Most of the comments are so horrible, you guys act like you already know how to plant chilli seeds, why are you here then?xD it's his first video, go easy.
It doesn't matter as long as they're warm. Plants naturally grow outside and the temperature varies. The only time you need to worry about temperature is when outside is significantly lower than the optimum for the plant.
Thanks for the very helpful video! I have one question, having tried this and utterly failed. :-( Can you please offer some detail on WATERING while the seeds in the peat pellets are germinating in the propagator? At first I worried I'd drown them and then I ended up drying them out. I don't have an innate sense of how much water, how frequent, or how to deliver it (other than, I used a turkey baster after seeing your pipette--but another site mentions a sprayer). Can you help, with detail well suited for an imbecile? Thanks!!
Do not allow your peat pellets to dry out. Keep the nice and damp but not water logged. i use a pipet to water the pellets. you will need to check on dampness of each pellet pretty much everyday. Pellets in middle of a propigator dry out quick where ones around the edge collect the condensation from the propigator. it's a good idea to rotate to stop the outer ones getting water logged.
Grew mine with simple jiffy pellets and water. Actually if you had cotton balls just add seed, water it and put in plastic container and it germinates just fine.
honestly, the best way to plant seeds from my experience is to just plant them with the flesh of the plant it comes from. So like if you wanna grow tomatos, just get some moldy tomatos and plant it in a pot of soil. itll all germinate within days. i assume chilis work the same way. i have seeds i bought online that dont have the flesh. i might just add flesh from another chili just to see if it helps. i think this method works really well because this is how seeds were designed to be planted in nature. the flesh provide the perfect environment for the seeds.
Nice numbers come up. When you soak your seeds with paper towel, don't be shy to put rooting hormone in the water. If you are into hydroponics, you won't have as tasty of a pepper, but they don't suck, and you can cut the time in WAY less than half. Why all the downvotes? 158 w.t. hecks ?
Just stick the whole thing in a bigger pot and surround with compost mixture as seen in video 2. The roots will push through the white casing of the peat pellet .
love your accent mate, i'd love to grow peppers like you do. when you talk about water heat is that like 75 - 80 f. and on the tea is that chamomile? your friend mark.
How ever many times needed to keep soil/ pellet moist. Avoid the soil / pellet drying out but don't water log them either. I generally am watering twice a day little and often with a pipet.
The Bounty Bear me personally i err on the side of dryer than soggy after the seedling has got its first set of main leaves starting to come through, anyhow great video :) my way to start them off and this way i get 100% what i plant is to get 4 layers of damp toilet paper, place the seeds in a basic formation, add 1 more layer over the top of seeds to encapsulate them, sprinkle some water off my fingers, put in a freezer bag and seal it, put then on top of my flat screen pc monitor for heat and in a week go back see which ones have started. lay the seed tray like you have but fill them with moist compost, gently push down then tear open the bag and pull apart the tissue taking care not to tear the root, place it in the filled trays then add a little more compost... you can use my method for almost any seeds, tomato to broad beans to really fine but only use 1 part of the 2ply to cover it as you need to see it when really small seeds :) however its no good for big seeds like mango
best way to kick start chilli seed is to soak the seed in 0.05% Sodium Hypochlorite solution for 30 minutes.. Miltons baby bottle steriliser is perfect.. the biggest enemy of the young seed/seedling is fungal attack, Milton's solution also breaks down the hydrophobic covering of the seed allowing water to imbibe into the seed quickly, maybe tea does the same thing? dunno.. anyway regardless the trick is to get the seed up and away before fungal attack.
+The Bounty Bear Forget the first 5 minutes of the video. Just put the seeds into the soil and they always germinate well...provided the chillies you got them from were ripe.
Me too, scraped seeds out of a bird's eye chilli, into pots of compost on a windowsill, couple of weeks later they started to sprout, now doing very well and re potted into slightly bigger pots, no heating, no propagating, 100% germination success. I live in a house with no central heating. (UK)
Chilli seeds germinate in naturally by passing through birds after being eaten. Tea softens the seed casing like a birds digestive sytem making it easier for seeding to germinate.
You could get the same job done and save yourself an awful lot of faffing just by using the sectioned trays with a compost/pearlite mix. You really don't need to position the seeds the 'right way up'. You talk about the birds eating the fruit. Do you think the birds poop them out the 'right way up'? You don't need to soak the seeds anymore than you soak tomato seeds. Why not be scientific, or something close; do half the tray with a cheep seed, one you saved from a chilli form the supermarket or last year. Soak half and put them the 'right way up' and don't soak the other half and bung em in. If you have a significant difference then maybe you'll be qualified to give some advice.
