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Capsaicinoid

Capsaicinoid

Hey guys, I have a few rare chili seeds and I need some advice on what works best for germinating without any heat lamps etc. I live in Perth Australia so our weather is starting to warm up with Spring here. What works best for you? 
Cheers!
 
NOT USING CAPS LOCK WORKS FOR THREAD TITLES.

Are you after medium advice or temperature advice?

Make a temp controlled environment for best results, think a tub full of water with a tupperware container full of jiffy pellets.
Insert aquarium heater into water and a bubbler to stir up the water as too keep it agitated.


Speaking of agitated if you use all caps again for a title I shall be forced to make you eat out Abbots ass.

:cheers:
 
You can sprout seeds ontop of your hot water cylinder/in your hot water cupboard if you have one. I have done it many times.
I have had good luck with jiffy pellets. I soak the seeds in a shot glass of water overnight before planting.
Just keep an eye on them and move any that have sprouted out onto the windowsill or something to get some light when you see signs of life.
good luck
 
Try the baggy method.

1. Ziplock bag
2. Paper towel ( thick stuff )
3. Water
4. Seeds
5. Heat source (computer, hot water system, fridge )

Put towel in bag, moisten.
Place seeds on towel, moisten a touch.
Place bag on heat source.


After tap root shows transplant to seed raising mix in small pot.
After hook is seen apply light.
 
Keep in mind that the shallower (is that even a word?) that you plant them the more chance you have of the seedling emerging with the seed cap or helmet stil on. Planting a little deeper (say min 6mm) has the advantage of removing the cap before the seedling pops it's head up.
 
The way i raise them as youngsters is to use cheap ass plastic drinking cups after i have started them in jiffy pellets.
 
You get a stack of say 10 cups and heat up a thin screwdriver until it's just red (use a blowtorch, stove top, whatever). Then get your stack of cups and turn them upside down and push the screwdriver through the bottom of the stack of cups, i usually do this about 5 times so there are holes all the way through the stack, in the shape of a cross with a hole in the middle. You can do them seperately but it takes longer.
 
After the seed shows a hook it is moved into a cup with your choice of potting mix and bottom watered. Some people choose to remove the netting from the jiffy pellets to allow the roots to grow easier.  You just fill up a larger cup with about 50mm of water and place the plastic cup in there so it can soak up the water. Then they are put under CFL until they are ready to be potted up at a later date.
 
Bottom watering has the benefit of coercing the roots to travel downwards in search of water instead of staying shallow up the top of the cup, making the root mass at plant out a lot stronger and ready to take on the world.
 
Buzz said:
Step 1. Acquire seeds.
Step 2. Plant seeds between 1/8" and 1/4" deep in soil.
Step 3. Dampen soil with water
Step 4. Walk away. 
 
Keep the soil damp, but not wet.
 
It's really not all that labor intensive.
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Yeah, what he said ;)
A lot I guess depends on your weather environment. If still too cold outside then any one of the ideas already posted will work indoors. Seeds can sprout in the dark if the only warm place is in a closet. Just don't leave them there too long once they do.
 
Nova said:
Keep in mind that the shallower (is that even a word?) that you plant them the more chance you have of the seedling emerging with the seed cap or helmet stil on. Planting a little deeper (say min 6mm) has the advantage of removing the cap before the seedling pops it's head up.
 
The way i raise them as youngsters is to use cheap ass plastic drinking cups after i have started them in jiffy pellets.
 
You get a stack of say 10 cups and heat up a thin screwdriver until it's just red (use a blowtorch, stove top, whatever). Then get your stack of cups and turn them upside down and push the screwdriver through the bottom of the stack of cups, i usually do this about 5 times so there are holes all the way through the stack, in the shape of a cross with a hole in the middle. You can do them seperately but it takes longer.
 
After the seed shows a hook it is moved into a cup with your choice of potting mix and bottom watered. Some people choose to remove the netting from the jiffy pellets to allow the roots to grow easier.  You just fill up a larger cup with about 50mm of water and place the plastic cup in there so it can soak up the water. Then they are put under CFL until they are ready to be potted up at a later date.
 
Bottom watering has the benefit of coercing the roots to travel downwards in search of water instead of staying shallow up the top of the cup, making the root mass at plant out a lot stronger and ready to take on the world.
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I got a few with the cap still on anything I can do about it?
 
Just leave it on there. Surgery usually results in the patient bleeding out.

You CAN soften the caps with a drop of water when you think to do it but apart from that it will most probably rid itself of it.
Or it will die a horrible death through lack of photosynthesis.
 
If the cap isn't coming off on its own, water the plant/cap and then put something over top of it to lock in humidity for a day.  Very, very gently try to pry off the cap.
 
You have a better than even chance of saving the seedling.
 
That, or your ginormous hands will have once again crushed the life out of a poor, gentle soul that had done nothing but love you, causing you to fall to your knees while screaming your rage into the withering winds of an uncaring world.  From that point there's nothing left to do except tear off your shirt, climb to your roof and start yelling obscenities at your neighbours until they shoot you down and your wife cradles your head in her lap as you take your final breaths, her mournful sobs carrying you aloft to the fields of Elysium where you will be reunited with your pepper plant, whole and happy upon that plane of existence.
 
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...Don't I have work to do?  You'd think I should have some work to do....
 
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