Hi Guy's
How will you be germinating your 2024 chilli pepper seeds ?
Over the year's I simply put 5 seeds in seed cells of fine compost in a propergator this worked pretty well for many years with annum's.
However last year when I was germinating lot's of super hot Chinese I had alot of failures worst of all by the time you have given them 7,14,.....21 day's that's almost a lost month !
Time those of us in the cold wet North can ill afford..........
This then lead to panic
and mass ordering of extra seeds and frantic wet paper towel method in a zip lock bag which worked reasonably well 
except i had alot of issues with paper drying out if I didn't really good eye on them 
which proved tedious. Yes I did get the extra seedlings I wanted but personally I found it alot more hassle.
For me 2024 chilli pepper crop I'm trialing a slightly different method and in my opinion the best method I've used to date
14 cell ice cube tray labled A1 to A7 and B1 to B7 so a chart can be drawn up assigning each cell a variety as to keep track of the occupants
Soaked rockwool placed in each cell and seeds simply laid on top ! The lid put on the tub and the tub put inside my propergator.
The first sowing is solely capsicum chinense the first germination were at 3 day's ! Lot's on day 4 currently sitting at 6 day's and only waiting on 2 varieties to germinate
This method seems alot less work compared to the paper towel method seems very effective
Most important for those of us with short season's it let's you know what you have to play with much much faster than soil germination.
How will you be germinating..............................
Stephen
How will you be germinating your 2024 chilli pepper seeds ?
Over the year's I simply put 5 seeds in seed cells of fine compost in a propergator this worked pretty well for many years with annum's.
However last year when I was germinating lot's of super hot Chinese I had alot of failures worst of all by the time you have given them 7,14,.....21 day's that's almost a lost month !
Time those of us in the cold wet North can ill afford..........This then lead to panic
and mass ordering of extra seeds and frantic wet paper towel method in a zip lock bag which worked reasonably well except i had alot of issues with paper drying out if I didn't really good eye on them which proved tedious. Yes I did get the extra seedlings I wanted but personally I found it alot more hassle.For me 2024 chilli pepper crop I'm trialing a slightly different method and in my opinion the best method I've used to date
14 cell ice cube tray labled A1 to A7 and B1 to B7 so a chart can be drawn up assigning each cell a variety as to keep track of the occupants
Soaked rockwool placed in each cell and seeds simply laid on top ! The lid put on the tub and the tub put inside my propergator.
The first sowing is solely capsicum chinense the first germination were at 3 day's ! Lot's on day 4 currently sitting at 6 day's and only waiting on 2 varieties to germinate
This method seems alot less work compared to the paper towel method seems very effective
Most important for those of us with short season's it let's you know what you have to play with much much faster than soil germination.
How will you be germinating..............................
Stephen
Some i had never heard of! I have however had very good success with putting seeds in a plastic cup of lukewarm (at time of pouring) distilled water and leave overnight. I struggled with superhots in past as they are finicky so obviously do believe where your seeds come from really does matter. I then typically put in 1020 Trays trays with deep inserts (I use many different configurations) with a starter mix and put dome on and under the lights. I have 3 6-shelve units that I use in living room (and one in garage for overflow). Once tomatoes are started (about month after peppers) I typically have over 45 trays (holding potentially 36 or 48 seedlings in each) peppers/tomatoes to transplant into peat pots. I hope to make my own soil mix this coming year so will be looking for that advice soon 