The Bounty Bear Sorry, I didn't mean to come across that harsh. It's like this; imagine you're using bamboo canes pushed in the ground to show how it keeps away moles. You don't have moles and you've not had moles for years. That isn't proof that the bamboo canes do anything to keep away moles. That's all I meant. Your methods aren't founded in any experimental method, just supposition. I'm trained in Horticultural Science (HND) and though I'm not an expert in Chilli growing I do have 40 years experience in Horticulture and do grow Chillies very successfully. Some of what you're doing is totally unnecessary and you're starting myths because people will think they have to follow what you're doing or they won't be able to grow chillies. They might not be able to get those peat pellets or might not drink tea and they might be discouraged because of it. They might not have a propagator or thermometer and again be discouraged. If you're posting the video to encourage people then you're not having that effect. If you're posting just on an ego trip then, well, I can see why you go Ouch!.
This method works for me and I have had a lot of success with it. Please feel free to try or if not for you then I wish you the best of luck with however you decide to plant. If anyone has any alternate methods please feel free to post a link here to your video. At the end of day it's just a video on how I plant chilli seeds. rather like a salad bar you can take the bits you want and leave the bits you don't
Storage way of doing it I do the toilet roll and take away contana I get 100 sececes and put in a light box so they don't get leggy like yours but good luck
I can't believe you spent over a pound on 10 chilli seeds. Unless you're in lockdown just buy some fresh chilli from the shop and you'll probably get more seeds in a single chilli which will probably cost you under 10p.
skip[ all this pointless shit and do it like this seeds - pot - seedling soil - water- heated germination tray - pot up - plant - chillies wtf is all this bullshit for? ive had 95% success rate
He's english you ignorant fuck. Aussies sound totally different. I find this incredibly racist as I am Australian and do not want to be labelled a pom.
Özgün Demir So 'Duh' to a billion Indian folks, 50/50 water and milk, spices and a load of sugar - and they're the folks that grow the best black tea. Milk in green or herbal tea, though - foul! Turkish coffee - marvellous; Turkish tea - gnats' piss.
Most of the comments are so horrible, you guys act like you already know how to plant chilli seeds, why are you here then?xD
it's his first video, go easy.
Those white sticks are growing well ;-)
A simple and easy method of growing chillies made complicated.....!
Cheers mate, and greetings from 🇧🇿
Fantastic, mate! I'll watch this video again!
Best wishes!!
Do you keep those vents closed? I have a germinator on a heat mat.
It doesn't matter as long as they're warm. Plants naturally grow outside and the temperature varies. The only time you need to worry about temperature is when outside is significantly lower than the optimum for the plant.
Thanks for the very helpful video! I have one question, having tried this and utterly failed. :-( Can you please offer some detail on WATERING while the seeds in the peat pellets are germinating in the propagator? At first I worried I'd drown them and then I ended up drying them out. I don't have an innate sense of how much water, how frequent, or how to deliver it (other than, I used a turkey baster after seeing your pipette--but another site mentions a sprayer). Can you help, with detail well suited for an imbecile? Thanks!!
Do not allow your peat pellets to dry out. Keep the nice and damp but not water logged. i use a pipet to water the pellets. you will need to check on dampness of each pellet pretty much everyday. Pellets in middle of a propigator dry out quick where ones around the edge collect the condensation from the propigator. it's a good idea to rotate to stop the outer ones getting water logged.
Did you plant the seeds in December or July?
Grew mine with simple jiffy pellets and water. Actually if you had cotton balls just add seed, water it and put in plastic container and it germinates just fine.
There's many ways to do this, How did they turn out?
honestly, the best way to plant seeds from my experience is to just plant them with the flesh of the plant it comes from. So like if you wanna grow tomatos, just get some moldy tomatos and plant it in a pot of soil. itll all germinate within days. i assume chilis work the same way. i have seeds i bought online that dont have the flesh. i might just add flesh from another chili just to see if it helps. i think this method works really well because this is how seeds were designed to be planted in nature. the flesh provide the perfect environment for the seeds.
these are not your typical shop variety seed bud
Nice numbers come up. When you soak your seeds with paper towel, don't be shy to put rooting hormone in the water. If you are into hydroponics, you won't have as tasty of a pepper, but they don't suck, and you can cut the time in WAY less than half. Why all the downvotes? 158 w.t. hecks ?
