It's all about chilli here at the moment thanks to @5olly and his idea for a chilli trial.
Being completely impatient and wanting to get on with growing stuff I decided to plant all 5 varieties on New Years Day.
Location location location
I have put a heated propagator under a south facing skylight in the roof of the house. Even though the sun is only 17.5 degrees elevation the roof of the house can see it when it decides to show.
I have never used a heated propagator before and I am so far really chuffed with the results. It has a clear lid, I took it off for the pic.
What we have on the right are the 3 seeds of each variety for the trial.
For these seeds I have used Jiffy 7 peat pellets which fit quite nicely in the cheap black seed plug trays from any DIY shop.
Left to Right (on the right)
Chiltepin 1 germinated
Numex Centennial 1 germinated
Hungarian Yellow Wax 3 germinated
Guindilla none germinated (I think) hard to tell looks like something poking up.
Piquillo none germinated
The blurb for the Chiltepin said they germinate after passing through a bird, I considered getting a budgie but thought that wouldn't be a good idea as we just got a rescue kitten. The bird probably wouldn't have lasted long enough to shit the seeds out. So after a little head scratching the seeds reminded me a little of some bonsai seeds I once bought (waste of money). So I decided that they required some gentle scarifying, this may be what the avine (is this a word?) gut does to them. I put the precious 3 seeds between 2 nail files and gently rubbed them together then popped them in the plugs about 5mm deep.
The rest on the left are the first batch of the chillies I am growing this year
Some in jiffy 7s and some in Innes No1 seed compost.
Lemon Drop
Locoto
Padron - a spanish tapas pepper - all these have germinated!
Big Jim
Black Hungarian - all these have germinated!
Guindilla
Malawi
Naga
I bloody love chillies
Now I had better start thinking about the other stuff to grow this year.
Being completely impatient and wanting to get on with growing stuff I decided to plant all 5 varieties on New Years Day.
Location location location
I have put a heated propagator under a south facing skylight in the roof of the house. Even though the sun is only 17.5 degrees elevation the roof of the house can see it when it decides to show.
I have never used a heated propagator before and I am so far really chuffed with the results. It has a clear lid, I took it off for the pic.
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| Germination for the Nation |
What we have on the right are the 3 seeds of each variety for the trial.
For these seeds I have used Jiffy 7 peat pellets which fit quite nicely in the cheap black seed plug trays from any DIY shop.
Left to Right (on the right)
Chiltepin 1 germinated
Numex Centennial 1 germinated
Hungarian Yellow Wax 3 germinated
Guindilla none germinated (I think) hard to tell looks like something poking up.
Piquillo none germinated
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| Chiltepin |
The blurb for the Chiltepin said they germinate after passing through a bird, I considered getting a budgie but thought that wouldn't be a good idea as we just got a rescue kitten. The bird probably wouldn't have lasted long enough to shit the seeds out. So after a little head scratching the seeds reminded me a little of some bonsai seeds I once bought (waste of money). So I decided that they required some gentle scarifying, this may be what the avine (is this a word?) gut does to them. I put the precious 3 seeds between 2 nail files and gently rubbed them together then popped them in the plugs about 5mm deep.
The rest on the left are the first batch of the chillies I am growing this year
Some in jiffy 7s and some in Innes No1 seed compost.
Lemon Drop
Locoto
Padron - a spanish tapas pepper - all these have germinated!
Big Jim
Black Hungarian - all these have germinated!
Guindilla
Malawi
Naga
I bloody love chillies
Now I had better start thinking about the other stuff to grow this year.
Brilliant
ReplyDelete"Big Jim" - Hahahahahaaa!
ReplyDeleteHeated propagators? Seed pellets? NAIL FILES? This is all getting far too professional. I'm going to run away and hide underneath my heap of dirty broken seed trays.
I am ridiculously jealous! I have seeds still :-/
ReplyDelete@misternw