Siling Pangsigang - Update #1

This picture was taken last June 24, 2018.  

Here they look very nice and healthy.  But it was not always like this.

We bought them February 24, summer time.  March and April were really hot.  Just look at this picture taken last April 14, 2018.  

The leaves are withering.  They needed to be watered daily.  Luckily, they survived the summer.

There were a lot of rain the first two weeks of June and that had helped a lot in their recovery. 

But even though it was summer, they have continued to bear fruits.  We harvested some last April 28.

I also saw one that already fell on the ground.  I took it and will use its seeds.

June 02, 2018 I planted them in a seedling tray.

Hopefully, they would grow.

Until next time........

Siling Pangsingang (Finger Chili)

This chili has many names, but here in Cavite, it is commonly known as Siling Pangsigang.

Some of its others names are Siling Haba, Siling Tagalog, and Finger Chili.  But I will stick to Siling Pangsigang.

My wife and I went to our favorite Garden store last February 24, 2018, and my wife saw this plant.  It was just in a seedling bag but it already has some chili fruits.  She said that we should have some of it because Sinigang is our sons' favorite food, and she often buys that chili.  So if we have this plant, she would not need to buy it anymore.  She cooks Sinigang at least once a week because my son eats a lot every time we have Sinigang on our table.

This Chili is used in many Filipino dishes, another one that I can think of is called ‘Dynamite’.  The chili is stuffed with meat (pork I think).  Will ask Lanie to write the recipe and I will post it in the Recipe section if this site.

I remember that we had this plant a few years back, and I only planted it in a pot.  It did not turn out well, and it died, maybe because it was in a small container.  But now I am ready to try once more.

We bought 2 of this chili, and on that same day, I planted those two (or I think it was my uncle who planted it) in PachamGarden.  The picture above was taken last February 24.  I forgot to take pictures while they were still on the seedling bags.

This is how they look as of April 07, 2018.

Will make an update on this next time.

Project Tomato - Update #1

June 24, 2018.

It took longer than I have expected, but I was now able to transfer some of the tomato seedlings to small individual pots.  Some, because I only got to transfer the seedlings from the pot (excess seeds that I was unable to plant on to the 72 hole tray), I have not transferred any from the seeding tray yet (hopefully next week).

I should have done this last June 16, but there was a storm the first two weeks of June, it was raining most of the time and the sun almost never shines.  That had caused the slow growth of the seeds.  I think that today (at least for the ones in the seeding pot), they are big enough for me to transfer them.  And that is exactly what I did today.

I made some compost a few weeks back in the PachamGarden.  I will be using that on the pots where I will transfer the seedlings.

I made the pots where I have transferred the tomatoes from empty Gatorade bottles (I will make another post on how I made them).  But I just now realized that it will be hard to remove the plants once they are ready for transfer to the beds.  Because the base of these pots is larger than its opening or mouth.  Maybe I will have to make a vertical cut in it to get the plants out.  We will soon find that out.

This is the seeding pot.

I have removed the seedlings from the pot.  It's replanting time!

I separated each plant and being very careful not to damage the roots.  This is the problem with this kind of planting from seeds because the roots would be tangled, it is easy to damage the roots.  Unlike that of the seeding tray which you can get the plant and the soil easily without damaging the roots because they have grown in separate holes of the tray.

I then filled the mini pot with soil. And that's it.

The seedlings will stay here for around one month.  Or probably longer, because of the current weather (still cloudy most of the time).  I hope they would grow big and fast.

After they have grown big enough, I will transfer them to the beds in PachamGarden.  Hopefully, that would be on July 28 (Saturday).

Update #2 next time.