I started germinating tomato and pepper seeds today under lights on heat pads. Tomatoes are as follows, eighteen Heatmaster, eighteen Big Beef Plus, six Black Plum, six KBX. Peppers as follows, Eighteen Mammoth Jalapeno, nine Paquime Jalapeno, nine Super Khi hot ornamental plants.

It is getting to be spring fever time. Several weeks to go but emotionally I am ready...again.

Congratulations! Here is to wishing you a fantastic year.

I still have a couple of months of watching what you all are doing before I can jump in. I always feel a little funny because some of you are already enjoying your first fruits while mine are trying to germinate.

Those hmmmmm peppers sound great. If you are starting 18 of them then I want to here more about them.

Definitely feeling spring fever I have my indoor tomatoes/new peppers plants started since I have a few already producing/and squash just to see if I can do it!! Outside maters only 1 variety this year because I’m doing several indoors. I still got 4 weeks before I start those!! Good luck

It's planning and ordering this time of year for me. I've learned -- the hard way -- to wait a bit rather than rush into starting seeds too soon. Moving everything off the seed-starting shelves, re-rigging lights and repotting twice aren't my favorite things to do. Currently, seeds are all in hand and the plan is mostly done, but for some tweaks. I'm anxious but patient. Another week or two for me.

And...knowing me, I'll end up getting behind on something

Mine are sprouting and im constantly looking at them

Pepper seeds hit the dirt today!

Paulf wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 11:08 pm Pepper seeds hit the dirt today!

Ugh oh, I better get kickin' ! IF I remember correctly you don't do hot, so did you start bells?
My seeds are packed away in a stack of Christmas cookie tins, otherwise something that rhymes with house would eat them before I get to plant anything.

I just mentioned you in another thread. Looks like the "Omadome" is holding back the snow up here. I went on a mad shop for soil and other necessary snowed-in items aka French Toast.

- Lisa

greenthumbomaha wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 11:22 pm

Paulf wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 11:08 pm Pepper seeds hit the dirt today!

Ugh oh, I better get kickin' ! IF I remember correctly you don't do hot, so did you start bells?
My seeds are packed away in a stack of Christmas cookie tins, otherwise something that rhymes with house would eat them before I get to plant anything.

I just mentioned you in another thread. Looks like the "Omadome" is holding back the snow up here. I went on a mad shop for soil and other necessary snowed-in items aka French Toast.

- Lisa

Correct. Only sweet peppers here. This is the list for '23:
Baron
Ace
Chablis
Giant Aconcagua
Gypsy
Cubanelle
Aruba
La Rouge Royale
and seeds from a package of store bought red, yellow and orange small snacking peppers

Well I just seeded more peppers today!!
Padilla peppers
Ancho chili
Seronno peppers
Habanero peppers
Pepperonchini
Cubanella
Tomatoes indoors
Summer sunrise dwarf
Biz zac
Dwarf Purple Heart
Rosella purple
Orange pixie
Black Sea man
Large barred boar
Geranium kiss
Tiny totum
Tumbling tiger
Groovy tunes
Little bing
Balcony miracle
Outside tomato
Siberian / siletz will start March 1

Paulf wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 11:08 pm Pepper seeds hit the dirt today!

Starts or directly in the garden dirt? Isn't it a bit early for peppers. Just Bells for me too and I am trying to time my indoor starts for an outdoor grow.

zeuspaul wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 1:21 pm

Paulf wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 11:08 pm Pepper seeds hit the dirt today!

Starts or directly in the garden dirt? Isn't it a bit early for peppers. Just Bells for me too and I am trying to time my indoor starts for an outdoor grow.

Not really dirt, but soilless mix in the basement. Peppers here need to get a two week head start on tomatoes and flowers. Our pepper season is too short for long season peppers, hence the early start...and they are all sweets.

I've been adding a few inches of compost to all my beds as I prepare them for spring planting. I use a rake to level the beds. I mix a variety of seeds like radish and lettuce with sand and use a large garlic powder bottle to spread the mixture evenly over each bed. I then spray each bed with water to wash the seed into the soil. Last fall, I saved a lot of "Texas Legend" (open pollinated) dried onion blossoms. I crushed the blossoms and used them with the sand and garlic bottle to spread them in a few beds. I didn't know how well they would germinate in chilly to cold weather. I noticed today, little seedlings are germinating like grass in those beds. I should have plenty of green onions this spring to thin the beds and large onions come June. The radishes are also germinating well. I planted three varieties. I also planted a full bed of Detroit Red Beets for pickling.

Most of my early plantings will be gone in time for my summer plants to be moved from the light table to the beds.

My favorite jalapeno has for many years been the "Mammoth" variety due to the large fruit size, productivity, and taste. They are very difficult to locate seed or plants until recently and they are claimed to be hybrid. Out of curiosity, I germinated a few "hybrid" saved seeds this spring and the plants are almost up to the lights. They are loaded with blooms and small peppers.

i took some inspiration from you donny boy, and started some older pepper seeds
just to see what would happen.

so far ho chi minh has 3 seedlings up. a small chinese hot pepper has one sign of life,
nothing so far from sweet chocolate (10 yr old seeds), so not expecting anything.
king of the north, nu mex joe e parker, and topepo rosso also have no signs of life.
i did a one day soak before sowing the seeds. most of them sunk, but that doesn't seem
to translate to signs of life.
the rest of the peppers i will start the first week of march. i will get a few micro tomatoes
going too. need something to do besides moving snow.



keith