There's a variety of chili breeds in my pots (moved, again, outside, but out of hare's reach, or so I thought), and some of them are unknown (as the seeds came out of my spice rack, so it's either Ecuador Purple or some unstabilised mixed breed). All of them were started rather late, with the seeds sprouting mid-April, and there have been some losses due to snails and hare bite.
Now one of the larger plants has sadly lost its head.
I don't really know how that happened; it was not eaten, the lost crown lay beside the plant in the pot. With all the nice little buds it had. I'm quite sad about that, especially as I have only that one so far along of the kind, but I hope it will rally itself and make a bunch of side branches with flowers.
That was one of the more vegetable-y peppers, which tend to be quicker than the chilis in my lineup here. One of them actually has produced fruits already:
They will take a bit longer to ripen, though I'm very tempted to try how they taste still green. I like green peppers best anyways...
But yes, slowly, the chilis are getting ready as well. There's no open flower yet, but that is a question of days, as the buds are growing larger and larger on some:
And here's a view of Ecuador Purple buds - pleasingly purple, too:
I'm quite happy about all that, I just hope there won't be more losing of heads to whatever made that one plant shorter!