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First Chocolate Habanero Hook

OliHotBalls

OliHotBalls

So as the title suggests it seems like my first Chocolate Habanero has sprouted today. I know most people might not find that newsworthy, but I have been struggling to germinate these bad-boys in tissue paper so far. This time i sowed some directly into my new (lighter) soil mix in polystyrene cups, and it seems to have done the trick - this will be the 5th day since I sowed them.
Anyway these are my favourite chilis so I am chuffed to be able to add them to my list of sprouts. :cool:
 
one of my favourites too. I had trouble germinating any of my old seeds, so going to have to get new seeds in our warmer weather soon.
 
Chuffed? That's a new one. :lol:

Mine took forever to germinate too, and unfortunately the pods are turning red instead of brown, at least on one plant. :mope: The others aren't ripe yet. Seeds are from THSC. I do have a nice ripe Douglah though. :dance:
 
Chuffed is used in Great Britain. In this context it means pleased. There's an expression where it has another meaning: Colder than a penguin's chuff.
 
Haha yeah chuffed is a bit of an "Englishism"... as in "Chuffed to bits". I kinda wrote it without thinking and forgot that it is not an international term. And "Butchers" is a great bit of cockney Rhyming Slang - the full expression is "A butcher's look". Don't ask me where that came from tho.

Anyway that hook is now a sprout and looking good. It has much more rounded cotyledons than anything I have germinated before... Is that because it is my first Chinense?? Now I see how rounded they are I fear that I might have accidentally snipped an earlier sprouter because I thought it was a weed poking through! Oh well.

One of the Jalapenos has also sprouted this morning so i'm just waiting for the "Big Suns" to show themselves and I will be "off to the races". (Another Englishism) :dance:
 
Avon Barksdale said:
Chuffed? That's a new one. :lol:

Mine took forever to germinate too, and unfortunately the pods are turning red instead of brown, at least on one plant. :mope: The others aren't ripe yet. Seeds are from THSC. I do have a nice ripe Douglah though. :dance:
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I have been buying pods from a local farmer, and at least one of them was bright red. It seems to be turning more of a chocolate colour in the fridge now tho. It's a bit weird cos I have had other unripe ones from him which were green when i got them and then turned brown without ever going bright red.
 
OliHotBalls said:
One of the Jalapenos has also sprouted this morning so i'm just waiting for the "Big Suns" to show themselves and I will be "off to the races". (Another Englishism) :dance:
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Off to the races is a common phrase here too. :D

OliHotBalls said:
I have been buying pods from a local farmer, and at least one of them was bright red. It seems to be turning more of a chocolate colour in the fridge now tho. It's a bit weird cos I have had other unripe ones from him which were green when i got them and then turned brown without ever going bright red.
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I was kind of hoping it would turn brown after red, but it's been fully red for a few days with no sign of turning brown. Or hoping that the later pods turn brown, I think recall reading about something like that happening before, but maybe I imagined that. They certainly have the chocolate habanero shape and look other than the color.
 
So amusingly, what I thought were my first Chocolate Habanero hooks turned out to be some erroneous weed that sprouted early and grew very quick. I thought the sprouts looked strange, as the cotyledons were so much more rounded than any that I had germinated before. I just put this down to them being my first C.Chinense variety. I actually nurtured them for a week or so before the first true Habanero sprout showed itself, and I realised my mistake. Haha. Oh well I now have about 8 out of 10 Chocolate Habanero seeds that have sprouted in about 10 days, and I am back in the game! I'm just happy that the Habs did sprout so I did not waste any more love on those weeds! :oops:
 
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