The Lemon Fool

Morning, I would like to have a go at growing some chillis this year...as well as usual tomatoes
but I havent been able to find anywhere to buy a mixed lot of seeds
many options for packs of only one variety...and then with far too many seeds
for me to do what I would like will cost quite a lot and leave e with masses of unused seeds

is there a supplier who offers say 3-5 varieties in a pack and say...10 seeds of each

amounts said are just random but the idea is there...????

Googling for "mixed chilli seeds" finds a number of options. Were none of them suitable?

Scott.

mutantpoodle wrote:is there a supplier who offers say 3-5 varieties in a pack and say...10 seeds of each

amounts said are just random but the idea is there...????

Last year I bought 10 random chilli seeds from ebay. Unfortunately it was very late in the season and I haddn't allowed time enough for the chillies to ripen, though all I planted did greminate.

I did an ebay search and this was the first listing that I picked. There are others.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/30-Mixed-Chi ... SwYi1gD1Dq

However I've chanced the price and just put in an order (so that I don't leave it as late as last year).

I should say that last years random chilli's were random. I didn't know which chilli was what, if that's important there are other offers.

Hi We picked chilli seeds up at Lidl yesterday if you have one nearby.

John

Don't hang about too long, though, because as Urbandreamer has said, chillis need a long season to grow properly in the arctic climes of the UK. It helps if you can get them started in heat, ideally 25 degrees or more, although unlike some seeds they don't need light to germinate, so an airing cupboard is probably okay for starters. As soon as they're through, they'll appreciate light as well as warmth. (A daylight desk lamp is adequate.)

Last year, my neighbour asked me how to sow the super-hot chilli seeds that she'd obtained in a Marks & Spencers promotion - in late May. I had to break it to her gently that she'd do better to save them for this spring instead. They'll keep for many years, which seems to answer the OP's concerns about having excessive numbers of seeds in the packet.

Good luck, mutantpoodle!

BJ

Lidl sell various chillis on the veg counter, eat the chilli, save the seeds. Personally love the scotch bonnet heat and fruitiness.

many thanks everyone
I should get started with all this advice

as to success...............???

still it appears we stuck here if not all then most of the year, so will have a go

hi
I followed link (risky) from urbandreamer and bought the 30 seeds
they arrived just now
so will read up on sewing info and give them a go
no ideas or clues as to what they might be but...usually advice from here is sound...so fingers crossed

nothing at all at our local (20 miles) LIDL
nor ALDI
and even flower seed prices at home bargains seem very high this year...so it looks likeAmazon here we come!
but Idid try the high street

mutantpoodle wrote:hi
I followed link (risky) from urbandreamer and bought the 30 seeds
they arrived just now
so will read up on sewing info and give them a go

Mine are sitting on/in damp compost on top of a radiator cabenet. As you say, fingers crossed.

Mine have been through about 2 weeks now. Sown 5 to a pot 2 pots have 5 seedlings the worst only 2. Plenty fow what I need and enough to give my friend enough for his needs.

4 pots are still in the heated propagator, 2 are on the window cill. They are a bit leggy, I am thinging of putting them outside today as it's quite mild, still and sunny.

https://www.southdevonchillifarm.co.uk/ and https://www.worldofchillies.com/ are both long standing and reliable suppliers.

ok so bullet is bitten!

2 x 3 seeds in pots and another with 2 Scots bonnet
all under plastic bags cover on windowsill

will see how it goes
i dont want 'leggy' plants as will be weighed down but quantity of crop ????????????????????

fingers crossed!

mutantpoodle wrote:i dont want 'leggy' plants as will be weighed down but quantity of crop ????????????????????

I will treat my leggy seedlings like I do tomatoes and repot them down to the seed leaves. I've no idea if that is what I should do but I can't think of an alternative.

Just to provide a link to an earlier (January this year) thread about chilli seeds that I encountered while doing some maintenance on my bookmarks, in case it adds useful information for anyone reading this thread.

Gengulphus

sg31 wrote:

mutantpoodle wrote:i dont want 'leggy' plants as will be weighed down but quantity of crop ????????????????????

I will treat my leggy seedlings like I do tomatoes and repot them down to the seed leaves. I've no idea if that is what I should do but I can't think of an alternative.

It does no harm at all to pinch out chilli seedlings when they reach six inches or thereabouts. In fact it makes them more bushy and more productive.

I usually support my chilli plants with a barbecue skewer and a bit of plastic bag sealing wire while they're growing, but by the time they're a foot high they'll be strong enough in the stem to hold themselves up without further assistance. By June they'll be 20-24 inches high, in five inch pots. And they'll benefit from feeding, because they're quite hungry.

BJ

thanks for that tip

its s*ds law but having bought seeds as red'd here...no problems and quick delivery etc

yesyerday in M & S hot chillis reduced for quick sale
20p a pack and each pack had about 15 chillis in!
so I bought 5 packs...£1
having deseeded half a dozen rest now in freezer and will be enjoyed as they should be
seeds are drying (is that necessary?) before being sowed
wife is worried we will have 000s chilli plants...and not enough of anything else...( as usual)

I must stop rubbing my eyes!!

mutantpoodle wrote:seeds are drying (is that necessary?) before being sowed

Back in January I sowed some seeds from a fruit I found on a last years chilli plant in the greenhouse. Like you I was not sure whether to dry them or not. I washed the seeds and planted half straight away, the other half I dried and planted about a week later. I found that the undried seed had the better germination rate.

I think maybe the washing is more important, to convince the seed it is no longer in the fruit.

malkymoo wrote:

mutantpoodle wrote:seeds are drying (is that necessary?) before being sowed

Back in January I sowed some seeds from a fruit I found on a last years chilli plant in the greenhouse. Like you I was not sure whether to dry them or not. I washed the seeds and planted half straight away, the other half I dried and planted about a week later. I found that the undried seed had the better germination rate.

I think maybe the washing is more important, to convince the seed it is no longer in the fruit.

Soaking is often suggested as a way of improving germination rate and speed for chillis, although I find it unnecessary. Unsoaking them, or drying as you call it, may have the opposite effect...

so options going both ways

no matter
I have masses so will take a 'half and half' approach

will advise in due course how it goes!