Chillies 2023

My Shineybrids and a scotch bonnet have germinated. The scotch bonnet seeds came from peppers bought at the grocery. Nice free bonus!

 

Over the weekend I sowed my de Cayenne and Basque chilli peppers in the heated propagator. I also sowed some Corno di Toro and California Wonder sweet peppers.

 

My peppers are beginning to sprout in bags in the airing cupboard. I'm growing:

Hot:
Peter (rude gifts for my sisters)

Midly spicy:
Long Yellow Sweet
(Awaiting seeds of) Pasilla Baijo

Sweet:
Victoria
Bogdan
Frosty
Lada
Doe Hill
Apache dehybridised
Mohawk dehybridised

Everything is chosen for being cold-tolerant, compact, early or all three.

PS. I have surplus hot and sweet pepper seeds. I'll never use them all myself as I grow so few. PM me to get sorted. K

 

Found a few ring of fire seeds too. Sown today kitchen paper method and into the cupboard with the combi in it to keep them warm. Decided not to sow biquinho and orange pepperonci this year

 

So far Scotch Bonnet, Shineybrids, Chocolate reaper, Devil's breathe, 7 pot yellow, Yellow moruga have germinated. That leaves the ring of fire and a couple of others to sprout.

I'm rather pleased with that.

 

My Cayenne peppers have germinated after one week. Quite pleased with that.

The California Wonder sweet peppers have also germinated.

 

The Basque peppers have germinated as well as the Corno di Toro sweet peppers.

 

I have twelve seeds germinated and another twelve or so still in the airing cupboard. Violet Sparkle and Pasilla Bajio only arrived from Germany yesterday, so they've only just gone in.

 

@JWK I would do the same, but I don't have any sun. We had two days of sun since Dec 21, and now we are back to weeks more of gloom. According to the guessers, that is.

Luckily I find the LED's really economical.

@eatenbyweasels my sprouts are still thinking about developing more than the cotyledons. Once they get going, I'll pot up the soil blocks. They have to prove themselves worthy before they get their own pot.

 

Whilst waiting on my peppers to germinate just had a delivery with my new led grow lights. Stupidly cheap and great quality so couldnt say no.

 

Please tell us more about the lights @Jocko !