When you plant the seedlings on, do you break them out of the peat pellets ,or just plant the whole thing ?
Just stick the whole thing in a bigger pot and surround with compost mixture as seen in video 2. The roots will push through the white casing of the peat pellet .
Great stuff , Thanks. The peat pellets and Tea method certainly works a treat.
What time of year was this filmed? When were the previous seeds sowed? Are you south UK?
Gotta love a chilli! 👍🏻
Great vid I'm just starting out! Do you use plain water? When do you transfer them to pots?
Thanks mate
Plain water is fine. Transfer to pots when you get 2nd or 3rd set of leaves. Keep pellets moist and then keep pots moist.
Thanks mate
The Bounty Bear Chillies don't like to be wet. They like to get on the dry side in between watering and like open, free draining soil.
love your accent mate, i'd love to grow peppers like you do. when you talk about water heat is that like 75 - 80 f. and on the tea is that chamomile? your friend mark.
Hi mate. What are the pods that you planted the seeds into? What were they made from?
Thanks
Jiffy 7 peat pellets. Search eBay for peat pellets and you will find loads for sale
ok thanks mate
I will never use peat pellets again! last year I had my first year with no damping off by using a proper seed starting mix.
What is a chilli?
Great video. Thank you for sharing 👍
is there anyway you can tell me of the name of the green house u have to start the seedlings?
great video thanks ! did you return the tweezers to ya' Missus ? cheers :)
what is a quid?
£1
that is that 8 legged thing on the sushi bar....
what if you have coco coir pellets??
how many times should I water a day im a new grower
How ever many times needed to keep soil/ pellet moist. Avoid the soil / pellet drying out but don't water log them either. I generally am watering twice a day little and often with a pipet.
ok thank you
The Bounty Bear me personally i err on the side of dryer than soggy after the seedling has got its first set of main leaves starting to come through, anyhow great video :)
my way to start them off and this way i get 100% what i plant is to get 4 layers of damp toilet paper, place the seeds in a basic formation, add 1 more layer over the top of seeds to encapsulate them, sprinkle some water off my fingers, put in a freezer bag and seal it, put then on top of my flat screen pc monitor for heat and in a week go back see which ones have started.
lay the seed tray like you have but fill them with moist compost, gently push down then tear open the bag and pull apart the tissue taking care not to tear the root, place it in the filled trays then add a little more compost...
you can use my method for almost any seeds, tomato to broad beans to really fine but only use 1 part of the 2ply to cover it as you need to see it when really small seeds :) however its no good for big seeds like mango
enjoyed the video ignore the negative comments
put some more instruccions plese wt is rthe name of the teaa
this vid could be done in 45 seconds, tooooooo long, skip it
How long to they take to grow.
It is 35 °C in my room, what do I do then ?
Ali Ismael put some ice cubes in your shreadies! Hehe
best way to kick start chilli seed is to soak the seed in 0.05% Sodium Hypochlorite solution for 30 minutes.. Miltons baby bottle steriliser is perfect.. the biggest enemy of the young seed/seedling is fungal attack, Milton's solution also breaks down the hydrophobic covering of the seed allowing water to imbibe into the seed quickly, maybe tea does the same thing? dunno.. anyway regardless the trick is to get the seed up and away before fungal attack.
Interesting. A long time ago I remember reading tea has a natural antiseptic quality
so 25-30 degrees is that c or f
anatoly ivanov c
look up "scarification chilli seeds" for more info
Interesting method! I have to say though, peat-based compost is really bad for the environment. There are a lot of more ethical alternatives. :)
Best not to use a wet tea bag to plant in
+The Bounty Bear Forget the first 5 minutes of the video.
Just put the seeds into the soil and they always germinate well...provided the chillies you got them from were ripe.
Me too, scraped seeds out of a bird's eye chilli, into pots of compost on a windowsill, couple of weeks later they started to sprout, now doing very well and re potted into slightly bigger pots, no heating, no propagating, 100% germination success. I live in a house with no central heating. (UK)
dan davis when did you sow them I mean which month?
Great video, cant wait for the next video, I have copied what you have done.
HOW DOES TEA HELP YOUR SEEDS GERMINATE ?!?!?!?!?!?!
Chilli seeds germinate in naturally by passing through birds after being eaten. Tea softens the seed casing like a birds digestive sytem making it easier for seeding to germinate.
