Hi guys,
Another Aussie here over in crappy Canberra. Thought I'd join in on the glogs and see how it goes.
So, after growing peppers for the first time last year from seedlings acquired from a local nursery, I decided to give it a shot growing from seed.
I think I got off to a late start for this season, but I really had no Idea until I found this forum a couple of weeks ago.
That's okay, lessons learned and all that jazz.
My seeds were sown on the 9th of September, except for the Birds Eye's (I'm yet to find out exactly what they are as I got the seeds from some pods on an old plant that was in the garden of my new house), they were sown on the 29th of September.
They were put into a propogator without a heat mat. They had sold out of the one I wanted, and being new at it, wanted to see how it went before I threw more cash at it.
Anyway, the varieties sown are:
Bell Pepper
Jalapeno
Orange Habanero - I suspect it may actually be yellow though as the few pods I got from it last year didn't turn orange
Unknown Birds Eye type
The Bell Pepper and Jalapeno took about 14 days or less to sprout and the Hab followed suit approximately a week later.
The Birds Eyes took a week.
After browsing this forum and seeing all the different suggestions etc, I've taken the lone Habanero, a Jalapeno and a Birds Eye and put them under a desk lamp with an energy saving lamp in there on a timer for 18 hours.
I have a heater going in the room, because today only got to 10 degrees celsius... in mid spring, which is weird for Canberra.
I also set up my laptop cooling pad to use as a light breeze.
Left: Habanero
Right: Jalapeno
Back: Birds Eye
These are the rest of the one's that I had that survived being eaten by my cats... Although the Jalapeno on the right got attacked the other day due to my negligence.
These get to sit next to a window and get morning sun.
3 Birds Eye at the front, 3 Bell Pepper at the back left, and 5 Jalapeno on the right, but I'd say that's 4 now...
They're in foam cups as they outgrew the propogator, and I'd seen someone on here do it. Plus I had a heap of them in the cupboard
We had a run of a few 30C days this week, and then it dropped down to 10C today, so I hope the one's under the light take off and start to develop more in the coming weeks. It's been really slow going since sprouting
I guess I'll do an update in a few days.
Cheers,
Shurb
Another Aussie here over in crappy Canberra. Thought I'd join in on the glogs and see how it goes.
So, after growing peppers for the first time last year from seedlings acquired from a local nursery, I decided to give it a shot growing from seed.
I think I got off to a late start for this season, but I really had no Idea until I found this forum a couple of weeks ago.
That's okay, lessons learned and all that jazz.
My seeds were sown on the 9th of September, except for the Birds Eye's (I'm yet to find out exactly what they are as I got the seeds from some pods on an old plant that was in the garden of my new house), they were sown on the 29th of September.
They were put into a propogator without a heat mat. They had sold out of the one I wanted, and being new at it, wanted to see how it went before I threw more cash at it.
Anyway, the varieties sown are:
Bell Pepper
Jalapeno
Orange Habanero - I suspect it may actually be yellow though as the few pods I got from it last year didn't turn orange
Unknown Birds Eye type
The Bell Pepper and Jalapeno took about 14 days or less to sprout and the Hab followed suit approximately a week later.
The Birds Eyes took a week.
After browsing this forum and seeing all the different suggestions etc, I've taken the lone Habanero, a Jalapeno and a Birds Eye and put them under a desk lamp with an energy saving lamp in there on a timer for 18 hours.
I have a heater going in the room, because today only got to 10 degrees celsius... in mid spring, which is weird for Canberra.
I also set up my laptop cooling pad to use as a light breeze.
Left: Habanero
Right: Jalapeno
Back: Birds Eye
These are the rest of the one's that I had that survived being eaten by my cats... Although the Jalapeno on the right got attacked the other day due to my negligence.
These get to sit next to a window and get morning sun.
3 Birds Eye at the front, 3 Bell Pepper at the back left, and 5 Jalapeno on the right, but I'd say that's 4 now...
They're in foam cups as they outgrew the propogator, and I'd seen someone on here do it. Plus I had a heap of them in the cupboard
We had a run of a few 30C days this week, and then it dropped down to 10C today, so I hope the one's under the light take off and start to develop more in the coming weeks. It's been really slow going since sprouting
I guess I'll do an update in a few days.
Cheers,
Shurb
First pod has arrived. TS CARDI Yellow leading the way. The Choc Hab should be next as it has a few flowers on it now. 
