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    Growing Chillies From Seed

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    To grow chili peppers from seed, soak the seeds in a germination solution for 1 hour before planting and drying them on a paper towel. Place the seeds in a damp paper towel inside a plastic bag in a warm location to germinate. Once sprouted, transplant seedlings to pots and use a liquid fertilizer to feed them as they grow. Many chili varieties require hand pollination with a paintbrush to produce fruits, as the flowers may not always set otherwise.

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    Growing Chillies From Seed

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    To grow chili peppers from seed, soak the seeds in a germination solution for 1 hour before planting and drying them on a paper towel. Place the seeds in a damp paper towel inside a plastic bag in a warm location to germinate. Once sprouted, transplant seedlings to pots and use a liquid fertilizer to feed them as they grow. Many chili varieties require hand pollination with a paintbrush to produce fruits, as the flowers may not always set otherwise.

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    To grow chili peppers from seed, soak the seeds in a germination solution for 1 hour before planting and drying them on a paper towel. Place the seeds in a damp paper towel inside a plastic bag in a warm location to germinate. Once sprouted, transplant seedlings to pots and use a liquid fertilizer to feed them as they grow. Many chili varieties require hand pollination with a paintbrush to produce fruits, as the flowers may not always set otherwise.

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    Growing Chillies From Seed

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    To grow chili peppers from seed, soak the seeds in a germination solution for 1 hour before planting and drying them on a paper towel. Place the seeds in a damp paper towel inside a plastic bag in a warm location to germinate. Once sprouted, transplant seedlings to pots and use a liquid fertilizer to feed them as they grow. Many chili varieties require hand pollination with a paintbrush to produce fruits, as the flowers may not always set otherwise.

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    Tel: 015395 58110

    www.chileseeds.co.uk

    Growing Chilli Peppers


    If you use our new Germination Powder, make up solution, soak seeds for 1 hour take them out and put on dry kitchen
    paper to dry naturally for 10 20 minutes, do not pat dry just leave them to dry themselves and then plant.
    Germinate Seeds: Repeat process for each variety you plant
    Take 2 bits of kitchen paper, put both bits together and fold in half. Damp the paper (as wet as a wrung-out sponge) In
    one quarter of it place the seeds and fold it over itself like a sandwich. Place the kitchen paper which is a quarter, inside a
    freezer bag, catch some air inside and tie a knot in it, like a balloon. Label the bag and place in a warm place such as an
    airing cupboard or heated propagator. Repeat for each variety. Check seeds every 2 days and damp down the paper if
    they start to dry out. Once your seeds have sprouted you can transplant to small pots i.e 75 mm. (We use multi purpose
    compost with vermiculite mixed in to aid drainage.) Add water to your compost and mix well; it should be as moist as a
    wrung-out sponge before you put it into your containers. Ideally you want the compost to be in a warm place before
    planting takes place so as not to shock the seedlings. Fill your containers 25 mm from the top. We use a plastic plant
    label or pencil to pick the seedling up and drop it in the middle of the pot, do not worry which way the seedling is facing it
    will sort its self out as it grows. Sprinkle a little compost over the seedling. Water to settle them in with a spray bottle.
    Label with a plastic stick label using a permenant marker pen. As the seedlings grow use a spray bottle to keep them
    moist. You can always seal the top with cling film with a tiny hole in. This keeps the seeds warm but they can breath.
    Potting On Your Seedlings
    When you can see some roots through the hole in the bottom of the pot you can re pot your plant. A standard
    progression is, 75, 150 and then the final 200 mm. First, fill the new containers with moistened compost, make a hole of
    the right depth for your seedling to sit into. Lift the tiny plants carefully with the help of a pencil pushed from the
    underside of the pot through the drainage hole. The less the roots are disturbed, the better.
    Lower each plant into the hole you've made and plant it in its new home. Peppers (unlike other plants) will make new
    roots along their buried stems, so if your seedlings are leggy, you can transplant them so that their stems are covered by
    the soil up to the base of the bottom cluster of leaves.
    Gently firm the soil around the transplants and water carefully.
    Once your plants set fruit, start feeding once or twice a week with a good all-purpose liquid fertiliser such as Miracle-Gro,
    or a general Tomato Feed diluted half-strength. Always follow the manufactureres recommendations. Better still try
    Chilli Focus, this chilli plant food is a precise formulation for optimal performance of chillies in pots, grow bags or even in
    the ground. You can buy it from our website. With Chilli Focus plants can be fed from the seedling stage onwards. The
    recommendation is to feed weekly but this can be increased as needed. As long as foliage is dark green then feeding is
    adequate but if it becomes pale then feeding can be increased. Increase frequency of feeding rather than feed strength.
    Plants can be fed up to three or four times per week without problems.
    Most hot peppers and some sweet peppers require insect pollination to form fruit. If the proper insect is absent, or if the
    local insects are not attracted to your pepper flowers, you may see the plants flower and never set fruit. This is especially
    true for hot peppers grown indoors or in a greenhouse.
    Pollen is produced on the stamens, and usually ripens between noon and 3 PM every day. Take a moistened watercolour
    paintbrush, and pick up some pollen on your brush and transfer it to the other flower centres. You can get close to 100%
    fruit set with hand pollination.
    Flowers do not form or will drop off and fruit will not set if the temperature is much below 17C.
    The Jolokia family of seeds can be tricky to germinate and do benefit from the germination solution and a germination
    temperature of between 80F and 89F. The flowers also benefit from hand pollination with a paint brush. The Jolokia
    seeds can take between 7 and 28 days to germinate.
    It was noted by The Chile Pepper Institute that the Bhut Jolokia chilli never produced fruits without artificial pollination in
    the greenhouse, and little pollen was produced (which means their flowers might need a little help with a fine brush
    indoors). Do not leave your chilli plant on a window sill over night as temperatures can drop and it will not do your plant
    any good.
    Stoney Bridge, Cark-in-Cartmel, LA11 7PE
    Tel: 015395 58110
    Fax: 015395 59100
    Web: www.chileseeds.co.uk
    E mail: [email protected]

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