Well I've learnt a lot, I can now turn most seeds into nice green plants instead of yellowed coloured fail.
Shame about the huge aphid invasion that went through all my potted plants making them look like crap though now. But they were looking great beforehand, so not my fault.
Actually strange, as I have about 15 or so plants in the ground, and aphids never bothered them, only the ones in the pots. Anyone found similar? Either they love potted plants, the potting ssoil, or just prefer hot chinense chilli plants more than the other types of chilli plants.
Also I moved all of the plants and most of the smaller seedlings into an area that gives them more sun light. They were getting a few hours of direct sunlight, a couple more shaded patches of sunlight, and then some serious low light level shade sfter 12PM. Not only were they slow in growing, but super slow in recovery from the aphids and other lost/distorted leaves.
They are now getting more light throughout the day, including the afternoon (but through a semi opaque lazerlight poly sheeting verandah. IE get no direct sun on them, but more all round light throughout the whole day.)
Guess what happened today? One of the seedlings carked it due to to much sunlight. Strange that 2 hr of direct sunlight fine for it, but 4 hours of softened diffused sunlight killed it.
But no, it wasn't the annuums or battacums or the peruvian chinenses that curled over and died.
It was the last Trinidad scorpion BT I had.
Weak arse plant I say, it's the 6th I've lost from too much sun, or other mysterious causes, when every other plant just toughens up and deals with it, or even loves it.
The fact the aphids attacked the potted plants over the plants in the ground is probably due to some form of stress that the plants in the pots were under that the ones in the ground were not (ie lacking in something/too much of something too dry/wet etc) insects will usually only attack a weakened plant to start with.