Chilli seed starter kit

Sunday 13th Feb:
The beginning of this years gardening for me began when I opened the small Jalapeño seed starter kit that the missus brought me back in January (Asda clearance shelf for 50p :). This is a smart move from her as we are getting through more and more shop brought chillies these days.

Following the instructions on the packet I put the supplied soil into the tray (strangely there seemed to be lots of human hair in the compost mix), added 8 seeds, watered and covered with the propagator lid. 12 days later there were seedlings starting to show.

Sunday 27th Feb:
At 2 weeks I had 7 seedlings happily growing in the tray. Doing more reading up I found that I should be potting up the Jalapeño plants when they have 4 true leaves and my seedlings still only had the first 2 seed leaves.

We don't normally get through to many Jalapeño chillies in our kitchen, but we have been eating a lot of Birds Eye Chillies. So I took a chilli from the fridge, cut it open and put the seeds in to a piece of kitchen paper towel. Got a seed tray and filled it with compost, whacked 10 seeds into it, watered it and put it in the kitchen window with the Jalapeño seedlings.

I had no idea if this would work, one of my concerns is that the seeds my need to endure some dormant period before they would germinate. So I then did a bit of surfing and found that it is possible to do grow birds eye chilli plants this way.