Dried pepper seed germination?

[puttgirl]

Cool, Lurley! You got them now!

[lurley]

I never got any germination from the peppers that went through the dehydrator I have more, and can try again just out of curiosity though, once I finish seeding the sweet peppers today. For those that I rescued, they had been lying on the ground, were soggy from constant rain, and had been covered by snowfall twice. I don't think the temp here has gotten below 25 degrees this winter yet, and not for very long when it has, since most of what we have had so far has been rain, not snow. I have more of these rescued seeds if anyone would like some, I would just say to plant heavily as the germ was probably somewhere between 40 and 60 percent? I'm not sure as I didn't count how many seeds I was dropping in each hole but it was at least 6, but I have had several come up in several of the cells.

[greyghost]

Very, very happy that you got germination on your peppers! I felt a little
sick that you may have lost them!! Darlene

[tjg911]

Originally Posted by ScottinAtlanta

When I was in Baghdad in December, I ate a long green pepper that was exactly the right amount of sweet and heat. I took 9 or 10 of the reddest back to my room, separated the seeds, let them dry for a few days in the very dry air of Iraq, and put several in my germination trays on 30 Dec in Atlanta. Wow! I now have several vigorous "Iraq Red Pepper" under my lights. It will be interesting to see how they do in the wet Georgia climate this summer.

scott,

would you start a thread when you grow these this season. would you give a swag as to the shu level of that pepper?

tom