Sowing Chilli Seeds - Tips, Grow Lights and Set Up / Homegrown Garden
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- It’s time to get out the grow lights and heated propagators for some chilli sowing! Chillies take a long time to germinate and grow which is why they're one of the first seeds I sow. In this video you’ll see how I sow them, hear all my tips and tricks to get your own seeds started as well as see the equipment I like to use. Have you started any of your chillies and peppers yet? I would love to hear what varieties you’re growing this year!
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I love growing chillies. Just moved to a new flat with a fantastic south facing long window sill perfect for my chillies.
I remember my dad preparing his seed trays in the UK in Feb. I now live in Nova Scotia Canada, the ground is frozen solid for the first 12 inches and freezes as deep at 2+ feet. We can't think about prepping seed tays for another 2 months yet, but it will happen. You produce great videos, thank you for sharing your allotment etc. with us.
I can recomment a channel called "7 pot club" hes a chilli grower from Canada and he has good tips for growing in your part of the world :)
Very cool cabinet! Here's a little trick I learned a couple of years ago that was a game changer on growing pepper. The wet towel method! Take a paper towel and dampen it (not dripping wet, but well ,moist), put 6 seeds on it - spaced, then fold the towel over twice. Place it in a labeled zip bag and leave just a little bit of the bag open. Put in a hot place (heat mat, radiator, top of fridge). Check back within a week and see what has sprouted. Pull those out and plant, etc., etc. Speeds up the germination and you can cast out the ones that are not viable. Revolutionary!
It’s so nice seeing people your age enjoying gardening and growing plants, there would be a lot less trouble in the world if people grew more of their own food rather than eating all the processed food in the shops
I’m curious to know old you think I am! 😆
Your 30 a year younger than my daughter, none of her of her husbands friends would be interested in growing veg but you could easily get away with saying you were about 22 -23
Cloches, cold frames, greenhouses, hothouses ... all ways of extending the season and countering the vagaries of weather. As you say, although it is cold and wet outside you can still steal a march on Mother Nature with that propagator cabinet. Thanks for yet another engaging video Katrina. Now I will plant a seed in your mind ... online courses. Think about it, you must have a superb bank of video film that you could edit into "How to" courses that can bring you much-deserved revenue.
It always makes me happy to see your bright charming smile!
Excited to see the cabinet build setup
Just started growing chillies myself and I'm quickly finding out it's a labour of love can't wait for my first yield 🌶️😍
I wasn't watching the video, I was just listening to the previous video in the International Women's Day TH-cam playlist when this one started. I was downstairs washing up so couldn't see the screen but it was nice just hearing you speak. You have a lovely voice, I could hear you smile as you speak. It's a great subject as well, growing ones own food, something a lot more of us should give a go, like baking. A little trial, a little error but then comes delicious tasty treats the satisfaction from which money cannot buy. Keep up the wonderful work, I subscribed.
Thank you so much for listening, your kind words and for joining my channel! Growing your own food is so rewarding and you get to discover and eat so many unusual varieties. 💚
Love the unit. Can’t wait for the tour on the unit. Have a great day💝🇨🇦
All your recommendations for sowing, etc. are spot on. As with most things in life timing is everything. I've learned the hard way, planting too late and starting seeds indoors too early with poor light conditions. Your LED light cabinet is a great addition. I'm impressed with the LED light panel and the equipment that goes with it. I love your presentations, thanks for making your videos to share. Cheers from Canada!
A beautiful grow light and heated propagator and cabinet system. Well done
Your amaryllis is lovely. Very nice chili seed video. Thank you🌹 I look forward to future videos about the little seedlings and how they grow. The growing-cabinet is awesome😍
What a lovely setup 🌸💕🌸
Very porfessionly produced. Thank you.
I especially like the method you demonstrate. I can use them. Thank you again.
That's a great setup.
Wow, so jealous of that grow cabinet.
Great grow station! 😲❤️🥰 Congratulations! I can't wait for the full review/tour!!! Always look forward to your videos ❤️
Loving the cabinet 😍👌
Excellent video. Thanks 👍
Great advice well done explained
2021 my first year propagating and growing in new garden as a new gardener.your videos are really useful and you explain in an easy to understand way for Newbies. Many thanks 👍
Thank you that’s so kind of you to say. I hope you have a successful first year with lots of learning as you go 🌱
That is really cool! You get to start much earlier than most do.
Glad I came across this video! I love cooking with chillies, but have only had limited luck growing them in the past. Hopefully using some of the tips you've shared, this year might be a bit more successful. Thanks 😀
That is a very nice cabinet.
