Anyone Struggling With Peppers/Chillies?

Hi all,

Anyone else been struggling with growing peppers/chillies from seed? I've put them in propagators just like I did with my tomatoes, they were both at more or less the same temperatures, all my tomatoes have come up (15 plants), where I have 9 peppers and chillies, which aren't showing much signs of life.

 

One lot didn't show at all but other varieties all came up, got too many of them now:DOH:Will have to do a car boot soon.

 

Peppers can be jolly slow; depends a bit on the variety. I have one which carries masses of tiny Red Hot!! chillies, and its still minute ... but it will get under way eventually.

Making sure that they never fall below 10C, and have plenty of light in the early stages, is even more important than for Tomatoes I reckon.

Folk say to let them get almost completely dry before watering them. (I do try to do that, but I kinda "water everything" in the greenhouse.)

 

One of the peppers has stuck it's head through, so that's 8 left to germinate

 

me too, I sowed 10 and only 1 has appeared above soil!

 

No problems I treat em mean and they grow well.

 

I'm considering just sticking the plants that have appeared in the greenhouse, and keep the others in the propagator until they either appear, or go mouldy, like they seem to do in the peat pots :(

 

Chillies and peppers take a long time to mature it really is just down to patience. and dont water them too much.

 

Probably get shot for this, because its not the done thing.

I'd just like to say that seed from a fresh ripe peppers germinates much faster than that really dried up stuff the seed companies sell.

So if your not over fussy, and would like to make a comparison, just buy a chilli and grow the seeds along side your bought seed.

 

I agree Pete, seed companies do dry their seed too much.

well done for Pepping this up.

 

My father in law tends to save seed from his produce, and he is always well ahead of me in the growing stakes. Saying that, he starts his off in a conservatory which is always warm, I can only start mine in the kitchen window in a propagator.

 

i have a couple of chillies which , dont seem to be doing anything either. must be something in the water

 

I found this too, I planted seed bought from a seed company, ( very expensive as I recall) and a load of seed out of a tesco red pepper, NONE of the seed from the packet have germinated but all of the seed collected from a pepper have come up, much cheaper and I got to eat the pepper too
Mrs Chopper

 

I'm sure you know this, but do beware that sowing seed from a Supermarket Vegetable is an experiment. You may get fruit exactly the same as the original, or you may get a mix, or you may get nothing suitable for eating.

if I am going to spend several months nurturing a plant then I want to be confident that is going to deliver at the end! Saving seed from your own plants is different of course, provided that they are open pollinated varieties and not F1

Great Vegetable Seeds from The Real Seed Catalogue sell open pollinated varieties, and include details on how to save the seeds yourself. Personally I think its a lousy business model as, if they are 100% successful, you will only ever buy from them once! Bit like the company that sold Pumps that never broke down in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ...