366 Days of 2012, Day 253 - Red Hot

For Christmas I received as a gift a pop-top can full of compost and chili seeds.

I first photographed one of the flowers of my bhut jolokia plant back on 'Day 93' when it was doing very well. A few weeks later on 'Day118' I discovered a weevil had been dining on the leaves and the plant was not looking too well. It all went down hill from there with the colder weather of winter that poor little chili went from thrive to survive.

With the weather warming no it seems to be recovering and has even bore a couple small chili peppers. They are only as big as my thumbnail and have taken months to ripen. However they have a beautiful red colour so I decided ti was time for another photo.


Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 253 - Red Hot'. 1/200s f/32 ISO-100 100mm macro + off camera strobe