Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneA Cherry Hot pepper on 5 June, its first flower already spent and hanging from the calyx as a papery tan cone with one plump bud beside it, and fine strands of cobweb caught across two of the leaves in hard sun.Week of 8 JuneA Cherry Hot pepper on 12 June, one round green fruit standing straight up at the stem fork to face the camera, a flat star of sepals spread beneath it and the dried style still stuck at its apex inside a pale ring, its leaves back-lit yellow-green.Week of 8 JuneA Cherry Hot on 12 June with no color in it anywhere: two round green fruits sitting erect at a single fork, a dried pale style still poking from the top of each and two blunt buds beside them, in hard low sun laying black shadows behind.Week of 15 JuneA Cherry Hot pepper on 19 June with its first fruit set, a glossy green globe shouldered and irregularly lobed with a shallow dimple in its face, a second ovary sitting just above it inside a flared calyx, bright sun flaring off every leaf.Week of 22 JuneA Cherry Hot on 25 June carrying exactly one fruit, a deep glossy green berry standing stiffly upright at the crown and flattened a little top and bottom, with eight leaves laid out almost flat in a rosette around it and no flower open.Week of 22 JuneA Cherry Hot pepper on 25 June, only seven or eight leaves on it and already one fruit at the crown, a round green berry with a flattened top and a faint dimple sitting upright under its flared calyx, a single bud beside it in hazy sun.Week of 29 JuneA Cherry Hot pepper on 29 June, one squat fruit at the crown with three or four soft vertical lobes and a dimple at the top, a second ovary swelling beside it, and the sun through the leaves turning their edges translucent yellow-green.Week of 6 JulyA Cherry Hot pepper on 7 July with one fruit only, set in the first fork of the stem and standing upright rather than hanging, the calyx clasped under it and the dried style still on top, its few leaves notched and beaded with rain.Week of 31 AugustA Cherry Hot pepper on 3 September, round and glossy scarlet and sitting upright on its stalk instead of hanging, a tiny dark point left at the crown and rain still standing on it, broad leaves arching over.
