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Spring Has Sprung

March 2, 2012
Potting on Chilli Seedlings

Time seems to be flying by and as we kiss goodbye to February we’ve had a scorcher of a day here, nice and mild with bright blue skies. Thanks to my homemade grow box the first batch of this years seedlings are looking really healthy and growing at a rapid rate, as you can see [...]

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Thinning Out Pepper Seedlings

February 8, 2012
Thinning Pepper Seedlings

The Serrano seeds from Wahaca that I planted in the first week in January are looking really healthy. As mentioned before i wish i’d only planted one seed per cell as I don’t enjoy thinning out seedlings. As you can see in the shot below some of the Wahaca seed sticks had up to 5 [...]

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Scorched Chilli Seedlings: The Survivors

April 21, 2011
Scorched Chilli Seedlings

As I mentioned a in a previous post one tray of my pepper seedlings got scorched last week after i left the propagator lid on while they were on a sunny windowsill one hot day. As you can see in the photo below all but two of the seedlings got completely frazzled. Anyway i never [...]

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Potting On Chillies

April 16, 2011
Potting On Chillies

The recent spell of warm weather has brought with it a spurt of fast growth from the chilli plants. Every year when spring arrives there is a flurry of activity as the batches of seeds i sowed over the last few weeks need re-potting. When to Re-pot Pepper Plants A question we get asked a [...]

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Potting On Chilli Plants

May 14, 2010
Chilli Seedlings Ready To Pot On

It is now Spring and I have a healthy batch of chilli seedlings well on the way. I’ve been extremely busy over the last few weeks moving home as well as starting a new job so i’ve neglecting my chilli plants a bit recently. After my plants germinated back in the first week of April [...]

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let there be light

March 26, 2009

Ok so the class of 2009 are well and truly germinated, one week after planting the seeds. To help speed things up i used a heat mat from a reptile aquarium (check out our post on speeding up chilli seed germination) to provide the seed trays with a constant source of heat. I germinated the [...]

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