5 flower buds for each.

The oldest is the shortest and has the bushy shape that I prefer the most (I hate plants looking leggy and sparse). It has one tiny creamy greenish chili fruit forming at the bottom of old flowers. Can’t imagine this fruit would get to the normal chili size as it looks so small.

I have some lessons that I learned from my impatience that I want to share. DON’T PICK THE DEAD FLOWER FROM THE FLOWER STEM. Because I didn’t know where the chili fruit was going to grow, so I accidentally removed a couple dead flowers from the stem that holds them. If you did this, the chili won’t grow because the stem is the medium for the fruit to grow. It works like cultivating base.

Also, the flower and stem are very gentle. If you DO want to remove flowers, make sure you only remove flower petals, NOT bottom part. You need delicate fingers to do this. If you are not good at it, just don’t touch it. Let the fruit grow out to push the dead flower off.