Help. About to plant jalapeno seeds.

tawecdl

Hi, I only recently got into the whole greenfingered malarky. I bought some jalapeno seeds (80) but I can only find vague pointers on how is best to grow these.

Any assistance would be hugely appreciated.

Jack's_mummy

Put one or two in a small pot of compost. Put somewhere warm (I put mine on a radiator) and wait. Mine came up in about 10 days. If 2 come up then pull one out when you can see which is the healthiest. Once they are up put them somewhere light. When they are too big for the pot put them carefully into a bigger pot

tawecdl

any more advise from anyone?

unrich

In the greenhouse.
Grow them on in pots.

Then when big enough

We use either grow bags (3 to a bag) or large florists pots.

If you are using grow bags a tip is to cut the bottom out of cheap large flower pots and use them as a collar round the opening of the growbag. The pot acts as a collar and you can fill with compost allowing a deeper growing space for the roots and the pot also acts as a collar helping with watering.

As the branches get bigger you'll need to support them (2'6" +). You can put a small cane in to support the main stem.

keep watered. and well fed. tom food / seaweed extract after the compost is exhausted.

Jalapenos get corking marks round the side. This is a good sign.
They are coolest at the tip and hottest at the stem end.
As they ripen they go from green through brown to red.

Pickle and use on pizzas for the winter.

Or

Quesadillas: Chapati or Flour tortilla,
toast/dry fry one side, when done
top with cheese and scatter with chillis.
fold over and dry fry the other sides.


Or smoke and make into smoky hot sauce with tomatos (like chipottle sauce)

unrich

If you have planted 80 seeds I would get ready to swap as many as you can.
At 3 to a grow bag you'll need a huge area to grow them all.

Also have a look at lemon drop, great for fish curry.
Poblano, mild and good for stuffing.

annie123

excellent link on growing peppers and problems that can happen:
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/peppers1.html

also
http://www.growing-peppers.com/growing_peppers_from_seed.html

foreign_correspondent

I have grown them before. Probably easiest to pop seeds into pots with a thin layer of compost over the seed, water, clingfilm over the top then keep in a frost free place (kitchen wondow ledge? airing cupboard?) till they have germinated and have 2 leaves on each plant. When they germinate they must be put somewhere where they get natural light, and keep the compost moist (but not soggy)