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seeds Bhuts & Nagas and Germination...

Ajarn v, ive been growing the Dorset Naga now for 3 years and ive never been able to work this plant out.
I get roughly a 70% germination rate with most sprouting within the first month. I have know them take up to 3 months to appear and on one occasion 5 months plus, very temperamental, like my other half.
As you say dont ever give up on them, they are a surprising plant and always ready to kick you when you least expect it.
 
PAUL THE OTHER 1 said:
Ajarn v, ive been growing the Dorset Naga now for 3 years and ive never been able to work this plant out.
I get roughly a 70% germination rate with most sprouting within the first month. I have know them take up to 3 months to appear and on one occasion 5 months plus, very temperamental, like my other half.
As you say dont ever give up on them, they are a surprising plant and always ready to kick you when you least expect it.
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Five months plus!? Holy crap! Very interesting; I've still got 2 Nagas and 4 bhuts to go. Thanks.
 
I'm still planning on trying to go with cuttings on these bad Bhuts, if I can keep them alive that is. The largest one about a foot tall keeps keeling/sagging over. I bottom water every few days and the pot always seems slightly moist. When I give it more water it stands straight up.
 
you guys got a whole lot more patience than I do...they get 2-3 weeks @ 86F/30C in a very moist soil-less seed starting media then get tossed....
 
I usually only give mine 2 weeks but there is a trick for stubborn seeds where you take seeds that won't germinate and dry them out for a few weeks and then re-try the whole germinating process. Although I don't usually have the patience, it has apparently worked for several members on other chile forums.
 
POTAWIE said:
I usually only give mine 2 weeks but there is a trick for stubborn seeds where you take seeds that won't germinate and dry them out for a few weeks and then re-try the whole germinating process. Although I don't usually have the patience, it has apparently worked for several members on other chile forums.
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Actually; that happened to a couple of the coir pucks by accident (I had given up and ignored them) and when they were re-whetted, bingo, germination. But some of the others never quite dried out; so both work it seems. Cheers.
 
AlabamaJack said:
you guys got a whole lot more patience than I do...they get 2-3 weeks @ 86F/30C in a very moist soil-less seed starting media then get tossed....
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My winter is lows of 66-68f and highs of 82-88f, so patience is well rewarded with a 365 day growing season. Unfortunately the bloody summer's heat knocks the crap out of pod production, so we just maintain for a few months: Sort of like your winters. Cheers.
 
AjarnV said:
My winter is lows of 66-68f and highs of 82-88f, so patience is well rewarded with a 365 day growing season. Unfortunately the bloody summer's heat knocks the crap out of pod production, so we just maintain for a few months: Sort of like your winters. Cheers.
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cool man...wish my winters were as yours...we have about 10-20 freezing days a year with a few in the teens I would guess and lots of days not above 50F...and you got that right about the summer heat

continued luck with your grow...
 
AlabamaJack said:
cool man...wish my winters were as yours...we have about 10-20 freezing days a year with a few in the teens I would guess and lots of days not above 50F...and you got that right about the summer heat

continued luck with your grow...
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Thank you sir; so far so good. I guess no matter where one lives there's always those pesky pluses and minuses. Cheers.
 
Day 67; 2 days ago either a Bhut or a Naga sprouted. The reason for my uncertainty is; the coir pucks were outside in my mini-greenhouse. It filled with water and when I dumped the water out they lost their labeled positions and got mixed up. So now I have 5 mystery plants (out of 40) which is more interesting, IMO.
Anyway, time will tell. Cheers. ;)
 
good luck with that ajarn. =D

i've got a ton of pepper plants without labels myself. surprise surprise for me when i get something interesting when it fruits. lol.
 
I got my Bih's to germinate in 6 days. Soaked them in hot water with a few drops of bleach for 5 minutes, then another 5 in just hot water, then put them in sterilized potting soil (microwaved moist soil) in clean ice cube trays covered with plastic wrap and placed on a heater where the temps were at 85-95F for 24 hours a day / 7 days a week.

About 30% of my seed germinated the first week, then a bit more the following week then the last of them the next week. Just about every variety had a seed pop up after 6 days.

Beats my old method by a long shot.
 
this is what i've done so far with germination, i stuck them in soil, watered them with regular water and decided to do an experiment with my aerated compost tea (diluted) and boom, 1-2 days later almost all of my sowed seeds are popping up. =D

apparently they love the stuff. chinenses too! =D
 
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