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Forest Hill we have lift off

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On January 10th according to the blog post here, we started off 3 pots each of Real Seeds Prairie Fire Mini Bush Chilli Pepper and Lemon Drop Hot Citrus Pepper in a heated seed tray. If you remember, the Prairie Fire takes 2-3 weeks, and the Lemon Drop 3-4 weeks to germinate. Well, the Prairie Fire (right side of the picture) have been up for about a week now and you can see the Lemon Drops (on the left) just starting.

We’ve now turned the heating off on the tray and taken the top off for some air as we don’t want that dreaded damping off disease to get at them like what happened the other year. Here’s to seed germination!

First sowings of the year

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We know we mentioned a couple of posts ago that you don’t want to be too keen on sowing seeds at this time of year, but we’ve started a couple off, seeing as both seeds need a few weeks to germinate.

This morning, we put 3 pots each of Reals Seeds Prairie Fire Mini Bush Chilli Pepper and Lemon Drop Hot Citrus Pepper in a heated seed tray. This year we’re using some B&Q bought Rocket Gro seed/cutting compost as the cheap supermarket shop-bought peat-free we bought a while ago just weren’t that good and we lost a load of seedings to the dreaded damping off.

On looking at the packets, the Prairie Fire takes 2-3 weeks to germinate and the Lemon Drop 3-4, now that’s a long wait. We will be training patience in this exercise and will keep you in the loop if we see any movement at all.