I don’t ever see shishito seeds at the stores, but I faithfully saved my seeds from the Bonnie Plant peppers last summer. Overwintered them in our garage. When it came time to plant them, I soaked them overnight in tepid water. I have no idea if that helped or not. Out of hundreds of seeds, I planted 21 seeds and have 7 seedlings growing, most have six leaflets or more now, just a couple of inches high. They been under grow lights and on a heat mat. A week or so ago, I started taking them outside to toughen up a little, but it’s been way too cold the last couple of days to leave them out there.
Others can help you more. I’m still very much a novice grower.
Noted and thanks.
If Bonnies ever sent any shishito pepper plants to anybody but Walmart, I might actually catch them on sale. Amazon has the seeds, but they are pricey.
Supposedly farmers markets have these (the fruits) more often than in the past. That might be a possibility too - just save some seeds as you did. I’ve had pretty good luck planting those super-hot Thai peppers from saved seeds.
Seemingly oddly, some of the best germination plants I’ve tried to grow from seed were Roma tomato plants: They were in “Valley Green” seed packets that, as I recall, Menards had on sale for 10 cents per pack. The plants produced well too, until blight got them, late last summer.
I’m no expert tho’ — I have way more questions than questions answered!!
No luck at our Wally World this morning, looking there for Shishito plants. Ah, well, I have more going (and growing) than I can keep up with anyway, I suppose.