I'm going to start some tomato seeds soon. Yeah, it's a new year, I don't remember where my tomato and pepper seeds are exactly. With RKN ruining gardens year after year - I gave up stubbornly several years ago. But it's a new year. The T-12 lighting is still there - ancient. Old seeds from decades ago. I don't have ambition anymore, and yet I do.

Worth, if I can find the pepper seeds from 2007, I'll be starting them too.

Wishing you lots of bounty and good times back in the garden, Salt.

Happy New Year.

Happy new year

get yourself some new pepper seeds. those ones from 2007 unless you have them stored in the freezer
are more than likely dead. hot peppers at least some, seem to last longer. i woke up some hot peppers that were
seven or eight years old. once you get past ten years, don't expect much.
set yourself up for success with some fresher seed.


keith

Happy New Year, Salt.

rxkeith wrote: ↑Sun Jan 01, 2023 4:36 pm get yourself some new pepper seeds. those ones from 2007 unless you have them stored in the freezer
are more than likely dead. hot peppers at least some, seem to last longer. i woke up some hot peppers that were
seven or eight years old. once you get past ten years, don't expect much.
set yourself up for success with some fresher seed.


keith

Your advice is correct. Peppers/chilis are sold here dirt cheap. The idea of growing the 2007 pepper seeds is a personal challenge. It's also me wanting to grow them for Worth1 - he sent those seeds to me years ago.

I have tomato seeds from around the world. I remember asking the local post office if it was okay for me to send tomato seeds to Romania? They had to look it up, but yeah, it was cool.

I've written so many threads and posts about tomatoes from seed to disease to harvest and everything in-between. Containers, raised gardening, greenhouse food supplements, preferred tomato colors, PH and... I read the threads before they were deleted about Carolyn Male's death. That was on the chicken poop site tomato vile.

And a happy new year to you too, Salt. You have a sympathizer here with the RKN. Nasty little heartbreakers, they are. This year I'm playing with burying compostable stuff in planting holes now, hoping the extra organic matter will deter their efforts later. We'll see. Good luck with your peppers!

GoDawgs wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 5:23 am And a happy new year to you too, Salt. You have a sympathizer here with the RKN. Nasty little heartbreakers, they are. This year I'm playing with burying compostable stuff in planting holes now, hoping the extra organic matter will deter their efforts later. We'll see. Good luck with your peppers!

Thank you for the "good luck" with peppers. I've tried the extra organic method - my results were that it might have made it worse, but we all live in different places. I wish I could post a cure-all.