Poblano y Chili de Arbol

[oc tony]

Colorado west I don,t grow peppers (don't have the room) so I have no experience drying them.Living in Southern California peppers are cheap to buy you can get dried Anaheim,New Mexicos & chile arobols peppers for $2 dollars a lb. on sale and it only costs me about 5 cents for one or two serranos to make salsa.

[organichris]

Originally Posted by Colorado_west

Your seeds may or may not grow. I bought .15 worth of chile de arbor dried and used seed. They grew fine. Bulk ones at Walmart. I bought bags of peppers red dried and some do not grow. I find some that will grow but not come up many of them and few will to come up at all. I would say too high a heat in drying. Worth a try. I deseeded the whole batch of kinds I got and DIL and I have different dried one to try out.

Man, I thought I had a seedling but it turns out it was a weed. I have nothing from any of them. Not a single plant. I planted 12 seeds and none of them came up. Oh well. Its hard to find pepper seeds around here that aren't your garden variety bells or jalapenos. I thought I could get away with doing it this way rather than ordering them.

[montanamato]

When did you plant the seeds? Pepper seeds generally take much longer than tomato seeds to germinate...If not using bottom heat they can easily take 18-21 days to germinate...Even with bottom heat they can take their time...

Jeanne

[Colorado_west]

Organchris, I still have one pan of peppers more has came up. One is 10 times bigger than any of other peppers I have up. My yellow chile did not come up good and they were boughten seed. I sent you a PM.

[organichris]

Originally Posted by montanamato

When did you plant the seeds? Pepper seeds generally take much longer than tomato seeds to germinate...If not using bottom heat they can easily take 18-21 days to germinate...Even with bottom heat they can take their time...

Jeanne

Yeah, I guess I'm too impatient. It's only been 8 days. I've never grown peppers from seed, but I had no idea it could take that long. I'll give it another week and see what happens.

[neoguy]

Some pepper seeds can take a month or more to sprout. Last year I gave up on some after about 3 weeks, left the pots in a tray, uncovered, but didn't water or do anything else. Two weeks later the Pro-Mix was bone dry and surprisingly I had pepper sprouts.

[fourtgn]

organichris, my chili de arbol took 13 days to germinate. I got them in a trade from someone who grew them last year and saved some. If yours don't come up in 2-3 weeks, I could send you a few. Let me know.

fourtgn

[organichris]

Originally Posted by fourtgn

organichris, my chili de arbol took 13 days to germinate. I got them in a trade from someone who grew them last year and saved some. If yours don't come up in 2-3 weeks, I could send you a few. Let me know.

fourtgn

I've been keeping the seeds watered, and its been 14 days. But I'm not going to give them much more than another week or so. Thankfully, a very kind tomatovillian has hooked me up with more pepper seeds than I will be able to plant this year. Every single kind of pepper seed I wanted to grow and then some were included in the package, including the two I had already planted. So thanks for the offer, fourtgn, but I'm good.