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2012 Growing Season

January 8, 2012
Chilli Seed Box

So it is just a week or two since I picked the last pepper pods of 2011 and now it is time to turn my thoughts to 2012.
Over the past few years my seed box has grown and grown and rarely been cleared out as you can see. I’ve decided this is the year to [...]

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Germinating Chilli Seeds

February 27, 2011
Germinating Chilli Seeds

It’s that time of year when I’m starting to get some chilli seeds planted ready for the season ahead. I’ve had a few requests from readers to describe the best way t germinate chilli seeds so I thought i’d put together a small guide.

The Wet Tissue Method
I have found this to be the quickest method [...]

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2011 Growing Season Underway

February 24, 2011
Chilli Seeds Planted

I posted a few days ago about how one of my over wintering plants has suddenly sprung back into life, just as I was about to give up hope that any of the plants had made it through the winter. This has inspired me to finally get round to planting some chilli seeds.

This year I [...]

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Post Apocalypse Peppers

July 13, 2010
Post Apocalypse Peppers

It is always going to see chillies in the news. The BBC is running a story today about a delegation of 7 US Senators that have traveled to the Arctic Archipelago to bury chilli seeds 500 feet under a mountain.
image by Pierre J.
The Global Crop Diversity Trust runs a facility in the Arctic that aims [...]

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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 seeds [...]

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2009 Chilli Season Underway

March 18, 2009

Well usually at the ChilliKing our growing season starts some time in November. Unfortunately due to other projects we have not had a chance to get some seeds in the ground…..until now!
Here are the varieties we got under way yesterday:

Orange Habanero
Chocolate Habanero
Aurora
Tabasco
Bulgarian Carrots
Scotch bonnet
Jalapeno

None of the seeds were pre-soaked. The seeds were simply planted in [...]

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Chilli King Online Store Now Open

December 24, 2008

With the 2009 chilli growing season drawing near we are glad to announce that our online store is now up and running!
Now is the time to start planning which chillies you are going to grow in 2009 and we are pleased to offer a selection of chilli seeds for sale online. As an added bonus we [...]

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