Chemical scaration ...
hahahahaa 9mins! why you make things so hard! I thought I'm watching "how to make a yacht video"
You could get the same job done and save yourself an awful lot of faffing just by using the sectioned trays with a compost/pearlite mix. You really don't need to position the seeds the 'right way up'. You talk about the birds eating the fruit. Do you think the birds poop them out the 'right way up'? You don't need to soak the seeds anymore than you soak tomato seeds. Why not be scientific, or something close; do half the tray with a cheep seed, one you saved from a chilli form the supermarket or last year. Soak half and put them the 'right way up' and don't soak the other half and bung em in. If you have a significant difference then maybe you'll be qualified to give some advice.
Ouch: I look forward your video showing us all how an expert does it. Feel free to post the link here.
The Bounty Bear Sorry, I didn't mean to come across that harsh. It's like this; imagine you're using bamboo canes pushed in the ground to show how it keeps away moles. You don't have moles and you've not had moles for years. That isn't proof that the bamboo canes do anything to keep away moles. That's all I meant. Your methods aren't founded in any experimental method, just supposition. I'm trained in Horticultural Science (HND) and though I'm not an expert in Chilli growing I do have 40 years experience in Horticulture and do grow Chillies very successfully. Some of what you're doing is totally unnecessary and you're starting myths because people will think they have to follow what you're doing or they won't be able to grow chillies. They might not be able to get those peat pellets or might not drink tea and they might be discouraged because of it. They might not have a propagator or thermometer and again be discouraged. If you're posting the video to encourage people then you're not having that effect. If you're posting just on an ego trip then, well, I can see why you go Ouch!.
This method works for me and I have had a lot of success with it. Please feel free to try or if not for you then I wish you the best of luck with however you decide to plant. If anyone has any alternate methods please feel free to post a link here to your video.
At the end of day it's just a video on how I plant chilli seeds. rather like a salad bar you can take the bits you want and leave the bits you don't
The Bounty Bear luv ur attitude!
Meadow Maker I like how he says I didn't mean to come off harsh and then he starts getting harsh again.
those propagators go for £15 in wilko
Wilco is a good band ...
so wtf are those bag things where he planted the chilies in??
Storage way of doing it I do the toilet roll and take away contana I get 100 sececes and put in a light box so they don't get leggy like yours but good luck
Buying seeds off ebay is not a good idea. So many turn out to be the wrong variety.
Heh, I have the same thermometer from dx.com and a grey cup from Ikea. ;))
no need for tea. . or milk.. lol
Just finger the seeds!
and not a teabag was used that day
you talk too much!! and say nothing
what language was that?? damn yanks......
+SpockMcoy Issmart scottish
Afterdarkness wtf u on about Scottish haha
I can't believe you spent over a pound on 10 chilli seeds. Unless you're in lockdown just buy some fresh chilli from the shop and you'll probably get more seeds in a single chilli which will probably cost you under 10p.
From the name of them I think they were a very specific kind of chilli which you won’t find in a supermarket
"First cold snap in your house"?...europeans are about a century behind the U.S.
Bad decision to touch this spicy seeds with bare hands :))))) Try to pee afterwards ;)))))
***** or rub your eyes
i just fucked up a moment ago actually xD the skin between em balls and me dick is burning now
skip[ all this pointless shit and do it like this
seeds - pot - seedling soil - water- heated germination tray - pot up - plant - chillies
wtf is all this bullshit for? ive had 95% success rate
Cruising the Waterways make the videos please. We need tutorials than just text
Pee pellet!?...what??? Stick with tea and crumpets! Cheerio!
very annoying - what tool are you using to test the temperature? couldn't understand the mumble.
A thermometer LOL, why is everyone so god damn rude and stupid on this video
How British people grow seeds : first make some tea bwahahahaaa
dang look like a brain doctor lol
NUTS
💤💤😴😴
too long winded...
you Aussies put milk in your tea too? duh..
He's english you ignorant fuck. Aussies sound totally different. I find this incredibly racist as I am Australian and do not want to be labelled a pom.
MrImatree shut the fuck up you dumbass, I love aussies more then brits, except you maybe
I am in NSW but he does sound pretty Australian but I have to say a lot of Australians put milk in our tea so what we come from the Brits
Okay after watching the full video ok he is British but I love milk in me tea and I'm a darn Aussie!
Özgün Demir So 'Duh' to a billion Indian folks, 50/50 water and milk, spices and a load of sugar - and they're the folks that grow the best black tea. Milk in green or herbal tea, though - foul! Turkish coffee - marvellous; Turkish tea - gnats' piss.
Very bad... Unthinking visible