Funny Chili Picture

I've posted before about the slightly weird chili plants that I have this year. They are still alive, and faring fairly well, even though it has gotten quite cold now. We don't heat the winter garden, so it's below 10° C in there now, and can drop down to about 3-4 ° C. That is approximately the lowest temperature that tomato plants will endure, and chilis don't like it much colder either, so there is not much growing or blooming going on there right now. With one exception - my physalis plant is flowering; it starts in autumn or early winter, and goes on flowering basically all through winter here.



With the chilis, there is slow but steady ripening of the fruits. Which means interesting colour changes in the interesting chilis:



They will eventually turn all red, but at the moment, I am totally enjoying this multi-coloured effect.

There's still some activity other than slow ripening, by the way - one stalwart fly is living in the winter garden and visits the flowers when it's sunny and thus a bit warmer. And something else is apparently also active, as evidenced by this:



Chili plant leaves, it seems, are tasty for someone!