Should I add a heat pad

MoWhiskey

MoWhiskey

I'm just starting out and tried 11 different peppers (6 seeds each) to test .All were soaked overnite in water(I just read I should have done Different). After 2 weeks I'm still waiting on:
 
Fluorescent Purple
Butch "T"
Mini Bell
Peter Pepper
 
What has showed their leaves is:
 
Carolina Reaper-2
Atomic Starfish-2
Ghost-4
ScotchBonnet-1
Tazmanian Habanero-1
Prikchi Faa-2
Pasilla Bajio-2
 
They are outside in a growbox. Temps have been cooler at night (low 70's) in North Florida Highs mid to upper 80's.
 
Should I add a heat mat at night?
 
Also I see a little white stuff around edges, could that be mold/fungus?
 
Thanks for any suggestions as I'm learning
 
 
 
I am not sure about the fungus, I know I have used the search box at the top to search for keywords and it has helped me a lot.. :welcome:
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No, you don't need a heat mat if you live in FL, yes the white is mold/fungus,
You can put a little fan on em like I do to help prevent it. The only thing about that is that it causes the soil/pellets to dry out faster.
 
You can immediately kill the fungus with a 1:10 hydrogen peroxide to water solution sprayed on it.
 
Once your growing medium is initially wetted down good, which it probably was long ago in addition to a fan to keep surface moisture lower you could try bottom watering by having them in a shallow pan of water (assuming holes in the bottom of the pots they're in and soil that wicks moisture well) BUT if you have a mosquito problem there be sure to cover the water as much as you can so they don't spawn new skeeters in it.
 
A heat mat at night, placed so they don't get above 90F may speed up germination a little but by a little I mean only a small # of days so it doesn't really seem worth the bother.  Some just take longer than two weeks, especially if it is old seed.
 
Dave2000 said:
You can immediately kill the fungus with a 1:10 hydrogen peroxide to water solution sprayed on it.
 
Once your growing medium is initially wetted down good, which it probably was long ago in addition to a fan to keep surface moisture lower you could try bottom watering by having them in a shallow pan of water (assuming holes in the bottom of the pots they're in and soil that wicks moisture well) BUT if you have a mosquito problem there be sure to cover the water as much as you can so they don't spawn new skeeters in it.
 
A heat mat at night, placed so they don't get above 90F may speed up germination a little but by a little I mean only a small # of days so it doesn't really seem worth the bother.  Some just take longer than two weeks, especially if it is old seed.
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Thanks will try the HP, and maybe just use pad on these cool nights. I bought seeds this month from a reputable company, so should be freah. Will wait another week then I'm gonna plant some more a little differently.
 
Lots of things can damage seeds.  Last year I received some that were apparently killed by sitting in a hot metal mailbox for too long... not mine, the gal dropped them off in a USPS blue mailbox where they baked in the sun till the next pickup.
 
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