Chillies have germinated

Well just about all of the chillies and peppers have germinated, still waiting on a couple to spring into life, the Birds Eye, Goats Ear, Habanaro, and Praire Fire hot chillies are still showing no sign of life as yet. The only sweet pepper that hasn't germinated so far has been the Ingrid.

They have been re-potted into small 6cm plastic pots by just putting a little compost in the bottom of the pot, dropping the coir plug in and packing around the coir plug with some more compost. I'm trying out Indoor Plant Compost this year while they are in the small pots.

The ones that have started have been moved to the light box so they don't start getting leggy.

The chillies and peppers are all being fed and watered via the capillary matting system using Chilli Focus at 5ml per litre. So this year they should all get off to a great start.

 

Hot Chillies that have germinated so far are :

 

Anaheim
Apache F1
Cayenne
Demon Red
Gusto Purple F1
Jalapeno
Krakatoa F1
Long Slim
Pimiento de Padron
Scotch Bonnet
Superchili
Masquerade

 

Sweet Peppers that have germinated so far are :

 

Barancio (s)
Big Banana F1 (s)
California Wonder (s)
Gypsy F1 (s)
Patio Red (s)
Peperone Corno di toro rosso (s)
Redskin F1 (s)
Worldbeater (s)

Yummy (s)

It's chilli time

This year, due to the bad summer we all had, I have started my chillies and peppers off early.

I've sown 4 seeds of each of the peppers into coir pellets and popped them into the heated propagator.

 

Even though this sounds like a lot of plants, I'm only growing on one of each plant to see which does best and also which ones I like to eat and store for powders etc..

Chilli List for 2013

Hot Chillies

1. Anaheim 900-3,000 Scovilles.
2. Apache F1 (dwarf chilli outdoor) Scoville Heat Rating : 75000-80000
3. Birds Eye (Very late maturing. 100-175,000+ Scoville)
4. Cayenne (Scoville Heat Rating : 30000-50000) *** Grew well 2012 ***
5. de Cayenne x 2 packs
6. Demon Red
7. Goats Ear Chilli (Seed swap seeds) (Habanero???)
8. Gusto
9. Gusto Purple F1
10. Habanaro
11. Jalapeno x 3 packs
12. Krakatoa F1
13. Long Slim
14. Pimiento de Padron (The plants can grow to 2m high so plant in the ground (1,000 to 12,000+ Scoville)
15. Praire Fire *** Grew well 2012 ***
16. Scotch Bonnet (late maturing. 100,000 - 300,000 Scoville)
17. Superchili (30-40,000+ Scovilles)
18. Masquerade (seeds saved from GC chilli) (Hot. Very early and ornamental. Long fruit start purple then turn yellow, orange and finally red.)

Sweet Peppers

1. Barancio (s)
2. Big Banana F1 (s)
3. California Wonder (s) x 2 packs
4. Gypsy F1 (s)
5. Ingrid (s)
6. Patio Red (s) *** Grew well 2012 ***
7. Peperone Corno di toro rosso (s)
8. Redskin F1 (s)
9. Worldbeater (s)
10. Yummy (s)

Hopefully they will all germinate, and this year get a massive crop of peppers. The good lady wife has let me have the total space in the greenhouse for this project.