Can't wait to see you and the BF try these raw chilis on camera this year!
I loved that video!!
Aww thanks!
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Thanks shering friends 🌱🙋
Awesome to get seedlings started, spring is on it's way!
It’s just around the corner now! It doesn’t feel it with all this snow around though 😆
Love ur cabinet Katrina !!!! I too this week am starting my hot peppers😊 they absolutely need steady warmth and lots of light!!! My hot peppers and certain herbs are the first thing I start every season🤗 look forward to ur next video😘💕
What a great setup. Looks nice but efficient. Thanks.
Thank you, yes that was my aim. Practical but pretty!
Great tips, and love your set up too also excited for the greenhouse cabinet video too
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing
lovely video
Hello Katrina,
Lovely to see and hear you again.
I wonder if you would take us through how you prepare for sweet peas. I'd really appreciate that.
I do hope you will have a smashing harvest of chilli peppers.
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Great video!
Your cabinet is so pretty! 😍
I’m rooting for the scotch bonnets. Plus love the cabinet ... !
Brilliant video! That’s so funny - I have a couple of the same IKEA boot trays abs use them for the exact same purpose! 😀
Some good ideas, thanks. I've grown peppers but they never do as well as I think they should. I'm hoping some of your methods will improve my results.
Thanks for this video, really helpful. I started too late last year so hoping for more success in 2022 🌶🌶🌶 Keep up the hard work!
Hi katrina hope your keeping well my friend ,loved the tips on the coco block and as for your grow cabinet wow fantastic bit of kit cant wait your bid on that 😀
Thanks Neil, hope you are well!
Thank you very much. Very good introduction of growing chillies. I started my chillies end of November and till now my bell peppers are about 3 inches (7.8 cm). Today is the December 29 I am located in the south of Bavaria (Germany).
Hi Katrina, excellent video once again, can't wait until you update us all on the germination progress. 💋
Thanks for joining me David!
Chilli and Pepper sowing and growing is my most exciting thing at the moment. Next month it’ll be Tomatoes and so on, but these 🌶 plants are just ace. I remember you starting them off last year too. I freeze my spares as well, so very interested to see how your Scotch Bonnets do. I have eight chilli varieties on the go this year now that I have levelled up my grow light situation - Mars Hydro lights hanging below Amazon Basic shelving in a spare room here. Your indoor greenhouse cabinet looked absolutely superb! I want one now!
Hello from Ontario Canada Thankyou Katrina. The points about warm compost,did not think about that? however I am a newbie and watching ,learning and lots of notes lol! Looking forward to watching the video about the cabinet looks fabulous and interesting. Blessings to you and yours.🐝
What a neat propagator cabinet! Can't wait to see how your seedlings do, good luck!
I started my pepper, tomato and tomatillo seeds indoors this year, but I decided to try germinating them on damp paper towels inside ziploc bags which I placed directly onto a heat mat. I had really good results, even though for the most part I used pretty old seeds (5-10 years old). I moved them into modules as soon as the started to sprout, and now they're out in the poly greenhouse, and seem to be thriving. I just take them indoors when it seems like it might dip below freezing overnight. They seem to be fine with the amount of light they get at my latitude, but I'm about 20 degrees further south than you are. Fingers crossed they grow big and strong! I'm trying lemon drop and sugar rush peach this year, I think you mentioned them in past videos :)
Lovely video, wasn't planning on sowing chillis year due to limited space but now I'll think I'll squeeze them in somewhere! 😂
There’s always room for a few chillies!
That is such a beautiful cabinet and I enjoyed the little peek into your home, it is lovely. Black Hungarian is my absolute favorite. You do take quite a bit more care with them than I do though. I don't use a heat mat and they do fine. Midwest region, USA. It is a balmy 6 degrees Fahrenheit today and snow and ice are covering the ground. I cant wait to see the video about your little indoor greenhouse.
Wow what a fantastic space! Mine are taking they're chances on a warm windowsill.
I started to grow my own plants a bit last year, but this year I want to indulge more seriously. I don’t have a beautiful mini greenhouse, but we have one large aquarium and one medium size. I want to try to see if I can start seeds inside on home using a heat mat and see about some lights. We can’t plant in the ground here until end of May, so this would help at getting a jump start. It won’t be chillies 🥵 but 🫑 peppers, squash, cucumbers and then there’s flowers.
Thanks and love following your gardening videos 👍❤️😊
Would love to see you cook the food in the year as well! like your preserve recipes and ways to use the vegetables so there's minimal waste...love your channel!!
