number one welcome back to my garden and today I got another update with the hydroponic sweet pepper plant this is a beautiful paprika plant and this plant is finally gotten to the stage where it's producing beautiful bulbs and look at those with those beautiful flowers forming and there's even one that opened up this morning actually when I was away I work when I came back and I'm looking at it right now look at how beautiful that flower looks and it's nice it also has some like deep looks like and deep and in almost like an indigo purple on the inside and this thing that's ready to be pollinated and to pollinate powerpoints they're actually self pollinators so it's super easy any type of what motion will actually cause power to move so as you see if I I'll simply come in here and just tap it with my finger several times and I can actually see the pollen falling I'm not sure if you can see if it's visible on the camera but now that thing is pollinated so there's going to be assumed that flower will fall off and the next pepper will begin to form right in the middle and if I show you around you'll begin to see just how many peppers this thing is producing for me it's unbelievable I will always thinking this point it's going to give me somewhere between 10 to 12 peppers but this thing is producing amazing for me like it actually split into the common wide shape that most people are familiar with you see right there it's basically it goes up and it splits into a line and a lot of people would basically clip the plant right there and make the side shoots grow but I didn't clip anything I just let a grow natural as is and I'm very happy that I didn't do anything because that actually sets the plant back a tiny bit you do get a bushier plant and probably more of a harvest because it's a bigger bushier plant blend look look at this so Korea self for a moment look at all those tiny flowers all the way around all over the place there and this thing is so nice it actually I was really impressed with the structure of this plan if you look let me zoom you in basically you could see that there's two stems right there that actually group that grafted together and they grew just like that over here this one stem and this one had you conceded there's tool and connect it together and I think that accounted for the massive amount of peppers that are forming right there as well as we're on this side a bunch of beautiful beautiful peppers forming when I move that way if you could actually see them and they begin to look you could actually see the different stages when they're really tiny on the left and then over to the right when it starts bulking up and getting nice and big and then when it looks nice and open it's beautiful actually so all this motion that I'm doing moving the plant and shaking it this will naturally coalesce pollen to move also and when you're when you're moving in here and moving your hands are around shaking the plant up that's a great way to pollinate also so by you just coming in here every day will connect a plant and touching it you're going to pollinate it and you don't have to worry about pepper so much as like tomatoes where you really want to give it a good shake or maybe use like a little electric toothbrush even which is how I have been pollinating most my tomatoes and this pepper plant is doing so well it was planted from seed on March 19 today's already what is it like May 4th I believe and then if I take you in a little closer you begin to see basically all the side shoots that are starting to form and get bigger and you can see little flowers on each one look at that beautiful tiny flower starting to form so not only am I going to have a bunch of beautiful flowers up top and a bunch of peppers up top I'm going to have a lot of side peppers also growing so this is going to be a nice beautiful bushy plant for me and producing amazed I can't even count how many flowers I see they're forming but I would say must be upwards of like 30 at the moment and this plant is still going to keep producing you see the base right here has thickened up quite a bit and basically it's about half an inch I think and as always it gets nice beautiful purple colors going all throughout and basically all the entire stem has a nice deep purple with green and the leaves have that actually got grown in size look it's almost the size of my hand some of these leaves and basically these are the older leaves on the bottom and up top they get a little smaller because these are younger and soon all these weeds are going to be nice and big and I might even have to come in and possibly clip some of these leaves off to get some of the light to be able to penetrate down in between those sides right there and get those sides to grow so what I'm going to do is once these peppers grow I'm going to harvest them and then basically start clipping and produce more of the side growth and hopefully get even more peppers and as I mentioned earlier I'm actually going to take you on and show you being that this is a sweet paprika pepper you could actually take the powder take the pepper and crush it up and I'll show you step by step how we're going to do that I'll take you along that's going to be a fun process I think and we'll create our own paprika powder that we could use in the house and that's just another item that I don't have to buy in a store I think and I think that's pretty neat so not only you're not going to have some peppers to eat I'm going to have a ton of peppers that I'm going to be able to make powder with and the good thing about that is being that I'm going to be crushing those peppers I'm making powder out of it I'm going to have a ton of seeds that I'm going to have available and if anybody's interested when we know I'll post a video about giving free sweet pepper seeds paprika seeds I would love to share with you guys and so let me know if you're interested in that and we'll make that available and basically this is what I got going for the pepper plant at the moment if you want to take a look at how big this is look at that bigger than my hand this is probably I would seem to be 12 inches long sorry the camera cut off a tiny bit this is I was saying this plant is basically about 12 inches long maybe even 14 inches long from end to end and if I show you what the root structure looks like keep in mind this being grown in a little glass mason jar and now you and that's like maybe like I think it's this is a quarter gallon and look at how nice the roots look beautiful beautiful light nice clean color and it goes all the way down to the bottom so this plant is doing very well in my opinion and for such a small space the production up is on this plant is unbelievable I think in my opinion so if anybody's interested in growing some paprika peppers this is a failure zone I'll try to put the description down below of where I got these seeds and if you have any questions as always leave them down below I'll do my best and everything and as always don't forget to hit the thumbs up and subscribe and maybe share what a friend thanks for watching just before we go look at all these amazing amazing little flowers for me I can't wait to be eating this pepper