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solid7

solid7

So...  I have just reached a new record for longest time to germinate of any seed that I have every planted in an indoor/controlled seed start.
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The seed was Abhaz Bieber, and it says that it's from 2014.  I planted it out sometime in late April or early June.  It sprouted last week.
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I have a "dead seed tray" where I put all of my slowbies or non-germs.  They get re-labeled, recycled, or whatever.  This was in that section.  But it came up.  And it looks amazingly healthy, right out of the gate.
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I've seen longer germinations with outdoor seed starts.  But that is often due to long periods of drought.
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Anybody else got a longer germination time? 
 
Probably not any kind of record but I had some Bird Beak peppers (Chile Pico de Pajaro[SIZE=10pt])[/SIZE] go 33 to 45 days, under the controlled environment of my propagator. Funny thing is I thought these seeds were bad. Someone I know who makes the best Carne Asada Tacos I have ever had brings these back from Mexico to make his special taco sauce. I talked him out of some of the dried peppers and I could not figure out why they were not germinating. I thought maybe the peppers were oven or dehydrator dried and that it killed the seeds.
 
I kept tossing them out after about three weeks. I mean they’re annuums, right?  So I figured if they're not popping in 5 to 7 days like a normal Chile De Arbol Pepper they must be no good. Glad I gave them more time this year. These peppers taste absolutely amazing in my friends Taco Sauce. They even taste good dried. I can’t wait to grow them out. I am also curious to see what they look and taste like un-dried as they have a very unique flavor unlike any Bird Beak or Chile De Arbol Pepper I have ever had.
 
 
SL3 said:
Probably not any kind of record but I had some Bird Beak peppers (Chile Pico de Pajaro[SIZE=10pt])[/SIZE] go 33 to 45 days, under the controlled environment of my propagator. Funny thing is I thought these seeds were bad. Someone I know who makes the best Carne Asada Tacos I have ever had brings these back from Mexico to make his special taco sauce. I talked him out of some of the dried peppers and I could not figure out why they were not germinating. I thought maybe the peppers were oven or dehydrator dried and that it killed the seeds.
 
I kept tossing them out after about three weeks. I mean they’re annuums, right?  So I figured if they're not popping in 5 to 7 days like a normal Chile De Arbol Pepper they must be no good. Glad I gave them more time this year. These peppers taste absolutely amazing in my friends Taco Sauce. They even taste good dried. I can’t wait to grow them out. I am also curious to see what they look and taste like un-dried as they have a very unique flavor unlike any Bird Beak or Chile De Arbol Pepper I have ever had.
 
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Wow, that's a serious germination time.

Those peppers sound amazing.  I have to look those up.  Maybe we could do a swap later on.
 
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There was a post some time back and I cant remember who, but they planted a seed that took over a year to finally germ and sprout.Maybe he will see this and repost the pick.
 
in my climate, most pepper variety usually take 1 to 2 weeks to germinate including capsicum chinese e.g. reaper.
this pepper variety is my only exception.  it took 1 month to germinate.
 
 
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lek said:
in my climate, most pepper variety usually take 1 to 2 weeks to germinate including capsicum chinese e.g. reaper.
this pepper variety is my only exception.  it took 1 month to germinate.
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I've heard that those wild varieties take forever.  Never grown any of them, though. How do they taste?
 
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I've heard that those wild varieties take forever.  Never grown any of them, though. How do they taste?
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I've grown some tepin chilli last year and managed to over-winter one. I remember they were not very hot but none of my peppers had much heat last year mainly due to bad summer. Lots of rain and pests. Only lemon-drops had some flavour and heat for some reason while Trinidad Scorpions had no heat at all. Chiltepins were very nice looking, but as I said, not much anything else. That was last year.
 
This year, the old plant is full with tiny green pods and lots and losts of flower and this summer has been great here. We have unimaginable spell of sunshine and heat and my chillies are protected from rain with a gazebo and I'm hopefull they will properly develop both flavour and heat. I have two lemon-drop plants from last year seed and they are very prolific and good looking. It is still early days for me, only harvested couple of green serranos and my first pod just started to turn colour:
 
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Ive had ones that take three months, unfortunately I put them in the recycle soil thinking their dead and end up with  sprouts i dont know what they are.
 
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I looked at the information page for lek's pepper. I like that it's native to the galapagos. They say it's a persnickety plant, requiring special attention. The hairs probably give it some natural resistance to crawling insects. It says they help it collect moisture from fog. Do you mist it?
 
I have dumped root riot cubes that I thought were dudes and had stuff come up a month later with no water.  Now I set em all aside in a few trays and some always come up.  Had no luck this year with doni sali seeds I think most of the leftover cubes were them.  
 
Update...  I had apparently planted 2 seeds at once, because another one just came up.  A new record in rapid fire succession.  LOL
 
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