Thanks for the suggestion 💗
@@homegrowngarden I'm sure you will be very happy with your sf 1000. We have 4 sf 2000 for our propagation benches. Finest lights we have ever used
Very intresting Katrina your Sowing Chilli Seeds information videoclip! Greetings from Pieter Smit from the Netherlands
Great video, looking forward to to seeing your set up growing cabinet as, I'm used to using the vitapod, and thinking of another set kind regards Kevan
Your worth it.
Great video im planting chilli this week im using a seed company iv got in my new video which has a good selection of chilli seeds and they are organic company which is a bonus hope you are keeping well look forward to the next one 😀
Very useful video, about to try and grow my own from 2 dried-out chilli peppers I had on a plant given to me last year. Unfortunately the original plant did not survive as we had an early snow and frost but I kept the chillis in order to try and grow my own. Fingers crossed!
Nice set up!! Your scrunchie reminded me of my big hair days!! I used to have a blue one years ago!! Think I still got it somewhere!! LOL!!
Lovely. Thanks for sharing. Thrilled for you to have the opportunity to try out that growing cabinet! Yay! :-)
Wow what an amazing set up, I have 4 propagators on my desk with 4 grow lights lol
I don’t find the need for heated propagators anymore.
I use to use them but I seem to find the same results with just the normal house temperature and lids do then well👏🏻
Brilliant video, I can’t wait to be planting out🌶🌶🌶
Interesting that you’ve ditched the heated propagators. I find some of the hotter chillies difficult to germinate without it. I’m thinking of swapping out my heated props for mats if this experiment goes to plan. The heated props take up too much space for the rest of the year.
Hello and good afternoon to you Katrina on this cold snowy wet day and first I must say that I’m sorry to hear of the passing away of your grand mother of these immediate days and I did read your scriptures on your Instagram of what a great character she was okay then now on to the video that I had great joy in watching and listening to thanks as you made it very educational and fun also it’s an interesting surroundings indoors as it’s not good outdoors at the moment also I might have to watch the video one or two times again to take note of the technical details that you emphasised so with that said thanks for reading take care stay safe and cheerio
I was sorry to see you turn this into a commercial.
Hello.. Love your videos 👌😍 watching from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Here, sunshine all year round, you can grow anytime 🌞😁😁
I’m moving in with you, I’m tired of the cold weather 😝
LED grow lights are not expensive to run. I am growing peppers indoors year round. I have learning curve issues but the grow lights are doing excellent!
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I don't know why I'm here, omg she's so beautiful Im melting
What a great setup you have Katrina! Thanks for sharing this with us. I'm really impressed with that grow light. Also like the tray that all the little pots fit into. Where did you get that?
Heya, thanks for watching! The tray came with the little pots. It was from Homebase!
I found a plant that I thought was a bell pepper plant, but it shaped itself into 2 chilis about 3 inches long. I'm not one to add chilis to my dishes--don't like hot, spicy is okay. The only chili I grow is the Hawaiian chili peppers that I crush and add to shoyu (soy sauce) for oysters. Others make chili water. I think I'll try adding the 2 chilis to my salsa. Love your channel.
TH-cam un-subscribed me from your channel. Good to find it again. Be well and stay safe.
Welcome back 👋🏻
i put my seeds in a tub next to the fridge .it gives of a constant warmth, they have all sprouted nicely now
Nice one! Whatever works for you 😁
Kool looking indoor green house. Can't wait for the video on this. Well, I can wait but you know :p
Excellent video, love the cabinet! I started 6 varieties of chilli last week in a heated propagator, so far 3 have come up. No lights though so I've got tin foil surrounding them, but your lights look fab!
The tin foil trick is such a game changer when you have low light!
I’ve never done that with foil before, great tip. I have a heated propagator and I’m going to use a desk lamp with a grow bulb for the first time this week when I start sowing my chilli seeds. Congrats on a great indoor set up, great video 😀
Gonna be interesting if the seeds you got from the freezer will germinate, good luck 🤞
Beautiful, intelligent and can grow chillies!
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Glad you mentioned less heat chilies, as my taste buds are wimps, as my daughter told me many years ago, now at 62 they're even wimpier. I'd like add the favor tho, I'll check out some other varieties.
Oh absolutely! There’s so many varieties out there with so many fruity flavours. I would recommend looking at Trinidad Perfume and Sweet Banana for tasty chillies without the heat.
@@homegrowngarden Great Thanks, I'll check online.
