Peppers For Petra And The Mystery Of Vining Plants

  I am doing the happy dance, symbolically speaking, of course. One of my pepper plants is really prolific and that is encouraging since I have been trying to go Pepperoncini peppers for the past several years without success.

  Pepperoncini peppers are the ones you get in the Pizza box from Papa John's Pizza. I have always envied them since I first saw them, and when I saw the seeds available, I had to have them, but the plants never grew right. That is, until now.

(I would post the picture of the plant that now has several little peppers on it, but the picture I took was too blurry).

Upon further inspection, one of the pepper plants on the balcony has a couple of little peppers on it too. This pepper plant is called a 'Bird's Eye Chili' plant. The peppers will be small, long, and hot. Of course, my initial thought of why I bought the seeds in the first place is in order to grow them for my bird, Petra, who likes peppers (or is supposed to like peppers). I found a recipe for making chili oil and can use the peppers for that as well.

Bird's Eye Chili Pepper plant. You can
see the pepper on this plant. 

     I just found a copy of a picture of the pepperoncini plant and the other plants around it. If you look really hard, I'm sure you can find the peppers although they will be hard to see with all the green around it.

     But what is fascinating are the vining plants. I have two plants that are beginning to trellis and they are looking for a place to trellis on. One of them is a mystery plant, meaning that I have no clue what kind of plant it is, but it is probably something I planted at one time that never germinated until I used the soil it was in to try to germinate another plant. 

See if you can guess what this plant is! The
Bible says that 'by their fruits you will know
them.' I won't know what kind of plant this is
until it bears some kind of fruit.

        But here is my favorite plant, well one of my favorites. It is called a Giant Granadilla which is a Passiflora plant. When it is ready, it will produce beautiful bluish purple flowers and then a fruit. This also is a vining plant and it all of the sudden wants to find a place to trellis to. 

Giant Granadilla Passiflora plant

       The thing that is so neat about this, is to watch the plants look for a place to find to trellis to. You can't tell me that this instinctive trait of certain plants just came by accident over billions of years. You can look at this plant and see the handiwork of God. This plant was wonderfully designed by an Intelligent Designer. 

  I think plants are fascinating to watch as they grow and as the whole culture around the plants come together to work together to make the plants happy and to ultimately serve us by producing food and beauty.