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SadisticPeppers · Jun 4, 2025

So.... I decided to call a mulligan on my most recent seed trays after the vast majority of the seedlings succumbed to sunburn.

That being said, I had enough remaining Chocolate Reaper seeds that I'll be starting two new trays. I've already got the seeds soaking, and tomorrow morning, I'll be planting them in starter soil and I'll be putting the trays outside from the get-go. That way, however many seedlings that do manage to sprout, will already get acclimated to the heat

SadisticPeppers · Jun 5, 2025

Here's the seed trays outside on my south-facing balcony. I also put tape to prevent the lids from flying off, in the event that it got a little windy.

Downriver · Jun 5, 2025

Careful. A south-facing balcony in FL sounds pretty hot to me. You don't want to steam your seeds, lol.

SadisticPeppers · Jun 5, 2025

I made sure the trays were in an area that was shaded lol

In fact, unless the wind gets pretty bad, the area of the balcony they're in doesn't even get wet when it rains

SadisticPeppers · Jun 14, 2025

Whew! I was starting to worry, but 9 days in, I finally had a seedling sprout overnight in one of my outdoor trays. Here's to hoping it'll be the first of many!

SadisticPeppers · Jun 15, 2025

Make that 9 seedlings now as of this morning...

SadisticPeppers · Jun 18, 2025

25 seedlings now. I don't think I've seen starter leaves that big on some of the older seedlings

thegreenman · Jun 18, 2025

You're doing better than me, I cooked mine when my garage temps went close to 90. My heating pad was left on unfortunately.

SadisticPeppers · Jun 18, 2025

I think the first couple of rounds I did in March & April, that was my issue as well, since I had the trays outside with heating pads and under plastic domes.

SadisticPeppers · Jun 19, 2025

Make it 30 seedlings. Now I feel like I can breathe easier because I wanted to have a nice buffer in case some of the ones I'll eventually transplant in a few weeks don't make it from transplant shock.

SadisticPeppers · Jun 21, 2025

32 seedlings now, and the first few that popped up have the first inklings of true leaves on them.

As an aside, is it normal for the cotyledons to be so large? A number of the seedlings are over an inch across end-to-end, and the individual cotyledons almost a centimeter wide. I remember when I previously grew peppers back in 2012-2015, I don't recall the initial cotyledons being so large.

SadisticPeppers · Jun 22, 2025

Here's some of the larger seedlings

SadisticPeppers · Jul 8, 2025

Many of the older seedlings I have are now ~3 weeks old, and the tray's have been outside since 6/5. The seedlings have been tolerating the Florida heat, wind and occasional bit of rain quite well. I'm starting to wonder if I should start to put them in direct sun for a few hours, and then bring them back into the shaded area before it gets too direct

SadisticPeppers · Tuesday at 9:07 AM

Been keeping tabs on my seedlings, and I do believe it's time to replant them into the planters. The gameplan is to get some new soil from Home Depot later this week (nothing special just plain old topsoil, since I had great luck with it during my last go at this back in 2015). I'll also need to order some worm castings for my fertilizer injector. With any luck, the decent temps will hold, since the last few days, they've been relatively steady at the low 80's in the day and upper 70's at night.

I also checked the roots on them, and all the bigger seedlings already have roots coming out of the cells they're in.,

CaneDog · Tuesday at 11:52 AM

Nice! Glad to hear they're coming along!

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