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Grow some of the hottest chile peppers in the world, we show you how to germinate your
chilli seeds:-
All hot pepper seeds are very sensitive to the cold, ensure plants are well
established before planting out in a cold house or outdoors. Grow in a
conservatory, greenhouse or indoors on the windowsill. Chilli seeds require
high temperatures to produce the hottest chillies, too much water, nitrogen and
low temperatures will reduce the pungency of the fruits. Chilli pepper fruit does not set
below 15°C and above 33°C, flowers can also drop if night temp exceeds 25°C. The
red chile peppers are the hottest.
Scoville ratings are approx, 150,000+ is really hot!!!
Chilli
Pepper Seeds germination; Sow chilli seeds early as some hot peppers can take 120+ days
from transplanting to fruiting. Temp should be maintained at
the indicated temp 25-30°C chillies will germinate at 25C but will take longer 30C+
is the preferred temp, Jolokia, Trinidad's, Scotch Bonnet, Tepin, Pequin and
Habanero chilli seeds can be slow and erratic
to emerge (allow up 35+ days for germination) compost should not be too moist to
prevent the seed from rotting, keep chilli seed & seedlings out of draughts.
The chile cultural
information should be used as a guide only, I have found a number of different
sowing techniques for the same seed from different sources there does not seem
to be a standard. With this in mind you should use this website as a guide only,
you probably already have a tried and tested way of sowing different pepper seed. As a
rule of thumb the larger the seed size the more cover it requires, and fine seed
like Lobelia Begonia etc requires no cover.
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