1970-1655 Your question about starting seeds...

Greg1959

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1970-1655- Sorry about being a couple of days late posting.

You had asked about your seeds not germinating of if they did sprout they would soon shrivel and die.

Below I posted a pic of seedlings I started from seeds. It was just a whim as I had already started all my other seeds. These plants were started from Bell peppers I bought at the store. They were in the 'three pack' 1 red, 1 yellow and 1 gold. I dried the seeds and planted them in some extra peat pods I had laying around. I kept the soil warm and once the seed sprouted I put light on them, 24/7.

These are experimental to see if they produce what their parents looked like.


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Below is how close I keep the T-12 bulbs to the seedlings. Plants are not tall and spindly plus, they have developed strong stems.


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It's kinda late in the season for me to start seeds but since I had them I wanted to see what happens.

I hope this may help you.
 
Thanks for the update. We tried more seeds and they are just now splitting the seed shell. We are going to put them in real garden soil in peat pods like yours and put the light over them too. We are working with 7 and 10 year old grand-daughters showing them the stages from seed to produce growth. So far, it has been seed- sprout- dead plants. Growing up, we just planted the seeds in the garden when it got warm enough. This is my first experiment like this too.

I will post again with updates as the experiment goes on.
 

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