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I have a numex twilight pepper plant. I'd like to save seed from it, but at what point do I do that? Do I need to wait till the peppers are red? And if so, how long after they turn red?
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Hill of Beans updated April 18th -
I leave my peppers on the plant till they are ripe and then string what I don't need to use fresh into ristras. I hang these from the curtain track in my kitchen and they dry out nicely. I use the dried chillies for cooking but an added bonus is that the seeds ripen and dry inside them. Once nice and dry you can just cut off the tip and shake the seeds out. -
Numex go yellow, purple and red, I think. Red is ripe, so yes, wait till they're red. Dry them out and scrape out the seedsAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Really wanted to make ristra this year but I have no chillis growing, all germinated too late then I fried them in my blowaway all because the 'git' played up and I could get to the lottie for a couple of days when the temperature was 30 odd degrees
Nevermind always next year!!!
Good luck Gan Heather
Little ol' me
Has just bagged a Lottie!
Oh and the chickens are taking over my garden!
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Thanks, I'll take some red ones off and leave them to dry out!Hill of Beans updated April 18thComment
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Reply to Heated mat for Tom's and chilliesI use a mix of six scoops of compost three scoops of sand/grit and two scoops of perlite,the quantity is unimportant as long as the ratio is the same, if for seeds I use this mix, if I am potting on I add some blood, fish and bone, along with a small quantity of chicken manure pellets
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