Chillies - growing and overwintering 2024

[ameno]

Put my pepper seeds to sprout last night. 11 different varieties, although I can't remember the names of half of them off the top of my head.

[Mark Rand]

Sowed another pot of Chilhuacle Negro today, because I'm not all that happy with the look of the first ones that came up.

[Andraste]

Planted 5 Cayenne seeds into little pots on Sunday (put to chit 11/02).

Still only 1 of the 2 Eureka I planted had come up despite chitting. I'd put some more to chit on 11/02 and 2 of them had sprouted so they got put into pots today.

[Containergardener]

I'm trying the wet towel approach for chilli's (new seeds) and nothing happening there.

[Andraste]

Mine have been taking 15-16 days for the seeds to sprout (unheated on paper towels in a takeaway container) if that's any help as to when you might see life. x

[Containergardener]

OK. I have not tried this way before

[ameno]

All of my sprouted pepper seeds are now potted up, and a lot of them are up and with the seed leaves open.
I was a bit concerned at one point that three out of four of my saved seed varieties didn't seem to be sprouting, so since I had a lot of seeds saved, I put 20 or more of each on damp tissue to sprout. Now almost all of them have sprouted and the kitchen paper is like a small forest...

[Andraste]

Congrats ameno

I'm sure your nearest & dearest will be glad to take some surplus off your hands (at least that's what I keep telling myself about our extra Cayennes)

I haven't done so well with the home-saved Eureka. Of 16 seed, 5 sprouted but only 2 have been strong enough to push their heads up (although they do have their 1st 'proper' leaves now & are enough for our own needs). I wonder if perhaps they weren't quite 'ripe' enough? Saying that, it might be an idea to have a look in the sprouting tub as others may have just been a bit later & I haven't looked for ages

[Andraste]

Potted on our Cayenne & Eureka at the weekend as the roots were popping out of the bottom of the 9-10cm pots they were living in. All spares have now been duly distributed.

We have our first flower buds on the Cayennes too