Chillies 2019

It really depends on the temperature in your kitchen. Our kitchen (and other windowsills we keep our chilli seedlings on) is quite warm. You don't need much in the way of heating whilst they're at this stage. During the day it's quite warm in our kitchen and at night it drops to 18/19C but on the windowsill it is bound to be somewhat cooler. Most chillies don't mind this temperature whilst they're growing. Heat for germinating is good but I suspect your may be getting leggy from too much heat. We move our chillies back under heat when they're flowering and fruiting just to speed them up.

Most young seedlings look a bit like yours.

This is one of our trays of seedlings and they won't be transplanted until they have another couple of leaves.





If you look at the same tray two weeks ago (below) they're not much different from yours.

 

Sown my meagre amount today - Jalapeno, Joe's Long and Hot Paprika. As memory serves the paprika ones didn't germinate last year so fingers crossed...

 

Absolutely nothing! Just watered them, lightly, every so often (when the surface felt dryish).

Oh! I forgot. I talk nicely to them.

 

I usually give chillies 3 weeks tops if they're in a heated unit

 

How hot have you set it? Assuming there's a control of course, not all do

 

Are you talking about exotic chillies? If so, then they take longer to germinate than less exotic ones. Six weeks seems too long, though.

I don't start chillies off in a propagator. I just put them in a seed sprouter and leave them on the kitchen worktop. Germination time is usually 4 - 7 days for the 'ordinary' ones and 10 - 14 days for the Naga types.