seeds When do you start your seeds?

[shaggs2riches]

Just curious when everyone else starts their seeds for the year. This year I started all my seeds February 15th. I wasn't able to get plants in the ground until the end of June.

Next season I won't have to build gardens and I have a cold frame to hopefully get my plants planted at end of April vs normal end of May plant out. Would I be too early if I plant my peppers right after Christmas?

 

[Rymerpt]

I always like Christmas time.

 

[moruga welder]

not as long as you got the lights to supply them ,    

 

[shaggs2riches]

Sweet! I have 3 4-foot 6-tube t5 fixtures. Eventually there will be a 4th fixture. My grow box is a 5 foot by 8 foot cupboard I built last winter.

 

[CAPCOM]

Being in the Great white north, I would start them about now. It really depends on your accommodations, what you are growing and how much.

 

[megahot]

I start mine early Dec. My grow season isnt very good, so thats why I have to start a but early

 

[Sizzle Lips]

I start mine end of Feb in Canada under lights and heat mat.....they do grow fast so they get topped once and then I try and harden off two weeks before the May long weekend when I plant.

 

[Let's Try]

Northern Alberta here. I started mine in January under LED and got a decent yield before the frost. I put them outside the first week of June.

 

[CAPCOM]

I plan to start seed sometime next month. my seed starts will be limited this year if all goes well. I am attempting to holdover a significant part of my "16" grow. But I have some seed on the way that are GOLD and will get their own little corner.

 

[shaggs2riches]

Thank You everyone for the replies. I think I will go for the earlier start then. I'm just curious how the plant maturity thing works exactly. If I plant them earlier but have to top them and possibly trim a bit to keep them within my grow space, will the plant benefit more from being a couple months "older". Would the older plant take off better once it is in the ground, or is it all a matter of how big the plants are when they go in the ground? The whole days to harvest/ maturity thing seems deceiving to me when you look at seed packets. Everything seems to be at least twice as long or more than what is put on the package.

 

[Burning Colon]

by tradition, i always start xmas day, dec 25. turkeys cooking, kids are playing with their new gifts, wife normally is on the phone with family and nobody is bothering daddy.
 
....... actually i soak the seeds xmas eve for sowing xmas day.
 
annuums i can start in march but i like to get everything done in one shot and that gives me time to watch sites like Pepperlover to see if anything new has come along and triggers a passion to buy.
 
i tend to over sow but there are years when overwinter kill takes too many plants and in May i don't want to get stuck wishing i had planted some favourites sooner.

 

[only126db]

If you have lights, start them whenever you want.... I started some in summer, started some in winter.....