Hello all, at this point I am still new to the forum but would like to contribute to this grow log. I might look at doing the other grow log for all of the other things I grow or maybe I will just keep it to the tomatoes. While I think that over here's what the haps with the first peppers of the year.
Set #1
Jan 12, 2018
Put 10 each of the following in a sand-bed to germinate. This is the first time using this method for sprouting pepper seeds.
Chocolate Habanero
Orange Scotch Bonnet
Lemon Drop
These were started on this date based on the projected harvest date, I use this method of determining start date with my tomatoes and some other things I grow. Since I sell to restaurants I have to plan based on the projected harvest dates. In this case I used June 1 as the first harvest date, in reality the chefs wont see product until about 15 days after that.
Jan 23, 2018
First sprouts appeared and were Lemon Drop and by Jan 25 Nine of Ten had sprouted. 11-14 days germination time
Jan 24, 2018
Second sprouts appeared and were Orange Scotch Bonnet and by Jan 29 Ten of Ten had sprouted. 12-17 days germination time
Jan 29, 2018
The last of the first set of peppers sprouted being the Chocolate Habanero and only Two of Ten had sprouted. 17-? days germination time (will come back and fill in the final total days)
Things to note:
Sand-bed temp was kept at 68-70 F. (For peppers I would normally keep a higher temp but there were also other seeds in the sand-bed that don't like warmer temps)
Only used tap water to keep moist until Jan 30, and a very weak hydro feed was given when watered. (Again remember there were other seeds germinating in there as well.)
Set #2
Jan 27, 2018
This set only had one type of pepper and since the slow germination on the other pepper seeds in the cooler temps I decided to not start these in the sand-bed and go with the old paper towel method. I chose this method because I could use the hot water heater as the heat source without having to create a special place for them. 10 seed start and in a zip-lock baggie they went.
Grande Jalapeno
Things to note:
When using paper towels to start seeds do not put seeds to close together because when they do sprout and you are ready to transplant them you don't want to take a chance on messing up any of the fine hair roots if they were to grow together. SPACE SPACE SPACE its better to have it than to loose babies because you don't.
Will update as things progress.....
Set #1
Jan 12, 2018
Put 10 each of the following in a sand-bed to germinate. This is the first time using this method for sprouting pepper seeds.
Chocolate Habanero
Orange Scotch Bonnet
Lemon Drop
These were started on this date based on the projected harvest date, I use this method of determining start date with my tomatoes and some other things I grow. Since I sell to restaurants I have to plan based on the projected harvest dates. In this case I used June 1 as the first harvest date, in reality the chefs wont see product until about 15 days after that.
Jan 23, 2018
First sprouts appeared and were Lemon Drop and by Jan 25 Nine of Ten had sprouted. 11-14 days germination time
Jan 24, 2018
Second sprouts appeared and were Orange Scotch Bonnet and by Jan 29 Ten of Ten had sprouted. 12-17 days germination time
Jan 29, 2018
The last of the first set of peppers sprouted being the Chocolate Habanero and only Two of Ten had sprouted. 17-? days germination time (will come back and fill in the final total days)
Things to note:
Sand-bed temp was kept at 68-70 F. (For peppers I would normally keep a higher temp but there were also other seeds in the sand-bed that don't like warmer temps)
Only used tap water to keep moist until Jan 30, and a very weak hydro feed was given when watered. (Again remember there were other seeds germinating in there as well.)
Set #2
Jan 27, 2018
This set only had one type of pepper and since the slow germination on the other pepper seeds in the cooler temps I decided to not start these in the sand-bed and go with the old paper towel method. I chose this method because I could use the hot water heater as the heat source without having to create a special place for them. 10 seed start and in a zip-lock baggie they went.
Grande Jalapeno
Things to note:
When using paper towels to start seeds do not put seeds to close together because when they do sprout and you are ready to transplant them you don't want to take a chance on messing up any of the fine hair roots if they were to grow together. SPACE SPACE SPACE its better to have it than to loose babies because you don't.
Will update as things progress.....