Chilis are a Disaster Every Year :-(

Thats the way I do it Joh . In my opinion it is too late to grow Chillis from seed now . I would buy a couple of seedlings from the garden centre at this time of year.

 

Thank you. I have two seedlings that have not died so far, and am pinning my hopes on them.

I hope that next year's crop will be better.

Thanks again.

 

Sowed T&M's Joe's Long and Padron, all 10 seeds from each packet, only 3 and 2 germinated, but I got >90% germination from my saved Draky seeds. I used decent seed compost and placed them in 50W thermostatically controlled propagators. I expect the seeds I'll save from the 2 new varieties will have decent germination rates next year.

At least I only paid 33p/packet incl P&P for those seeds.

 

I sowed seed from a frozen chilli this year and got a good germination rate. It was ripe before freezing and had been frozen for about 5 years.

 

My ones grown from @shiney special Chilli seed are doing great.Used a heated propogater and just ordinary MPC, got 100% germination. Was going to transfer them to unheated greenhouse but not going to yet as hellish frosts forecast....oh my lovely Camellia and Rhododendron flowers are in for a hard time

 

@silu , I keep mine in the house until mid-May. Not sure what level of cold they can take, although I presume they can have some very cold nights in Mexico early in the year.

 

I don't know either @HarryS. They are in a spare room with silver foil block behind, to try and increase light, along with some of my Tomatoes. I think you are right mid May sounds about right. I've already managed to get some Tomatoes chilled (misshappen but will recover) by having them too close to the window when it was pretty cold a few nights back. My seedlings have not been getting very much TLC recently due to my plant sale!

 

I have had 2 germinate out of 10. They only cameron through yesterday, not sure if anymore will. It been over 2 weeks since sown. They are heat wave.

Rusty

 

I won't give up yet. I only want 2 anyway, but my wife's cousin and a couple of people at work are interested in growing there own, so I said I would sow some and any left they can have. I usually just buy the plants. I have done the same with toms as well, which have germinated really well.

Rusty