This year’s growing season is truly off and running, and we couldn’t be more pleased with how the container garden is coming along with their growth. This wasn’t without a few hiccups, though. We’ve had a couple of casualties, which we hadn’t had in years past. As has been our tradition, we ordered our plants from the nice folks at Cross Country Nurseries. One of our two Bhut Jolokia plants were pretty much DOA, and we had another plant, a cayenne, die of transplant shock shortly after the switch to the bigger containers. Gotta give credit where it’s due, though. Janie from CCN was awesome in sending us some replacement plants for the Bhut Jolokia plant…and even sent us two plants in place of the one that perished. Certainly a good thing, since we’re down to just the one cayenne pepper plant! See the rest of the pics to view how our babies are doing….

This is one of the jalapenos, which even has a small fruit on it. Both plants we have are loaded with buds which will soon be flowers. We expect the yield from these to be quite prodigious.

Our first attempt to grow datils, which are vaguely like habaneros and are mostly found grown in the state of Florida. Lots of foliage thus far, but not many flower buds just yet.

Our cayenne and our orange devil habanero hybrid plant, both doing quite well with a little daytime shade.

Another view of one of our jalapenos, again with lots of soon-to-be flower buds.

Last but not the least, here is one of the Bhut Jolokia plants. We’ve yet to be at all impressed with these, either from their growth or our history of poor yield from them. Ever the optimists, we keep hoping these will do well this year.

Stay tuned for more as the babies keep growing!!