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First Pepper Harvest (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world to c/gardening@lemmy.world
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2 California Wonder Bell Peppers

10 Giuseppe Mild Green Chiles

7 Big Jim Green Chiles

There's many more Bell peppers still on the plants, but I'm hoping they start turning red before the weather forces me to pick them.

Edit: Apparently the tape measure is weird? I dunno, it looks like a normal tape measure to me? I think it might seem weird because it's upside down? Here's the same pic rotated:

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[-] felbane@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I guess the tape measure is fine, but this would have been better with a banana pepper for scale (͡•_ ͡• )

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I know, right! How big is that tape measure?

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some tape measures can grow to be 30+ bananas long, but this one seems only partially extended. It's just a guess, but based on that I would say the peppers are somewhere between three and six bananas long, which is very impressive for OP. That's approaching one golden retriever.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OP, I think they’re taking the piss for being American and having an imperial tape instead of metric.

I’ve got the best f both worlds on mine. Metric on one side and imperial on the other. Canadian and having US materials is interesting sometimes.

[-] felbane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's simpler than that, just a reference to a meme and a pun on banana/banana pepper.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/banana-for-scale

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Those are some long centimeters

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Those look amazing 🤩

None of our peppers flowered this year 😥
Otherwise they looked perfectly happy and healthy. No clue what went wrong…

[-] BlessedDog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ooh that's amazing, they look delicious 🤗

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Super cool. Congrats!

[-] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, those look lovely!

[-] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Something is wrong with your measuring tape :-)

Awesome harvest. Congrats.

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