I have become increasingly interested in peppers and spicy food/hot sauce since Covid. Last year I bought a Carolina reaper plant from Home Depot on a whim, late into the growing season and knowing nothing about peppers. It turned into a bush and I loved the process. This is my first year growing peppers from seed.
I set a goal to germinate 12 varieties that interested me. 8 days into the process and I am happy to see 22/24 planted seeds have germinated! I am excited to learn more about the process and experience it firsthand.
From reading other posts on this subreddit, I did find it interesting that my Chinense varieties germinated at the same rate as my Annuum and Baccatum varieties. RB003 and jalapeño were the first to break soil at 5 days.
I did have a question about the Caribbean Red Habaneros: they have what appears to be the seed shell blocking the true leaves from emerging. What causes this, and are they likely to self correct?
P.S.: Can confirm that white hot peppers is an awesome place to obtain seeds from.
by DIYENG
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White hot is great, always easy to deal with and just a great guy. The seed shell covering the first leaves is usually from soil being a little dry as they come up for me. I will spritz them with water to try to soften them up and remove with tweezers a couple hours later. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t but they usually make it even if I tear off a little bit of a leaf. Good luck!
Good job 👍
Definitely some fun ones in there!
White Hot Peppers is my go to seed place. I’ve ordered several times recently because who wants to grow a couple varieties when there’s so many crazy types of crosses to play with? I’ll load up my cart, cut down to $35-$40, order, get my seeds, then start thinking, “I should have gotten that crazy peach ghost x reaper.” Couple weeks later, I’m back again ordering something I just know I can’t live without, lol. They say 10+ seeds on the site, but there’s always way more than that – it’s a very generous 10 seeds and they’ll throw in extras as well. Other seeds places have slicker packaging, but you get exactly 10 seeds and there’s nothing except what you ordered, but White Hot Peppers always throws in something cool.
Post some updates showing your progress. Did great regardless of first time or twentieth time. Looks like you’re got a pretty successful launch.