;-)After reading 110451752478's comment about him germing at 41 celcius i decided to turn the temp up in my germ box. The heater only goes to 34 celcius so i whacked it up there. Came out this morning to find a Hungarian Black had popped! I think it was too fast to say that the elevated temperature helped as the seeds have been down for about a week however i do know that it doesn't cook them at 34. I will leave it there and see how the others go.
Mean? I'm not mean!Ahhhh, average. There goes you with being MEAN.
The temp needs to be constant.My old habs didn't mind 28C, bih jolokia, amarillo worked at 28C too.
Hungarian hot wax seemed to like 32C; czech black, 7 pot and jalapeno better at 30C.
Congo black, fatalii and yellow 7 pot, maybe got one successful out of 4 seeds, so I'm cranking the heat up for them. I've got nothing to lose, it's been 3 weeks...
Also the brain strain aren't doing anything (hasn't been that long for them though) but one germinated as soon as I went up to 34-36C.
Also kempsey red, I'm 0/7 seeds, nothing is working for them either.
Witht he experiment I did on the old bell capsicums, I started off doing the 15C for 8hrs, 30C for 16hrs for a week. Nothing happened. Then I just left it at 30C, nada.
Then set for 32C after a couple of days one seed, then one the next day. At 34C I was getting 2-3 seeds PER day germinating and I just got sick of planting bell capsicums.
I'll bear than in mind, maybe that's why higher temps work, they dry out more if they were too wet.Usually too much, but yes... too little is also a problem. for those that overdo it, they usually germinate only after they've given up and stopped moisturizing it.
Best germination rate is with fresh seeds out of the pod.I've got Douglahs sprouting now Outside - 12 > 23 C temps & kept in moist standard seedraising mix in a plastic tray.
I'm thinking the age of the seed (how long its been out of the pod) has a lot to do with germination. My hunan fingertips told me the seeds i got were maybe a week old