Pepper Cycle

Sometimes I like to let weeds grow together with my peppers to help me figure out why my peppers are not healthy. Over the past few weeks, many of the peppers have started to die. Even a little weed that appeared a couple of months ago stopped growing and eventually died. About two weeks ago, however, I noticed two blades of grass growing about 8 inches apart in the pepper container. (Which is interesting, because the soil hasn't been exposed to the outside for almost a year). The blades of grass are growing very fast and are even sending out new blades. Meanwhile, the surviving pepper plants are also growing faster than usual, and three of them have started to bloom (which is also interesting, as the plants can all apparently calculate 8 months to the day since they were born). I am starting to think that the growth spurt is due to the extra soil that is available since the other plants died, or the increase in sunlight as summer is approaching.
Some of the tomato plants have also started to develop new stems, but their growth is slow possibly because of the limited amount of soil that is available.
The pumpkins and basil plants are also growing nicely. The pumpkins got very large and blossomed about 2 weeks after they sprouted, after which a few of the plants quickly died. The basil plants are not growing as quickly, but they seem healthier.
The apple plant has developed many new leaves and also looks pretty healthy.
About three weeks ago I put some olive pits, date pits, and apple seeds in soil and began to water them constantly. The olive pits and date pits quickly became overtaken with a bit of white-colored fungus, and have since not sprouted. The apple seeds I also assumed were dead, since they have not sprouted in so long. However, I noticed yesterday that one of the seeds germinated. This has given me some hope that the other seeds will also sprout, despite the long delay.