I’m glad to hear you’re having good germination. I had a cranky customer yesterday who tried those exact same two varieties and claims he didn’t get ANY germination from either variety. (He’s been growing for THIRTY YEARS. Yeah? Me, too...and I screw up once in a while too, LOL!)
Okaaaaay...so I refunded his money, but something in the back of my mind tells me that he has two flats of those peppers athome coming along perfectly. *Rolleyes*
Eh. It’s only a few bucks. And if someone feels they can ‘get one over on the man’ via some free peppers, so be it. *SHRUG*
Whoa. None of them? Hmmm.
I planted 12 of each and got 11. Which, for ME is *excellent*. I have had lousy luck with peppers before now. Which would be how I ended up with SO many peppers this year. I’ve been using the jiffy pellets before. I’ve done some reading and it seems there are a lot of people that have issues with those particular ones and pepper germination. So this year I used some of the 288 cell flats with seived regular old potting soil. Hubby made me a seive with a piece of screen wire and some 2X4’s. Now I’ve got pepper seedlings running out my ears. AND I managed NOT to run over any of those. Unlike my tomato seedlings... *sigh*
Got 100% germination with all Jung’s tomatoes.
Issues with Burpee though. Golden Mama from them was only 60% for me. Same flat, same mixture, same water, same lights. Right next to the Jungs tomatos in fact. One row over in the flat. So I’m thinking it might be old seeds from Burpee. Or something. I had good luck with You guys, Baker Creek, Totally Tomatoes (also you guys) and T&M.
I had an entire flat of Black Plum/Isis Candy tomatoes that was taking a LONG time to come up...couldn't figure out what the hell was going on; as all of my other tomatoes were germinating in 3 - 4 days (saran wrap/warm floor method). Turns out I had forgotten to put any seeds in the flat...
Guess that one was MY fault. :-)