Welcome.
This is my second year of growing chilies. First year gave a decent yield and a lot of experience (see http://thehotpepper.com/topic/49543-first-year-growing-glog/).
Generally I am very limited in space. For this year I will grow less plants, but in bigger pots, outside.
I intend to have 4-5 outside plants in ~20 liters fabric pouches, and 1-2 smaller plants in 5 liters pots, but i accidentally sowed more varieties than this. We will see how it turns out!
I sowed the following seeds yesterday:
Fatalii yellow (pepperlover)
Goats weed (pepperlover)
Brazilian starfish (pepperlover)
Cracked jalapeno (pepperlover)
Unknown bird pepper (from pod)
Lemon something (pod left by my door along with a note that mentioned this pod was a lemon chili - I suspect it being an Aji Lemon Drop)
Basket of fire (from pod)
Had soaked all seeds in a weak camomille tea for 6 hours prior to sowing.
I actually intented to only sow the fatalii this early (being a slow chinense), but couldn't help myself from sowing the rest. I had concerns about sowing too early, as they might turn out leggy in the dark scandinavian winter, or outgrow my indoor space.
I think I might top the plants, hoping that the resulting delay in their growth will mean that they don't outgrow my indoor space before i'll be able to transplant them outside.
I don't have any special seed starting mix, but had some pellets from some "grow-your-own-basilikum-kit" i once bought, and I guess they are similar to jiffy pellets. I mixed this soil with a bit of perlite (which I have aquired from the lab I work at, we use it for chemical spills), and sowed the seeds in about 4 centimers of this. Topped the soil with a bit of vermiculite (same origin as the perlite).
You might notice I sowed directly into cups, and the lowest 10 centimers or so of the cups, are just regular, fertilized potting soil, mixed with a bit of perlite.
So my idea was that the jiffy pellet soil is probably not really fertilized, and thus good for sprouting. And once the plant grows, it will gradually reach the pre-fertilized soil, preventing potential fertilizer burns.
I then moisturized the soil and covered the cups with foil. Now they are placed next to my radiator at 20-23 degrees celsius.
Any comments, suggestions or whatever is highly welcome!
To be continued!
This is my second year of growing chilies. First year gave a decent yield and a lot of experience (see http://thehotpepper.com/topic/49543-first-year-growing-glog/).
Generally I am very limited in space. For this year I will grow less plants, but in bigger pots, outside.
I intend to have 4-5 outside plants in ~20 liters fabric pouches, and 1-2 smaller plants in 5 liters pots, but i accidentally sowed more varieties than this. We will see how it turns out!
I sowed the following seeds yesterday:
Fatalii yellow (pepperlover)
Goats weed (pepperlover)
Brazilian starfish (pepperlover)
Cracked jalapeno (pepperlover)
Unknown bird pepper (from pod)
Lemon something (pod left by my door along with a note that mentioned this pod was a lemon chili - I suspect it being an Aji Lemon Drop)
Basket of fire (from pod)
Had soaked all seeds in a weak camomille tea for 6 hours prior to sowing.
I actually intented to only sow the fatalii this early (being a slow chinense), but couldn't help myself from sowing the rest. I had concerns about sowing too early, as they might turn out leggy in the dark scandinavian winter, or outgrow my indoor space.
I think I might top the plants, hoping that the resulting delay in their growth will mean that they don't outgrow my indoor space before i'll be able to transplant them outside.
I don't have any special seed starting mix, but had some pellets from some "grow-your-own-basilikum-kit" i once bought, and I guess they are similar to jiffy pellets. I mixed this soil with a bit of perlite (which I have aquired from the lab I work at, we use it for chemical spills), and sowed the seeds in about 4 centimers of this. Topped the soil with a bit of vermiculite (same origin as the perlite).
You might notice I sowed directly into cups, and the lowest 10 centimers or so of the cups, are just regular, fertilized potting soil, mixed with a bit of perlite.
So my idea was that the jiffy pellet soil is probably not really fertilized, and thus good for sprouting. And once the plant grows, it will gradually reach the pre-fertilized soil, preventing potential fertilizer burns.
I then moisturized the soil and covered the cups with foil. Now they are placed next to my radiator at 20-23 degrees celsius.
Any comments, suggestions or whatever is highly welcome!
To be continued!