Soaking the seeds beforehand in tea is supposed to help. I grew a load of plants on windowsill 2 yrs ago and had fabulous plants and a great selection of various chillis.Still got some sauce left now. Last year very disappointing,hardly anything.Trying to germinate some in propagator at mo. No luck yet though.Best of luck with yours. x
I wanted to start sowing as well today. But than we had a snowstorm and I made a video.
Hope you’ve thawed out by now ❄️
@@homegrowngarden Not yet
i germinate mine in the airing cupboard mid January , once germinated i use a grow light sparingly i prefer the window cill on a sunny day
Whatever works for you! There’s no right or wrong way in gardening 😄
I am not planning to start my chillies until mid March but it's a great video Katrina and I would like a heated propagater.
Good on you for holding off until your ideal time! Keep an eye on second hand market places for a heated propagator. I found one for £5 👍
The new LED grow light kit looks fantastic and I can't wait to see the results. One of the best aspects of seed starting is that it really gives us hope as we await the seeds germination and then the plants growth and planting outside in spring. Your enthusiasm for gardening is inspiring, love your channel!
No doubt you will have a large number of beautiful pepper plants this year too! Lovely grow cabinet. Excited to see all you do with it.🙂 I'm curious...can yall use the winter sowing method there? This is my first year doing so and I was surprised by how quickly my jalapeno seeds germinated...right with my tomato seeds. The poblanos are taking longer. This is a great method if you don't have space indoors.🙂
I’m not sure what you mean by the winter sowing method but we sow chillies super early because our summers are quite short abs they need a long time to grow. My chillies won’t be moved into my polytunnel until May when the risk of frost has passed ☺️
Katrina can you the light down to the chiles.i put my growlights 3 to 4 inches above the seedstarts.
I was wondering where you buy your little pot containers.
Aluminum foil to bounce light back. Brilliant! Why the vermiculite?
I have started my saved pepper seeds from last years fruits which I cross pollinated to make them more unique and hopefully healthier. I have showcased the seed varieties on my latest video on my channel. I have also got some of the hybrid fruits on the plants from last year on the top right of my channel page :)
Last year I used grow lights for the first time. Sadly the only place I have for them is in the basement so maybe it is a temperature issue but my seeds did not fair well.
I had almost 100% germination across my chilis, tomatoes, cabbages and so forth, but they refused to progress beyond initial sprouted leaves.
The tomatoes recovered when I transplanted them outside but the chili’s never did so I had zero peppers and eggplants last year.
Hi Katrina..😊
One thing
Don't put the thermometer probe in the pot of compost you will not get the proper heat on your mat that way.
Leave it loose in your cabinet and you will get better heat = better germination and quicker.
Hi very good garden channel. you have a lot of different chilli seeds do they all grow in UK. I am in Scotland I have tried to grow chillies from seeds but no luck. Do you grow them outside in summer.
I find difficulty picking chilli seeds up so use plastic tweezers.Works a treat!
Just wondering where did you get your polytunnel from originally? As finding it difficult to find good quality one that doesn't cost too much online xx
Hi Katrina, really helpful video, thank you! Am interested to know more about how you using coir with other seedlings including planting on. Do you have a coir block link we can use or recommendation where to buy? Looking forward to seeing your cabinet video, looks great! 🌱💚
IKEA sell the coir. I find it a great medium for seed germination and so much better than peat for the environment.
Thanks for letting me know Christina, will look it up. I’ve used coir pots for chillis before but not for other plants so am interested in giving it a try.
Hello Katrina!!
where do you order compost in bulk for allotment in the uk? Buying from garden centre is working out expensive by the bag. Thanks
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Thanks for stopping by! 👋🏻
Hi I'm planning to move home and want to plant fast growing long flowering plants now to make things look great. Could you please suggest some, also fast growing ground cover plants. Part of my garden is covered in mesh to keep cats away, I need to remove this.
february: the month of christmas amaryllis flowers.
Better late than never 😆
How far apart do you plant your different varieties of peppers? I've heard that peppers easily cross-pollinate with "heat" being dominate. An innocent bell pepper could taste like a jalapeño from seeds that come from cross-pollinated parents. One bite and SURPRISE .. lol. In any case, keep up the good work
Want to sow the seed of love
Have you worked with Charles Dowding? He’s a great gardener, using the NoDig method. I think you are a great presenter as well.
I follow Charles' no-dig methods and had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of years ago at a lecture. He's a wonderful man!
Super hot)) Chilli chilli bang bang) it is my favorite plant after 20 years of gardening ps try Aji crystal or mecoloton (sugar rush peach) & yes coco is the best for me too