 Hello, and welcome to Getting Clean on the Prairies. Today I'm just bringing you down to my grow room to give you some updates on the peppers that I have growing back here, and I was just looking at them and they do not look very good today. As you can see, this guy is looking very sad, and I've checked the water. It still has lots of nutrients, but I think it's, you know, maybe just reaching the end of its life. It's produced a lot of small peppers here, so I think what I'm going to do is just harvest them today and let them ripen and make some paprika pepper out of them. I have a beautiful one here, so you can see the color on it is so pretty. So this is the big guy of the two plants, and another one here is starting to turn color. So I think today I'm just going to harvest these peppers and let them dry. And then in another video, I'll show you how I make some paprika pepper for my kitchen. I'm going to update you on the other plants that are still growing here in my hydroponics. This is the tomato that I had done a few videos on, and my first tomato that ripened on here had some black, kind of like blossom androd on the bottom. So I refresh the water in there and just check the pH on it and just let her go, and it's still producing. We've eaten a couple little red tomatoes off of this last week, and there's a few more coming. So it's getting pretty heavy and droopy, but I kind of prop it up under the lights, and it's still giving me some tomatoes. So we'll keep her going as long as it keeps producing. And this is the other pepper plant that I started from seeds from some store-bought peppers. These were the mini, some mini bells. And as you can see, there's lots of tiny little peppers coming here. The plant still seems very healthy, and I'll keep topping up the nutrients as needed. It's drinking them a lot faster now. I'll probably remove all the existing blooms off of this just so that they can focus all its energy on these peppers and let them grow and ripen, hopefully right on the vine. So I'm very excited to be able to taste those. So let's do some pruning here today. This is such a pretty color. It's almost like a pinky, rosy color, and I'm going to just let these all dry out naturally and see what happens. So paprika pepper is not really something that I would grow again. I don't, they aren't really good for fresh eating. I had to try them on my salads, they were okay, but I probably won't continue to grow these. I have some seeds on here, and if anybody wants some, I could definitely send you some. But it was a fun plant to try growing indoors. If I have room in my outdoor garden, who's to say I probably will maybe try and grow some more. I do want to grow other peppers, such as chilies, and always have bell peppers in my outdoor garden, jalapenos, just no end to them. So there is the harvest from my two paprika pepper plants, it's pretty good. So I will work on drying them out, hopefully they all turn this color, a nice red color and dry out, and we'll see if we can get some paprika spice made out of them. So I'll be removing these plants and cleaning out these containers, sterilizing them, and see if there's something else I want to start growing. We are just about at the end of January, so still a couple months of cold weather here in Zone 3 where I live, so definitely time to keep growing more stuff indoors. I do, however, have my seedling starting probably in end of February, so I got to start making sure I save space and grow light space for that that's coming. So I just want to tell you that these are my favorite containers for doing kaki method in. These are Folgers coffee containers, they are red color normally, of course, but I spray painted them just to make them look prettier, but they keep the light out really good, of course, with the black lid, they're easy to cut a hole into for your net cup. They can grow a big plant such as this pepper in it easily, you got the nice handle, so it's just a great container for kaki. So if you happen to like Folgers coffee, this is a good one to a good way to reuse the container. I'm just going to cut down some of these top off of these a bit so you can see there's more peppers coming here and blooms, so I'm just going to cut them back. I just wanted to focus on these ones that are growing here now and let them grow to maturity and hopefully ripen. When I bought these from the store, they were red and yellow and orange peppers, so I'm anxious to see if these green ones grow and ripen to some other other colors, so you can see I have about eight little peppers on here now. Just want to give you a sneak peek of what's still growing now. This is kind of what I've called my phase two of indoor growing. These are the self-pollinating cucumbers that I'm going to try and see if I have better success than I did with the first round. As you can see, I've got two plants sprouting nicely here and got them set up in this tub with the nutrients in there and a new round of lettuces coming here as well. I believe I've got arugula, romaine, some bok choy and some butter crunch lettuce coming here. These are the two dwarf tomatoes that I had started second round of in my arrow garden here. I'm also using the light to get some celery and strawberries going. As you can see, I have some sprouting happening with the strawberries. The celery is very slow, but I can see that there is a little bit of germination. So that's what's going on in my indoor growing space today and I hope that you will hit the subscribe button and the notification bell so that you are notified when the next video is up on the channel and see what's going on here on the Prairies. Thanks for watching.