pepper seeds - MERGED

SuzieMum

Thank you, it gives me a rough idea anyway, I normally love the snow (which we are expecting next week!) but now I keep thinking it will just hinder any productive garden activity!!

arkonite_babe

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Primrose

Yes, you can use the seeds from shop bought peppers to germinate new plants. Just dry the seeds out on tissue paper for a few days until they're hard and dry. Store in a cool envelope until needed. Sow indoors in late February in a warm place, two seeds to each three inch sized pot and remove the weaker seedling when they're about 1 inch high. Peppers will grow well outdoors. Transplant the seedlings when 6 or 8 inches tall into. If pots at least 8 inches in diameter. Mix some chicken manure pellets or other fertiliser into the compost and locate the pots in nice sunny place. However if you want some really prolific peppers, grow the long pointed sweet variety which are available in seed packets from Seeds of Italy. I grew these for the first time last year and my plants were so heavy with big peppers that it was almost embarrassing.

guinness34

thanks for that arkonite_babe

pault123

Primrose wrote: »

Yes, you can use the seeds from shop bought peppers to germinate new plants. Just dry the seeds out on tissue paper for a few days until they're hard and dry. Store in a cool envelope until needed. Sow indoors in late February in a warm place, two seeds to each three inch sized pot and remove the weaker seedling when they're about 1 inch high. Peppers will grow well outdoors. Transplant the seedlings when 6 or 8 inches tall into. If pots at least 8 inches in diameter. Mix some chicken manure pellets or other fertiliser into the compost and locate the pots in nice sunny place. However if you want some really prolific peppers, grow the long pointed sweet variety which are available in seed packets from Seeds of Italy. I grew these for the first time last year and my plants were so heavy with big peppers that it was almost embarrassing.

Oooooooooooooh think i will be making a purchase

Well my crop was small for the peppers I planted in July last year (see page 1/2 for pics!) but the chilles came out great :cool:

I'm not too fond of this potting up business, what is stopping me from planting a couple of seeds in decent sized pots to start with, then keeping the best germinator, and leaving it be? then do one final pot on to a large final pot for outside?