A Pepper Story

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Hot Peppers, Thai pepper second from the left – photo credit C.Elisabeth at 8th Deadly Sin

Buy Thai pepper seeds in December. Beat the rush. Planted like six seeds.

Wait for Thai Pepper seeds to germinate in the lovely 80 degree tropics I made for all my pepper seeds. All the other peppers germinate in under a week, easy.

Still no Thai peppers germinate. After a month goes by, plant more seeds. They suck.

Buy more Thai pepper seeds, from a different vendor @86peppers.

Get new pepper seeds fast. Plant new pepper seeds.

Seeds germinate! Easy! It was the first seeds that suck, not me. New seeds kick ass. Which I knew it wasn’t me, because I am not a pepper noob.

Kill the Thai pepper seedling. Because AM a noob. It was in a smaller pot and I missed it watering. KILLED THE PEPPER BABY.

Go to Farmer’s Market. Go straight to my Pepper Guy. Yeah, I have a guy. HE DID NOT GROW THAI PEPPER THIS YEAR.

Look at the other places in town. I can get a ton of other peppers. BUT NOT THAI. It’s too late to start seeds again for a summer harvest up here.

See gorgeous Thai plants on Insta and have a sad.

The End

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