all peppers notwithstanding my chocolates, we picked up from our local nursery, so their pots are standard nursery - approx. 3" x 3" x 4".. All of my chocolates are from my personal stash and were started from scratch in mid-March. Each of those is about to start the 3rd set of leaves and are still in the wee spit cups you can get for the bathroom.
that said - we are in Zone 5B so the rule of thumb is not to plant before Mothers Day, which is done now and I hope to get out this week to ground all but chocolates - I say that because the choc's aren't big enough to get grounded yet especially with as much rain as we'll likely get; they will however get transplanted into much bigger pots for probably the next month (by bigger I mean 6")
I can say that the pictures you posted last year of the chocolate habanero is one of the reasons I decided to try it out this year. I planted 12 chocolate habanero seeds and none sprouted, kind of a letdown, but all the others did.
i wont lie - they are a hard one to get going - none of my chocolate borg-9's sprouted (5) and I replanted 5 more and none of those sprouted either.
I bought a few fresh pounds a few weeks ago at the international market, but they were a huge disappointment.. no flavor.. little heat. i just dehydrated them for flaking to put on 'za..
I will get some photos this week of what we have currently ready for transplanting and even the wee choco's..
what i do for planting is pop the seed 'just' under the dirt and keep it moist, but not enough to bring the seed back to surface. I add under grow lights and keep on a planters heating pad all day on a rack covered with a shhet to keep it at least 80F.
That's how I started mine. I did a few sugar rush stripey? I think that's the word order, and only 2 sprouted. But outside of that and the choco hab, i had pretty good success sprouting. I'm in southeast Texas where it's summer until October so maybe I could try to sprout a few more... maybe.
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